Seven is an Australian television network distributed by Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) in Tasmania, Darwin, the Spencer Gulf, Broken Hill, and remote eastern and central Australia.
The Mickey Mouse Club was the first programme to be broadcast, and advertisements included: Abbott's cordial, Hydro, Launceston Bank for Savings, Peters Ice Cream, Hicks Atkinson and the Saturday Evening Express.
Tasmania was aggregated on 30 April 1994, albeit with only two stations – Southern Cross became a dual Seven and Ten affiliate,[3] while TAS TV took programming from the Nine Network.
In 2002, Southern Cross Broadcasting and WIN Corporation joined forces to create Tasmanian Digital Television, which launched in late 2003.
In 2003, Seven Darwin and Seven Central were purchased by Southern Cross Broadcasting, retaining their sole Seven Network affiliation.
In May 2005, the service in Darwin was integrated into the Southern Cross network, losing its generic Seven on-air presentation.
In 2007, a joint venture station owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting and PBL Media, the owners of NTD-8 Darwin, was announced.
[5] It is a digital-only Network Ten affiliate, similar to other digital only joint venture channels introduced in Australia.
[8] Southern Cross announced on 25 July 2016 that it would broadcast New Zealand-based home shopping channel Yesshop as a datacast service.
[9] However, Yesshop's owner (Yes Retail) made the decision to cease trading on 29 September 2016 citing lack of funds to pay wages and the company's current losses of approximately 20 million dollars.
Until April 2023, GTS/BKN also produced a half-hour local news bulletin each weeknight for the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill.
Hook, Line and Sinker is a fishing show hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.
This show was produced by Southern Cross but was hosted by Seven Network personalities Ed Halmagyi and Tim Campbell and a mention was made about the Seven Network broadcast centre model in the village of Lower Crackpot in the Tasmazia maze complex.
It was a five-part series screening on Sunday mornings and later afternoons, about Tasmanian bushland and related topics, and co-produced with Forestry Tasmania.
Seven Darwin broadcasts live coverage of the AFL NT season on sister channel 7two on weekends.
The network is available primarily through free-to-air terrestrial transmitters, with satellite transmissions available in Remote Central and Eastern Australia.
Southern Cross Austereo operates the following stations which broadcast Seven Network programming: Southern Cross launched a high definition simulcast of its main channel via TNT Tasmania in June 2009 on digital channel 60, following a period of looped HD test broadcasts.