TNT is an Australian

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based in

Launceston, Tasmania Launceston () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk River, North Esk and South Esk River, South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River, Tasmania, Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, the Launc ...

, 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 ...

. Originally broadcasting to northern Tasmania, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania since aggregation of the Tasmanian television market in 1994.

History

TNT-9 was founded as Northern TV Ltd and broadcast in Launceston and Northern Tasmania; the first day of operation was on 26 May. In 1965, TNT-9 became a part of

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(Examiner-Northern TV Ltd). By 1980, TNT-9 adopted a custom version of the Nine Network's "9 Dots" logo. ENT bought

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in Hobart in 1982 and in 1985, TNT and TVT were officially relaunched as ''TasTV'', with the callsigns remaining for both stations. On 30 March 1988, ENT sold TNT-9 to Tricom Corporation, the second largest regional television broadcaster in Australia at the time, for $40 million, after buying a parcel worth 19.9% in shares. Under aggregation laws, ENT had to sell one of its two stations to a suitor of its choice by 1992. Ahead of the separation, TNT opened relay station TNT-8 in King Island on 9 September 1988, Tricom was rebranded

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; the station became known on-air as ''Southern Cross Network'' from 1 January 1989. Federal aggregation caused Southern Cross Television to broadcast in Hobart while TasTV, later renamed WIN Television, started broadcasting to Launceston. With both stations carried statewide, both Southern Cross and TasTV/WIN were now competing against each other. In 1999, Southern Cross Tasmania, while still a part of Southern Cross Broadcasting, changed its logo independently of Southern Cross stations on the mainland, adopting a representation of the

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. Southern Cross and

WIN Television WIN Television is an Australian television broadcasting, Australian television network owned and operated by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television stat ...

launched

Tasmanian Digital Television TDT is a digital television station in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by WIN Corporation and Southern Cross Austereo, operating as ''Tasmanian Digital Television''. History In Australia, the major capital cities, and a majority of the ...

on 23 December 2003, a jointly owned digital-only commercial station based in Hobart relaying

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content. On 17 July 2005, Southern Cross Broadcasting adopted a new uniform logo for all stations it owned. Southern Cross Tasmania lost its Tasmanian Tiger logo to a unified corporate Southern Cross logo. Southern Cross Tasmania became ''Seven Tasmania'' in June 2018 as local branding was replaced by network branding. In February 2025, Southern Cross Austero announced the sale of its remaining television assets, including 7 Tasmania to conservative media outlet

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. It was announced in May 2025, that the sale of television assets to Australian Digital Holdings had fallen through, and that

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would instead acquire the remaining television stations from SCA for $3.75 Million. The sale of these stations is expected to be finalised by the end of June 2025. 7 Tasmania vacated their main South Launceston studios in May 2025, where the station had been broadcasting since 1962. Production of the station's flagship evening news bulletin temporarily relocated to existing facilities in Hobart while new main studios were being constructed in the Launceston CBD.

Local programming

TNT produces the market's number one news bulletin daily plus local lifestyle and sports programming. Previous local programmes produced by TNT-9 include ''Sports Club'' (weekly sports review), ''Quiz Quest'' (children's game show), ''The Saturday Night Show'' (variety), ''Down the Line'' (morning talk/local events), ''The Saturday Morning Fun Show'' (kids), ''Tasmanian New Faces'' (talent) and annual coverage of ''Targa Tasmania'' and ''The Launceston Cup''.

News

The station produces its flagship news program, ''Nightly News'' (formerly ''Southern Cross News''), broadcast live every night at 6:00pm and is presented from studios in Launceston. The bulletin had been broadcast from the original studios on Watchorn Street in South Launceston between 1962 and 2025. Short news updates are also produced and broadcast throughout the day alongside the national Seven News Updates. The bulletin is consistently the highest rating television program in Tasmania. A shortened version of the day's bulletin is upload by the station's

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channel, featuring only local news and sport reports alongside weather forecasts. The station originally planned to retitle the bulletin ''Seven News Tasmania'' on 1 July 2018 to coincide with the station's rebrand as Seven Tasmania. But the relaunch was delayed without any notice given. When asked by

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's '' Media Watch'', the CEO of SCA Grant Blackley stated that the Seven Network did not want their name featured on any output they do not control, so SCA was coming up with a new brand. On 3 December 2018, the bulletin changed its title to ''Nightly News'', a brand the station formerly used from the 1990s up to the early 2000s. Outside of this bulletin, Seven Tasmania airs national news and current affairs output from the Seven Network, including: *''

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'' *''

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'' *'' The Morning Show'' *''

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'' (Sunrise Early News, National News At Noon, Afternoon News at 4, Weekend Afternoon News at 5, The Latest) TNT simulcasts the weekday edition of ''Seven News at 4'' from

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in Melbourne, along with ''Seven’s National News At Noon'' at 12.00 on weekdays and ''Seven News at 5'' on weekends from

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in Sydney.

Current presenters

;Main anchors * Kim Millar (Weeknights & Fills) * Victoria Eastoe (Weekends & Fills) ;Sport presenter * Nick Kelly ;Weather presenters * Peter Murphy (Weeknights & Fills) * Kiah Wicks * Jackie Harvey * Carmen Wilkin

Non-news output

Hook, Line and Sinker

The fishing show '' Hook, Line and Sinker'' is the most popular Tasmanian-made program airing and is broadcast Australia-wide. The program is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.

Renovation Relief

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in which he and a team of people from sponsors (i.e.

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) renovate a house, most commonly for people who have done something for the community or have enabled children.

Targa Torque

Broadcast every night during

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fortnight, Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report and review the events of the day.

Holiday at Home

''Holiday at Home'' is a lifestyle program which promotes places to stay and things to do in Tasmania.

Burnie Ten – Ten Week Challenge

For the ten weeks leading up to the

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, Mark Connelly trains a group of people in a program sponsored by Seven Tasmania. Weekly updates are broadcast during commercial breaks. In the early years of the program, people who took part were well known in Tasmania, however in 2006, a Launceston family were trained to run the event.

Sports coverage

Seven Tasmania airs sports coverage from

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, which includes

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and

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. In the 1990s, the station aired

's daily sports program Sports Tonight as part of its dual-affiliation, however this was eventually replaced by Seven's current affairs program,

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. The station airs three AFL games per round courtesy of its affiliation with Seven. Matches held in Tasmania are broadcast on delay. The station promotes extensive coverage of Tasmanian sports in its news coverage including

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and

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. The station's previous sports reporters were Chris Rowbottom, Alicia Muling, and Trent Dann.

Local sport

Locally, coverage of the international road race

is produced and aired each year. The station also produces live coverage of the Launceston and Hobart Cup. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day

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are broadcast during the duration of the race.

Affiliation

The station is affiliated with the metropolitan

and also broadcasts most of Seven's sub-channels ( 7TWO,

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, SBN, and

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). Rival Tasmanian stations

(

) is affiliated with the metropolitan

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and the jointly-owned TDT is affiliated with the metropolitan

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. Following aggregation in 1994, the station was a combined Seven and Ten affiliate; however, the Ten content was gradually removed from the schedule in the late 2000s following the launch of digital-only station TDT in 2003. TDT is a joint-venture between Southern Cross Austereo and WIN.

Main transmitters

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estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.

References

External links

* of 7 Tasmania's ''Nightly News''
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