TNT (TV Station) - History

History

  • 1962 - Founded as Northern TV Ltd and broadcasts in Launceston and Northern Tasmania
  • 1965 - Became part of ENT Ltd (Examiner-Northern TV Ltd)
  • 1982 - ENT bought TVT-6 in Hobart - both stations identify on-air as TasTV
  • 1989 - ENT sold TNT-9 to Tricom Corporation, which subsequently became Southern Cross Broadcasting; 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 launch Tasmanian Digital Television, a jointly owned digital only commercial broadcaster based in Hobart.
  • 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.

Southern Cross Tasmania (SCTV) is an affiliate of the Seven Network and Tasmanian Digital Television is now the Ten affiliate.

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