GLV/BCV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = GLV / BCV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Seriously Ten
station_branding = Southern Cross Ten
analog = see table below
digital = see table below
other_chs =
affiliations = Ten
network = Southern Cross Ten
founded =
airdate = GLV: December 9, 1961
BCV: December 23, 1961
location = regional Victoria
callsign_meaning = GLV:
Gippsland
Latrobe Valley
Victoria
BCV:
Bendigo
Central
Victoria
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Macquarie Media Group
licensee = Southern Cross Communications Ltd
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1961-1991)
effective_radiated_power = see table below
HAAT = see table below
class =
facility_id =
coordinates = see table below
homepage =

GLV and BCV, better known collectively as Southern Cross Ten Victoria, are television stations in regional Victoria, Australia.

History

GLV-10 was the first regional television station to launch in the country, on December 9, 1961, originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas.Fact|date=September 2007 It was also the first to use entirely Australian-made broadcasting equipment from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia. The original equipment consisted of a 10 kW and 2 kW transmitter (standby) which was based on the RCA product and adapted to PAL 230V 50 Hz bt AWA. The Melbourne pickup was a Rhode and Schwarz off air receiver with AWA return microwave links to the Studio. BCV-8 followed two weeks later on December 23, in Bendigo and central Victoria.Fact|date=September 2007

GLV pioneered the live, 'off-air' relay of television programs from stations in Melbourne, including GTV-9's "In Melbourne Tonight".Fact|date=September 2007 Since it had no video recording equipment, the station was 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 area, GLV's program lineup included local programs such as news and children's programs, combined with programs selected from the capital city commercial networks - the Seven Network, Nine Network and, after 1964, Network Ten.Fact|date=September 2007

An affiliation was formed between the two stations, and STV-8 Mildura, in the 1970s. A common name, logo, and programming schedule followed in 1982, with the establishment of the "TV-8" network between the three stations, changed to the "Southern Cross Network" seven years later.Fact|date=September 2007

In January, 1980, GLV-10 changed frequency from VHF channel 10 to 8 becoming GLV-8 to allow neighbouring Melbourne television station ATV-0 to move to the channel 10 frequency. ATV-0 couldn't move to channel 8 as this would have caused interference to Melbourne's GTV-9 so GLV had to move to 8 instead.When aggregation in regional Victoria took place between 1992 and 1993, the Southern Cross Network expanded to Shepparton, Ballarat and Albury as an affiliate of Network Ten.Fact|date=September 2007 By September, 1993 the network had changed its name and logo to "SCN", and then again the next year to "Ten Victoria". This latest change coincided with the axing of the station's local news service, replaced by ATV-10's "Eyewitness News".v

In 2000, GLV-8 moved again to UHF channel 37, in order to allow another Melbourne, this time GTV-9 to commence digital television transmissions without interference.Fact|date=September 2007 The two stations' playout and management operations were moved from Bendigo to Canberra in September, 2005. [cite web
url= http://www.bandt.com.au/news/01/0c035301.asp
title= Southern Cross restructures
accessdate= 2007-09-10
date= 2005-08-03
publisher= Broadcasting and Technology]

Programming

News and Current Affairs

Local news was reintroduced to the station in 2004 in the form of three-minute updates at various times of the day, presented by Fiona Nelson (Bendigo, Ballarat, Albury and Gippsland) cite web
url = http://archive.dcita.gov.au/2005/04/issue_8/local_content_on_regional_tv
title = Local content on regional TV
accessdate = 2007-07-15
date = 2007-04-11
work = Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts ]

A local current affairs program, "State Focus", is shown at 8.30am on Sundays, presented by Judi Hogan from the network's Canberra-based studios. cite web
url = http://www.mytalk.com.au/Stations/TV/SCTEN/Pages/StateFocus.aspx
title = State Focus
accessdate = 2007-07-15
date = 2007
work = Southern Cross Ten ]

Main Transmitters

The following transmitters use the GLV call sign:The following transmitters use the BCV call sign:Notes:
*1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
*2. The Latrobe Valley station was on VHF channel 10 from its 1961 sign-on until 1980, moving to VHF channel 8 in order to accommodate ATV Melbourne's switch from VHF channel 0 to channel 10. It moved to its current channel in 2000 in order to accommodate digital television in Melbourne.
*3. The Bendigo station also broadcasts on analog (UHF) channel 38 with 1200 kW ERP at 508 m HAAT.
*4. Swan Hill translator initially broadcast on VHF channel 11 from sign-on in 1967 until early 1990s when it changed to VHF channel 10.

References

ee also

* Regional television in Australia
* Southern Cross Ten