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TNT Launceston is a television station based in Launceston
, Tasmania
, Australia
. Originally broadcasting only to Launceston and Northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994. It is presently known as Southern Cross Tasmania.
Southern Cross Tasmania (SCTV) is an affiliate of the Seven Network and Tasmanian Digital Television
is now the Ten affiliate.
Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include Sports Club (weekly sports review), Quiz Quest (children's game show), The Saturday night Show (variety), Down the Line (morning talk/local events), The Saturday Morning Fun Show (kids), Tasmanian New Faces (talent) and annual coverage of Targa Tasmania and The Launceston Cup.
Jo Palmer (weekdays)
Rachel Williams (weekends, news and sport)
Sports presenter
Rob Fairs
Weather presenters
Peter Murphy (weekdays)
Lee Dixon (weekends)
Outside of this bulletin, Southern Cross Tasmania airs national news and current affairs output from the Seven Network, including:
is the most popular Tasmanian-made program currently airing and is broadcast Australia-wide. The program is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.
in which he and a team of people from sponsors (i.e. Gunns
) renovate a house, most commonly for people who have done something for the community or have enabled children.
fortnight, Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report and comment on the events of the day.
, tennis
and motorsport
. In the 1990s Southern Cross aired Ten's Sports Tonight
however this was replaced by Seven's Current Affairs Program, Today Tonight
.
Southern Cross screens live AFL
coverage with no advertisement breaks between goals. Only football games involving matches in Tasmania are delayed. The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including cricket
, athletics
, netball
and basketball
. The station's main sports reporters are Chris Rowbottom, Alicia Muling, and Trent Dann.
is produced and aired each year. The station also produces live coverage of the Launceston
and Hobart Cup
s. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
are broadcast during the duration of the race.
and Network Ten
. This originates from the aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in the early 1990s, with TVT-6
(now WIN Television
) holding the Nine Network
affiliation. This dual affiliation is shared with Southern Cross' sister station in Darwin
(TND-34
).
The Tasmanian Digital Television
(TDT) service, run as a joint venture with WIN, carries a full Network Ten affiliation, carrying programs from Ten's Melbourne station (ATV-10
) with local advertisements. (Due to it being a joint venture, TDT does not take on the Southern Cross Ten
branding.) It is expected that Southern Cross will eventually become a full Seven Network affiliate if and when take-up of digital television is considered widespread in the state.
Notes:
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
, 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...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Originally broadcasting only to Launceston and Northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994. It is presently known as Southern Cross Tasmania.
History
- 1962 - Founded as Northern TV Ltd and broadcasts in Launceston and Northern Tasmania
- 1965 - Became part of ENT Ltd (Examiner-Northern TV Ltd)
- 1982 - ENT bought TVT-6TVT-6TVT is the first provincial television station in Australia and Hobart's, and Tasmania's, first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stood for "TeleVision Tasmania"....
in Hobart - both stations identify on-air as TasTV - 1989 - ENT sold TNT-9 to Tricom Corporation, which subsequently became Southern Cross BroadcastingSouthern Cross BroadcastingSouthern Cross Broadcasting Limited was a diversified Australian media company, that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television.-History:...
; station became known on-air as Southern Cross Network - 1994 - Aggregation of Tasmanian television market occurs - Southern Cross broadcasts statewide, competing with TasTV
- 1999 - Southern Cross Tasmania, while still a part of Southern Cross Broadcasting, changes logo independently of Southern Cross stations on the mainland.
- 2003 - Southern Cross and WIN TelevisionWIN TelevisionWIN 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...
launch Tasmanian Digital TelevisionTasmanian Digital TelevisionTasmanian 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:...
, a jointly owned digital only commercial broadcaster based in Hobart. - 2005 - Southern Cross Broadcasting adapts new logo for all stations it owns. Southern Cross Tasmania loses its Tasmanian Tiger logo to a unified corporate Southern Cross logo.
Southern Cross Tasmania (SCTV) is an affiliate of the Seven Network and 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:...
is now the Ten affiliate.
Local programming
Southern Cross Television producing the majority of local Tasmanian television output, chiefly consisting of the high rating Southern Cross Nightly News, various non-news programming and occasional sports coverage.Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include Sports Club (weekly sports review), Quiz Quest (children's game show), The Saturday night Show (variety), Down the Line (morning talk/local events), The Saturday Morning Fun Show (kids), Tasmanian New Faces (talent) and annual coverage of Targa Tasmania and The Launceston Cup.
News & Current Affairs
Southern Cross Nightly News is the station's flagship news program, broadcast live every night at 6:00pm from the Launceston studios with short updates throughout the day. The nightly news bulletin is consistently the highest rating television program in Tasmania.Presenters
Main anchorsJo Palmer (weekdays)
Rachel Williams (weekends, news and sport)
Sports presenter
Rob Fairs
Weather presenters
Peter Murphy (weekdays)
Lee Dixon (weekends)
Outside of this bulletin, Southern Cross Tasmania airs national news and current affairs output from the Seven Network, including:
- Sunrise
- Weekend SunriseWeekend SunriseWeekend Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On Saturdays, it runs from 7am to 9am whilst on Sundays it runs from 7am to 10am.-History:...
- The Morning ShowThe Morning Show (TV program)The Morning Show is an Australian morning talk show that premiered on the Seven Network on 18 June 2007. The show airs between 9am and 11:30am weekdays and follows Seven's breakfast news program Sunrise, with both programs closely interlinked....
- Seven NewsSeven NewsSeven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
(Early News, Morning News, Afternoon News at 4:30) - Today TonightToday TonightToday Tonight is a controversial Australian News and Current Affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
- NBC Today
Hook, Line and Sinker
The fishing show Hook, Line and SinkerHook, Line and Sinker (TV program)
Hook, Line and Sinker is an Australian fishing television program, produced by HLS Productions in Hobart, Tasmania and is hosted by Nick Duigan and Andrew Hart. The program premiered in 2001 and is broadcast nationally on the Southern Cross Television network...
is the most popular Tasmanian-made program currently airing and is broadcast Australia-wide. The program is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.
Renovation Relief
Renovation Relief is a DIY Program hosted by famous wood-chopper David FosterDavid Foster (woodchopper)
David "Big Dave" Foster OAM is a world champion woodchopper, and Tasmanian community figure.He started woodchopping with his father, George Foster, in 1978, and between them they won the World 600 mm Double-handed Sawing Championship eleven years straight...
in which he and a team of people from sponsors (i.e. Gunns
Gunns
Gunns Limited is a major forestry enterprise located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1875 by brothers John and Thomas Gunn, it is one of Australia's oldest companies. It has over 900 square kilometres of plantations, mainly eucalyptus trees. It is Tasmania’s largest private land-owner...
) renovate a house, most commonly for people who have done something for the community or have enabled children.
Targa Torque
Broadcast every night during Targa TasmaniaTarga Tasmania
Targa Tasmania is a tarmac-based rally event held on the island state of Tasmania, Australia, annually since 1992. The event takes its name from the Targa Florio, a former motoring event held on the island of Sicily...
fortnight, Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report and comment on the events of the day.
Holiday at Home
Holiday at Home is a lifestyle program which promotes places to stay and things to do in Tasmania.Burnie Ten - Ten Week Challenge
For the ten weeks leading up to the Burnie Ten, Mark Connelly trains a group of people in a program sponsored by Southern Cross Tasmania. Weekly updates are broadcast during commercial breaks. In the early years of the program, people who took part were well known in Tasmania, however in 2006, a Launceston family were trained to run the event.Sports coverage
Southern Cross airs most sports coverage from both Seven and Ten Networks, this includes coverage like 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...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and motorsport
Auto racing
Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...
. In the 1990s Southern Cross aired Ten's Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
however this was replaced by Seven's Current Affairs Program, Today Tonight
Today Tonight
Today Tonight is a controversial Australian News and Current Affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
.
Southern Cross screens live AFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
coverage with no advertisement breaks between goals. Only football games involving matches in Tasmania are delayed. The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, athletics
Athletics (track and field)
Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
, netball
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
and basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
. The station's main sports reporters are Chris Rowbottom, Alicia Muling, and Trent Dann.
Local sport
Locally, coverage of the international road race Targa TasmaniaTarga Tasmania
Targa Tasmania is a tarmac-based rally event held on the island state of Tasmania, Australia, annually since 1992. The event takes its name from the Targa Florio, a former motoring event held on the island of Sicily...
is produced and aired each year. The station also produces live coverage of the Launceston
Launceston Cup
The Launcston Cup is a Tasmanian Turf Club Group 3 open handicap Thoroughbred horse race run over a distance of 2400 metres at Launceston Racecourse in Mowbray in February. It is competed for prize money of A$300,000....
and Hobart Cup
Hobart Cup
The AAMI Hobart Cup is Tasmania's premier Thoroughbred horse race. It is part of the Tasmanian Summer Racing Carnival, and is also one of Tasmania's main annual social events. The Cup is usually held on the first or second Monday in February....
s. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, Australia on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart. The race distance is approximately...
are broadcast during the duration of the race.
Affiliation
Southern Cross is affiliated with both the metropolitan Seven NetworkSeven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
and Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
. This originates from the aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in the early 1990s, with TVT-6
TVT-6
TVT is the first provincial television station in Australia and Hobart's, and Tasmania's, first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stood for "TeleVision Tasmania"....
(now WIN Television
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...
) holding the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
affiliation. This dual affiliation is shared with Southern Cross' sister station in Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
(TND-34
TND-34
TND is the call-sign for the Southern Cross Television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. The station, launched in 1998 as Seven Darwin and broadcasting to the greater Darwin region, serving around 100,000 people, is owned by the Macquarie Media Group...
).
The 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:...
(TDT) service, run as a joint venture with WIN, carries a full Network Ten affiliation, carrying programs from Ten's Melbourne station (ATV-10
ATV-10
ATV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia, part of Network Ten - one of the three major Australian commercial television networks.-History:...
) with local advertisements. (Due to it being a joint venture, TDT does not take on the Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
branding.) It is expected that Southern Cross will eventually become a full Seven Network affiliate if and when take-up of digital television is considered widespread in the state.
Main Transmitters
| Region served | City | Channels Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... (Analog Analog television Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal... / Digital Digital terrestrial television Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals... ) |
First air date | ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
| Hobart Hobart Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as... |
Hobart Hobart Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as... |
31 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) 10 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
April 30, 1994 | 1300 kW 50 kW |
1061 m 1030 m |
42°53′51"S 147°14′10"E (analog) 42°53′42"S 147°14′10"E (digital) |
Mount Wellington Mount Wellington (Tasmania) Mount Wellington is a mountain on whose foothills is built much of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is often referred to simply as 'the Mountain' by the residents of Hobart, and it rises to AHD over the city.... |
| North Eastern Tasmania | Launceston Launceston, Tasmania Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart... |
9 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) 38 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
May 26, 1962 | 300 kW 1250 kW |
809 m 839 m |
41°23′27"S 147°25′29"E (analog) 41°23′27"S 147°25′28"E (digital) |
Mount Barrow Mount Barrow Mount Barrow is a mountain located 46 kilometres north east of Launceston, Tasmania. The three kilometre long plateau reaches a maximum altitude of 1413 metres above sea level and receives regular snowfalls in winter. Mount Barrow State Reserve occupies 459 hectares and is an important subalpine... |
Notes:
- 1. HAATHeight above average terrainHeight above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts...
estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.