TNT is an Australian

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based in

Hobart, Tasmania Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smalle ...

, owned by

Southern Cross Austereo Southern Cross Media Group Limited, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Australia, operating 86 radio station ...

. Originally broadcasting to northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994.

History

* 1962 – Founded as Northern TV Ltd and broadcasts in Launceston and Northern Tasmania * 1965 – Became part of

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(Examiner-Northern TV Ltd) * 1980 – adopts a custom version of the Nine Network's "9 Dots" logo * 1982 – ENT bought

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in Hobart * 1985 – TNT and TVT officially relaunched as ''TasTV'', callsigns remain for both stations * 1989 – ENT sold TNT-9 to Tricom Corporation, which subsequently became

Southern Cross Broadcasting Southern Cross Broadcasting (Australia) Limited was a diversified Australian media company, that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily in radio and television. History Tony Bell was managing director of the business betwe ...

; station became known on-air as ''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 WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television station covering the Wollongong region. The WIN Netwo ...

launch

Tasmanian Digital Television TDT is a digital television station in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by WIN Corporation and Southern Cross Austereo, operating as ''Tasmanian Digital Television''. History In Australia, the major capital cities, and a majority of th ...

, a jointly owned digital-only commercial station based in Hobart relaying

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content. * 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. * 2018 – Southern Cross Tasmania became ''Seven Tasmania'' as local branding is replaced by network branding.

Local programming

TNT produces the market's number one news bulletin daily plus local lifestyle and sports programming. Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include ''Sports Club'' (weekly sports review), ''Quiz Quest'' (children's game show), ''The Saturday Night Show'' (variety), ''Down the Line'' (morning talk/local events), ''The Saturday Morning Fun Show'' (kids), ''Tasmanian New Faces'' (talent) and annual coverage of ''Targa Tasmania'' and ''The Launceston Cup''.

News

The station produces its flagship news program, ''Nightly News'' (formerly ''Southern Cross News''), broadcast live every night at 6:00pm and presented from the Launceston studios. Short news updates are also produced and broadcast throughout the day alongside the national Seven News Updates. The bulletin is consistently the highest rating television program in Tasmania. A shortened version of the day's bulletin is upload by the station's

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channel, featuring only local news and sport reports alongside weather forecasts. The station originally planned to retitle the bulletin ''Seven News Tasmania'' on 1 July 2018 to coincide with the station's rebrand as Seven Tasmania. But the relaunch was delayed without any notice given. When asked by

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's '' Media Watch'', the CEO of SCA Grant Blackley stated that the Seven Network did not want their name featured on any output they do not control, so SCA was coming up with a new brand. On 3 December 2018, the bulletin changed its title to ''Nightly News'', a brand the station formerly used from the 1990s up to the early 2000s. Outside of this bulletin, Seven Tasmania airs national news and current affairs output from the Seven Network, including: *''

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'' *''

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'' *'' The Morning Show'' *''

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'' (Early News, Morning News, Afternoon News at 4) TNT simulcasts the weekday edition of ''Seven News at 4'' from

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in Melbourne, along with ''Seven Morning News'' at 11.30 on weekdays and ''Seven News at 5'' on weekends from

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in Sydney.

Current presenters

;Main anchors * Kim Millar (Weeknights & Fills) * Louise Houbaer (Weekends & Fills) ;Sport presenters * Tom Johnson * Makenna Baily (fills) ;Weather presenters * Peter Murphy (Weeknights & Fills) * Laura Moore * Jackie Harvey * Victoria Eastoe * Chelsea Freestone * Carmen Wilkin

Non-news output

Hook, Line and Sinker

The fishing show '' Hook, Line and Sinker'' is the most popular Tasmanian-made program airing and is broadcast Australia-wide. The program is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.

Renovation Relief

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in which he and a team of people from sponsors (i.e. Gunns) renovate a house, most commonly for people who have done something for the community or have enabled children.

Targa Torque

Broadcast every night during

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fortnight, Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report and review the events of the day.

Holiday at Home

''Holiday at Home'' is a lifestyle program which promotes places to stay and things to do in Tasmania.

Burnie Ten – Ten Week Challenge

For the ten weeks leading up to the

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, Mark Connelly trains a group of people in a program sponsored by Seven Tasmania. Weekly updates are broadcast during commercial breaks. In the early years of the program, people who took part were well known in Tasmania, however in 2006, a Launceston family were trained to run the event.

Sports coverage

Seven Tasmania airs sports coverage from

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, which includes

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and

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. In the 1990s, the station aired

's daily sports program Sports Tonight as part of its dual-affiliation, however this was eventually replaced by Seven's current affairs program,

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. The station airs three AFL games per round courtesy of its affiliation with Seven. Matches held in Tasmania are broadcast on delay. The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including

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and

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. The station's previous sports reporters were Chris Rowbottom, Alicia Muling, and Trent Dann.

Local sport

Locally, coverage of the international road race

is produced and aired each year. The station also produces live coverage of the Launceston and

Hobart Cup The Hobart Cup is a Tasmanian Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race held as an open handicap race over a distance of 2400 metres at Elwick Racecourse in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. The Cup is usually held on the first or second Mond ...

. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately . The race is run i ...

are broadcast during the duration of the race.

Affiliation

The station is affiliated with the metropolitan

and also broadcasts most of Seven's sub-channels ( 7TWO,

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, SBN, and Racing.com). Rival Tasmanian station

(

) is affiliated with the metropolitan

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. Following aggregation in 1994, the station was a combined Seven and Ten affiliate, however the Ten content was gradually removed from the schedule in the late 2000s following the launch of digital-only station

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in 2003. TDT is a joint-venture between Southern Cross Austereo and WIN.

Main transmitters

Notes: *1.

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estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

References

External links

* of 7 Tasmania's ''Nightly News''
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