This article is about the Australian television station. For other uses, see ATN (disambiguation).
ATN
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| Sydney, New South Wales |
| Branding |
Seven |
| Slogan |
Gottaloveit on 7 |
| Channels |
Analog: 7 (VHF)
Digital: 6 (VHF) |
| Translators |
72 |
| Affiliations |
Seven (O&O) |
| Network |
Seven |
| Owner |
Seven West Media Limited
(Channel Seven Sydney Pty Ltd) |
| First air date |
2 December 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Amalgamated
Television
New South Wales |
| Transmitter power |
200 kW (analog)
50 kW (digital) |
| Height |
249 m (analog)
251 m (digital)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates |
33°48′20″S 151°10′51″E / 33.80556°S 151.18083°E / -33.80556; 151.18083 |
| Website |
www.yahoo7.com.au/tv |
ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was one of the first four licences (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 2 December 1956.
The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9, so as a result the stations switched their previous affiliations. ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to create the Australian Television Network, which later became the Seven Network.
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Contents
- 1 The studios and transmission tower
- 2 Digital and analog broadcasts
- 3 Program production
- 4 RaceCam
- 5 Seven Martin Place
- 6 Seven News Sydney
- 7 Programming
- 7.1 Martin Place Newscentre
- 7.2 Current productions produced on Location
- 8 Past Programming
- 9 See also
- 10 External links
- 11 References
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The studios and transmission tower[edit]
The station opened in 1956 with principal offices and studios located at Mobbs Lane, Epping (a suburb about 12 kilometres north west of Sydney). The initial black and white cameras and other equipment was supplied by the Marconi Company of England. Conversion to PAL colour occurred on 1 March 1975. Digital DVB-T commenced on 1 January 2001.
The initial transmission tower in 1956 was located near the ABC tower at Gore Hill, Sydney. This was eventually demolished after ATN was invited to share a new site at Artarmon which was built by a new 3rd, commercial broadcaster TEN-10.
Digital and analog broadcasts[edit]
ATN's Sydney transmissions - both DVB-T terrestrial digital and analog PAL - are on VHF RF Channels 6 and 7 respectively and are broadcast from masts operated by Transmitters Australia (TXA) at Artarmon and/or Willoughby. Retransmission translators to UHF channels service Sydney viewers from Kings Cross and North Head at Manly and north of Sydney at Bouddi, Gosford and Forresters Beach (see the Digital Broadcast Australia) web site.
The on-air programs are sent by digital link from the Seven Network's national program play-out centre at Docklands in Melbourne.
Program production[edit]
The Epping facilities were expanded to provide five operational studios and the centre became the largest producer of Australian produced TV content, including Wheel of Fortune, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice, Hey Dad..!, All Saints, Terry Willesee Tonight and Home and Away.
News and live telecast programs are filmed and broadcast from the Martin Place studios.
The Epping studios closed in early 2010 when new studio facilities serviced by Global Television, opened at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh.[2][3]
RaceCam[edit]
ATN's engineering staff received two Emmy Awards - making ATN the first Australian company to receive such an award - for the technology, invention and further development of RaceCam, live mobile point-of-view TV cameras which were initially developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the station's coverage of touring car races at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales. Visiting commentators from the United States organised for ATN staff to supply the camera and transmission systems for CBS' coverage of NASCAR races.
A variant of RaceCam was also developed for yachts in the America's Cup off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1985. Later in the mid-1980s, the American Broadcasting Company asked ATN staff to develop aerofoil-designed cameras suitable for Formula One cars, and these were subsequently used at the Indianapolis 500.
Seven Martin Place[edit]
The set used for Seven News
The Seven Network's Martin Place studios, referred to on-air as News Central and based on the first five floors of The Colonial Building in Sydney are the main news presentation studios for, Seven News Sydney, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, and The Morning Show . Comprising 3,000 square metres, viewers and tourists can see programs being broadcast from the street level studio. The network claims that the Martin Place facilities are one of the most technologically advanced digital television centres in the world.
Eliminations for the fifth season of The Mole in 2005 were also held at the Martin Place studios; the set was configured for each elimination episode including the final episode in which the winner and the Mole were revealed live. This meant that guests could watch outside the studio as the eliminations were being carried out live; notable guests included contestants from the 2002 and 2003 seasons.
Seven News Sydney[edit]
Further information: Seven News
Seven News Sydney is presented from the network's national television studios at Martin Place, by Chris Bath on weeknights and Mark Ferguson at weekends. Jim Wilson and Sarah Cumming present weeknight sport and weather, while Ryan Phelan is the weekend sport presenter.
News updates for Sydney are presented throughout the afternoon and the early evenings, with updates during the night being shown nationally, they can be seen on Seven, 7TWO and 7mate.
At the end of 2003, a year before all of Channel 7's News and Current Affairs moved to Martin Place, the ill-fated dual presenter format of Ross Symonds and Ann Sanders was abandoned after the pair were unable to make an impact in the Sydney market, losing viewers to competition winner Nine News Sydney (then National Nine News), which had led in the ratings for decades. After Ian Ross took over from both Symonds and Sanders in 2003, Seven News Sydney became the 6pm ratings leader from February 2005 until 2010.
Ross presented his final bulletin for Seven News Sydney on Friday 27 November 2009 with Bath taking over as main weeknight presenter on Monday 30 November 2009. Former Nine News presenter Mark Ferguson took over from Bath as weekend news presenter from Saturday 28 November 2009. The bulletin retained its ratings lead until it was overtaken again by the rival Nine News bulletin in the ratings in 2011 - Seven's 6pm bulletin won 14 out of 35 ratings weeks.[4]
Presenters[edit]
Currently, the Seven News Sydney on-air team consists of the following:
Main Presenters
Sports Presenters
Weather Presenter
- Sarah Cumming (Weeknights)
Reporters
- Talitha Cummins
- Chris Maher
- Lee Jeloscek
- Sean Berry
- Mark Riley (Canberra Bureau)
- Mike Amor (US Bureau)
- Sally Bowery
- Robert Ovadia
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- Paul Kadak
- Alex Hart
- Damien Smith
- Matt Carmichael
- Chris Reason
- Patrick Molihan
- Mike Duffy
- Hugh Whitfeld
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- Georgina McKerrow
- Gabrielle Boyle
- Jodie Speers
- Sarah Coates (Canberra Bureau)
- Mia Greves (Canberra Bureau)
- Angela Cox (US Bureau)
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Fill-In Presenters
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News
- Chris Reason
- Natalie Barr
- Jessica Rowe
- Kylie Gillies
- Simon Reeve
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Sport
- Mark Beretta
- Kylie Gillies
- Simon Reeve
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Programming[edit]
Martin Place Newscentre[edit]
- Seven Early News
- Sunrise
- The Morning Show
- The Morning Show: "Weekend"
- The Daily Edition
- Weekend Sunrise
- Seven Morning News
- Seven News Update
- Sunday Night
Current productions produced on Location[edit]
- The X Factor (Australia) (2010-present)Fox Studios
- Sydney Weekender
- Home and Away (1988-present)Global Television Studos
- Packed to the Rafters (2008-present)
- My Kitchen Rules (2010-present)
- Saturday Disney (1990-present)Global Television Studos
- Better Homes and Gardens (TV series) (1995-present)
Past Programming[edit]
- Seven Afternoon News (ATN7 2003) (HSV7 2003–2006) (ATN 2006-2012) (now produced by HSV7 2013-)
- Today Tonight (ATN7 1995–2001) (HSV7 2001-2006) (ATN7 2007–2012) (now produced by HSV7 2013-)
- The Price Is Right (2012) Global Television Studos
- The NightCap (2008)
- Wild Boys (2011)
- All Saints (TV series) (1998-2009)
- Always Greener (2001-2003)
- Beat the Star (Australia) (2010)
- Hey Dad..! (1987-1994)
- Sons and Daughters (1982-1987)
- A Country Practice (1981-1993)
- Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show) (1981-2004, 2006)
- Who Dares Wins (game show) (1996-2000)
- The Real Seachange (2006)
- The Zoo (Australian TV series) (2007-2008)
- Surf Patrol
- Popstars Live (2000-2002, 2004)
- Surprise Chef (2001-2003)
- The Matty Johns Show (2010)
- Sportsworld (HSV7 1987-2003) (ATN7 2004-2006)
See also[edit]
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Television in Australia portal |
- Television broadcasting in Australia
External links[edit]
- Official Site
- Corporate Site
References[edit]
- ^ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- ^ New Channel Seven Studios in Redfern Architecture Australia, accessed 27 December 2008.
- ^ Cummins, C. Redfern to rival Pyrmont as a hub for media The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2008.
- ^ Nine News Sydney takes ratings crown from Seven, Media Spy, 22 October 2011
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Others
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- Yahoo!7 (50%)
- Australian News Channel (Sky News Australia
- Sky News Business Channel) (33%)
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- C7 Sport
- Seven Guide
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- Better Homes and Gardens
- Bride to Be
- Diabetic Living
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- Kalgoorlie Miner
- The West Australian
- Community Newspaper Group
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- Seven News
- Seven Sport
- Programs
- Slogans
- Austext
- Australia Television International
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Television in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
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| Sydney |
- ABN (ABC)
- ATN (Seven)
- TCN (Nine)
- TEN (Ten)
- SBS
- TSN (TVS)
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| Northern NSW |
- ABN (ABC)
- NEN (Prime7)
- NBN (NBN)
- NRN (SC Ten)
- SBS
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| Southern NSW and ACT |
- ABN/ABC (ABC)
- CBN (Prime7)
- WIN (WIN)
- CTC (SC Ten)
- SBS
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| Griffith and MIA |
- ABGN (ABC)
- AMN (WIN [Seven])
- MTN (WIN)
- MDN (WIN [Ten])
- SBS
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| Broken Hill |
- ABLN (ABC)
- BKN (SC)
- BDN (SC [Nine])
- SCN (SC Ten)
- SBS
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| Remote areas |
- ABN (ABC)
- QQQ (SC)
- IMP (Imparja)
- CDT (SC/Imparja [Ten])
- SBS
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