Ten Capital News
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The local news service that ran in the Canberra region from 1962 to 2001 on CTC7 Canberra/Capital Television/Ten Capital. In the 80s, it took on the theme and to some extent, the look of National Nine News in Sydney until 1988, when, due to the Network Ten affiliation, the local news became known as Eyewitness News and took on the same feel as Ten News in the rest of Australia.
After aggregation, the news bulletin was screened across the entire Southern NSW area, but due to low ratings the bulletin was scaled back to air only in the Canberra area. This state of affairs remained until 22 November 2001, when the local news service was cancelled after almost 40 years. The official explaination by management of the cancelation was due to: the low ratings of the bulletin and the effects of aggregation and the high cost of coverting to digital tv given the older equipment that Ten Capital News was using.
Southern Cross Ten News
In 2004, news on the station resurfaced in the form of two-minute bulletins throughout the day. 2005 saw the news openers revamped before it was updated once again in August of that year, in line with the new Southern Cross Ten logo.
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