ENT Ltd, standing for Examiner-Northern TV Ltd, is a private shell company owned by WIN Corporation. In its heyday, ENT was a publicly listed

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n media company based in

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. It was run by major shareholder

Edmund Rouse Edmund Alexander Rouse (2 February 1926 – 28 July 2002)
Don Woolford, ''AAP Gene ...

until 1994, when a bribery scandal led to Rouse stepping down as managing director and it was taken over by WIN Corporation.

Previous entities in direct control by ENT Ltd

Print media

* The Examiner newspaper (Launceston)

Television stations

TasTV *

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(now ''WIN Tasmania'') *

TNT-9 TNT is an Australian TV station based in Hobart, Tasmania, owned by Southern Cross Austereo. Originally broadcasting to northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994. H ...

Launceston (now ''Seven Tasmania'') The Six Network (later VIC Television) * BTV-6

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(now ''WIN Victoria'') *

GMV-6 VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation. Network history ''VICTV Television Victoria'' began as a network of seve ...

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(now ''WIN Victoria'') *

STV-8 STV is an Australian television station licensed to and serving the regions surrounding Mildura, Victoria, owned and operated by the WIN Corporation and part of the WIN Television network. The station commenced transmissions on 27 November ...

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(now ''WIN Mildura'')

Radio stations

* 7EX Launceston (now ''Chilli 90.1fm'') * 7HT

(now ''Triple M'') * 3SR

* 3UL

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(now (now ''531 3GG'') *

3UZ RSN Racing & Sport (ACMA callsign: 3UZ) is an Australian radio station in Australia. Owned and operated by thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing bodies of Victoria, it broadcasts a sports radio format to Melbourne, and to much of Victori ...

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

(now ''RSN Racing & Sport'') *Four

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n radio stations *Two

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radio stations

Other assets

Holyman Holyman was an Australian company that operated cargo ships and ferries in Australia and other countries. The company had three divisions; Domestic shipping and transport services, Ferries and Bulk commodity handling. The company was founded ...

(shipping) * Gunns (forestry) * Village Cinemas Tasmania (cinemas, 50 per cent joint venture with

Village Roadshow Village Roadshow Limited is an Australian company which operates cinemas and theme parks, and produces and distributes films. Before being acquired by private equity company BGH Capital, the company was listed on the Australian Securities Ex ...

) Filmpac Holdings was a film and video distributor. ENT acquired a 40 per cent stake in 1988 from its purchase of Victoria-based media company Associated Broadcasting Services. From 1986 to 1990, Filmpac released a total of 69 films theatrically making it the country's largest independent mainstream theatrical distributor. The company collapsed in 1990 with its film library purchased by

. ENT's 1988 annual report described the company's principal activities as television, newspapers, radio, commercial printing, motels, travel agencies, picture theatres, property development and investment.

References

{{Reflist Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Defunct broadcasting companies of Australia