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23-429: The commercial channels available to viewers depend on location and station ownership. The process of aggregation during the late 80s to mid 90s saw regional stations take on affiliations with metropolitan channels for programming, a practice that has continued into digital television with affiliated stations carrying various multichannels from their metropolitan counterparts. Metropolitan in this list therefore refers to

46-620: A MPEG-LA controlled transmission patent licensing tax which is included in the VAST broadcaster cost and varies on viewership figures. The terrestrial transmissions still use H.262 , which doesn't incur any additional transmission costs, but select channels are broadcast terrestrially in H.264. STQ Regional QLD services broadcast on 6x LCNs where signal overlap with BTQ Brisbane occurs. Seven West Media also co-owns 10 affiliate WDT , and horse racing channel Racing.com (joint ventures with WIN Corporation and Racing Victoria respectively). TVSN

69-760: A Network Ten affiliate, and the Sunshine Television Network a Seven affiliate. However, in the week before aggregation was due to take place, WIN Television bought Star Television and gave them the Nine affiliation – meaning that QTV was forced to change its affiliation to Network Ten. The next year, northern New South Wales was aggregated. NBN became the Nine Network affiliate, while the Seven Network would be carried by Prime Television , formerly carried by 9-8 Television. Northern Rivers Television (NRTV) became

92-417: A Nine Network affiliate, Prime Television took affiliation with Seven, and SCN took affiliation with Ten. Tasmania was aggregated in 1994, albeit with only two stations – Southern Cross is a dual Seven and Ten affiliate, while Tas TV took programming from the Nine Network. Remote and Central Australia was the final area to be aggregated – one of the largest geographical licence areas, taking in parts of

115-563: A result of problems in Orange and Wagga), starting on 31 March 1989. WIN Television Wollongong (WIN-4) became an affiliate of the Nine Network , The Prime Network became a Seven affiliate, and Capital Television in Canberra became a Network Ten affiliate. The next area to be aggregated was Queensland, which took place on 31 December 1990. QTV was to become a Nine affiliate, Star Television

138-810: Is available via terrestrial television in Alice Springs and Broome, and via VAST in other areas. ) on LCN 22. The following channels were only available in Sydney as the Digital Forty Four suite of channels. The datacast trial began on 17 March 2004 and ended on 30 April 2010. The following channels were community-based broadcasters that were available on digital television in the metropolitan cities. Some remain available via online video on demand services. Regional television in Australia#Aggregation In Australia, regional television

161-495: Is co-owned by Seven West Media and Nine affiliate WIN Corporation. Tasmanian Digital Television is co-owned by Seven affiliate Southern Cross Austereo and Nine affiliate WIN Corporation. Central Digital Television is co-owned by Seven affiliate Southern Cross Austereo and Nine affiliate Imparja Television. Darwin Digital Television is co-owned by Nine Entertainment and Seven affiliate Southern Cross Austereo. ICTV

184-711: Is owned by Direct Group . Nine Entertainment also co-owns Ten affiliate DTD in Darwin, and adventure channel 9Rush (joint ventures with Southern Cross Austereo and Warner Bros. Discovery respectively). WIN Corporation also co-owns 10 affiliates WDT , and TDT (joint ventures with Seven West Media and Southern Cross Austereo respectively). Imparja Television also co-owns 10 affiliate CDT (joint venture with Southern Cross Austereo). Southern Cross Austereo also co-owns 10 affiliates TDT , CDT and DTD (joint ventures with WIN Corporation, Imparja Television and Nine Entertainment respectively). West Digital Television

207-519: Is the local television services outside of the five main Australian cities ( Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Perth ). Australia's first regional television station was launched three-and-a-half years after the rollout of television had commenced in metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne . First to launch was TVT-6 Hobart on 23 May 1960. GLV-10 in Traralgon opened on 9 December 1961 and

230-497: The AUSSAT satellites, as well as a number of terrestrial transmitters. The Hawke government of the 1980s introduced a system of regional equalisation, known as aggregation, which would provide regional viewers with the same viewing choice as their metropolitan counterparts. Local stations protested at this proposal, arguing that their profits would fall, and that local output would also decrease. They offered their own proposal, whereby

253-603: The Northern Territory , western Queensland , the north west of South Australia , and other areas in which terrestrial television signals cannot be received. Stations broadcast to this area mainly through satellite or re-transmission stations. Imparja Television , based in Alice Springs , became a dual Nine and Ten affiliate, while Seven Central , based in Mount Isa , became a Seven affiliate. GLV From Misplaced Pages,

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276-529: The 1980s, a number of regional stations were required to move to different frequencies. These included GLV-10 in Gippsland, who moved to channel 8 in order to allow ATV-0 Melbourne to move to channel 10 in 1980. DDQ-10 and TVQ-0 switched channels to become DDQ-0 and TVQ-10, and SEQ10 became SEQ55 in 1988. The last regional station to launch before aggregation launched unofficially on 2 January 1988 – IMP-9, Imparja Television in Alice Springs , began transmission via

299-717: The Network Ten affiliate. At one stage, WIN made its first attempt in setting up a northern New South Wales outlet by replicating the steal it had made in Regional Queensland. WIN tried to buy NRTV through bidding to steal the Nine affiliation rights from NBN, and force the latter to pick up the Ten affiliation. However, nothing came out of the deal and the respective affiliations remained as is among stations until today. Aggregation in Victoria took place between 1992 and 1993. VIC TV became

322-491: The Northern Territory on 11 November 1971 with the launch of NTD-8 Darwin . The last regional stations to launch were GSW-9 Albany (a relay of BTW-3 Bunbury) on 29 August 1974, RTS-5A Loxton on 26 November 1976 and GTW-11 Geraldton on 21 January 1977. Similar to their metropolitan counterparts, various stations began to form programming and operational partnerships in order to reduce operating costs and share

345-514: The capitals of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, where stations are owned and operated by the network rather than affiliates. Regional in this list therefore refers to the capitals of Canberra, Hobart and Darwin, where stations are owned and operated by the network affiliates. In areas not covered by terrestrial transmissions, the digital channels are provided by the free-to-view VAST satellite platform. The television channels on this platform are all encoded in H.264 and subject to

368-399: The cost of imported programming. Television 6-8-9 (later Mid State Television ) Television Centre of Victoria (TCV) (later TV8 , then Southern Cross TV8 and then Southern Cross Network ) RVN-AMV (later The Prime Network ) Northern Rivers–Gold Coast Television (later Northern Rivers Television ) A partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour and ECN-8 Taree

391-487: The existing operator would be allowed to operate relays of the other two networks, allowing a combination of both viewer choice and local programming. If NBN were to take the Nine affiliation, for example, their two relays would offer programs from the Seven and Ten networks, direct from Sydney. This proposal was, however, rejected. The new system would allow stations to transmit into neighbouring markets, as an affiliate of one of

414-461: The first stations produced their own local programming, supplemented by content from the capital city stations such as GTV-9 Melbourne 's In Melbourne Tonight . GLV-10 Traralgon was amongst the first to make use of live 'off-air' relays of programmes from metropolitan stations without the use of video recording equipment. VEW-8 Kalgoorlie opened on 18 June 1971 and ITQ-8 Mount Isa commenced on 11 September 1971 before television reached

437-577: The 💕 GLV may refer to: GLV (TV station) , in Victoria, Australia British Rail Class 489 , an electrical multiple unit Golovin Airport , in Alaska, United States Grating light valve Green leaf volatiles Manx language Titan II GLV , an American launch vehicle Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

460-399: The government, the stations began to organise affiliations with metro networks. Stations that hadn't joined forces beforehand began to merge and form new networks: Vision TV (later Star Television ) Prime Television ( later Prime7 , now Seven Regional ) Sunshine Television Network (callsign STQ ) Southern New South Wales was the first area to be formed, in two phases (as

483-461: The three metropolitan networks. For instance, before aggregation, there were three separate licence areas in northern New South Wales – Newcastle , New England , and the Mid North Coast , each served by a single commercial station. After aggregation, these three licence areas merged, with the three stations in direct competition for viewers. Soon after realising they had lost their battle with

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506-556: Was followed 14 days later by GMV-6 in Shepparton and BCV-8 Bendigo . Television continued to expand in Victoria and across the country throughout the 1960s, with no fewer than twenty-five stations making their first transmissions between 1962 and 1968. 1962 station openings 1963 station opening 1964 station openings 1965 station openings 1966 station openings 1967 station opening 1968 station openings Many of

529-642: Was split up when NRN joined RTN-8 in 1971. ECN later went into partnership with NEN-9 Tamworth . All television stations in Australia, including regional stations, were required to convert to colour transmission in 1975. Stations continued to form various partnerships and networks throughout the 1980s. North Queensland Television (later QTV ) SIX Network Victoria (later Television Victoria ) TV8 (later Southern Cross TV8 and then Southern Cross Network ) TasTV Golden West Network (later GWN7, now Seven Regional WA) Throughout

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