VTV
Regional Victoria
Branding	WIN
Slogan	Welcome Home
Channels	Analog: see table below Digital: see table below
Affiliations	Nine
Network	WIN
Owner	WIN Corporation Pty Ltd (WIN Television Vic Pty Ltd)
First air date	January 1, 1992
Call letters’ meaning	Vic Television Victoria
Transmitter Power	see table below
Height	see table below
Transmitter Coordinates	see table below
Website	www.wintv.com.au

VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation.

Contents 1 Network history 1.1 BTV-6 Ballarat 1.2 GMV-6 Shepparton 2 WIN News 2.1 Reporters 3 Main Transmitters 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Network history

Vic Television began as a network of several stations serving northern and western Victoria:

• GMV-6 Shepparton (launched on 23 December 1961)
• BTV-6 Ballarat (launched on 27 April 1962)
• STV-8 Mildura (launched on 27 November 1965).

Vic Television was owned and operated by Ent Ltd., a company which already owned TVT-6 Hobart as well as GMV-6 and BTV-6. Shortly after they purchased STV-8 in 1990, the three Victorian stations took on the on-air identity of VicTV, providing a single programming service across all three stations with separate regional news services for each area.

On January 1, 1992, aggregation of regional television took place in Victoria. Vic Television extended their transmission area to incorporate the Bendigo, Albury and Gippsland area markets. Vic Television had entered into a program supply agreement with the Nine Network but continued to maintain news services in each of the six regional markets in which it now operated. The official callsigns of GMV and BTV were consolidated into a single callsign of VTV (STV-8 being excluded from the area affected by aggregation, kept its own callsign).

In October 1994, ENT Ltd. sold Vic Television to the WIN Corporation which already operated WIN Television stations in New South Wales, Canberra and Queensland. The stations are now part of the WIN Television network.

[edit] BTV-6 Ballarat

BTV6 produced a wide range of local and part-networked TV programming through its history, most notably being the chat show Six Tonight, which aired from 1971 to 1983, eventually also being carried on the Six (BTV6 and GMV6 Shepparton) and Eight (now Southern Cross) Networks across much of Victoria, as well as parts of South Australia and New South Wales.

BTV placed a strong emphasis on local news, with the first news bulletin read by Arthur Scuffins on 27th April 1962. The nightly news program, Six News, was extended to 30 minutes in 1980 in response to the ABC dropping their regional news service in the late 1970s. The bulletin was rebranded as News Centre Six in the mid 1980s.

On-air talent included Arthur Scuffins, Eric Gracie, Val Sarah, Craig Campbell, Peter Gamble, Gary Rice, John Garland and Fred Fargher.

[edit] GMV-6 Shepparton

GMV-6, one of the first regional television stations in Australia, began transmission from Shepparton on 23 December 1961 (the same launch date as BCV-8 Bendigo), broadcasting from a transmitter at Mount Major. Originally, the station was owned in conjunction with local radio station 3SR.

The callsign of GMV referred to its coverage area which included the Goulburn River and Murray River catchent areas. The 'V' refers to Victoria as is the normal protocol for commercial TV station callsigns, where the third letter indicates the state in which the service is licensed.

By the late 1960s, various low powered relay transmitters began operation in the fringes of the GMV region including GMV-3 Eildon, GMV-8 Jerilderie NSW, GMV-10 Deniliquin NSW and GMV-10 Alexandra (later changed to GMV-11).

GMV-6 converted to full scale colour TV transmission on 1 March 1975. By the mid-1980s, transmission hours had extended to commence at 7.00am weekdays, broadcasting until around midnight. Programming included regional news and children's programmes, mixed with programs selected from the three commercial networks in Melbourne; HSV-7 (Seven), GTV-9 (Nine) and ATV-10 (Ten). The evening local news bulletin was supplemented by a relay of the nightly Seven National News from HSV-7.

[edit] WIN News

WIN News produces regional news bulletins for each of the five area markets covered by VTV. Reporters and camera crews are based within each of the five regions from newsrooms in Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton, Traralgon and Warrnambool. Studio presentation for the Bendigo, Gippsland, Shepparton and Albury bulletins is pre-recorded from VTV's Ballarat studios with the Ballarat bulletin broadcast live.

All five WIN News bulletins are presented by Bruce Roberts with sports presenter Sean Sowerby and weather presenter Jane Bunn.

[edit] Reporters

Albury Tony Cattermole Andrew Moir Nathan Motton

Ballarat Maya Knight Justine MacKenzie Patrick Mitchell Alyssia Morison Shane Woodrow

Bendigo Jonathon Kendall Elizabeth McDonald Natalie Schenken

Gippsland Emma Meggs Brooke Van Nooten David Woiwod

Shepparton Wes Cusworth Soraya Lennie Michelle Zydower

The chief of staff for all WIN News services in Victoria is Jeff Sly.

[edit] Main Transmitters

Region served	City	Channels (Analog/ Digital)	First air date	ERP (Analog/ Digital)	HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1	Transmitter Coordinates	Transmitter Location
Ballarat2	Ballarat	36 (UHF)3 37 (UHF)	April 27, 1962	2000 kW 500 kW	710 m 713 m	37°16′57″S 143°14′52″E / 37.2825°S 143.24778°E / -37.2825; 143.24778 (VTV)	Lookout Hill
Bendigo	Bendigo	35 (UHF) 54 (UHF)	January 1, 1992	2000 kW 1000 kW	517 m 505 m	36°59′32″S 144°18′30″E / 36.99222°S 144.30833°E / -36.99222; 144.30833 (VTV)	Mount Alexander
Goulburn Valley4	Shepparton	6 (VHF) 9 (VHF)	December 23, 1961	220 kW 55 kW	319 m 319 m	36°21′45″S 145°41′11″E / 36.3625°S 145.68639°E / -36.3625; 145.68639 (VTV)	Mount Major
Latrobe Valley	Traralgon	43 (UHF) 36 (UHF)	January 1, 1992	1000 kW 400 kW	515 m 487 m	38°23′57″S 146°33′53″E / 38.39917°S 146.56472°E / -38.39917; 146.56472 (VTV) (analog) 38°23′37″S 146°33′34″E / 38.39361°S 146.55944°E / -38.39361; 146.55944 (VTV) (digital)	Mount Tassie
Murray Valley	Swan Hill	50 (UHF) NA	January 1, 1992	400 kW	179 m	35°28′24″S 143°27′20″E / 35.47333°S 143.45556°E / -35.47333; 143.45556 (VTV)	Goschen
Upper Murray	Albury	33 (UHF) 10 (VHF)	January 1, 1992	1200 kW 60 kW	533 m 525 m	36°15′14″S 146°51′22″E / 36.25389°S 146.85611°E / -36.25389; 146.85611 (VTV)	Mount Baranduda
Western Victoria5		11 (VHF) 10 (VHF)		30 kW 15 kW	365 m 365 m	37°27′32″S 141°54′57″E / 37.45889°S 141.91583°E / -37.45889; 141.91583 (VTV)	Mount Dundas

Notes:

• 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
• 2. The Ballarat station was an independent station with the callsign BTV from its 1962 sign-on until aggregation in 1992.
• 3. The Ballarat station was on VHF channel 6 from its 1962 sign-on until 2001, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate digital television in Melbourne.
• 4. The Goulburn Valley station was an independent station with the callsign GMV from its 1961 sign-on until aggregation in 1992.
• 5. The Western Victoria station was a relay of BTV Ballarat (with the BTV callsign) until aggregation in 1992.

[edit] See also

• Television broadcasting in Australia
• Regional television in Australia

[edit] External links

• WIN Television web site
• ABA radio and TV licensing web site

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