NRN
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| NRN | |
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| Northern New South Wales | |
| Branding | Southern Cross Ten |
| Slogan | Seriously Ten |
| Channels | Analog: see table below |
| Affiliations | Ten |
| Network | Southern Cross Ten |
| Owner | Macquarie Media Group (Northern Rivers Television Pty Ltd) |
| First air date | January 23, 1965 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Northern Rivers New South Wales |
| Former affiliations | independent (1965-1991) |
| Transmitter Power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Transmitter Coordinates | see table below |
NRN is a television station originating in Coffs Harbour, Australia.
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[edit] History
[edit] Origins
NRN11 Coffs Harbour had merged with ECN8 Taree, but later demerged. Around 1971, RTN8 and NRN11 merged to form Northern Rivers Television (NRTV), but was known on air as 11-8. It served the Mid North Coast and Far North Coast areas of Northern NSW. During the mid 1970s, the station was known as Great Eastland Television, when they shared programming and advertising with NEN9 and SDQ4, but they soon reverted back to the NRTV brand.
In 1983, NRTV was relayed into the Gold Coast after a lobbying campaign from residents, although they could also watch other television stations from Brisbane. NRTV's Gold Coast Office and Production Studio were constructed in Ashmore on Southport Nerang Road. The Office didn't have a news bureau, although relayed local news from the Coffs Harbour studios. News crews from Lismore travelled to the Gold Coast for stories of importance.
[edit] 1990s to 2000s
On 31 December 1991, Northern NSW became the third area to be aggregated, and NRTV, via links to Network Ten (it was part of Northern Star Holdings, owned by Westfield Group chairman Frank Lowy), became its affiliate in Northern NSW. At one stage, NRTV was the subject of a bid from WIN Television; nothing came of it, but if WIN had gone through with the bid, it would have made NRTV the Nine Network's affiliate and left an unhappy NBN as Network Ten's affiliate instead.
NRTV was later sold to Telecasters Australia, who also owned the Queensland affiliate of Network Ten. In 1994, the station was renamed Ten Northern NSW, and its station identification was changed to that of Network Ten's. In 1994–1995, the station stopped producing local news for Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Gold Coast. They had previously produced a licence-wide bulletin, but that too was axed due to poor ratings.
[edit] Main Transmitters
| Region served | City | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
| Grafton/Kempsey | Coffs Harbour | 11 (VHF) 38 (UHF) |
January 23, 1965 | 250 kW 250 kW |
706 m 730 m |
Mount Moombil | |
| Manning River | Taree | 65 (UHF) 44 (UHF) |
December 31, 1991 | 600 kW 320 kW |
633 m 633 m |
Middle Brother | |
| Newcastle/Hunter River | Newcastle | 57 (UHF) 51 (UHF) |
December 31, 1991 | 1200 kW 500 kW |
439 m 439 m |
Mount Sugarloaf | |
| Richmond and Tweed2 | Lismore | 8 (VHF) 32 (UHF) |
May 12, 1962 | 200 kW 200 kW |
612 m 648 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Mount Nardi |
| Upper Namoi | Tamworth | 34 (UHF) 40 (UHF) |
December 31, 1991 | 600 kW 330 kW |
844 m 874 m |
Mount Dowe |
- 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- 2. The Richmond and Tweed station was an independent station with the callsign RTN from its 1962 sign-on until aggregation in 1991.
[edit] Programming
[edit] 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.
Greg Thomson presents the news for Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Tamworth. [1]
A local current affairs program, State Focus, is shown at 8.30am on Sundays, presented by Amy Bainbridge from the network's Canberra-based studios.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Local content on regional TV. Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (2007-04-11). Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
- ^ State Focus. Southern Cross Ten (2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
[edit] See also
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