TNT-9

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TNT-9 Launceston is a television station based in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Originally broadcasting only to Launceston and Northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994. It is presently known as Southern Cross Tasmania.

Contents

1 History
2 Locally produced shows
3 News & Current Affairs
4 Sports coverage
5 Affiliation
6 See also
7 External links

History

1962 - Founded as Northern TV Ltd and broadcasts in Launceston and Northern Tasmania
1965 - Became part of ENT Ltd (Examiner-Northern TV Ltd)
1982 - ENT bought TVT-6 in Hobart - both stations identify on-air as TasTV
1989 - ENT sold TNT-9 to Southern Cross Broadcasting, station became part of Southern Cross Network
1994 - Aggregation of Tasmanian television market occurs - Southern Cross broadcasts statewide, competing with TasTV
1999 - Southern Cross Tasmania, while still a part of Southern Cross Broadcasting, changes logo independently of Southern Cross stations on the mainland.
2003 - Southern Cross and WIN Television launch Tasmanian Digital Television, a jointly owned digital only commercial broadcaster based in Hobart.
2005 - Southern Cross Broadcasting adapts new logo for all stations it owns. Southern Cross Tasmania loses its Tasmanian Tiger logo to a unified corporate Southern Cross logo.

Southern Cross Tasmania is an affiliate of the Seven Network and Network Ten although Tasmanian Digital Television is now the Ten affiliate.

It's news service Southern Cross Nightly News is the highest rated news bulletin in Tasmania.

Locally produced shows

There are only 2 shows made by Southern Cross Television currently aired:

Southern Cross Nightly News
Hook, Line and Sinker

News & Current Affairs

The network's flagship news bulletin, Southern Cross Nightly News, is aired nightly from 6.00pm to 6:30pm every night and has updates throughout the day. Jo Cornish hosts the news on weekdays and Kim Millar of a weekend, there are also a variety of hosts for Sport and Weather.

Outside of this bulletin, Southern Cross Tasmania airs news and current affairs from the Seven Network, including:

Sports coverage

Southern Cross airs most sports coverage from both Seven and Ten Networks, this includes coverage like AFL, Tennis and Motorsport. in the 1990s Southern Cross aired Ten's Sports Tonight however this was replaced by Seven's Current Affairs Program, Today Tonight.

Affiliation

Southern Cross is affiliated with both the metropolitan Seven Network and Network Ten. This originates from the aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in the early 1990s, with TVT-6 (now WIN Television) holding the Nine Network affiliation. This dual affiliation is shared with Southern Cross' sister station in Darwin (TND-34).

The Tasmanian Digital Television (TDT) service, run as a joint venture with WIN, carries a full Network Ten affiliation, carrying programs from Ten's Melbourne station (ATV-10) with local advertisements. (Due to it being a joint venture, TDT does not take on the Southern Cross Ten branding.) It is expected that Southern Cross will eventually become a full Seven Network affiliate if and when take-up of digital television is considered widespread in the state.