60-518: ECN may refer to: Organizations and companies [ edit ] ECN (TV station) , former name of NEN, in New South Wales, Australia ECN Capital , a Canadian financing company Electoral Commission of Namibia Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (Dutch: Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland ) Environmental Change Network , of
120-461: A 3-acre (1.2 ha) block at Mosbri Crescent, near the city centre. Work on the 142 m (466 ft) transmitter was delayed by a combination of weather, the conditions for the road leading to Mount Sugarloaf, and excited sightseers blocking work trucks during the weekends. During that time, the technical team stayed at the top of the mountain. The construction took eight months at a cost of $ 1.5 million, and required staff to work seven days
180-619: A 40 per cent stake in the new company, with Security Pacific Capital Corporation buying 60 per cent, sold their stake soon after, holding onto Papua New Guinea television station NTN , which NBN had helped to set up. Fulcrum Media's move to later purchase the station was a source for confusion, as it was revealed that many companies, including the NSW State Superannuation Board and Westpac , held substantial stakes in Fulcrum Media. Parry Corporation's new owner CityWest issued
240-607: A cost of $ 180,000. In 1978, the Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation made a bid for local station (and former owner) 2HD, however was disallowed by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal . Also during the same year more extensions were added to the studios (which included a new car park), which were officially opened on 17 November 1978. On 22 November 1979, the Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation officially became NBN Limited, after
300-464: A court challenge to re-acquire NBN, but it was revealed that CityWest was held by Hong Kong company Hang Lung Properties , thereby violating foreign ownership laws. Following ownership changes, NBN Enterprises was sold to Washington H Soul Pattinson in October 1989. NBN was one of many stations opposed to aggregation , and offered an alternative by opening up a second station which it would operate for
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420-496: A live local news round-up for Newcastle. After the first break, the bulletin continues as a live simulcast across the network with further Local Window opt-outs for sport and weather. News, sport and weather presenters start early at NBN recording introductions to each of the local stories which will be included in the opt-outs. Local bureaus are located in Port Macquarie , Coffs Harbour , Central Coast , Tamworth , Lismore and
480-595: A part of earlier preparations for colour production, between 1972 and 1973, orders were placed with Rank Cintel and the EMI Group in the United Kingdom and Ampex in the United States for new colour equipment, in time for colour transmission tests on 7 October 1974. On 1 March 1975, the station began regular colour transmissions, whilst transmission was expanded to Banderra Downs, Merriwa , Mount Helen, and Murrurundi at
540-430: A period of time before selling it. This proposal was however rejected, and aggregation occurred on 31 December 1991, with NBN acquiring Nine Network affiliation. Following aggregation, the station's coverage expanded to cover all of northern New South Wales, whilst concurrently programming extended to twenty-four hours in a day, in stereophonic sound. NBN Television's 1977 logo however was retained until late 1994 when it
600-628: A result, the advertising department moved from NBN's offices to SCA's radio offices. In June 2018, Nine Entertainment moved NBN's playout facilities to the networks main playout centre in Frenchs Forest , Sydney as part of Nine's plans to integrate NBN into the network. In November 2021, after almost 60 years broadcasting from the Mosbri Crescent studios, NBN moved to new state of the art facilities located at 28 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle. This will allow NBN to update its ageing technology and grow
660-515: A smaller font. On 1 July 2016, coinciding with the media shakeup of WIN and Southern Cross , NBN's unique branding was completely phased out. As a result, NBN was folded into the Nine Network. But for the time being NBN News remains under its unique name and the small "NBN" on the Nine watermark is still used in areas where NBN's signal overlaps with TCN Sydney and QTQ Brisbane to differentiate between
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#1732848948571720-470: A standard FM radio. It was planned for NBN to transmit on UHF channel 51, and the ABC on UHF channel 48, however this did not eventuate. A proposal to launch a radiated subscription television service with community broadcasting during the daytime hours had also failed that year. In the late 1980s, NBN's Perth-based owner, Parry Corporation, spun off NBN Limited into a new company, NBN Enterprises, and took
780-421: A week (except on Christmas Day) to make the deadline. Test transmissions took place in early 1962, and could be seen as far away as Muswellbrook , Avalon , Katoomba , Lithgow , Gloucester and around Port Kembla . NBN Television commenced transmission on 4 March 1962. The first programme on launch night began at 6 pm, a taped welcome by the then- Postmaster General Charles Davidson . Following that
840-514: A week. Since 2007, it has been owned by Nine's parent company Nine Entertainment making it a sister station to its metropolitan counterparts. However, following the PBL acquisition, NBN at the time continued to operate as an independent regional affiliate of the main network under the name NBN Television . On 1 July 2016, when Nine switched regional affiliations outside Northern NSW and the Gold Coast, NBN
900-713: Is an Australian television station licensed to, and serving northern New South Wales . NEN9 Tamworth /Upper Namoi commenced transmissions on 10 April 1965, with a relay in Armidale (NEN1, later NEN10) on 15 July 1966. ECN8 Taree / Manning River began on 27 May 1966. By the mid 80's, prior to aggregation, the station was broadcasting to Tamworth on VHF 10, VHF9 from Mt Dowe (Kaputar) and VHF8 from Middle Brother Mountain. They had translators at Armidale VHF10, Ashford VHF10, Glenn Innes VHF3, Gloucester VHF11, Inverell VHF10, Quirindi VHF10, Tamworth VHF0, Walcha VHF1, Laurieton UHF47, Lightning Ridge UHF69. During 1968–69, ECN8 who at
960-776: Is not broadcast across Northern NSW and the Gold Coast, Nine's flagship local news bulletin Nine News Gold Coast is also not broadcast across the Gold Coast, since NBN News serves as the station's flagship bulletin. Prior to the network rebrand on 1 July 2016, Nine's Morning News was only broadcast on special occasions. In the Hunter and the Central Coast, it is the only local news bulletin, as rival networks Seven and WIN provide news updates as part of fulfilling local quota requirements. NBN News shares resources with Nine Gold Coast News for its Gold Coast reporting since NEC's ownership of
1020-510: Is operated by QTQ 's Mount Coot-tha facility in Brisbane, with the Newcastle studios and news reports across New South Wales passing through microwave and satellite. NBN News is unique as it simulcasts live across all six markets. After the major national stories are presented, the program is split into six Local Window opt-outs, featuring pre-recorded local bulletins for each regional market and
1080-551: The Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners Advocate (to be bought out by John Fairfax & Sons ). In accordance with the Australian Broadcasting Control Board regulations, at least 50% of the company had to be locally owned. Approximately 2,000 people bought shares. The Australian Broadcasting Control Board awarded the commercial television licence for the Newcastle and Hunter Valley area to
1140-517: The 2010 State of Origin series . On 26 September 2010, NBN began transmission of the HD digital channel GEM on channel 80. In January 2012, NBN celebrated 50 years of broadcasting across Northern NSW and the Gold Coast. Coincidentally, it also marked 20 years since the station took Nine's signal across all of Northern NSW. On 26 March 2012, NBN began transmission of Nine's metropolitan informercial channel Extra on channel 84. On 27 January 2014, along with
1200-601: The Gold Coast . As a network O&O, the following Nine News programs are relayed to the station: Nine News: Early Edition , Today & Weekend Today , Today Extra & Today Extra: Saturday , Nine's Morning News , Nine's Afternoon News Sydney (Northern NSW only), Nine's Afternoon News Brisbane (Gold Coast only), A Current Affair , Nine News Late , 60 Minutes , Nine News: First at Five and until 2020, Nine News Now . Nine's flagship nightly news bulletin (either Nine News Sydney or Nine News Queensland )
1260-480: The Gold Coast, Queensland , Lismore , Tweed Heads , Tamworth , Coffs Harbour , Newcastle , and Central Coast . It is owned and operated by the Nine Network , with regional sales and newsroom located at 28 Honeysuckle Drive. The station's call sign, NBN, is an acronym for Newcastle Broadcasting New South Wales. NBN is the only regional station in mainland Australia to produce a one-hour news bulletin seven days
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#17328489485711320-507: The Nine Network , NBN switched from the Supertext logo to Nine's Closed Captioning logo. After Nine revived 9HD and launched new lifestyle channel 9Life on 26 November 2015, NBN made no announcements of its intent to follow Nine's move in regional areas, instead continuing to broadcast 9Gem's HD feed on channel 80. NBN released a statement on its website days before the 9HD relaunch, saying that efforts are made to upgrade its stations across
1380-605: The 1980s, Murray Finlay was the face of NBN's news bulletins, and was one of Australia's longest serving newsreaders. In 1975, Finlay was joined by Ray Dinneen, who went onto become its main anchor until retirement in December 2010. In 1979, the news service received an award for its coverage of the Star Hotel riot. On 1 March 1985, Jim Sullivan began his career as NBN's news director, which has ultimately led him to become Australia's longest serving news director. The station's coverage of
1440-605: The 6pm primetime news service. Throughout the station's history, local news under various names for both regions were produced and broadcast from studios on Goonoo Goonoo Road in Tamworth . In the 2000s Seven began closing most of its regional studios, citing upgrade costs. Tamworth, however, was not cut and was upgraded to digital equipment. In January 2012, Seven announced local production for both Seven News bulletins would be moved to Seven's Canberra headquarters in April 2012. The plan
1500-581: The Australian television record for the most time spent on air in a week for a new television station. Soon after launch night, NBN extended television coverage from Bungwahl to Broken Bay and as far west as Aberdeen . The station only operated eight hours per day, however several programs were produced locally including Home at Three , Let's Cook With Gas , Tempo , Focus , as well as nightly news bulletins at 6:30 pm. In 1963, Australian Consolidated Press and News Limited bought 200,000 shares in
1560-723: The British Natural Environment Research Council Ercan International Airport , in Northern Cyprus European Competition Network European Crowdfunding Network Science and technology [ edit ] Electrochemical noise , fluctuations of current and potential Computing [ edit ] Electronic communication network , for trading of financial products Explicit Congestion Notification , in network congestion Encoding Control Notation ,
1620-564: The Elevator , followed by the first episode from the Halls of Ivy , then the first Mystery Theatre program, The Missing Head at 10 pm. Anglican Bishop James Housden gave the first evening meditation at 10:30 pm, marking the end of the first night of transmission for NBN-3 in Newcastle. Commercials on the first night included Rothmans , Streets Ice Cream , Ampol , Commonwealth Bank , Shell , and WD & HO Wills , amongst others. In
1680-615: The NBTC on 1 August 1961. NBN-3 would transmit on VHF channel 3, from a transmitter atop Mount Sugarloaf near Newcastle. Council approval for the transmitter was issued on 17 July that year. The call-letters, NBN, were derived from the company's name, Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation, with the second N representing New South Wales, as required by law. Unofficially, it stood for "Newcastle Broadcasting Network". Construction began in November 1961, supervised by engineers from RCA in
1740-511: The Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation. Shortly after, United Broadcasting Company sold its shares to Neatherley Investments Limited in Adelaide , and Australian United Investments in Melbourne , with each company purchasing 100,000 shares. Time Enterprises, purchased Australian United Investments’ shares in November 1967. During the period between 1968 and 1969, NBN secured a relay from
1800-635: The News Director for the North Coast bulletin. The transfer was completed on 27 April 2015. Notes: NBN (TV station) NBN is an Australian television station based in Newcastle , Australia. The station was inaugurated on 4 March 1962 as the first regional commercial television station in New South Wales , and has since expanded to 39 transmitters throughout Northern New South Wales , including
1860-562: The North West and North Coast regional markets, both broadcast each weeknight at 6pm from Seven's Canberra headquarters and is co-presented by Madelaine Collignon and Nick Hose, with the North Coast edition broadcast live. Kirstie Fitzpatrick is the bulletin's weather presenter for both editions. In the Newcastle and Central Coast regional markets, short two-minute updates are presented by Pip Waller, with weather forecasts from Daniel Gibson . Both markets take Sydney's Seven News bulletin for
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1920-535: The Postmaster-General to enhance their news service. In 1970, NBN began upgrading its studios in preparation for the commencement of colour television originally scheduled for 1972, later changed to March 1975, at a cost of $ 360,000. The improvements included an enlarged film department; a film editing and cleaning equipment; a larger master control with four video transfer machines; a new telecine room with caption scanner and slide drums; as well as an expansion of
1980-487: The United States. It was a step backwards for RCA, building a new station transmitting in black and white while colour television was fast becoming the norm in the United States. Ninety per cent of the original equipment was imported from the United States, and held in bond until they were due to be installed. Equipment was purchased with colour production and transmission in mind, so that only 20% modification would be required when colour came to NBN. Studios were to be built on
2040-514: The administration and staff offices, which also included new offices and a boardroom. In 1972, NBN was granted a licence to operate a translator in the Upper Hunter Valley from Rossgole Lookout near Aberdeen, on VHF channel 10. Concurrently in April 1972, NBN expanded its nightly news service to one hour, becoming the first television station in Australia to have a one-hour news bulletin. As
2100-606: The attempt to buy 2HD. The company also faced possible suspension from the Australian Securities Exchange if a decision was not made soon. To resolve the tension, NBN sold NWS-9 to the Lambs in exchange for the majority stake in NBN in 1982. With the buy-out of community shares in NBN, the station ceased to be what Hunter residents considered to be "their own". It came at a cost. Wansey mortgaged his shares to Parry who called in
2160-464: The business. It was also announced that upon completion of the move, the name NBN News will be retained for the 6 pm bulletin, thus for now resting any speculation that the bulletin will be rebadged as Nine News as well as speculation that studio presentation of the news would be relocated to the network's new North Sydney Studios. The move was originally meant to be completed in June 2021, but following
2220-478: The callsign ECN into the mid 1980s. During the 1970s and early 1980s NEN9 was a member of the Great Eastland Television partnership with NRN11 Coffs Harbour and DDQ/SDQ Toowoomba , Queensland , sharing programming and advertising. From 1984 until 1989 the station branded itself 9–8 Television, referencing the channel numbers of both their Tamworth and Taree broadcasts. Prime Television purchased
2280-503: The current NBN studios into medium density housing. As a result of this, the network is planning on moving NBN somewhere in the Newcastle CBD. During this time, it was unclear whether NBN News would be retained under its current name following the move to the new workspace. Studio presentation was also uncertain once the transfer occurs. In March 2018, Nine's regional affiliate Southern Cross Austereo began advertising sales for NBN. As
2340-488: The debt. On 16 March 1983, Parry Corporation completed the purchase of NBN, delisting the company. Michael Wansey resigned from the board at the end of the year as a result. In 1984, plans for a second independent station in Newcastle had failed. During that time, NBN and ABC Newcastle (call sign ABHN-5A) were asked to leave the VHF band to accommodate FM radio. At the time, NBN's audio carrier frequency could be listened to with
2400-484: The hacking situation that occurred at Nine's North Sydney studios in March, and statewide COVID-19 lockdowns across New South Wales, the planned move was pushed back to November. On 30 November 2020, Jenny Webber, head of commercial production for both Nine Queensland (QTQ) and Nine Northern NSW would be appointed into the new role of General Manager for NBN overseeing the stations commercial department Nine Digital Production ,
2460-627: The history of NBN Television. The station completed its move to Honeysuckle the following day. In March 2022, NBN celebrated 60 years of broadcasting across Northern NSW and the Gold Coast. Coincidentally, it also marked 30 years since the station took Nine's signal across all of Northern NSW. NBN News is the station's flagship local evening news bulletin, airing every night at 6 pm. The news service employs 60 staff and produces over 20,000 local news stories annually, combined with news reports from Nine News ; with local stories in all of its sub-markets. Since November 2021, master control for NBN News
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2520-482: The lead-up to the opening night, the station promised at least two movies a week, as well as men's interest programs each Saturday afternoon between 3 pm and 4 pm – a commitment successfully met, along with female-targeted programming in the early afternoon, and children's programming from 4:30 to 6:30 pm weekdays and mature programming thirty minutes before closedown each night. NBN Television broadcast fifty-six hours in its first week of transmission, setting
2580-413: The region. On 10 February 2016, Nine Entertainment announced that NBN would receive both 9HD and 9Life in "coming months", with further confirmation on 16 February that they would launch on 1 March 2016. As a result, their channel listing was reshuffled to match to Nine's metropolitan listing with 9Gem on channel 82, 9Go! on channel 83, 9Life on channel 84 and Extra on channel 85. On 9 February 2016, it
2640-449: The sale. However, upon acquiring NBN, PBL did not fold it into the main Nine Network, but continued to operate it as a regional independent station until 2016. The purchase also secured permanent status of supplying Nine's content to the station's entire coverage area, sparing any future affiliation switches (particularly the 2016 Australian television shakeup involving Southern Cross Austereo and WIN Corporation ). The affiliation switch
2700-581: The same year, NBN began a teletext service and also purchased the free local newspaper, the Newcastle Star . In June 1981 Parry Corporation purchased 19.88% shareholding. Parry had then attempted to buy Michael Wansey's stake in NBN, but was blocked by the Supreme Court of New South Wales . It was later revealed that the Lambs had opposed NBN's purchase of the Star newspaper (created and owned by Wansey) and
2760-564: The station in 1989, rebranding the station Prime Television and aligning it with the Seven Network , similarly to CBN in southern New South Wales, whilst changing ECN's call sign to NEN. At the commencement of Northern NSW market Aggregation on 31 December 1991, Prime Television became the Northern NSW affiliate of the Seven Network , in competition with NRTV and NBN . NEN produces and broadcasts two 30-minute Seven News bulletins for
2820-423: The station itself rebranded from Channel 3 to NBN Television around 1977. By the late 1970s, NBN was producing 20 hours a week of local and networked programming from its studios, which in turn led the station to purchase a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter for news coverage purposes. In early 1980, NBN purchased Southern Television Corporation Limited, owners of NWS-9 in Adelaide , for $ 19 million. During
2880-539: The station to its publicly listed subsidiary, Soul Pattinson Telecommunications, which became SP Telemedia as a result. On 30 January 2006, NBN adopted a new logo and on air graphics, in line with Nine's new logo. However, the news department did not update its graphics until 15 March. During April 2007, SP Telemedia announced that it would consider selling NBN Television, and had received at least two bids, one each from WIN Corporation and PBL Media . On 9 May 2007, PBL Media's $ 250 million bid became final, winning
2940-467: The station. From 2017 to 2021, the station also provided local weather segments for Nine's regional NSW, Victoria and Queensland bulletins. Throughout its history, NBN News produced Good Morning News , Good Evening News , News Night , NBN Evening News , and NBN Late Edition News and currently running NBN News . NBN was the first to launch an hour-long news bulletin in April 1972 from its long-time Mosbri Crescent building, and from launch night until
3000-460: The stations day-to-day operations, as well as oversee local digital advertising agent Nine Digital Direct . Kylie Blucher would retain her role as managing director of both QTQ and NBN. On 7 November 2021, the station transmitted its local programming from the Mosbri Crescent studios for the final time, preceded by 30-minute tribute special Goodbye Mosbri , a look back of 59 years of news bulletins, telethons and top rating local programs as well as
3060-643: The stations. However, NBN continued to cover the Nine News logo on all network national news bulletins until July 2018. Until 2020, the NBN News coverup was used on the 4 pm news in Sydney, however that is no longer the case. The coverup is still used on the 4 pm news in Queensland on the Gold Coast feed. In October 2016, Nine Entertainment lodged a development application with Newcastle City Council about plans to turn
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#17328489485713120-454: The time were facing financial difficulties approached NBN3 Newcastle to take the station over but the proposal was rejected by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board . An approach was also made to NRN11 Coffs Harbour but an agreement could not be reached. Finally, ECN approached NEN with an agreement for ECN to carry a relay broadcast of NEN's programming from the end of March 1969. In November 1971, ECN merged with NEN, but continued to use
3180-491: The title ECN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ECN&oldid=1216168848 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Dutch-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ECN (TV station) NEN
3240-510: The tragic events of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake was beamed throughout the world, with NBN's reporters also being interviewed by international news services. During the 1990s, NBN also produced breakfast, afternoon and late night bulletins, however this was later replaced by the Nine Network 's Nightline bulletin, and subsequently, other national bulletins from Nine News. On 11 September 2001 liaising with NBN News director Jim Sullivan, NBN Late Edition News producer Matthew Carden secured
3300-515: Was a guided tour around the NBN studios by the original production manager, Matthew Tapp. Murray Finlay began one of the longest newsreading careers in Australia with NBN's first news bulletin at 6:30 pm. This was followed by The Phil Silvers Show at 7 pm, and the 1937 movie Green Light starring Errol Flynn at 7:30; the George Sanders Mystery Theater series followed at 9 pm, with opening episode, The Man in
3360-526: Was announced that Kylie Blucher, managing director of QTQ Brisbane, would be appointed managing director of NBN while retaining her position at QTQ, stating that she would "be splitting [her] time between Brisbane and Newcastle". Alongside the launch of 9HD and 9Life on 1 March 2016, NBN's unique branding began to be phased out in favour of Nine's mainstream branding already in place on its metropolitan stations and its Darwin station. The mainstream logos for Nine and 9HD were used with "NBN" written alongside in
3420-568: Was finally folded into the Nine Network adopting the primary logo with the NBN name retired on air. NBN's original owner, the Newcastle Broadcasting and Television Corporation (NBTC) was founded in May 1958 to begin preparations for the upcoming television licence allocations. The main shareholders in NBTC were United Broadcasting Company (owned by the Lamb family, owners of radio station 2KO ), Airsales Broadcasting Company (owners of local radio station 2HD ), and
3480-538: Was reversed in July 2021. Following Nine's relaunch of their high definition simulcast as "Nine HD" on 17 March 2008, NBN launched their own HD simulcast in mid-2008 called "NBN HD". On 9 August 2009, NBN began transmission of the new digital channel GO! on channel 88. In 2010, it was announced that two of NBN's inner Newcastle retransmitter sites in Charlestown and Cooks Hill were selected to carry 3D broadcasts of
3540-463: Was scrapped a month later. However, in a report by ABC News on 22 January 2015, Seven announced it would be closing its Tamworth studios and transferring production to Canberra, and thus the last bulletin was produced in April 2015. The studios were converted to a car dealership sometime later, however, the last local news presenter, Fiona Ferguson, moved to the newly-established newsroom in Tamworth as
3600-524: Was updated to feature the Nine Networks 'nine dots' in a new logo similar to fellow affiliate WIN Television . Throughout the 2000s, NBN was regarded as one of the leaders in digital broadcasting, not only being the first to produce a nightly regional news bulletin in full digital format, using a digital friendly news set, but also Australia's first fully digital outside broadcast van. In 2004, Washington H. Soul Pattinson began moves to transfer control of
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