TND is a television station in

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australi ...

. The station, launched in 1998 as ''Seven Darwin'' and broadcasting across Darwin, Palmerston and surrounding areas, is owned by

Southern Cross Austereo Southern Cross Media Group Limited, Trade name, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and Terrestrial television, television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Au ...

. Its main competitor is the

Nine Network Nine Network (stylised 9Network, and commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of the five main free-to-air television ...

's owned-and-operated station, NTD.

Programming

As ''Seven Darwin'', TND-34 existed as essentially a re-broadcast of SCB's remote Australia satellite service

Seven Central QQQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in remote central and eastern areas of Australia, owned by Southern Cross Austereo. The station is available via satellite and terrestrial platforms – mostly through community retransmissio ...

, apart from localised adverts, inserted at SCB's playout centre in

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, and delivered to Darwin via Optus Transcontinental Fibre Optic cable. The station also carries '' Seven News Brisbane'' bulletins from BTQ. From 2005 until 2008, the station held affiliations with

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, after the Ten affiliation was relinquished by NTD-8 as it became ''Nine Darwin''. At this time, ''Seven Darwin'' changed its name to ''Southern Cross Darwin''. Since 2008, the station only holds affiliations with the

Seven Network Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, ...

. Like its Tasmanian and Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill sister stations, the Seven Network affiliation remains the primary one. The Network Ten affiliation was, in 2008, expected to be dropped from Southern Cross Darwin and given to a digital-only third channel (such as those found in

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and

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), as proposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34,

remained as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia. Since 2008, Seven Central has carried a small amount of Ten Sport programming, in response to rival broadcaster

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dropping its Network Ten licence early in the year. In 2008, Southern Cross Darwin ceased broadcasting its last Ten content, as it was moved to

Darwin Digital Television DTD, also known as 10 Darwin, is a digital television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. It is jointly owned by Nine Entertainment (owner of Nine Darwin) and Southern Cross Austereo (owner of Seven Darwin) and operates under the company nam ...

. The station has carried a sole Seven affiliate, on relay from

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instead of

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, despite time zone differences between

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

and

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. On 1 July 2018, local branding on all of Southern Cross' Seven-affiliated stations was phased out to be replaced by generic Seven Network branding. Consequently, ''Southern Cross Darwin'' became ''Seven Darwin'', the station's original identity that had not been in use for the past ten years. Seven Darwin has the rights to broadcast AFL NT matches on their sister channel 7TWO during the AFL Season. The matches usually air on weekends as daytime viewing. 7HD launched on 26 November 2018.

News updates

Under previous owners, a local ''Seven News'' bulletin for Darwin and Central Australia was produced until 2000. Separate news update services for Darwin were introduced in 2005 before being merged with updates for remote Australia into one service in 2013 - the updates were later separate in 2018. The shared three-minute short news updates throughout the day are broadcast on ITQ/QQQ serving remote areas and TND in Darwin, presented from

's studio in Hobart by Madeline Kerr.

References

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Programming

News updates

See also

References