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Southern Cross TenSouthern Cross Ten are a network of Ten Network affiliates in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The stations are owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting. Prior to 2002, the stations were known as "Ten " (e.g. Ten Northern NSW), and took generic Ten branding. At first, the new name wasn't used a much, but when the Australian Broadcasting Authority instituted new regulations for local content, local programming and later on, some station graphics took on the Southern Cross Ten brand. Southern Cross Ten stations (except in South Australia) air two minute local news bulletins throughout the day, and a weekly half-hour regional current affairs program, State Focus. Both are produced at Southern Cross's production centre in Canberra. right Southern NSW and the ACT Southern Cross Ten's forerunner, Capital Television began on the 2nd June 1962, broadcasting on channel 7 with callsign CTC (standing for ''Capital Television Canberra''). Relays in Goulburn and Cooma were started soon after, both on channel 10. Current Seven Network chairman Kerry Stokes owned the station until 1987, when he sold it to Charles Currans. Currans changed the station's name to Capital Television in 1988, and used a version of the Ten Network logo of the time, and prepared for aggreation. Southern NSW and the ACT were the first license area that was aggreated, and was done in two stages during 1989. The first stage saw Capital begin transmission in Wollongong and the South Coast, and the second stage, which was caused by technical programs in the Orange and Wagga areas, took place later in the year. Capital took on a original logo in 1990, and used edited versions of the Ten Network identification of the time. This lasted until 1994, when Southern Cross purchased the station and renamed it Ten Capital. The logo was changed to a version of Ten's, with the word Capital along side it, but was rarely used on air. In Thursday 22 November 2001, Southern Cross axed the station's long-running news bulletin, Ten Capital News, after nearly 40 years serving Canberra. It was replaced by Ten Sydney's bulletin. The bulletin was originally broadcast across the whole license area, but was replaced by Ten Sydney's news in all areas except Canberra. This was one of the triggers for the ABA investigation into local news. In 2002, the station was renamed Southern Cross Ten. In 2004, local news resurfaced on the station, in the form of two-minute bulletins throughout the day. Northern NSW Southern Cross Ten's forerunner in Northern NSW, Northern Rivers Television, began life as two different stations: NRN-11 Coffs Harbour had merged with ECN-8 Taree, but later demerged. Around 1975, RTN-8 and NRN-11 merged to form Northern Rivers Television (NRTV). It served the Mid-North Coast and Far North Coast areas of Northern NSW. At one stage after the merger, the station was known as Great Eastlands Television, but soon reverted back to the NRTV brand. On the 31 December 1991, Northern NSW became the third area to be aggreated, and NRTV, via links to the Ten Network (it was part of Northern Star Holdings, owned by Westfield chairman Frank Lowy), became its affilate in Northern NSW. NRTV was the subject of a bid from WIN Television, which would've made NRTV the Nine Network's affilate, but nothing came of it. It was later sold to Telecasters Australia, who also owned the Queensland affilate of the Ten Network. In 1994, NRTV became Ten Northern NSW, and its station identification was changed to that of the Ten Network's. In 1994-1995, the station stop producing local news for the North Coast, having previously produced a license-wide bulletin, but that too was axed due to poor ratings. In 2001, Telecasters Australia was brought out by Southern Cross, and in 2002, Ten Northern NSW became Southern Cross Ten. In 2005, the station celebrates 40 years of operation, station IDs created to mark the event use the Northern Rivers Television name in the ID, not the Southern Cross Ten name. Victoria This is the original Southern Cross owned station, officially known as the Victorian Broadcasting Network, beginning as three separate stations: In 1980, GLV-10 became GLV-8. In 1982, the network was branded TV8, later Southern Cross TV8, and finally the Southern Cross Network in 1989. In that time, they lost STV-8 Mildura after Alan Bond traded it for STW-9 Perth. It was then sold to ENT Limited, it then became part of VIC TV, later WIN TV Victoria. By the mid 1980s, translators in Toora and Foster (channel 6), Orbost (channel 7), Lakes Entrance (channel 11) and Cann River (channel 9) were put in service. In 1992, Victoria was aggregated, and Southern Cross became the regional Ten affilate. In 1993, the station's name was changed to SCN, and the logo became a version of Ten's, with "SCN" where "Ten" is. Six months later, the station changed its name and logo again, becoming Ten Victoria, using generic Ten Network identification. Around this time, its local news service was axed, replaced with Ten Melbourne's news bulletins. In 2002, the name was changed to Southern Cross Ten, in line with Southern Cross's other Ten affilates. Queensland Southern Cross Ten in Queensland began life as North Queensland Television. The original stations were: In 1982, they joined forces to become NQTV, North Queensland Television. When aggreation was announced, NQTV was planning to be the Nine Network affiliate when regional Queensland was aggreated in late 1990. NQTV had a write-in competition for their name and logo. The name QTV was chosen and because of the affiliation with the Nine Network, the Nine dots were put on the logo (similar to WIN and NBN's logos). Viewers didn't like the logo, so they changed the logo to one sent in from the competition. The station ran with a Nine Network-based identification package in the year leading to aggreation. However, the station faced an crisis in the lead-up to aggreation. In the days leading to aggreation, WIN Television brought the Toowoomba and Rockhampton-based Star Television, and switched the affiliation from Ten to Nine, inline with WIN's NSW station. This meant that QTV had to change its logo and affiliation in a hurry, and picked up the vacant Ten affiliation, and used a logo sent in the competition. The station's owners, Telecasters North Queensland (later Telecasters Australia), joined the Ten Group Consortium in 1992-1993. This led to a change from QTV to Ten Queensland, and they began to use generic Ten branding. In 2001, Telecasters was purchased by Southern Cross. Also in 2001, the same day Ten Capital axed its local news, Ten's North Queensland local news was axed, replaced with Ten's Brisbane news. It had a license-wide one hour bulletin when Queensland was aggreated, but this was soon axed. This was also one of the many triggers which lead to the local news enquiry by the ABA. In 2002, like the other Southern Cross-owned Ten affilated, it too became Southern Cross Ten. South Australia The area around the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill, New South Wales received a new television station in late 2003, licensed by the ABA as a supplementary service to the existing service provided by Southern Cross-owned Central GTS/BKN. It is a straight relay of Ten Adelaide, with local ads. It is branded as Southern Cross Ten. External links
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