Apr 09 2013
The phase out of analogue television across the country continues, with Tasmania becoming digital-only as of today, bringing to an end over 50 years of analogue television in the state. The shutdown will affect statewide transmissions of ABC1, Southern Cross Television (TNT), WIN (TVT) and SBS1 — although some localities have already made the full switch …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2013/04/tasmania-turns-off-analogue-today.html
Mar 02 2013
Proposed changes to media ownership laws could spark a flurry of industry mergers, acquisitions and sell-offs not seen in a generation. If the Government approves media reforms as part of its media convergence review it may allow networks the capacity to increase their share of the national audience. At the moment commercial network owners are …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2013/03/new-laws-could-trigger-media-storm.html
Feb 18 2013
Viewers in the Riverland and South East districts of South Australia now have no local television news service following regional network WIN‘s immediate closure of the local news bulletin. Staff were notified today (Monday) that the local edition of WIN News was being axed, effective immediately. The axing is reported to have resulted in 10 …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2013/02/regional-sa-loses-out-in-win-cutbacks.html
Sep 22 2012
Australian blog Marketing has announced its list of the Top 10 Australian logos of all time. The list was the culmination of polling by readers of the website and its sister magazine Desktop, with the Top 10 decided by a panel of experts in the marketing and design community. The panel have concluded that the …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/09/abc-tops-logo-poll.html
Sep 13 2012
Another shopping centre is about to be plonked onto the television landscape. Following the launch of shopping-themed ‘datacast’ channels by the Seven Network, Prime7, Nine/NBN and WIN, it was only a matter of time before Ten — a network currently rating behind the ABC and probably in need of a dollar — followed suit with …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/09/home-shopping-comes-to-ten.html
Aug 05 2012
A bit of a random snapshot of what we were watching on TV back in September 2001. It was almost eleven years ago… digital TV was very much in its infancy, Big Brother had not long finished its first series, the Seven Network had just broadcast its last AFL match before handing the broadcast rights …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/08/what-we-watched-september-2001.html
Jul 14 2012
The Tasmanian branch of WIN Television tonight relaunches the weekend news bulletins that it axed over a year ago in favour of Nine News bulletins relayed from Melbourne. Jonathon Kendall, formerly a reporter for WIN in Victoria and with past experience at Network Ten and ABC Radio, has made the move to Hobart to front …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/07/win-news-returns-for-the-weekend.html
Jul 13 2012
It is 50 years since television came to regional Queensland for the first time with the launch of DDQ10, based in Toowoomba and serving the Darling Downs region, on Friday, 13 July 1962. DDQ10 was broadcast from a transmitter at Mount Mowbullan, approximately 100 kilometres north of Toowoomba. The channel expanded its audience in February …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/07/50-years-in-the-darling-downs.html
Jun 05 2012
For around 1.5 million viewers in the southern and central western regions of NSW, including the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, and the Australian Capital Territory, 9.00am today marks the end of analogue television transmission after over 50 years. The switch-off will affect all local analogue transmissions of ABC1, Prime7 (CBN), WIN, Southern Cross Ten (CTC) and …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/06/southern-nsw-and-act-farewell-analogue.html
Jun 02 2012
Canberra may be the national capital of Australia and the hub for the country’s political decision makers, but it was the second last capital city in Australia to receive television. Almost six years after television made its official debut in Sydney and Melbourne, television came to Canberra on 2 June 1962 with the official launch …
Permanent link to this article: http://televisionau.com/2012/06/50-years-of-tv-in-canberra.html
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