GLV/BCV
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GLV and BCV are Australian television stations licensed to serve
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
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
An affiliation was formed between the two stations and
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.
Aggregation
When
21st century developments
On 30 November 2000, GLV-8 moved again to
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 served | City | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
Goulburn Valley | Shepparton | 46 (UHF)5 42 (UHF) |
1 January 1992 | 1200 kW 300 kW |
377 m 378 m |
36°21′29″S 145°41′42″E / 36.35806°S 145.69500°E | Mount Major |
Latrobe Valley | Traralgon | 37 (UHF)2 5 39 (UHF) |
9 December 1961 | 1000 kW 400 kW |
507 m 487 m |
38°23′37″S 146°33′34″E / 38.39361°S 146.55944°E | Mount Tassie |
The following transmitters use the BCV call sign:
Region served | City | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
Ballarat | Ballarat | 39 (UHF)5 40 (UHF) |
1 January 1992 | 2000 kW 500 kW |
663 m 713 m |
37°16′57″S 143°14′52″E / 37.28250°S 143.24778°E | Lookout Hill |
Bendigo | Bendigo | 8 (VHF)3 5 51 (UHF) |
23 December 1961 | 240 kW 1000 kW |
444 m 496 m |
36°59′26″S 144°18′32″E / 36.99056°S 144.30889°E | Mount Alexander |
Murray Valley | Swan Hill | 10 (VHF)4 5 65 (UHF) |
12 May 1967 | 150 kW 375 kW |
179 m 201 m |
35°28′24″S 143°27′20″E / 35.47333°S 143.45556°E | Goschen |
Western Victoria | Hamilton | 31 (UHF)5 9A (VHF) |
1 January 1992 | 200 kW 15 kW |
335 m 365 m |
37°27′32″S 141°54′58″E / 37.45889°S 141.91611°E (analog) 37°27′32″S 141°54′57″E / 37.45889°S 141.91583°E (digital) |
Mount Dundas |
Notes:
- 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- 2. The Latrobe Valley station was on VHF channel 10 from its 1961 sign-on until 1980, moving to VHF channel 8 in order to accommodate 10 Melbourne's switch from VHF channel 0 to channel 10. It moved to its current channel in November 2000 (it began on 4 September 2000) in order to accommodate Nine Melbourne's digital television signal in Melbourne.
- 3. The Bendigo station also broadcasts on analogue (UHF) channel 38 with 1200 kW ERP at 508 m HAAT from 30 November 2000 as a countermeasure against interference with Nine Melbourne's digital signal, also on VHF channel 8.
- 4. The Swan Hill station initially broadcast on VHF channel 11 as the relay of BCV-8 Bendigo from sign-on in 1967 until the early 1990s when it changed to VHF channel 10, to allow ABRV to move from VHF channel 3 to VHF channel 11.
- 5. Analogue transmissions ceased as of 5 May 2011 as part of the conversion to digital television.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Brooklyn Ross-Hulands. "Southern Cross Ten: Victoria". AusTVHistory. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
- ^ "MICE BLACK OUT MELBOURNE TV STATION". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 26 March 1970. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- ^ Bruce Arnold. "WIN, Gordon and ENT: chronology". Caslon Analytics. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2007.
- ^ "television.au AGGREGATION". television.au. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
- ^ "Southern Cross restructures". Broadcasting and Technology. 3 August 2005. Retrieved 10 September 2007.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Hayes, Alex (29 April 2016). "Nine Entertainment and Southern Cross Austereo sign 'landmark' affiliate agreement". mUmBRELLA. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ NETWORK 10 AND SOUTHERN CROSS MEDIA GROUP CONFIRM AFFILIATION AGREEMENT | Southern Cross Austereo
- ^ "SC Ten goes local in Shepparton". TalkingTelevision.au. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ "Nine News To Launch 15 Regional News Bulletins". Southern Cross Austereo. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ^ "Southern Cross Austereo and Nine to start regional TV bulletins". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- ^ Knox, David (17 March 2020). "Nine News suspends regional bulletins". TV Tonight. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Mediaweek (30 May 2021). "Sky News Australia and Southern Cross Austereo sign content agreement". Mediaweek. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ Meade, Amanda (19 March 2021). "Sky News dumped in the regions as Win welcomes Nine". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ "Sky News and Southern Cross Austereo Sign Content Agreement". www.southerncrossaustereo.com.au. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
See also
- Regional television in Australia
- Southern Cross Ten