Nine Network
| Nine Network | |
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| Launched | 16 September 1956 |
| Owned by | Nine Entertainment Co. |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) 16:9 |
| Audience share | 29.2% Nationally (2014 ratings year came second to the Seven Network, ) |
| Slogan | Still The One & Welcome Home |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Northern NSW and Gold Coast |
| Affiliates | Southern Cross Nine (ACT/NSW/QLD/VIC), Imparja Television (inland), Southern Cross Television (Western SA and Broken Hill, NSW), Mildura Digital Television (Mildura), West Digital Television (Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Regional & Remote WA, Cocos/Keeling Island, Christmas Island), Tasmanian Digital Television (Tasmania) |
| Headquarters | Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Formerly called | National Television Network (1956-1960s) National Nine Network (1960s-1970) |
| Sister channel(s) |
9HD 9Gem 9Go! 9Life Extra |
| Website | nine.com.au |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| TCN Sydney (DVB-T 64-QAM) |
1057 @ 8 (191.5 MHz) |
| GTV Melbourne (DVB-T 64-QAM) |
1072 @ 8 (191.5 MHz) |
| QTQ Brisbane/Sunshine Coast (DVB-T 64-QAM) |
1025 @ 8 (191.5 MHz) |
| NWS Adelaide (DVB-T 64-QAM) |
1105 @ 8 (191.5 MHz) |
| STW Perth/Mandurah (DVB-T 64-QAM) |
1025 @ 8 (191.5 MHz) |
| NTD Darwin (DVB-T) |
TBA @ 31 (550.5 MHz) |
| Freeview Nine owned (virtual) | 9/91 |
| Freeview 9HD (virtual) | 90/80/50 |
| Freeview NBN regional (virtual) | 8/81 |
| Freeview SCA regional (virtual) | 5/51 |
| Freeview WIN Griffith NSW/Eastern SA (virtual) | 5 |
| Freeview Imparja regional (virtual) | 9/91 |
| Satellite | |
| TCN Sydney (DVB-S QPSK) |
1051 @ 12094 MHz (Foxtel Optus D3) |
| GTV Melbourne (DVB-S QPSK) |
1041 @ 12094 MHz (Foxtel Optus D3) |
| QTQ Brisbane (DVB-S QPSK) |
1021 @ 12094 MHz (Foxtel Optus D3) |
| Foxtel (virtual) | 100 |
| VAST (virtual) | 9 or 8 |
| Cable | |
| Foxtel/Optus (virtual) | 100 |
| Streaming media | |
| 9Now | |
The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia. The Nine Network is one of three main free-to-air commercial networks in Australia.
The Nine Network is one of the two highest-rating television networks in Australia, along with the Seven Network and ahead of Network Ten, ABC, and SBS. Nine had historically been the highest-rating television network since television's inception in Australia in 1956 for most years up to 2006, although Network Ten had dominated in 1985 and for a number of years in the 1970s. The Nine Network was overtaken in the ratings in 2007 by its rival, the Seven Network, which had previously dominated from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. As a result, Nine's slogan "Still the One" was discontinued. Since 2009, the network's slogan has been "Welcome Home". After a few years in slight decline, with a period plagued by mass sackings, programme cancellations, and budget cuts, the Nine Network has experienced a period of stability.
TCN-9 launched on 16 September 1956. John Godson introduced the station and Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, This Is Television (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, GTV-9 in Melbourne commenced transmissions to broadcast the 1956 Summer Olympics, later forming the National Television Network alongside QTQ-9 in Brisbane in 1959 and NWS-9 in Adelaide, the basis of the current Nine Network, in 1959. Before its formation, TCN-9 was then affiliated with HSV-7 (because they were both Australia's first television stations, having been opened in 1956), and GTV-9's sister affiliate was ATN-7. By the late 1960s, the network had begun unofficially calling itself "the National Nine Network", and became simply the Nine Network in 1989. Before the official conversion to colour on 1 March 1975, it was the first Australian television station to regularly screen programmes in colour with the first program to use it premiering in 1971, the very year NTD-8 in Darwin opened its doors.
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