GLV/BCV

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GLV/BCV
Channels
Branding10
Programming
Affiliations 10
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
GLV: 9 December 1961;62 years ago (1961-12-09)
BCV: 23 December 1961;61 years ago (1961-12-23)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: see table below
Independent (9 December 1961 – 31 December 1991, GLV part-time relay of GTV-9 from 1961–1970s)
Network 10 (1 January 1992 – 30 June 2016)
Nine Network (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2021)
Call sign meaning
GLV:
Gippsland
Latrobe Valley
Victoria
BCV:
Bendigo
Central
Victoria
Technical information
Licensing authority
 Australian Communications & Media Authority
ERP see table below
HAAT see table below
Transmitter coordinates see table below

GLV and BCV are Australian television stations licensed to serve Traralgon and Bendigo and the region of Victoria. The stations are owned and operated by Southern Cross 10.

Contents

History

Early years

GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia, on 9 December 1961, [1] originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas. It was also the first station to use entirely Australian-made broadcasting equipment from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia. The original transmission equipment consisted of a 10 kW and 2 kW transmitter (standby) which was based on the RCA product and adapted to 230 V 50 Hz by AWA. The Melbourne pickup was a Rhode and Schwarz off-air receiver with AWA return microwave links to the Studio. BCV-8 first went to air two weeks later, on 23 December 1961 [1] (the same day as the launch of GMV-6 Shepparton), serving Bendigo and Central Victoria.

BCV-8 was hit by a mice attack on 25 March 1970, causing the station to be off the air for 45 minutes. The incident was caused by two mice who got into the transmitter's high-voltage cables, causing a short circuit that, during the period, blacked out both the main circuit and the switchboard. [2]

Affiliations

GLV pioneered the use of live, 'off-air' relays of television programs from stations in Melbourne, including GTV-9's hugely popular In Melbourne Tonight . Since the station had no video recording equipment, engineers were forced to rely on picking up the original signal at the transmitter site to relay back to the studio. As the sole commercial television station in the region, GLV's program lineup included local output such as news and children's programs, combined with programs selected from Melbourne's commercial stations - the Nine Network (GTV-9), Seven Network (HSV-7), and from 1964, Network Ten (ATV-0).

An affiliation was formed between the two stations and STV-8 Mildura in the 1970s as the Victorian Broadcasting Network, adopting the name of a former statewide radio network and later as Television Centre of Victoria. In 1982, the three stations merged as the Southern Cross TV8 television network, sharing a common stylised flag logo and programming schedule. The name changed to the Southern Cross Network seven years later. [1] STV-8 was split from the network in 1990 when the station joined the then-Television Victoria network as Mildura was not included in the Victorian aggregation plan. [1] [3]

From GLV-10 to GLV-8

On 17 January 1980, GLV-10 changed frequency from VHF channel 10 to 8, [1] to allow neighbouring Melbourne television station ATV-0 to move to the channel 10 frequency three days later to eliminate interference problems on VHF-0. Channels 8 and 10 became simply Channel 8 as a result of the switch.

A Southern Cross Ten regional sales office in Echuca. Southern cross ten echuca.jpg
A Southern Cross Ten regional sales office in Echuca.

Aggregation

When aggregation in regional Victoria took place between 1992 and 1993, [4] the Southern Cross Network expanded to Shepparton, Ballarat and Albury as an affiliate of Network 10. [1] By September 1993, the network had changed its name and logo to SCN TV, and then again in May 1994 to Ten Victoria. [1] This latest change coincided with the axing of the station's local news service (SCN TV News at Six), replaced by ATV-10's Ten News at 5 .

21st century developments

On 30 November 2000, GLV-8 moved again to UHF channel 37, in order to allow another Melbourne station, this time GTV-9 to commence digital television transmissions on Channel 8 without interference.[ citation needed ] The two stations' playout and management operations were moved from Bendigo to Canberra in September 2005. [5]

On 1 July 2016, Southern Cross switched its primary affiliation from Network Ten to the Nine Network in Queensland, Southern NSW, ACT, South Australia, and Victoria. The Southern Cross Ten branding was retired and replaced by generic Nine branding. [6] [7]

On 1 July 2021, Southern Cross switched back its primary affiliation from the Nine Network to Network 10 and it airs programs from ATV in Melbourne. [8]

Programming

News and Current Affairs

GLV/BCV broadcasts 10 News First with Jennifer Keyte from ATV-10.

History

From their inception, regional stations GLV and BCV provided local news bulletins within their respective markets. This was usually supplemented by a relay of one of the Melbourne-based bulletins.

During the 1980s, GLV/BCV branded their evening news block as TV8 NewsHour, comprising half an hour of locally based news and half an hour of news from the Melbourne channel HSV-7. In April 1987, the Melbourne-based news became sourced from GTV-9 as HSV-7 had changed its news format to a one-hour bulletin.

In 1986, TV8 NewsHour won a Logie award for Most Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Television Station.

In 1991, GLV/BCV changed its Melbourne-based news relay to Ten Eyewitness News from ATV-10, in the lead-up to the aggregation of regional markets which would see GLV/BCV align with the Ten Network for program material.

In January 1992, following aggregation, GLV/BCV maintained its local half-hour news in its traditional markets of Gippsland and Bendigo. (Alternative general entertainment programming was broadcast in this timeslot in the newer markets of Shepparton, Ballarat, and Albury) This bulletin was supplemented by a half-hour edition of Southern Cross Eyewitness News, anchored by Rob Gaylard and broadcast across the expanded market covered by GLV/BCV, presenting 'national' news of relevance to the broader market.

Southern Cross Eyewitness News was soon disbanded, instead having the Gippsland and Bendigo local news services at 6:00 pm supplemented by the Melbourne-based Ten Eyewitness News, from ATV-10, which aired weeknights at 5:00 pm.

In September 1993, Southern Cross Network became SCN. The news programming block was changed again. Relay of the Melbourne-based Ten Eyewitness News was dropped, with the Bendigo edition of local news - SCN News at Six - expanded to cover the local markets of Shepparton and Ballarat. The Gippsland-based edition of SCN News at Six continued to cover that local region only. At 6:30 pm, GLV/BCV re-instated the statewide Eyewitness News half-hour bulletin for broadcast across the Gippsland, Bendigo, Shepparton and Ballarat markets. The Albury/Upper Murray local market instead received a delayed broadcast of the Sydney-based Ten Eyewitness News bulletin in the 6:00 pm hour as an alternative to Melbourne-based bulletins being broadcast on rival channels VIC TV and Prime Television.

In May 1994, SCN was re-branded Ten Victoria. The local news bulletins of GLV/BCV were axed, as was the now renamed statewide SCN News at 6. News coverage was now a straight relay of the Melbourne edition of Ten News from ATV-10 with no local or state-based news bulletins (on weekdays) and the national weekend report from TEN-10 from Sydney during weekends, as well as, till 2014, the Network Ten national morning and late night news bulletins.

Local news was reintroduced to the station in 2004 in the form of three-minute updates at various times of the day. The Updates are produced by Southern Cross News from its CTC studios in Canberra. As Southern Cross Ten Local News, the updates were pre-recorded. Between 21 March 2011 and 19 June 2015, viewers in Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley received a trial regional news magazine program called Weeknights at 6:30pm on weekdays. [9] The Project then aired in full in its place for the remainder of its Ten affiliation.

Given its 1 July 2016 affiliate switch to the Nine Network, the news updates had been upgraded to full bulletin relaunch as Nine Local News by March 2017. [10] The new SC9 served as the Nine News regional broadcaster to regional Victoria viewers, with the state and local level news provided by GTV-9 in Melbourne.

The bulletins' formats were similar in style to the Nine-owned NBN News bulletin in northern New South Wales, as a composite of international, national, and local news. [11]

On 17 March 2020, production on the composite bulletins, including Victoria, were suspended indefinitely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with reporters deployed to the metropolitan bulletins in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. [12]

As of 1 July 2021, Southern Cross broadcasts 10 News First, broadcast from ATV's studios, with Jennifer Keyte from Melbourne at 5:00pm and The Project at 6:30pm on Weekdays and Sundays. Since 1 August 2021, Sky News Australia content has been offered in the viewing areas of Regional Victoria, on the channel Sky News Regional, via GLV/BCV. [13] [14] [15]

Main Transmitters

The following transmitters use the GLV call sign:

Region servedCity Channels
(Analog/
Digital)		First air date ERP
(Analog/
Digital)		 HAAT
(Analog/
Digital)1		Transmitter CoordinatesTransmitter Location
Goulburn Valley Shepparton 46 (UHF)5
42 (UHF)		1 January 19921200 kW
300 kW		377 m
378 m		 36°21′29″S145°41′42″E / 36.35806°S 145.69500°E / -36.35806; 145.69500 (GLV) Mount Major
Latrobe Valley Traralgon 37 (UHF)2 5
39 (UHF)		9 December 19611000 kW
400 kW		507 m
487 m		 38°23′37″S146°33′34″E / 38.39361°S 146.55944°E / -38.39361; 146.55944 (GLV) Mount Tassie

The following transmitters use the BCV call sign:

Region servedCity Channels
(Analog/
Digital)		First air date ERP
(Analog/
Digital)		 HAAT
(Analog/
Digital)1		Transmitter CoordinatesTransmitter Location
Ballarat Ballarat 39 (UHF)5
40 (UHF)		1 January 19922000 kW
500 kW		663 m
713 m		 37°16′57″S143°14′52″E / 37.28250°S 143.24778°E / -37.28250; 143.24778 (BCV) Lookout Hill
Bendigo Bendigo 8 (VHF)3 5
51 (UHF)		23 December 1961240 kW
1000 kW		444 m
496 m		 36°59′26″S144°18′32″E / 36.99056°S 144.30889°E / -36.99056; 144.30889 (BCV) Mount Alexander
Murray Valley Swan Hill 10 (VHF)4 5
65 (UHF)		12 May 1967150 kW
375 kW		179 m
201 m		 35°28′24″S143°27′20″E / 35.47333°S 143.45556°E / -35.47333; 143.45556 (BCV) Goschen
Western Victoria Hamilton 31 (UHF)5
9A (VHF)		1 January 1992200 kW
15 kW		335 m
365 m		 37°27′32″S141°54′58″E / 37.45889°S 141.91611°E / -37.45889; 141.91611 (BCV) (analog)
37°27′32″S141°54′57″E / 37.45889°S 141.91583°E / -37.45889; 141.91583 (BCV) (digital)		 Mount Dundas

Notes:

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