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Network Ten is one of Australia's three commercial television networks. Ten is available in major markets across Australia.

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History

The network, formed in 1965, was initially dubbed the Independent Television Network or ITN but in 1972 adopted the name the 0-10 Network which reflected the channel 0 and 10 frequencies that it broadcast at the time. In the early 1990s TEN also referred to itself by the acronym "The Entertainment Network" in network promotions.

In 1980, the 0-10 Network became known as Network Ten to reflect ATV-0's transition to ATV-10 - although the Brisbane station continued to broadcast as TVQ-0 until 1988.

In 1987, Adelaide's SAS-10 gave ADS-7 the hands of the Ten Network (as ADS-10).

It was nearly folded into the Seven Network in the early 1990s, but due to the lobbying power of billionaire Kerry Packer, owner of the Nine Network, this was successfully resisted.

In 2005, it was revealed CanWest was in discussions with newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings about a possible sale of the network, after the federal government had indicated it may consider relaxing Australia's media cross-ownership laws. Currently, newspaper owners cannot own television stations in the same city. Fairfax owned the Seven Network until the mid 1980s, and has been looking for a way back into television for a long time.

Ten is Australia's most profitable station, mostly due to tight spending habits. Its main focus is on viewers under 40 and for the last four ratings years has won this demographic, in spite of being the lowest rating of the 3 commercial Australian television stations overall.

Ten has headquarters in the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont, which is where all national news programming and the network feed are broadcast from.

Ownership

Network Ten is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: [TEN]). Its largest shareholder at 56.4% is Canada's CanWest Global Communications. CanWest has a 14.4% voting interest.

A graph showing how CanWest Global owns Network Ten
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A graph showing how CanWest Global owns Network Ten

On Air

Entertainment

Channel Ten is known for being heavily reliant on its overseas product. Its target audience is 16-39 year olds.

Network Ten's overseas product includes:

The local content that Ten does produce is mostly reality television, including: For full list of Ten programs see:

Sport

In 2002, Ten acquired broadcast rights for Saturday afternoon and Saturday night games in the Australian Football League, the elite Australian Rules Football competition, displacing the Seven Network which had held the rights for more than 40 years. The deal also assigned the rights for finals broadcasting to Network Ten. From 2007 to 2011, Ten will jointly broadcast the AFL with the Seven Network, continuing to broadcast the Saturday component of the competition. However unlike the previous deal Ten will not hold the exclusive rights to the finals series, the networks will alternate (year on year) the broadcasting of the finals series and grand final, where the network not broadcasting the Grand Final will be broadcasting the Brownlow Medal count.

The Ten Network also holds the broadcast rights to the following sporting events:

Future

Annual/Recurring

News

Network Ten's news service is called Ten News. Ten News operates on a much smaller budget than its competitors, it produces the following bulletins/programs:

Slogans

Stations

Callsigns

Callsigns for Network Ten stations in the capital cities:

Affiliates

Network Ten programming is also carried by the following affiliate networks:

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  • Imparja - Remote Central and Eastern Australia (non-exclusive)

Controversy

In early 2006, Network TEN released advertisements which included a person displaying a sign 'I Hate Chris', assumably for comic appeal. This heated controversy as Christian associations argued that it seemed like 'I Hate Christ'. Churches combined support to petition against it, however the "I hate Chris" advertisement was for the upcoming premiere of the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris a show based on the childhood of comedian Chris Rock.

Network TEN was criticised by conservative groups and Liberal backbenchers in 2005 for its reality TV show Big Brother. Ten was criticised for selecting particularly promiscuous housemates for that season of the show in an attempt to boost ratings. There were three main objections, all broadcast on it's Big Brother Uncut show. One was footage of a housemate with his fly open whilst giving a massage to a female housemate. Another was where a housemate wrote a fetish song about "skidmarks". There was also a "cumulative" rating where various elements of a particular episode together pushed it above the 'MA15+' rating (the highest rating allowed on TV in Australia). There were calls for TV to be rated by an independent body rather than in-house, but the proposal was scraped after the controversy died down. For the 2006 series Ten appointed two censors to review the show instead of one. Federal Minister for Communications Senator Helen Coonan is reported to say she would be keeping a "close watch on the show's 2006 series" [link]. This controversy resulted in the "Uncut" show being renamed "Adults Only - AO" for the 2006 season.

In two seperate findings, the Australian Communications and Media Authority determined Network Ten breached clause 2.4 of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice. These two breaches were in relation to the broadcast of Big Brother Uncut on 30 May, 13 June and 4 July 2005. The Broadcasting material was not classified according to the Television Classification Guidelines.[

Despite toning down "Adults Only - AO" significantly in comparison to 2005, the series continued to attract controversy. After "Adults Only - AO" was abruptly cancelled several weeks early, a subsequent incident of alleged sexual assault in the house saw the removal of two housemates and a huge public outcry calling for the series to be cancelled entirely.

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Australian free-to-air television networks
Metropolitan: ABC - Seven Network - Nine Network - Network TEN - SBS
Regional: ABC - Prime (GWN) - Southern Cross - NBN - WIN (WA) - Southern Cross Ten - SBS

CanWest Global Communications Corp.
Corporate Directors: David Asper | Gail Asper | Leonard Asper | Lloyd Barber | Derek Burney | Ronald Daniels | David Drybrough | Paul Godfrey | Frank King | Lisa Pankratz
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Assets outside of Canada: C4 (New Zealand) | MoreFM (New Zealand) | Network Ten (Australia) | The Edge FM (New Zealand) | TV3 Ireland | TV3 (New Zealand)

 

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