Network History
Vic Television began as a network of several stations serving northern and western Victoria:
- GMV-6 Shepparton (launched on 23 December 1961)
- BTV-6 Ballarat (launched on 27 April 1962)
- STV-8 Mildura (launched on 27 November 1965).
Vic Television was owned and operated by Ent Ltd., a company which already owned TVT-6 Hobart as well as GMV-6 and BTV-6. Shortly after they purchased STV-8 in 1990, the three Victorian stations took on the on-air identity of VicTV, providing a single programming service across all three stations with separate regional news services for each area.
On 1 January 1992, aggregation of regional television took place in Victoria. Vic Television extended their transmission area to incorporate the Bendigo, Albury and Gippsland area markets. Vic Television had entered into a program supply agreement with the Nine Network but continued to maintain news services in each of the six regional markets in which it now operated. The official callsigns of GMV and BTV were consolidated into a single callsign of VTV. STV-8 kept its own callsign as it was excluded from the area affected by aggregation.
In October 1994, ENT Ltd. sold Vic Television to the WIN Corporation which already operated WIN Television stations in New South Wales, Canberra and Queensland. The stations are now part of the WIN Television network.
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