TNT (Australian TV station) facts for kids

TNT is an Australian television station based in Hobart, Tasmania. It is owned by Southern Cross Austereo. This station first started broadcasting to northern Tasmania. Since 1994, it has broadcast to the whole of Tasmania, meaning everyone in the state could watch its programs.

Quick facts for kids
TNT

Tasmania
Channels	Digital: see table below Virtual: 6
Branding	Seven
Programming
Affiliations	Seven
Ownership
Owner	Southern Cross Austereo (Southern Cross Television Pty Ltd)
History
First air date	26 May 1962
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 9 (VHF) (1962–2013)
Former affiliations	Independent (1962–1994) TasTV (1985–1989) Southern Cross Network (1989–1994) Network Ten (1994–2008)
Call sign meaning	Television Northern Tasmania
Technical information
Licensing authority	Australian Communications and Media Authority
ERP	see table below
HAAT	see table below
Transmitter coordinates	see table below

Station History

• 1962 – The station started as Northern TV Ltd. It broadcast in Launceston and northern Tasmania.
• 1965 – It became part of a larger company called ENT Ltd.
• 1980 – TNT-9 started using a logo similar to the Nine Network's, but with stars instead of dots.
  

  TNT-9's logo from 1980 to 1989.
• 1982 – ENT bought another TV station, TVT-6, in Hobart.
• 1985 – TNT and TVT officially became known as TasTV.
• 1988-1989 – TNT-9 was sold and became part of Southern Cross Broadcasting. It was then called Southern Cross Network.
• 1994 – Southern Cross started broadcasting to all of Tasmania, competing with TasTV.
• 1999 – Southern Cross Tasmania got a new logo, different from other Southern Cross stations.
• 2003 – Southern Cross and WIN Television launched a new digital TV channel called Tasmanian Digital Television (TDT). It showed programs from Network 10.
• 2005 – Southern Cross Broadcasting changed its logo for all its stations. Southern Cross Tasmania's unique Tasmanian Tiger logo was replaced with the company's main logo.
• 2018 – Southern Cross Tasmania changed its name to Seven Tasmania.

Local Programs

TNT creates Tasmania's most popular news program every day. It also produces local shows about lifestyle and sports.

News Programs

The station's main news program is Nightly News. It used to be called Southern Cross News. This show is broadcast live every night at 6:00 PM. It is presented from studios in Launceston and Hobart.

Short news updates are also shown throughout the day. These are broadcast alongside the national Seven News Updates. The Nightly News is consistently the most watched TV program in Tasmania. A shorter version of the daily news is uploaded to the station's YouTube channel. This version only includes local news, sports, and weather.

The station planned to change the news name to Seven News Tasmania in 2018. However, this was delayed. The Seven Network did not want their name on news they did not control. So, the station came up with a new name. On December 3, 2018, the news program became Nightly News. This name was used by the station before, in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Besides Nightly News, Seven Tasmania also shows national news from the Seven Network. These include:

• Sunrise
• Weekend Sunrise
• The Morning Show
• Seven News (Early News, Morning News, Afternoon News at 4, Weekend Afternoon News at 5, The Latest)

TNT also shows the weekday Seven News at 4 from Melbourne. It also broadcasts Seven Morning News at 11:30 AM on weekdays and Seven News at 5 on weekends from Sydney.

News Presenters

Main anchors

• Kim Millar (Weeknights & Fills)
• Louise Houbaer (Weekends & Fills)

Sport presenter

• Nick Kelly

Weather presenters

• Peter Murphy (Weeknights & Fills)
• Victoria Eastoe
• Kiah Wicks
• Chelsea Freestone
• Carmen Wilkin
• Jackie Harvey

Other Local Shows

Hook, Line and Sinker

The fishing show Hook, Line and Sinker is a very popular Tasmanian program. It is shown across Australia. The show is hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.

Renovation Relief

Renovation Relief is a do-it-yourself (DIY) program. It is hosted by famous wood-chopper David Foster. He and a team renovate houses, often for people who have helped their community or children.

Targa Torque

This show is broadcast every night during the Targa Tasmania car race. Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan report on the day's events.

Holiday at Home

Holiday at Home is a lifestyle program. It promotes places to stay and things to do in Tasmania.

Burnie Ten – Ten Week Challenge

For ten weeks before the Burnie Ten race, Mark Connelly trains a group of people. Seven Tasmania sponsors this program. Weekly updates are shown during commercial breaks.

Sports Coverage

Seven Tasmania broadcasts sports from the Seven Network. This includes Australian Rules Football, Horse racing, cricket, tennis, golf, and motorsport. In the 1990s, the station showed Network Ten's daily sports program Sports Tonight. This was later replaced by Seven's current affairs program, Today Tonight.

The station shows three AFL games each week. Matches held in Tasmania are broadcast a little later. The station also covers many Tasmanian sports in its news. These include cricket, athletics, netball, and basketball.

Local Sports

The station produces and airs coverage of the international road race Targa Tasmania every year. It also broadcasts live coverage of the Launceston and Hobart Cup horse races. Regular updates on the annual Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race are shown while the race is happening.

Station Affiliations

TNT is connected with the main Seven Network. It also broadcasts most of Seven's other channels. These include 7TWO, 7mate, SBN, and Racing.com.

Rival Tasmanian stations are TVT-6 (WIN Television), which is linked with the Nine Network. Also, TDT (SCA 10) is linked with Network 10.

After 1994, TNT showed programs from both Seven and Ten. However, the Ten content was slowly removed after 2003. This was when the digital-only station TDT was launched. TDT is a joint project between Southern Cross Austereo and WIN.

Main Transmitters

Notes:

• 1. HAAT is an estimated height.