NEW (TV station)

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NEW
  • kW (digital)
HAAT317 m (digital)[1]
Transmitter coordinates32°0′45″S 116°3′42″E / 32.01250°S 116.06167°E / -32.01250; 116.06167 (NEW)
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NEW is a television station broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia, and is a member of Network 10. Out of the three commercial stations, NEW generally rates the lowest overall, but usually rates highest in its target demographic (people aged 16–49)[citation needed].

NEW broadcasts in

VHF Channel 11 from Carmel, located in the Perth Hills. Its studios are located in Subiaco. NEW broadcasts reasonably good quality 1080i
high definition digital programming, the second-highest quality in Perth. The callsign NEW-10 was chosen for promotional purposes when the station first launched.

The station's former studios in

WIN Television WA (from 1999 to 2007) until WIN Corporation bought out competitor STW
-9 in June 2007 and moved all WA operations to their studios.

History

NEW was the last of the Ten stations in major metropolitan cities to go to air. The reason for the late launch (in comparison to other

TVW-7 who was sacked by a hostile board in 1975. In April 1984, the Minister for Communications, Michael Duffy, called for applications for a third licence[2]

Hearings ran from 1984 until 1986, with four applicants submitting bids. In the other corner were the existing stations, Seven outlet TVW and Nine Network outlet STW, attempting to defer or prevent the new licence from being granted. Seven and Nine were the only two commercial stations in Perth, and they wanted to keep it that way for as long as possible.

Treasure's West Coast Telecasters, funded by Kerry Stokes and Jack Bendat, was the successful applicant, defeating Western Television, in spite of Treasure being forced to resign as Chairman due to a dispute with the Australian Taxation Office. However, Treasure sold the company to Frank Lowy's Northern Star Holdings before they went to air. The reason for this was a change in government policy.

In 1985 the government had removed the two cities requirement, making it possible for networks to own more than two capital city stations. In 1986 it increased the audience reach limits for networks from 60% to 75%, meaning that for the first time a coast-to-coast network of owned and operated stations was feasible.

AUSSAT
was part of this initiative. Satellite revenue generated from national television networks was expected to be significant (though this was not initially the case) and would subsidise the provision of new services to regional and remote areas. Increasing the audience ownership limits meant national networks and therefore revenue streams for AUSSAT.

The possibility of truly national television networks (and perhaps misunderstandings as to the economic benefits of satellite technology) led to inflated ideas of their worth. Those wanting to establish national networks offered very high premiums to small unaligned stations and the new licence-holder in Perth was made an extremely generous offer by Lowy, a newcomer to television networking with a large cheque book.

The station commenced broadcasting on 20 May 1988, making Perth the last of the capital cities to get full network service.[4] By this time, it had been scaled back considerably and was little more than a low-cost relay of network programming from Sydney, without the local content that Treasure had wanted to produce.

The first news team included former Nine newsreader Greg Pearce, Alan Hynd, Gina Pickering, Peter Perrin, Debra Bishop, Ian Brayshaw and John Barnett.

NEW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 11 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 10.

The analogue signal for NEW was shut off at 9.00am WST, Tuesday, 16 April 2013.

On 2 December 2016, the final broadcast of Perth's 10 News First took place from Dianella studios after more than 28 years.

On 5 December 2016, the station left Dianella after 28 years and moved to the state-of-the-art studios at 502 Hay Street in Subiaco.[5]

Digital multiplex

LCN Service SD/HD
1
10 HD
 HD
10 10 SD
11 10 Peach SD
12 10 Bold HD
13 Nickelodeon SD
15
10 HD
 HD
16 TVSN SD
17 Gecko TV SD

Programming

Current in-house productions

  • 10 News First (Perth Edition) (1988–2001, 2008–2020, 2023-Present)

Previous in-house productions

  • WIN Television
  • AFL coverage: West Coast, Fremantle (2002–2011)
  • Kids Company: Started as a Saturday morning kids show with cartoons and interviews in and around schools in Perth. With the introduction of Video Hits by the network, Kids Co. moved to week day afternoons. Hosted by Brent Meyer, Tod Johnston and Amanda De Pledge. (1988–1992, 3:30 p.m. weekdays) and stars Kenny Kidna from Kangaroo Creek Gang.
  • Western Australia - At Your Service: Tourism program, hosted by Allan Symons (1998–1999, 5:30 p.m. Saturdays)[6][7]
  • Drivetime TV: Motoring show (2001–2005). Moved to TVW-7 in 2006.
  • Airplay

News and current affairs

Bell 206 of NEW at Perth Airport (2006).
Further information: 10 News First

NEW-10 produces a 90-minute local news program at 5pm on weeknights.

10 News First is presented from the network's Perth studios by Natalie Forrest with sports presenter Lachy Reid and weather presenter Beau Pearson. Reporters, camera crews and editorial staff are based at NEW-10's Subiaco studios.

At weekends, the network also produces a localised edition of the national program 10 News First: Weekend, broadcast from Sydney.

Newscasts

Then Ten News Perth was in late 1988 Network Ten's first ever local newscast that had ever been broadcast at 5:30 pm in weekdays and weekends.

When studio presentation of Ten's 5pm Perth news was moved from Perth to Sydney in 2000, then-anchors Greg Pearce and Christina Morrissy moved to Sydney to present the newscasts, whilst sport and weather presentations were still done from Perth. Christina Morrissy later resigned from these duties after suffering deep vein thrombosis on a flight.

The bulletin was broadcast throughout regional Western Australia on

Ten News
.

Charmaine Dragun was a co-anchor of the 5pm bulletin alongside Tim Webster until her suicide on 2 November 2007.

On 18 January 2008, Network Ten announced that studio production of Ten News would return to Perth.[8] Ten originally moved production of the Perth bulletin to the then-new Pyrmont studios in 2001, citing high costs of converting the network's Perth studios.

After auditioning local candidates, reporter

Sandra Sully
present Perth's bulletin from the Pyrmont studios, Ten News Perth returned to the Dianella studios on 23 June 2008 after an eight-year absence, with Narelda Jacobs as anchor.

A new studio was introduced on 5 December 2016, after the station moved to Subiaco.

In January 2020, Monika Kos replaced Jacobs as presenter. In early January, Jacobs moved to Sydney as a panellist for Studio 10.[9]

In September 2020, studio production of the Perth bulletin was transferred to Network 10's Sydney headquarters, leading to redundancies among local presentation and production staff.[10] Narelda Jacobs returned to present the Perth bulletin, which continues to air live.

Also in September 2020, Monika Kos departed Channel 10 Perth, before moving to Channel 9 Perth as a news presenter in December 2020.

On 13 March 2023, presentation of the Perth bulletin once again returned to the Subiaco studio, with Natalie Forrest becoming anchor.[11] In December 2023, it was announced that the bulletin would remain permanently locally produced.[12]

Presenters and reporters

Former presenters

See also

References

  1. ^ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
  2. ^ http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/image/Hiltula.html Perth Television Since 1965
  3. ^ http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/695/601 The Australian Media Landscape - Recent Changes
  4. ^ O'Connor, Peter (20 May 1988). "New Perth TV station set to open". Australian Financial Review. p. 58.
  5. ^ "TEN Perth to begin broadcasting from brand new studios". TV Tonight. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  6. ^ Yeap, Sue (4 December 1998). "Pammy Bounces Back As A VIP Bodyguard". The West Australian. p. 15.
  7. ^ Danielsen, Shane (16 September 1999). "Television tribalism". The Australian.
  8. ^ "Ten News heading back to Perth". Australian-Media.com.au. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
  9. ^ "Monika Kos Joins 10 News First Perth". Network Ten. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  10. ^ McKnight, Robert (11 August 2020). "BREAKING - REDUNDANCIES AT 10 NEWS AND CHANGES AT STUDIO 10". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  11. ^ Perry, Kevin (13 March 2023). "CHANNEL 10 returns local news to Perth studio with NATALIE FORREST". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  12. ^ Knox, David (13 December 2023). "10 News First status quo in Perth". TV Tonight. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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