TVT (TV station)
Channels | |
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Branding | Nine, WIN |
Programming | |
Affiliations | Nine (since 2021, also from 1994–2016) |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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History | |
First air date | 23 May 1960 |
Independent (23 May 1960 – 30 April 1994) Network 10 (1 July 2016 – 30 June 2021) | |
Call sign meaning | TeleVision Tasmania |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
ERP | see table below |
HAAT | see table below |
Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
Links | |
Website | www.wintv.com.au |
TVT is Tasmania's first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stands for "TeleVision Tasmania". Unlike the commercial stations in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and later Perth, TVT held a monopoly in the Hobart market for many years (not unlike CTC in Canberra and NTD in Darwin).
Initially it broadcast from the
It continued to broadcast as TVT-6 until 1982, where it was bought by
In 1988, TNT-9 was sold to Tricom Corporation (later
The biggest change to Tasmanian television came in 1994 when aggregation occurred. This allowed both TasTV (TVT-6) and Southern Cross (TNT-9) to broadcast across the entire state and for the first time, give Tasmanians a choice of commercial stations. TasTV, now once again broadcasting all over the state, officially confirmed itself as the Nine Network affiliate and Southern Cross held dual
In October of that year, WIN Corporation bought ENT in a forced takeover and thus TasTV became WIN Tasmania, the state division of the growing regional network. It still uses the callsign TVT-6 for its Hobart and southern Tasmania licence.
In 2002,
On 1 July 2016, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, TVT swapped affiliations with
On 1 July 2021, as the reverse of the 2016 swap, TVT once again swapped affiliations with
On 16 June 2022, WIN Television Tasmania (TVT) converted 9Gem and 9Go! to MPEG-4 SD channels, as a test for the rest of the areas covered by WIN.
The station is affiliated with the metropolitan Nine Network and also broadcasts most of Nine's sub-channels (9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life) except it doesn’t broadcast 9Rush.
Programming
WIN Television Tasmania (TVT) broadcasts its programming from the Nine Network, including their regional signals of Channel Nine, 9Gem, 9Go!, 9Life and 9Rush. WIN also broadcasts news, current affairs and sport programs such as Today Extra, Nine News, A Current Affair, Nine's Wide World of Sports and Today all over Tasmania.
WIN News Tasmania
WIN News produces a half-hour weeknight local news bulletin five days a week. Briefly, the bulletin became an hour-long state-based bulletin in an attempt to rival Seven affiliate Southern Cross’ nightly news bulletin, but was reverted to a half-hour years later.
Weekend bulletins were previously discontinued on Sunday 26 June 2011 – they were replaced by simulcasts of the Melbourne edition of Nine News[1] until they were reintroduced on Saturday 14 July 2012.[2]
As part of the Ten affiliation swap deal, WIN News Tasmania moved to 6.00pm weeknights & 5.30pm on weekends (originally 5.30pm weekdays and weeknights, replacing Ten's Melbourne bulletin), launching a new look.
Until the early 1980s, TVT broadcast Seven News from HSV-7 in Melbourne.[citation needed]
TVT simulcasts
- GTV-9)
Reporters
- Brent Costelloe (Sport Presenter)
Main Transmitters
Region served | City | Channel (analog/ digital) |
First air date | ERP (analog/ digital) |
HAAT (analog/ digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
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Hobart | Hobart | 6 (VHF)2 7 (VHF) |
23 May 1960 | 200 kW 50 kW |
1004 m 1004 m |
42°53′42″S 147°14′10″E / 42.89500°S 147.23611°E | Mount Wellington |
North Eastern Tasmania | Launceston | 35 (UHF)2 42 (UHF) |
30 April 1994 | 2000 kW 600 kW |
844 m 839 m |
41°23′30″S 147°25′36″E / 41.39167°S 147.42667°E (analog) 41°23′27″S 147°25′28″E / 41.39083°S 147.42444°E (digital) |
Mount Barrow |
Notes:
- 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- 2. Analogue transmission ceased as of 9 April 2013 as part of the national conversion to digital-only television
References
- ^ WIN's Tassie turn off, The Mercury, 25 June 2011
- ^ Local bulletins return, The Mercury, 12 July 2012