TVT (TV station)

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = TVT
city =
station_
station_slogan = We Heart TV
station_branding = WIN
analog = see table below
digital = see table below
other_chs =
affiliations = Nine
network = WIN
founded =
airdate = May 23, 1960
location = Tasmania
callsign_meaning = TeleVision Tasmania
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = WIN Corporation Pty Ltd
licensee = WIN Television TAS Pty Ltd
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = nowrap|independent (1960-1994)
effective_radiated_power = see table below
HAAT = see table below
class =
facility_id =
coordinates = see table below
homepage = [http://www.wintv.com.au/ www.wintv.com.au]

TVT is Hobart's, and Tasmania's, first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stood for "TeleVision Tasmania".

Initially it broadcast from the Mount Wellington transmitter on VHF channel 6, to all of Hobart. Its broadcast license area covered all of southern Tasmania, these areas being reached by various repeaters and retransmitters.

It continued to broadcast as TVT-6 until 1982, where it was bought by ENT, owner of Launceston station TNT-9. Both stations began broadcasting under the unified on-air identity of TasTV by 1985. ENT also owned Vic TV in regional Victoria.

In 1988, TNT-9 was sold to Tricom Corporation (later Southern Cross Broadcasting), leaving TVT-6 continuing to service the south as TasTV.

The biggest change to Tasmanian television came in 1994 when aggregation occurred. This allowed TasTV (TVT-6) and Southern Cross (TNT-9) to broadcast across the entire state and for the first time, give Tasmanians a choice of commercial stations. TasTV became a Nine affiliate, and Southern Cross held dual Seven and Ten affiliations.

In 1995 WIN Corporation bought ENT in a forced takeover. It still uses the callsign TVT-6 for its Hobart and southern Tasmania licence.

In 2002 WIN Corporation and Southern Cross Broadcasting formed a joint venture company to broadcast a third commercial station, Tasmanian Digital Television, in a digital-only format.

Main Transmitters

Notes:
*1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

External links

* [http://austv.hostforweb.com/cgi-bin/cgi2/index.rb?page=TVT6%20Southern%20Tasmania&section=Television%20History%20Reference/TV%20Stations/Other%20Commercial/Defunct/Tasmanian Australian Television Archive page on TVT6]