HSV (TV station)
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kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) | |
HAAT | 555 m (both)[1] |
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Transmitter coordinates | 37°50′8″S 145°20′52″E / 37.83556°S 145.34778°E |
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Website | 7plus |
HSV is a television station in
The HSV building (also known as 'Broadcast Centre Melbourne') was the network's operations hub, where the Master Control Room was located, controlling all metropolitan and regional feeds. Programming lineup, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring and national transmission output was previously delivered there. All Seven Network owned and operated studios had their live signals relayed there: for instance, ATN's output was fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optics to towers around metropolitan Sydney. In 2019 this function was transferred to a new centre in Sydney as part of a joint venture with Nine Network. As with other Melbourne terrestrial stations, its original transmission tower was atop Mount Dandenong.
History
HSV-7 began test transmissions in July 1956, becoming the first 7 station in Australia and the first television station in
"We dedicate this station to the full service of the community. To Australian life – the happy families in the homes – we promise to serve you faithfully and well".
HSV-7 and rival station
In March 1960, the station converted an old cinema in
This station commissioned many of Australian TV's earliest and longest-running courtroom and police procedural dramatic series such as Crawford's Consider Your Verdict and Homicide.
One of the longest-serving station and general managers during the transformative years into international satellite links and color transmissions was
The station began to identify as Channel Seven in the late 1960s, and in the early 1970s used the national
In late 1987, the government introduced cross-media ownership laws which forced Fairfax to choose between its print and broadcast operations. It chose print, and HSV-7 was sold to Christopher Skase's Qintex, which already owned Seven stations in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.[citation needed] Skase pledged to revitalize the channel and its programs, and to return it to its prior success among Melbourne viewers. In 1990, Qintex was sent into damage control after Skase escaped extradition proceedings, and the Seven Network became a discrete company. Entrepreneur Kerry Stokes bought the network in 1995. On 10 December 2013, HSV-7 terminated its analogue signal as part of the switchover to digital transmission. At around 8:54am local time, HSV-7's analogue signal broke away from Sunrise to air a montage of the history of its analogue broadcasts from all the way back in the 50s and 60s. The signal was then cut off after the montage.[3]
Headquarters
HSV's production studios and headquarters were originally located at the Dorcas Street Studios in South Melbourne. HSV remained there until March 2002 when news, current affairs and sport shows were moved to new headquarters at Docklands and the Dorcas Street Studios were closed. Docklands Studios Melbourne and Global Television is home to HSV's studio facilities for the Seven Network's Melbourne-based entertainment, drama and reality programmes shows such as Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series) and the quiz show The Chase Australia.
HSV's headquarters, known on-air as Broadcast Centre Melbourne or BCM, are located near the
The HSV studios produces
2019 saw the Seven Network move its main play-out centre to NPC Media in Sydney. [5]
After more than two decades the Seven Network announced in 2024 that HSV7 would be moving its operations to Collins Street, Melbourne. The BCM facility at docklands is expected to close in early 2025 with Seven Melbourne staff to move into a newly built office tower located within the Melbourne Quarter development. [6]
Programming
Locally produced programs by or with HSV-7 Melbourne:
HSV Studios
- Seven News Melbourne (1956–present)
- Seven Afternoon News Melbourne (2015–present)
- Talking Footy (1994–2002, 2013–2020, 2024-present)
- The Front Bar (2016–present)
Location
- House of Wellness (2017–present)
- Better Homes and Gardens(1995–present)
- Melbourne Weekender (2005) (2015-16) (2024-present)
- Highway Patrol (2007–present)
- Border Security (2004–present)
- Good Friday Appeal (1957–present)
Seven Melbourne is also the official broadcaster for these major events in Melbourne.
- Saturday Afternoon Horse Racing (2013–present)
- Austrlain Test Cricket (2018–present)
- Women's Big Bash League (2018–present)
- Big Bash League (2018–present)
- Australian Football League (1957–2001, 2007–present) excluding 1987
- Victorian Football League (2015–present)
Past programming
News and current affairs
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Seven News
Seven News Melbourne is directed by Shaun Menegola and presented by
Peter Mitchell previously held the role of weekend presenter for then-titled Seven Nightly News between 1987 and 2000 when he replaced the short-lived presenting duo of David Johnston and Anne Fulwood. Jennifer Keyte was appointed as main weeknight presenter in 1990, becoming Australia's first solo female primetime commercial news presenter.[citation needed] In a network reshuffle in 1996, Keyte terminated her employment after the Seven Network attempted to pair her with David Johnston, who went on to present solo for three years.[citation needed] She returned in 2003, assuming the role as weekend presenter, succeeding Jennifer Adams.
In May 2018, Network Ten announced that Keyte would leave Seven Network to present Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne replacing Stephen Quartermain.[7] In August 2018, it was announced that Mike Amor would move back to Australia after 17 years as United States Bureau Chief to replace Keyte as weekend presenter.
Following decades of trailing
In January 2022, it was announced that Rebecca Maddern would return to the Seven Network to present 7NEWS Melbourne on weekends with Mike Amor.
Until 2022, during the AFL season, Peter Mitchell and the weeknight team would present from Sunday to Thursday and Mike Amor, Rebecca Maddern and the weekend team would present on Friday and Saturday nights.
Afternoon news updates for Melbourne are presented by Amor or Maddern, while Mitchell presents weeknight updates. Amor presents weekend news updates. Blake Johnson and Jayde Vincent is a fill-in news presenter with Andrew McCormack and Laura Spurway as the fill-in sport presenters and Estelle Griepink as fill-in weather presenters.
In August 2015, Seven News Melbourne began producing a local Seven Afternoon News bulletin replacing the national bulletin. Amor and Maddern present the bulletin on alternate days. In 2020, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, that bulletin temporary included news items from South Australia following the cancellation of the statewide afternoon bulletin from SAS-7 in Adelaide before the network reinstated it due to viewer opposition and the threat faced by the local Nine News team on Seven's news dominance.
Presenters
Role | Bulletins | ||||||
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
News | Peter Mitchell (2000–present) | Mike Amor (2018–present) Rebecca Maddern (2022–present) | |||||
Sport | Tim Watson (2013–present) | Abbey Gelmi (2022–present) | |||||
Weather | Jane Bunn (2014–present) | Sonia Marinelli (2022–present) |
Reporters
- Blake Johnson (Senior Reporter/Fill-in News Presenter)
- Cameron Baud (Police Crime Reporter)
- Sharnelle Vella (State Political Reporter)
- Nick McCallum (Senior Reporter)
- Paul Dowsley (Senior Reporter)
- Jackie Quist (Senior Reporter)
- Christie Cooper (Senior Reporter)
- Kristy Mayr (Senior Reporter)
- Hope Wilson (Senior Reporter)
- Rochelle Brown (Senior Reporter)
- Kathleen O’Connor (Senior Reporter)
- Melina Sarris (Senior Reporter and Weather Presenter)
- Estelle Griepink (Senior Reporter)
- Sonia Marinelli (Senior Reporter and Weather Presenter)
- Jordy Wright (Senior Reporter)
- Sara Jones (Senior Reporter)
- Bethan Yeoman (Senior Reporter)
- Ainsley Koch (Senior Reporter)
- Tyra Stowers (Senior Reporter)
Sport Reporters
- Mitch Cleary (Chief AFL Reporter)
- Theo Doropoulos (Senior AFL Reporter)
- Andrew McCormack (Sport Reporter)
- Laura Spurway (Sport Reporter)
Sunrise & The Morning Show Correspondent
- Teegan Dolling (Sunrise Correspondent)
Canberra Bureau
- Mark Riley (Canberra Political Bureau Chief)
- Rob Scott (Canberra Political Reporter)
Overseas Bureaus
- David Woiwod (US Bureau Chief)
- Tim Lester (Los Angeles Correspondent)
- Mylee Hogan (Los Angeles Correspondent)
- Hugh Whitfeld (Europe Bureau Chief)
- Ashlee Mullany (Europe Correspondent)
Past Presenters
- Eric Pearce (1956–1957)[9] – Weeknight Presenter
- Mary Parker (1956–unknown)[10]
- Dan Webb (1956–unknown)[11]
- Brian Naylor (1964–1978) – Weeknight Presenter
- Mal Walden (1979–1987) – Weeknight Presenter
- Greg Pearce (1987) – Weeknight Presenter
- David Johnston (Late 1960s; 1996–2005)[12] – Weeknight Presenter & Seven 4.30 News Presenter
- Anne Fulwood (1999–2000) – Weeknight Presenter
- Sandy Roberts (1983–2013) – Sport Presenter
- Ivan Hutchinson (1964–1994) – Music Director & Presenter
- Nicole Chvastek (1996–2002) – Presenter & Reporter
- Jennifer Adams (1999–2003) – Weekend News Presenter
- Rob Gell (2004–2008) – Weather Presenter
- David Brown (1995–2012; 2015) – Weather Presenter
- Jill Singer (1995–1997) – Today Tonight Presenter
- Naomi Robson (1997–2006) – Today Tonight Presenter
- Helen Kapalos (2013) – Today Tonight Presenter
- Jacqueline Felgate (2012–2022) – Weekend Sport Presenter & Afternoon Presenter
- Sean Sowerby (2012–2021) – Sport Presenter
Past Reporters
- Greg Shackleton (mid 1970s)
- Dean Felton
- Heath O'Loughlin (2000–2006)
- Dylan Howard (2005–2008)
- Leith Mulligan (2008–2012)
- Amy Parks (2009–2013)
- Michael Felgate (2004–2012; 2014–2019)
- Brendan Donohoe (1990–2020)
- Jade Robran
- Karen O'Sullivan (2004–2018)
- Michael Scanlan (2012–2018)
- Peter Beaton (1987–1995)
- Laurel Irving (2008–2021)
- Nathan Templeton (2012–2022)
- Mark Stevens (2013–2021)
- Alan Murrell
- Tom Browne
See also
References
- ^ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- ^ Communications – Television – Radio and telecommunications – The transmitting tower of Herald-Sun Television Pty Limited at Mount Dandenong, Victoria – Shown at the base of the tower are parabolic discs that pick up the signal transmitted by the studios in the city National Archives of Australia 1956 Retrieved 18 December 2008
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRcLGQevwU Analogue-only closedown and montage
- Sydney Morning Herald. 14 April 2005. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2019/08/21/2019-7-22-seven-completes-move-of-network-playout-centre-from-melbourne-to-sydney/
- ^ https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2024/02/08/7-melbourne-moving-to-a-new-home/
- ^ "Jennifer Keyte Joins Network Ten As Presenter – ten daily". tendaily.com.au. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- ^ "How Seven trumped Nine". The Age. Melbourne. 14 June 2007. Archived from the original on 17 June 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- ^ The Age, 1 November 1956 – TelevisionAU
- ^ Mary Parker dies - ABC.net.au
- ^ Mary Parker dies - ABC.net.au
- ^ TV Week, 28 December 1968 – TelevisionAU