Spree TV was an Australian

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

datacasting Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the transmission of data over a wide area using radio waves. It typically refers to supplemental information sent by television stations alongside digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals. However, datacas ...

television channel mainly carrying paid programming and informercials, launched on 17 September 2013 by Ten Network Holdings and Brand Developers. Though datacasting was intended by the Labor government at the time to broadcast telecourses and other non-commercial content, without any legislative restriction on its use, most Australian broadcasters have utilized the datacasting services for home shopping instead. For the most part however, the general public has ignored these datacasting informercial channels, resulting in their swift discontinuation. Aspire TV, a similar channel by content, met this fate a year before on 31 July 2021. Spree TV first aired on channel 15, before Ten Network Holdings moved it to channel 17 on 16 September 2020 to make way for the launch of

10 Shake Nickelodeon is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia, via Ten Network Holdings. It originally launched as 10 Shake on 27 September 2020, as Network 10's third multichannel. As 10 ...

(now

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) on 27 September 2020. It went off the air on 12 August 2022.

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, a similarly formatted home shopping network, launched in its space on 18 September 2022.

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