BCV-8
| Regional Victoria | |
|---|---|
| Branding | Nine |
| Slogan | Welcome Home |
| Channels |
Analog: see table below Digital: see table below |
| Affiliations | Nine |
| Owner |
Southern Cross Austereo (Southern Cross Communications Ltd) |
| First air date |
GLV: 9 December 1961 BCV: 23 December 1961 |
| Call letters' meaning |
GLV: Gippsland Latrobe Valley Victoria BCV: Bendigo Central Victoria |
| Former affiliations | independent (1961-1991) Southern Cross Network (1982-1992) Network Ten (1992-2016) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
GLV and BCV are television stations licensed to serve regional Victoria, Australia. The stations are owned and operated by Southern Cross Nine.
GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia, on 9 December 1961, originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas. It was also the first station to use entirely Australian-made broadcasting equipment from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia. The original transmission equipment consisted of a 10 kW and 2 kW transmitter (standby) which was based on the RCA product and adapted to 230V 50 Hz by AWA. The Melbourne pickup was a Rhode and Schwarz off air receiver with AWA return microwave links to the Studio. BCV-8 first went to air two weeks later, on 23 December 1961 (the same day as the launch of GMV-6 Shepparton), serving Bendigo and Central Victoria.
GLV pioneered the use of live, 'off-air' relays of television programs from stations in Melbourne, including GTV-9's hugely popular In Melbourne Tonight. Since the station had no video recording equipment, engineers were forced to rely on picking up the original signal at the transmitter site to relay back to the studio. As the sole commercial television station in the region, GLV's program lineup included local output such as news and children's programs, combined with programs selected from Melbourne's commercial stations - the Seven Network (HSV-7), Nine Network (GTV-9) and from 1964, Network Ten (ATV-0, later ATV-10).
An affiliation was formed between the two stations and STV-8 Mildura in the 1970s. In 1982, the three stations merged as the TV8 network, sharing a common logo and programming schedule. The name changed to the Southern Cross Network seven years later. STV-8 was split from the network in 1990 when the station joined the then-VIC Television network.
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