VTV (TV station)
| Regional Victoria | |
|---|---|
| Branding | WIN |
| Slogan | Turn on WIN |
| Channels | Digital: see table below |
| Affiliations | Ten |
| Owner |
WIN Corporation Pty Ltd (WIN Television Vic Pty Ltd) |
| First air date | 23 December 1961 (GMV6) 27 April 1962 (BTV6) 1 January 1992 (VTV) |
| Call letters' meaning |
Vic Television Victoria |
| Former callsigns |
GMV (1961-1992) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1961-1991) Nine Network (1992-2016) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Website | www.wintv.com.au |
GMV (1961-1992)
BTV (1962-1992)
VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation.
Vic Television began as a network of several stations serving northern and western Victoria:
Vic Television was owned and operated by Ent Ltd., a company which already owned TVT-6 Hobart as well as GMV-6 and BTV-6. Shortly after they purchased STV-8 in 1990, the three Victorian stations took on the on-air identity of Television Victoria, providing a single programming service across all three stations with separate regional news services for each area. As each of the 3 stations aired mostly Nine Network programming especially in the lead up to the VIC TV launch, the new network became, in preparation for the 1992 aggregation of broadcasts, the state level Nine affiliate. Until 1987 these stations aired HSV's Seven News and from that year onward these stations began to broadcast Nine News from 9 Melbourne.
On 1 January 1992, aggregation of regional television took place in Victoria. VIC Television extended their transmission area to incorporate the Bendigo, Albury and Gippsland area markets and officially confirmed as the Nine Network affiliate. However, the Mildura market did not aggregated until 1997 when Prime Television finally launched as a Seven Network affiliate and WIN carried both Nine and Network Ten afiliations. VIC Television had already entered into a program supply agreement with the Nine Network but continued to maintain news services in each of the six regional markets in which it now operated. The official callsigns of GMV and BTV were consolidated into a single callsign of VTV. STV-8 kept its own callsign as it was excluded from the area affected by aggregation.
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