Burnie, Tasmania
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Sport
Australian rules footballAustralian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
is popular in Burnie. The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club
Burnie Dockers Football Club
Burnie Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.-Club history:The Burnie Dockers were formed as a result of a merger between former TFL Statewide League club Burnie Hawks and NTFL club the Burnie Tigers...
in the Tasmanian State League.
Rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
is also played in Burnie. The local club is the Burnie Rugby Union Club
Burnie Rugby Union Club
Burnie Rugby Union Club is a Rugby Union club in Tasmania. Established in 1961, Ribernated in the late 1980s and Reformed in 1997, the club is a member of the Tasmanian Rugby Union, affiliated with the Australian Rugby Union and plays in the Tasmanian Statewide League men's First Division.The...
. They are the current Tasmanian Rugby Union
Tasmanian Rugby Union
The Tasmanian Rugby Union Est. 1933 is responsible for rugby union in the Australian state of Tasmania, and is part of the Australian Rugby Union....
Statewide Division Two Premiers and were promoted to the Statewide First Division for the 2009 season. Their nickname is "The Mighty Emus". The club has been in existence since 1953 but at the end of the 1980s, were forced into a temporary absence from all competitions and relinquishing their place in the state-wide First Division.http://burnie.rugbynet.com.au/ Their home ground is McKenna Park Sporting Complex located on 3 Mile Line.
Soccer is also represented on the north coast with Burnie United FC
Burnie United FC
Burnie United Football Club is a football Club which represents Burnie in the Tasmanian Northern Premier League.The club also fields teams in all junior divisions, as well as women's teams....
having four teams compete in the northern premier league, the women's team, under 18 team, reserve team and division one team. recently this year they have entered two youth side in the under 16 and under 14 northern league
Media
The AdvocateThe Advocate (Australia)
The Advocate is a local newspaper of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Ulverstone, Devonport, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe and Smithton...
is the region's newspaper, its mailroom is located in Burnie while press operations were ceased in mid-2008 and relocated to Launceston.
Burnie has access to the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
, WIN
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
and Southern Cross television stations. The fifth channel, Tasmanian Digital Television
Tasmanian Digital Television
Tasmanian Digital Television is a digital television station in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Macquarie Media Group, and largely managed by WIN Television.-Introduction:...
, has recently started transmitting from the tower at Round Hill, east of the suburb of South Burnie.
There is one commercial radio station, 7BU at 558 kHz on the medium-wave band. Many Melbourne radio stations can be received in Burnie.
A newspaper also runs from its headquarters located in the city. The Advocate
The Advocate (Australia)
The Advocate is a local newspaper of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Ulverstone, Devonport, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe and Smithton...
has operated in the city since 1890 and covers the west and north-west of Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
.
The town of Burnie also gained some notability after a dispute with Burnie Burns
Burnie Burns
Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His best known contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the Internet machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch...
from roosterteeth.com. Burns had registered the www.burnie.com domain name and the city of Burnie was interested in acquiring it. After making a series of outrageous demands of the city including a statue and a parade in his honor, Burns was asked to modify the website to something less offensive. Burns was unaware of the fact that his co-worker, Gustavo Sorola
Gustavo Sorola
Gustavo "Gus" Sorola is a computer technichan for Rooster Teeth Productions, and is also a voice actor in their machinima series, including Red vs. Blue as Private Dick Simmons and in The Strangerhood as the Computer, a role he shared with Geoff Ramsey...
, had modified the page to present a derogatory message. This series of events was detailed in The Roosterteeth Podcast episode 21 and popularized after the release of a Rooster Teeth Animated Adventure by Jordan Cwierz.
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