TVT (TV station)

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TVT
Channels
BrandingNine, WIN
Programming
Affiliations Nine (since 2021, also from 1994–2016)
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
23 May 1960;62 years ago (1960-05-23)
Independent (23 May 1960 – 30 April 1994)
Network 10 (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2021)
Call sign meaning
TeleVision Tasmania
Technical information
Licensing authority
 Australian Communications and Media Authority
ERP see table below
HAAT see table below
Transmitter coordinates see table below
Links
Website www.wintv.com.au

TVT is Tasmania's first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stands for "TeleVision Tasmania". Unlike the commercial stations in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and later Perth, TVT held a monopoly in the Hobart market for many years (not unlike CTC in Canberra and NTD in Darwin).

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Initially it broadcast from the Mount Wellington transmitter on VHF channel 6, to all of Hobart. Its broadcast licence area covered all of southern Tasmania, these areas being reached by various repeaters and retransmitters.

It continued to broadcast as TVT-6 until 1982, where it was bought by ENT, owner of Launceston station TNT-9. Both stations began broadcasting under the unified on-air identity of TasTV by 1985, thus becoming for the first time a statewide network. ENT also owned Vic TV in regional Victoria.

In 1988, TNT-9 was sold to Tricom Corporation (later Southern Cross Broadcasting), leaving TVT-6 continuing to service the south as TasTV. And with the dawn of statewide aggregation rising in the early 1990s, TasTV began its preparation, this time as the Nine Network affiliate for the state on the very moment it would restart broadcasts to Northern Tasmania thanks to aggregation. TasTV aired most Nine Network programs, some are the programs from Seven Network and Network Ten. It adopted Nine's idents and campaigns and a new slogan, First in Tasmania, in 1993, and the news service was reconfigured to that of Nine's.

The biggest change to Tasmanian television came in 1994 when aggregation occurred. This allowed both TasTV (TVT-6) and Southern Cross (TNT-9) to broadcast across the entire state and for the first time, give Tasmanians a choice of commercial stations. TasTV, now once again broadcasting all over the state, officially confirmed itself as the Nine Network affiliate and Southern Cross held dual Seven and Ten affiliations.

In October of that year, WIN Corporation bought ENT in a forced takeover and thus TasTV became WIN Tasmania, the state division of the growing regional network. It still uses the callsign TVT-6 for its Hobart and southern Tasmania licence.

In 2002, WIN Corporation and Southern Cross Broadcasting formed a joint venture company to broadcast a third commercial station, Tasmanian Digital Television, in a digital-only format as a Ten affiliate.

On 1 July 2016, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, TVT swapped affiliations with TDT switching from Nine Network to Network Ten, but TVT rebroadcast a feed of ATV-10 from Melbourne with local ads.

On 1 July 2021, as the reverse of the 2016 swap, TVT once again swapped affiliations with TDT switching from Network 10 back to the Nine Network, but TVT rebroadcasts a feed of GTV-9 from Melbourne with local ads.

The station is affiliated with the metropolitan Nine Network and also broadcasts most of Nine's sub-channels (9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life) except it doesn’t broadcast 9Rush.

Programming

WIN Television broadcasts its programming from Nine Network, including their regional signals of Channel Nine, 9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life. TVT doesn’t broadcast 9Rush. WIN also broadcasts news, current affairs and sport programs such as Today Extra , Nine News , A Current Affair , Nine's Wide World of Sports and Today all over Tasmania.

WIN News Tasmania

WIN News produces a half-hour weeknight local news bulletin five days a week. Briefly, the bulletin became an hour-long state-based bulletin in an attempt to rival Seven affiliate Southern Cross’ nightly news bulletin, but was reverted to a half-hour years later.

Weekend bulletins were previously discontinued on Sunday 26 June 2011 – they were replaced by simulcasts of the Melbourne edition of Nine News [1] until they were reintroduced on Saturday 14 July 2012. [2]

As part of the Ten affiliation swap deal, WIN News Tasmania moved to 6.00pm weeknights & 5.30pm on weekends (originally 5.30pm weekdays and weeknights, replacing Ten's Melbourne bulletin), launching a new look.

Until the early 1980s, TVT broadcast Seven News from HSV-7 in Melbourne.[ citation needed ]

TVT simulcasts the weekday edition of Nine News Melbourne from GTV-9 in Melbourne and weekend edition of Nine News Sydney from TCN-9 in Sydney.

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Main Transmitters

Region servedCity Channel
(analog/
digital)		First air date ERP
(analog/
digital)		 HAAT
(analog/
digital)1		Transmitter CoordinatesTransmitter Location
Hobart Hobart 6 (VHF)2
7 (VHF)		23 May 1960200 kW
50 kW		1004 m
1004 m		 42°53′42″S147°14′10″E / 42.89500°S 147.23611°E / -42.89500; 147.23611 (TVT) Mount Wellington
North Eastern Tasmania Launceston 35 (UHF)2
42 (UHF)		30 April 19942000 kW
600 kW		844 m
839 m		 41°23′30″S147°25′36″E / 41.39167°S 147.42667°E / -41.39167; 147.42667 (TVT) (analog)
41°23′27″S147°25′28″E / 41.39083°S 147.42444°E / -41.39083; 147.42444 (TVT) (digital)		 Mount Barrow

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References

  1. ↑ WIN's Tassie turn off, The Mercury, 25 June 2011
  2. ↑ Local bulletins return, The Mercury, 12 July 2012
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