TND is a television station in

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. The station, launched in 1998 as ''Seven Darwin'' and broadcasting across Darwin,

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and surrounding areas, is owned by

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. Its main competitor is the

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's owned-and-operated station, NTD.

Programming

As ''Seven Darwin'', TND-34 existed as essentially a re-broadcast of SCB's remote Australia satellite service

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, apart from localised adverts, inserted at SCB's playout centre in

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, and delivered to Darwin via Optus Transcontinental Fibre Optic cable. The station also carries ''

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'' bulletins from BTQ. Since 2008, the station holds affiliations with the

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, after the Ten affiliation relinquished by NTD-8 as it became ''Nine Darwin''. At this time, ''Seven Darwin'' changed its name to ''Southern Cross Darwin''. Like its Tasmanian and Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill sister stations, the Seven Network affiliation remains the primary one. The Network Ten affiliation is, in time, expected to be dropped from Southern Cross Darwin and given to a digital-only third channel (such as those found in

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and

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), as proposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34,

remained as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia. Since 2008, Seven Central has carried a small amount of Ten Sport programming, in response to rival broadcaster

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dropping its Network Ten licence early in the year. In 2008, Southern Cross Darwin ceased broadcasting its last Ten content, as it was moved to

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. The station has carried a sole Seven affiliate, on relay from

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instead of

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, despite time zone differences between

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and

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. On 1 July 2018, local branding on all of Southern Cross' Seven-affiliated stations was phased out to be replaced by generic Seven Network branding. Consequently, ''Southern Cross Darwin'' became ''Seven Darwin'', the station's original identity that had not been in use for the past ten years. Seven Darwin has the rights to broadcast AFL NT matches on their sister channel 7TWO during the AFL Season. The matches usually air on weekends as daytime viewing. 7HD launched on 26 November 2018.

News updates

Under previous owners, a local ''Seven News'' bulletin for Darwin and Central Australia was produced until 2000. Separate news update services for Darwin were introduced in 2005 before being merged with updates for remote Australia into one service in 2013 - the updates were later separate in 2018. The shared three-minute short news updates throughout the day are broadcast on ITQ/QQQ serving remote areas and TND in Darwin, presented from

's studio in Hobart by Alex Sykes.

References

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Programming

News updates

See also

References