TND-34

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Southern Cross Darwin

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	Australia
Availability	Darwin, Northern Territory
Founded	1998
Owner	Southern Cross Broadcasting
Affiliations	Seven Network Network Ten
Website	www.southerncross broadcasting.com.au

TND-34 is the call-sign for the Southern Cross Television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. The station, created in 1998 as Seven Darwin and broadcasting to the greater Darwin region, home to about 100 000 people, is owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting (SCB). Its main competitor is the incumbent Nine Network station, Nine Darwin (formerly 'Channel 8').

As Seven Darwin, TND-34 existed as essentially a carbon copy of SCB's remote Australia satellite service Seven Central, except displaying localized ads, inserted in SCB's Townsville, Queensland studios, and delivered to Darwin via Optus Trans-continental Fibre Optic cable. News is drawn from Seven Brisbane.

Since 2005, the station holds dual affiliations with the Seven Network and Network Ten, after picking up the Ten affiliation relinquished by NTD-8 as it became Nine Darwin. At this time, Seven Darwin changed its name to Southern Cross Darwin.

Like its Tasmanian and Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill sister stations, the Seven Network affiliation remains the primary one. The Network Ten affiliation is, in time, expected to be dropped from Southern Cross Darwin and given to a digital-only third channel (such as those found in Tasmania and Mildura), as proposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority ^[1].

Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34, Seven Central remains as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia.

In 2006 Southern Cross News updates began airing on Southern Cross Darwin and Southern Cross Central, the first time the Darwin station had produced local news programming.