Branding Southern Cross Transmitter power see table below Former affiliation Network Ten | Affiliations Seven Affiliation Seven Network First air date May 26, 1962 | |
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Slogan Your Favourites, Your Station Owner Southern Cross Austereo
(Southern Cross Television (TNT9) Pty Ltd) Former affiliations Independent (1962-1994)
Network Ten (secondary, 1994-2008) Call letters' meaning Television; Northern; Tasmania Channels Analog: see table below; Digital: see table below | ||
TNT is a television station based in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Originally broadcasting only to Launceston and Northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994. Owned by Southern Cross Austereo, it is now branded as Southern Cross Television.
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History
Local programming
Southern Cross Television produces the market's number one news bulletin Southern Cross News daily plus local lifestyle and sports programming.
Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include Sports Club (weekly sports review), Quiz Quest (children's game show), The Saturday Night Show (variety), Down the Line (morning talk/local events), The Saturday Morning Fun Show (kids), Tasmanian New Faces (talent) and annual coverage of Targa Tasmania and The Launceston Cup.
News & current affairs
Southern Cross News is the station's flagship news program, broadcast live every night at 6:00pm from the station's Launceston studios. Short news updates are also produced and broadcast throughout the day alongside the national Seven News Updates. The nightly news bulletin is consistently the highest rating television program in Tasmania. A shortened version of the day's bulletin is upload on their website.
Outside of this bulletin, Southern Cross Tasmania airs national news and current affairs output from the Seven Network, including:
Current presenters
Hook, Line and Sinker
The fishing show Hook, Line and Sinker is the most popular Tasmanian-made program airing and is broadcast Australia-wide. The program is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.
Renovation Relief
Renovation Relief is a DIY Program hosted by famous wood-chopper David Foster in which he and a team of people from sponsors (i.e. Gunns) renovate a house, most commonly for people who have done something for the community or have enabled children.
Targa Torque
Broadcast every night during Targa Tasmania fortnight, Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report and review the events of the day.
Holiday at Home
Holiday at Home is a lifestyle program which promotes places to stay and things to do in Tasmania.
Burnie Ten - Ten Week Challenge
For the ten weeks leading up to the Burnie Ten, Mark Connelly trains a group of people in a program sponsored by Southern Cross Tasmania. Weekly updates are broadcast during commercial breaks. In the early years of the program, people who took part were well known in Tasmania, however in 2006, a Launceston family were trained to run the event.
Sports coverage
Southern Cross airs sports coverage from Seven Network, which includes Australian Rules Football, tennis and motorsport. In the 1990s, Southern Cross aired Network Ten's daily sports program Sports Tonight as part of its dual-affiliation, however this was eventually replaced by Seven's current affairs program, Today Tonight.
Southern Cross airs four AFL games per round courtesy of its affiliation with Seven. Matches held in Tasmania are broadcast on delay. The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including cricket, athletics, netball and basketball. The station's main sports reporters are Chris Rowbottom, Alicia Muling, and Trent Dann.
Local sport
Locally, coverage of the international road race Targa Tasmania is produced and aired each year. The station also produces live coverage of the Launceston and Hobart Cup. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race are broadcast during the duration of the race.
Affiliation
The station is affiliated with the metropolitan Seven Network and also broadcasts most of Seven's sub-channels (7TWO, 7mate, and Racing.com). Rival Tasmanian station TVT-6 (WIN Television) is affiliated with the metropolitan Ten Network.
Following aggregation in 1994, the station was a dual-Seven and Ten affiliate, however the Ten content was gradually removed from the schedule in the late 2000s following the launch of digital-only station TDT in 2003. TDT is a joint-venture between Southern Cross and WIN.
Main transmitters
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