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80-807: Prime7 , formerly Prime Television and other names, was an Australian television network . Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN-8 in Orange , and later expanded to cover regional New South Wales , Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory . It was initially an independent affiliate owned by Prime Media Group before the network, and its sister GWN7 , were acquired by Seven West Media on 31 December 2021. Prime7 along with GWN7 national broadcast facilities were based in Canberra , with playout facilities (since 2021) shared with hybrid-funded broadcaster SBS Television at

160-538: A Seven Network affiliate, after WIN Television began transmission as an affiliate of both the Nine Network and Network Ten . The network began to expand into New Zealand in 1997, when a number of licences were purchased from United Christian Broadcasters for an estimated $ 3.6 million. Prime Television New Zealand began broadcasting on 30 August 1998, with a nightly local news program in both Waikato and Christchurch . Prime also expanded into Argentina with

240-788: A Network Ten affiliate, and the Sunshine Television Network a Seven affiliate. However, in the week before aggregation was due to take place, WIN Television bought Star Television and gave them the Nine affiliation – meaning that QTV was forced to change its affiliation to Network Ten. The next year, northern New South Wales was aggregated. NBN became the Nine Network affiliate, while the Seven Network would be carried by Prime Television , formerly carried by 9-8 Television. Northern Rivers Television (NRTV) became

320-417: A Nine Network affiliate, Prime Television took affiliation with Seven, and SCN took affiliation with Ten. Tasmania was aggregated in 1994, albeit with only two stations – Southern Cross is a dual Seven and Ten affiliate, while Tas TV took programming from the Nine Network. Remote and Central Australia was the final area to be aggregated – one of the largest geographical licence areas, taking in parts of

400-745: A combined program guide for the free-to-air broadcasters, named Channel 4 ; a news, sport, and weather datacast channel provided by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; a government and public information channel, known as Channel NSW , which included real time traffic information and surf webcams; the Australian Christian Channel; the Expo Channel ; and various federal parliamentary audio broadcasts. Today, datacasting consists of information based channels that are broadcast as subchannels of

480-567: A cost of $ 3.2 million, in October 1996. Analogue transmission ceased on 30 June 2010 as part of the national conversion to digital television. In the Mildura regional market, short two-minute updates are presented by rotating presenters with weather forecasts presented by Karl Lijnders, Daniel Gibson or Craig Moore. Some of the reports aired in these updates are drawn on the resources of Mildura-based WIN News operation. Prime Television became

560-720: A digital shared channel began on 2 May 2011. SBS Television is a division of the Special Broadcasting Service , founded to provide for the estimated 20% of Australians that speak a language other than English in the home, aiming to complement the ABC . In recent years SBS TV has begun to target a broader cross-section of the Australian community, in part because of the emergence of specialty subscription television channels aimed at such minorities. In addition to its free-to-air channels, SBS also has an interest in

640-639: A digital-only station in Mildura began transmissions in 2006 as a joint venture between Prime Television and WIN Corporation . Section 38B of the Broadcasting Services Act allowed for the provision of a third station owned by either one or both existing networks. MDT is a direct relay of 10 Melbourne , albeit with local advertising. Prime Television announced on 21 December 2009 that it would start broadcasting 7two on 23 December 2009. On 25 September 2010, Prime began transmission of

720-751: A facility operated by Australian telecommunications provider Telstra . Seven West Media head office/administration is located in Pyrmont, Sydney . Prime Television originally began as a group of separate stations and networks – Midstate Television in Orange , Dubbo and Griffith ; RVN/AMV in Wagga Wagga and Albury ; and 9-8 Television in Tamworth and Taree . CBN-8 Orange first aired on 17 March 1962, followed by CWN-6 Dubbo on 1 December 1965, and MTN-9 Griffith began on 15 December 1965. CBN and CWN were both licensed to Country Television Services (also

800-650: A feed from pay television channel Expo . Past programming from Prime Television has been recognised nationally, with some local productions winning the Logie Award for 'Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Television Station'. The network has won Logies for Goin' Down The Road (CBN-8, 1979), Naturally (NEN-9/ECN-8, 1984), Stranded (Prime Television, 1993), Rest in Peace (Prime Television, 1994), and No Time For Frailty (Prime Television, 1996). Seven News Regional (formerly known as Prime7 News and Prime News )

880-524: A network in May 1988, with shared logos produced and used across the regional stations, featuring the word Prime Television either above an outlined triangle or rectangle. Aggregation occurred across the network on 31 March 1989, along with the introduction of a green logo featuring the word Prime with the letter i dotted with a stylised globe, introduced in December 1988. This logo was used on its own across

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960-523: A new, nationwide indigenous television network. Although no major political party championed this cause, commercial broadcaster Imparja Television stated in 2004 that it would run such a network, at least within its own licence area. In 2005 the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts considered funding such a station, and conducted a review process. On 13 July 2007 NITV launched, replacing Indigenous Community Television on

1040-561: A number of specialised market segments; including Spanish, Greek , and Italian . As of January 2011, the service is no longer available. There are two small region-based subscription television providers; TransTV Digital which is available in Canberra ; and Neighbourhood Cable based in Ballarat , and also available in Geelong & Mildura . There are also a number of satellite services that target specific language speaking groups,

1120-463: A result of problems in Orange and Wagga), starting on 31 March 1989. WIN Television Wollongong (WIN-4) became an affiliate of the Nine Network , The Prime Network became a Seven affiliate, and Capital Television in Canberra became a Network Ten affiliate. The next area to be aggregated was Queensland, which took place on 31 December 1990. QTV was to become a Nine affiliate, Star Television

1200-467: A result of the financial difficulties that many independent stations faced, MTN-9 joined CWN-6 and CBN-8 to form Television 6-8-9 in 1973. Relays were launched in Portland , Lithgow , Mudgee , Cobar , Kandos and Rylstone and Bathurst . In 1981, 6-8-9 changed its name to Midstate Television. Colour television was introduced at the same time as the rest of the country, on 1 March 1975 – one of

1280-536: A sister to the Seven Network's high definition simulcast, Seven HD . Then-known as Prime HD , it broadcast in 1080i high definition on digital channel 60 on Prime's regional stations NEN Northern New South Wales, CBN Southern New South Wales, AMV Victoria and PTV Mildura. The channel broadcast breakaway programming from 10 December 2007 until 4 October 2009, when it was turned into a straight HD simulcast. Prime HD fully ceased broadcasting on 25 September 2010 with

1360-595: A test transmission in Sydney using one of the reserved digital spectrum positions. Australian broadcast infrastructure company Broadcast Australia undertook the three-year trial using the DVB-T system. The trial consisted of a number of services on one standard 7 MHz multiplex , collectively known as Digital Forty Four . The service was extended past the three-year period, but ended in March 2010 The services included;

1440-421: A third licence to the same company that owned the other two licences. There are three main metropolitan networks, the Seven Network , Nine Network and Network 10 . Although primarily targeted at metropolitan areas, these names are also used in some regional areas (others choose to run the same programming as these stations, but use independent names). Seven Network Nine Network Network 10 Although

1520-542: A variety of local and national news, current affairs, and sports coverage, as well as Australian arts and comedy programming. It is well known for broadcasting British programming, primarily from the BBC , ITV , and Channel 4 . ABC Family , established as a second digital-only channel called ABC2 on 7 March 2005. Originally aimed at providing 'more choice, more often', the channel mainly provided repeats of popular ABC productions, such as Australian Story and Stateline , and

1600-556: Is present only in the form of local news bulletin or local advertising. The amount of local news provided varies from two-minute updates to full-hour, seven nights a week news bulletins. Commercial stations in metropolitan markets (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth), in addition to some regional markets, are owned and operated by their respective network instead of an affiliate operator. However, commercial stations in most regional and remote areas are instead operated by broadcasters with unique licences and commercial agreements with

1680-501: The AUSSAT satellites, as well as a number of terrestrial transmitters. The Hawke government of the 1980s introduced a system of regional equalisation, known as aggregation, which would provide regional viewers with the same viewing choice as their metropolitan counterparts. Local stations protested at this proposal, arguing that their profits would fall, and that local output would also decrease. They offered their own proposal, whereby

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1760-620: The Australian Broadcasting Authority to investigate the adequacy of regional news services The ABA later mandated that stations broadcast a minimum level of local content, based on a points system – two points per minute for local news, and one point per minute for other local content, excluding paid advertisements. Prime formed a partnership with the Nine Network (affiliated in Australia to competitor WIN Television ), giving its owner, PBL Media

1840-495: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the Special Broadcasting Service , and, as more recently, National Indigenous Television . ABC Television is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , established in 1956. ABC TV , ABC Family , ABC Entertains and ABC News are available nationally, in addition to ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel) , focused at the Asia Pacific region. ABC TV carries

1920-688: The Gold Coast , the Central Coast and all of Western Australia until mid-2012 when Foxtel/ Austar merged hence Foxtel gaining the Austar coverage areas. Optus Television operates only in the small parts of Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Adelaide where it has laid cable. SelecTV was the fourth provider of subscription television controlled by WIN Corporation . SelecTV was available throughout Australia via satellite and focused on providing content in comparatively low priced packages to

2000-463: The Hawke Labor government introduced a system known as aggregation – regional television equalisation – which would provide viewers with the same viewing choices as those in the metropolitan cities. Consequently, the regional stations and networks continued to merge and expand, and became affiliated with one of the three metropolitan networks. Further equalisation later occurred in the 2000s – with

2080-693: The Olympic Games in Melbourne . It has now grown to be a nationwide system that includes a broad range of public, commercial, community, subscription, narrowcast, and amateur stations. Colour television in the PAL 625-line format was introduced in 1967 and went to a full-time basis on 1 March 1975 while subscription television , on the Galaxy platform, began in January 1995. Digital terrestrial television

2160-494: The Optus Aurora remote satellite service. On 12 December 2012 NITV was launched on free to air on which was the 4th digital channel of SBS, making this channel available to all Australians wherever SBS digital television is broadcast. In order to allow for commercial licensing, the country was divided into a number of licence areas. When these were drawn up in the 1950s, each major city or regional area – about 50 in all –

2240-605: The World Movies Channel which has since been revived on free-to-air TV as SBS World Movies and it relaunched on the 1st of July 2019. SBS shows many non-English language films with English subtitles, and each morning shows news bulletins in foreign languages from around the world in its WorldWatch timeslot. In addition to this, a great deal of programming from the PBS , Arte , BBC and CBC , and even Comedy Central are shown. Acquired entertainment programs include

2320-596: The 1980s, a number of regional stations were required to move to different frequencies. These included GLV-10 in Gippsland, who moved to channel 8 in order to allow ATV-0 Melbourne to move to channel 10 in 1980. DDQ-10 and TVQ-0 switched channels to become DDQ-0 and TVQ-10, and SEQ10 became SEQ55 in 1988. The last regional station to launch before aggregation launched unofficially on 2 January 1988 – IMP-9, Imparja Television in Alice Springs , began transmission via

2400-551: The 23rd of May of 2022. National Indigenous Television , funded by the Commonwealth of Australia , is produced in Sydney and broadcast via Imparja Television 's existing satellite capacity. The idea for a national, indigenous television service was initially conceived by the National Indigenous Radio Service (the peak Indigenous radio group), which initially lobbied the government to start

2480-552: The Australian Capital Territory and NSW south coast on 31 March 1989, followed by Orange , Dubbo , and Wagga Wagga on 31 December 1989. These changes led to the de-merger of RVN-AMV, with RVN becoming CBN-2. Griffith remained a one-station market, however instead of taking programming from Prime in line with the network's other stations, MTN-9 relayed programming mainly from WIN Television in southern New South Wales. A supplementary licence, AMN-31,

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2560-1310: The Federal Government's Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group. In addition to these, a number of community groups produce programming in regional areas, including Queanbeyan Canberra Television (QCTV) in Canberra , Hunter Community Television in Newcastle , Illawarra Community Television (ICTV) in Wollongong and WARP Television in Bathurst . Groups in a number of areas including Ballarat and Victor Harbor have unsuccessfully applied for licences. Aurora Community Television , Australian Multicultural Television, Ballarat Community Cable Television, Channel Vision (Canberra) and Satellite Community TV, although not licensed as community stations, provide similar services. Community Television stations went digital in 2010. However, in September 2014 Australian federal communications minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that licensing for community television stations would end in December 2015. In September 2015, Turnbull, now Prime Minister, announced an extension of

2640-740: The Network Ten affiliate. At one stage, WIN made its first attempt in setting up a northern New South Wales outlet by replicating the steal it had made in Regional Queensland. WIN tried to buy NRTV through bidding to steal the Nine affiliation rights from NBN, and force the latter to pick up the Ten affiliation. However, nothing came out of the deal and the respective affiliations remained as is among stations until today. Aggregation in Victoria took place between 1992 and 1993. VIC TV became

2720-499: The Northern Territory on 11 November 1971 with the launch of NTD-8 Darwin . The last regional stations to launch were GSW-9 Albany (a relay of BTW-3 Bunbury) on 29 August 1974, RTS-5A Loxton on 26 November 1976 and GTW-11 Geraldton on 21 January 1977. Similar to their metropolitan counterparts, various stations began to form programming and operational partnerships in order to reduce operating costs and share

2800-649: The Prime branding after 33 years in favour of the Seven Network 's branding, and would see all news bulletins carry the Seven News brand. Prior to this, Prime7 (and sister GWN7 in regional and remote Western Australia), as well as Nine affiliate Imparja Television were the only networks not to fully use its metro affiliate branding despite carrying Seven (Nine for Imparja) branded promos, since WIN Television (except for WIN News) and Southern Cross Austereo use full Nine , Ten and Seven branding on their stations. It

2880-443: The Prime network's inception it featured a broad range of original local programming, which included children's program Possum's Club with Madelaine Collignon and station mascot Prime Possum as well as community service segment Prime7 InfoNet , a series of short updates listing local community events. Prime7's overnight schedule also differed from the Seven Network feed, containing infomercials from Danoz Direct, Home Shopping, and

2960-576: The Prime7 name. In June 2022 the Prime7 brand was retired. On 22 July 2022 the final retirement of the Prime7 branding took place with all local news bulletins becoming "7NEWS (region)" for example "7NEWS Border" as of Monday 25 July. Prime's programming schedule was almost identical to those of Seven Network metropolitan counterparts ATN in Sydney and HSV in Melbourne , with some differences. Since

3040-731: The Schools . From 1968, CBN was able to access a Postmaster-General's Department microwave link for national news bulletins and major events. Midstate Television was bought out by media magnate Paul Ramsay 's Ramcorp in October 1987. It was soon merged with Ramcorp's other stations, RVN/AMV and NEN/ECN. In 1988, Midstate Television was renamed Prime Television and began to show increased Seven Network programming in readiness for aggregation . When aggregation took place, Prime began broadcasting to both southern New South Wales and northern Victoria. Transmission problems meant that aggregation in southern New South Wales took place in two stages – first

3120-957: The Sydney suburb of Ingleburn. The facility is a joint venture between public broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation and rival regional network WIN Television . Network officials noted that its existing Canberra facilities cannot be upgraded with technological advancements, causing Prime7 to be incapable of relaunching its HD simulcast as well as introducing 7flix to its viewers. On 3 August 2017, 18 months after launching in metropolitan areas, Prime7 announced that it would carry 7flix to its regional stations in northern and southern New South Wales , regional Victoria and Mildura from 3 September 2017. The channel became available on digital channel 66 in MPEG-4 format. On 15 January 2018, Prime7 quietly relaunched its primary HD service, Prime7 HD, on digital channel 60 in MPEG-4 format. On 1 November 2021, Seven West Media announced that it would acquire all

3200-805: The US animated series South Park , Queer as Folk and Inspector Rex . In addition to news and current affairs programming such as SBS World News and Dateline , the network also commissions locally produced documentaries, movies and comedy programs. Less-popular mainstream sports such as soccer, cycling and athletics are also shown. SBS currently broadcasts six channels: SBS , known as 'SBS One' between 2009 and 2015, SBS Viceland , known as SBS Two between 2009 and 2016, SBS World Movies , SBS Food , known as Food Network Australia between 2015 and 2018, NITV , also known as National indigenous Television (see #National Indigenous Television and more info about this channel in that section), and SBS WorldWatch launched on

3280-736: The West Australian Community Broadcasting Association was appointed to manage access to the sixth channel in Perth and Mandurah on behalf of groups based in the two cities. Licences were also granted in 1996 to Hobart Access Community Television Inc in Hobart and Bendigo Community Television Inc in Bendigo however these were not renewed. Similarly, a licence for BushVision in Mount Gambier

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3360-492: The advent of digital television – to areas that escaped initial aggregation. Today, WIN Television , Imparja Television and Southern Cross Austereo notably remain independent, whereas broadcasters like Prime Television , the Golden West Network , Sunshine Television and NBN Television have been absorbed by the metropolitan networks over the years. As with some of the metropolitan stations, local content

3440-458: The callsign RVN/AMV on air. In northern New South Wales, NEN-9 Tamworth began transmission on 27 September 1965, with a relay in Armidale (NEN-1, later NEN-10) on 15 July 1966. ECN-8 Taree started on 27 May 1966. At one stage, ECN-8 merged with NRN-11 Coffs Harbour (now owned by WIN Corporation ), however the two stations eventually split. NEN later merged with ECN as 9-8 Television. As

3520-399: The cost of imported programming. Television 6-8-9 (later Mid State Television ) Television Centre of Victoria (TCV) (later TV8 , then Southern Cross TV8 and then Southern Cross Network ) RVN-AMV (later The Prime Network ) Northern Rivers–Gold Coast Television (later Northern Rivers Television ) A partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour and ECN-8 Taree

3600-575: The day. Prime7 News bulletins were presented from Canberra weeknightly as Prime7 Local News at 18:00 (6pm) in the Albury and Wodonga Border, North West, North Coast, Central West and Wagga Wagga broadcast areas. Prime7 News at 6:30 (with Daniel Gibson) (at 18:30) also came from the Canberra news centre. Prime7 was available in standard definition digital format. Since June 2007 a 1080i high definition simulcast had also been available, replacing

3680-457: The deadline to 31 December 2016. The deadline was further extended incrementally by communications minister Mitch Fifield until June 2021, however by 2015 Sydney's Television Sydney had ceased broadcasting, as had Brisbane's 31 Digital , switching to a short-live online streaming service. As of January 2021, the only remaining community television stations in Australia still broadcasting are Melbourne's C31 and Adelaide's Channel 44 . Two of

3760-487: The exception of Tasmania and Remote & Central Australia, which got two licences. As some markets were formed by the merger of up to six different individual markets, this meant that some stations had to merge or form partnerships in order to remain competitive. Around the same time, many remote market regions were replaced with two satellite market regions – one for regional Western Australia , and one for remote central and eastern Australia – although each of these regions

3840-603: The existing commercial broadcasters. As of mid 2013, these broadcast mainly infomercials. Examples include TVSN and 4ME . Regional television in Australia#Aggregation Australia's first regional television station was launched three-and-a-half years after the rollout of television had commenced in metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne . First to launch was TVT-6 Hobart on 23 May 1960. GLV-10 in Traralgon opened on 9 December 1961 and

3920-491: The existing operator would be allowed to operate relays of the other two networks, allowing a combination of both viewer choice and local programming. If NBN were to take the Nine affiliation, for example, their two relays would offer programs from the Seven and Ten networks, direct from Sydney. This proposal was, however, rejected. The new system would allow stations to transmit into neighbouring markets, as an affiliate of one of

4000-461: The first stations produced their own local programming, supplemented by content from the capital city stations such as GTV-9 Melbourne 's In Melbourne Tonight . GLV-10 Traralgon was amongst the first to make use of live 'off-air' relays of programmes from metropolitan stations without the use of video recording equipment. VEW-8 Kalgoorlie opened on 18 June 1971 and ITQ-8 Mount Isa commenced on 11 September 1971 before television reached

4080-399: The government, the stations began to organise affiliations with metro networks. Stations that hadn't joined forces beforehand began to merge and form new networks: Vision TV (later Star Television ) Prime Television ( later Prime7 , now Seven Regional ) Sunshine Television Network (callsign STQ ) Southern New South Wales was the first area to be formed, in two phases (as

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4160-405: The introduction of 7onPrime promotional branding for Seven Network -produced programs on 11 February 2001. Local news bulletins for Newcastle , the Gold Coast , Canberra , and Wollongong were axed on 9 June 2001 due to falling ratings and the anticipated costs of the switch to digital television . This, and the closure of a number of news bulletins by Southern Cross Broadcasting , prompted

4240-455: The largest being UBI World TV , a non-English language service. Globecast TV and Pan Global TV are non-English language, Christian and sport channel platforms that are controlled by Globecast . Various operators run their own subscription services on these platforms. In addition, there are other satellite subscription services available through other providers. National IPTV operators include TPG IPTV . Datacasting in Australia began as

4320-478: The launch of the HD channel 7mate. Prime7 re-launched their HD simulcast service, now known as Prime7 HD on 15 January 2018. PTV was an Australian television station licensed to, and serving the regions surrounding Mildura, Victoria . The station commenced transmissions in 1997, after Prime Television won the second television licence for Mildura , a non-aggregated market, in competition with WIN Television , for

4400-415: The metropolitan market networks. Some regional markets have one operator holding a monopoly over all three networks, with one "digital only" supplementary station of the three operating under a supplementary licence. Other regional markets have only two operators, each affiliated with their own networks. Consequently, these two operators have formed a supplementary "digital only" joint venture to broadcast

4480-430: The names of the metropolitan stations remain the same across cities, their ownership varies (see below). The population of Australians living outside of metropolitan areas are served by a number of regional television networks that are affiliated with a metropolitan counterpart. Before the 1980s, regional stations were mostly independent with some forming loose partnerships and others merging into local networks. However,

4560-425: The network until 1996, when a new circular logo was introduced in 1990. Following a decade in use, 2001 saw the launch of a new simplified yellow logo, with the removal of the circle. This logo was launched concurrently with a similarly design logo on the Golden West Network . Following the 2011 relaunch, a new red logo was introduced which incorporates the Seven Network logo . The relaunch logo featuring Seven Network

4640-566: The network's former 576p service. Prime7 was viewed mainly through free-to-air terrestrial transmitters , although subscription cable also provided by TransACT and Neighbourhood Cable in the Australian Capital Territory and Ballarat , respectively. Prime7 broadcast to southern New South Wales through stations based in Orange and Dubbo , northern New South Wales from stations in Tamworth and Taree , Victoria from its Albury-Wodonga -based station AMV and Mildura via PTV . Prime7 HD originally launched on 15 October 2007 as

4720-776: The new HD digital channel 7mate aimed at men 16–49. The first program to be broadcast was the drawn 2010 AFL Grand Final . On 15 January 2011, Prime Media Group reported that Prime and GWN were set to rebrand as Prime7 and GWN7 respectively. Their news bulletins had quickly changed their names to Prime7 News and GWN7 News, while 7two dropped the "Prime" logo on the multichannels. Prime and GWN relaunched on 16 January 2011 at 18:00 (6pm). Prime7 began broadcasting 4ME (then Television 4) on 18 September 2011 on LCN 64. Prime7 began broadcasting ishop TV on 30 April 2013 on LCN 65. Prime7 ceased to broadcast 4ME on 30 April 2016, due to financial problems. In December 2016, Prime7 transferred its playout facilities to MediaHub Australia located within

4800-662: The option to purchase a 50% share of Prime Television New Zealand in return for access to original programming, and cross-promotion in PBL's New Zealand magazine titles. Following this, Prime Television New Zealand began to take on branding and programming similar to that of the Nine Network . In November 2005, Prime Television New Zealand was purchased by subscription television provider Sky Network Television for NZ$ 30,000,000, completed after approval by New Zealand's Commerce Commission in February 2006. Mildura Digital Television ,

4880-533: The owner of radio station 2GZ in Orange). CWN was a full-time relay of CBN—the first Australian television station to relay another. The two stations thus formed the country's first regional television network. RVN-2 Wagga Wagga began broadcasting on 19 June 1964, while AMV-4 Albury launched on 7 September 1964. The two stations merged in 1971 as the Riverina and North East Victoria Television Service Pty Ltd with

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4960-473: The purchase of the Canal 9 network. The renamed Argentine network Azul Televisión was sold for $ 108 million in early 2000 due to lower-than-expected performance. During the same year, Prime benefited greatly from its affiliation with the Seven Network throughout its carriage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The network's relationship with Seven was further developed throughout the early 2000s, leading to

5040-572: The remaining third network. In 1993 the Australian Broadcasting Authority allocated licences for a sixth television channel for non-profit community and educational use on a trial basis. The groundwork for community television was laid in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 , which defined a new service category, community television, for the first time. Prospective community television providers were invited to apply for transmitter licences, which were granted to groups in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Lismore . In February, 1995,

5120-434: The shares and subsidiaries of Prime Media Group , including Prime7. This was Seven West Media's second attempt at purchasing Prime, after its previous attempt in 2019 was thwarted by Australian Community Media boss Antony Catalano and rival WIN Corporation owner Bruce Gordon , who cited Seven's debt problems at the time and its poor ratings performance as their reason for their refusal. This development would mark an end to

5200-522: The single most expensive processes undertaken by CBN to date. The station was a prominent broadcaster of local sporting events including tennis and rugby . In 1979, a documentary titled Goin' Down The Road , about the 1978 National Rodeo Titles won the network a Logie award for an 'Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station'. Midstate produced a number of local programs, including the Weekend Report , Early Shift , Rural Roundup and Around

5280-465: The three major providers of subscription television in Australia carry a common service; however they have a number of differences. Foxtel currently 'controls' the common service that Optus resell. This service is known as the Foxtel Platform. Austar broadcast into all of regional Australia (except Western Australia ), Tasmania and Darwin while Foxtel broadcast in all capital cities,

5360-468: The three metropolitan networks. For instance, before aggregation, there were three separate licence areas in northern New South Wales – Newcastle , New England , and the Mid North Coast , each served by a single commercial station. After aggregation, these three licence areas merged, with the three stations in direct competition for viewers. Soon after realising they had lost their battle with

5440-430: Was also announced that Seven would look to expand its investment in local news following the merger. The majority of Prime's shareholders voted in favour of the deal on 23 December, with the sale completed on 31 December. On 23 May 2022, Seven West Media announced that the current branding of Prime7 and GWN7 would be unified into Seven Network branding across all stations including for Prime7 Local News, officially retiring

5520-424: Was considered its own market region. In each of the five major capitals, three commercial licences were granted (the exception being Perth which did not receive its third commercial station until 1988 ), while smaller cities or regions were granted a single licence. The process of aggregation began in 1989. Regional markets were merged and (usually) three licences were granted in the new, aggregated, area, with

5600-562: Was followed 14 days later by GMV-6 in Shepparton and BCV-8 Bendigo . Television continued to expand in Victoria and across the country throughout the 1960s, with no fewer than twenty-five stations making their first transmissions between 1962 and 1968. 1962 station openings 1963 station opening 1964 station openings 1965 station openings 1966 station openings 1967 station opening 1968 station openings Many of

5680-532: Was granted in 2005, but it later lapsed. Permanent licences for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth were allocated in 2004, while trial licences remain in effect in Adelaide and Lismore. The Australian Community Television Alliance , established in March 2008 is the national representative organisation for community television. The CEO of TVS Sydney , Laurie Patton, is the Secretary and represents ACTA on

5760-495: Was introduced on 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities. As early as 1929, two Melbourne commercial radio stations, 3UZ and 3DB were conducting experimental mechanical television broadcasts – these were conducted in the early hours of the morning, after the stations had officially closed down. In 1934, Dr Val McDowall at amateur station 4CM Brisbane conducted experiments in electronic television. Australia has three national public broadcasters,

5840-431: Was not until 1993 that the renamed Prime Television posted a profit. In November 1996, Prime's parent company, Prime Television , purchased the Golden West Network , a merged group of four stations in regional Western Australia; BTW-3 Bunbury , VEW-8 Kalgoorlie , GTW-11 Geraldton and GSW-9 Albany . Western Australia, similar to Griffith and Mildura, remained a one-station commercial market until 1999 when GWN became

5920-616: Was only granted two licences. Some remained un-aggregated, and are today known as diary markets. These were granted a second licence, sometimes to the same company that owned the existing licence. Two-broadcaster areas were later granted a third licence, to a joint venture company formed as a partnership of the two existing broadcasters. Examples of these include Tasmanian Digital Television , Mildura Digital Television , Darwin Digital Television and West Digital Television service. Areas with one broadcaster were also granted

6000-504: Was prohibited by law from carrying programmes from a number of genres; however, after the removal of these restrictions the channel's content was broadened considerably. It was announced by the ABC that, from 4 December 2017, ABC2 was to be replaced by ABC Comedy, ending the channel's 12-year run. ABC Entertains , a third digital-only kids channel began on 4 December 2009. ABC News , a digital news channel began on 22 July 2010. ABC Kids ,

6080-486: Was revised in 2012 from multi colour to be a single colour logo. Television broadcasting in Australia Television broadcasting in Australia began officially on 16 September 1956, with the opening of TCN-9 , quickly followed by national and commercial stations in Sydney and Melbourne, all these being in 625-line black and white . The commencement date was designed so as to provide coverage of

6160-590: Was split up when NRN joined RTN-8 in 1971. ECN later went into partnership with NEN-9 Tamworth . All television stations in Australia, including regional stations, were required to convert to colour transmission in 1975. Stations continued to form various partnerships and networks throughout the 1980s. North Queensland Television (later QTV ) SIX Network Victoria (later Television Victoria ) TV8 (later Southern Cross TV8 and then Southern Cross Network ) TasTV Golden West Network (later GWN7, now Seven Regional WA) Throughout

6240-403: Was successful in bidding for a new licence for the area at a cost of $ 3.2 million. PTV-31 began broadcasting the following year. Although advertising revenue increased post-aggregation, local programming declined as a result of the costs incurred by the network's expansion – an estimated $ 45 million had been spent by Ramcorp during and in the lead-up to aggregation. After losses of $ 50 million, it

6320-478: Was successfully bid for by MTN in 1996, providing a relay of Prime Television. Soon after the station was purchased by WIN Television , which undertook a number of minor changes – mainly changing the news service to WIN News , and using entirely WIN branding. AMN-31 remains a relay of Prime. Similarly, the Mildura licence area remained separate from the remainder of Victoria, albeit with a single station, STV-8, later bought out by WIN Television in 1996. In 1997 Prime

6400-526: Was the network's local news service. Full bulletins were produced for the towns and surrounding regions originally covered by the stations "Midstate 6,8,9 Television", Dubbo / Orange , "RVN-2/AMV-4", Wagga Wagga / Albury and "9/8 Television" (NEN-9/ECN-8) Tamworth / Taree , prior to the aggregation of regional television services in New South Wales that occurred in the early 1990s. In other areas two-minute news updates were shown at various times of

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