Branding Ten Affiliations Ten | Slogan Turn on 10 First air date 23 January 1965 | |
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Channels Analog: see table below
Digital: see table below Owner Southern Cross Austereo
(Northern Rivers Television Pty Ltd) | ||
NRN is a television station originating in Coffs Harbour, Australia owned by Southern Cross Austereo, affiliated to Network Ten. The station was formally a partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour (launched 23 January 1965) and RTN-8 Lismore (launched 12 May 1962).
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Origins
NRN11 Coffs Harbour had merged with ECN8 Taree, but later demerged. Around 1971, RTN8 and NRN11 merged to form Northern Rivers Television (NRTV), but was known on-air originally as 11-8. The merged stations served the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers areas of Northern New South Wales. During the mid-1970s, the station was known as Great Eastland Television, when the partnership shared programming and advertising with NEN-9 Tamworth and DDQ-10 Toowoomba/SDQ-4 Warwick, but they soon reverted to the NRTV brand.
In 1983, NRTV was relayed into the Gold Coast after a lobbying campaign from residents, although they could also watch the commercial television stations from Brisbane. NRTV's Gold Coast studios and offices were constructed in Ashmore on Southport Nerang Road. The Gold Coast facilities didn't contain a newsroom, although relayed local news from the Coffs Harbour studios. News crews from Lismore travelled to the Gold Coast for stories of importance.
NRTV produced a considerable amount of local activity (approximately five each week). Local contented included local news, three hours of live women's variety "Round About", 5 half-hours of live children's variety "Get Set" and "Razzamataz" weekly, holiday specials "Summerthon", and a half-hour daily exercise program "Jazzacize". Live sports specials included the annual "Grafton Cup" Racing Carnival and the Grafton to Inverell Cycling Classic.
Live programs mainly originated from the Coffs Harbour Studios with programs being recorded at both the networks other studios located at Lismore and Gold Coast.
Some of the memorable names from that era were:
1990s to 2000s
1990 saw plans for NRTV to be merged with southern Queensland's Vision TV to form one super regional network to respond to the growing aggregation of television into regional areas of the nation, but they were called off. On 31 December 1991, Northern New South Wales became the third area to be aggregated, and NRTV, via links to Network Ten (it was part of Northern Star Holdings), owned by Westfield Group chairman Frank Lowy), became its affiliate in the region. At one stage, NRTV was the subject of a bid from WIN Television. Nothing came of it, although if WIN had gone through with the bid, it would have made NRTV the Nine Network's affiliate (using the logos of its parent station in southern NSW and the campaigns of the Nine Network) and would've left an unhappy NBN as Network Ten's affiliate instead in the area.
NRTV was later sold to Telecasters Australia, who also owned the Queensland affiliate of Network Ten. In 1994, the station was renamed Ten Northern NSW, and its station identification was changed to that of Network Ten. The station stopped producing regional news for Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Gold Coast. They had previously produced a licence-wide bulletin, but that was axed due to poor ratings.
NRN launched One on 2 July 2009.
2010s
NRN launched Eleven on 11 January 2011, replacing a simulcast of the main channel.
On 1 July 2016, Southern Cross Ten's unique branding began to phase out on NRN in favour of Ten's mainstream branding as Ten. This comes after Southern Cross switched all of its SC10 stations (except NRN) as Southern Cross Nine as part of its new program supply agreement with the Nine Network, which owns NBN since 2007. Southern Cross announced on 13 September 2016 that Ten HD would be launched on channel 52 on 21 September 2016. In addition, One will be reduced to an standard definition broadcast.
In late January 2017, it was announced that Southern Cross had entered into negotiations with WIN Corporation, owners of regional Ten-affiliate WIN Television, over the sale of NRN in exchange for WIN's Wollongong radio station i98FM. This deal would have expanded WIN's television coverage across all regional markets in the eastern states and granted Southern Cross radio coverage in Wollongong. However, Southern Cross withdrew from negotiations on 20 February 2017 with no explanation given.
News
Since 2004, short local news updates have been broadcast throughout the day on NRN (Ten Northern NSW). These bulletins currently brand themselves with the Ten Local News Update title since 1 July 2016. The updates are produced from Southern Cross' Canberra studios and make use of news content from local radio stations owned by Southern Cross Austereo in each market. Local sport and weather reports also air on an sporadic basis. Short updates also air throughout the day and evening alongside updates from Ten Eyewitness News (state level during the day and the national level updates during the night). The bulletins are researched, produced and presented by a single journalist.
As a Network Ten affiliate, NRN also transmits Studio 10, The Project and Ten Eyewitness News (State-level on weekdays and national on weekends).
Main transmitters
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