Southern Cross Nine
| Southern Cross Nine | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 9 December 1961 |
| Owned by | Southern Cross Austereo |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) 16:9 |
| Slogan | Welcome Home |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Regional QLD, Southern NSW/ACT, Regional VIC, Spencer Gulf SA, Broken Hill NSW |
| Affiliates | Nine Network |
| Formerly called | Southern Cross TV8 (1982–1989) Southern Cross Network (1989–1992) SCN (1992–1994) Ten [region name] (1994–2002) Southern Cross Ten (2002–2016) |
| Sister channel(s) | Aspire TV |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview SC9 owned (virtual) | 5/51 |
| Freeview SC9 HD (virtual) | 50 |
| Cable | |
| TransTV Digital (virtual) | 5 |
| NC Digital (virtual) | 10 |
Southern Cross Nine (SC9, identified on-air only as Nine) is an Australian television network owned by Southern Cross Austereo that is broadcast in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The network is the primary affiliate of the Nine Network in most regional areas.
Southern Cross Nine began as a small network of three stations in regional Victoria. The Southern Cross TV8 network comprised GLV-10 Gippsland, BCV-8 Bendigo, and STV-8 Victoria.
GLV was the first regional television station in the country, launched on 9 December 1961. BCV-8 launched in the same year, on 23 December, while STV followed four years later, on 27 November 1965. GLV-10 became GLV-8 in 1980, when Melbourne commercial station ATV-0 moved frequences to become ATV-10 The network began life in 1982 as Southern Cross TV8, but later changed its name in 1989 to the Southern Cross Network. Soon after this, STV-8 left the network after it was bought by businessman Alan Bond, and eventually sold on to ENT Limited (owners of Vic TV and Tas TV).
Regional Victoria was aggregated in 1992.Vic Television, based in Shepparton and Ballarat affiliated with the Nine Network, while Prime Television, based in Albury-Wodonga became an affiliate of the Seven Network. Southern Cross, therefore, took on an affiliation with Network Ten. Soon after, it changed its name and logo to SCN, directly emulating the look of its metropolitan counterpart. Local news was axed six months later, while the name and logo changed once again to Ten Victoria along with new names Ten Capital, Ten Northern NSW & Ten Queensland as they carried and introduced the Network Ten logo into their brand.
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