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HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia.

History

The station began broadcasting on 4 November 1956, soon after the Commonwealth Government started issuing television licences. HSV-7 and rival station GTV-9 were formed in time to broadcast the Melbourne Olympics, while Sydney stations TCN-9 and ATN-7 in Sydney relayed the Melbourne coverage. HSV-7 was originally owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, owners of The Herald and The Sun (now merged as the Herald Sun). These papers gave rise to the callsign HSV (the 'V' stands for Victoria, as is the normal protocol for commercial television callsigns to have the third letter indicate the state where the station is licenced.)

The station's "Melbourne's Alive" promo, which ran in 1999.

In March, 1960, the station converted an old cinema in Fitzroy into the southern hemisphere's first fully remote studio, fully equipped with RCA TRT video tape recorders, cameras and vision mixing equipment, as well as major stage and artist areas and audience seating. It was connected back to the station's main Dorcas Street studios by multiple microwave links. The studios were opened with a major live show featuring Bob Crosby and his band and Jimmy Edwards, amongst others.

The station began to identify as Channel Seven in the early 1970s. Since then, it has used the national Seven Network logos, and has followed the network's on-air presentation and programming. In 1979, Fairfax bought a substantial share of HSV-7 after many failed bids for the entire station. In December 1986 the station was purchased in its entirety by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. In February 1987 HSV-7 was sold back to Fairfax, along with Brisbane station BTQ-7.

In late 1987, the government introduced cross-media ownership laws which forced Fairfax to choose between its print and broadcast operations. It chose print, and HSV-7 was sold to Christopher Skase's Qintex, which already owned Seven stations in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. In 1990 Qintex was sent into damage control after Skase escaped extradition proceedings, and the Seven Network became a discreet company. Entrepreneur Kerry Stokes bought the network in 1995.

Headquarters

Broadcast Centre Melbourne, centre of programming operations for the entire Seven Network and the headquarters for Seven Melbourne.

Seven Melbourne's main production studios, Dorcas Street Studios, are located in South Melbourne. Until December, 2002 the studios were home to playout for news, current affairs and sport, when they were moved to the new headquarters in the Docklands. Dorcas Street remains home to the Melbourne-based entertainment, drama and reality programmes. As part of a joint venture with Seven Melbourne in 2007, the network sold a 50% share of the Dorcas Street site, handing over management to Global. Consequently, a number of shows from other networks, such as Network Ten's Rove, are now produced there, alongside Seven Network shows such as It Takes Two and regular game show Deal or No Deal.

The new facilities, known as Broadcast Centre Melbourne or BCM, are adjoined to the formerly Seven-owned Telstra Dome. The offices are used to control news bulletins and playout all programmes for Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide (excluding news), Sydney (excluding news) and Perth. Approximately 200 full-time employees work in the building, with an additional 100 hired as casual or part-time. BCM experienced a major power failure which resulted in a total blackout across the whole Seven Network as well as all regional affiliates during the programme Blue Heelers, in April 2005.


Programming

Entertainment

Past

News/Current Affairs

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Wideshot of Melbourne's news studio, with Peter Mitchell presenting.

Seven News Melbourne is presented by Peter Mitchell (weekdays) from BCM. Weekday sport and weather are presented by Sandy Roberts and David Brown, with Tim Watson and Rob Gell presenting on weekends alongside Jennifer Keyte (news).

Seven News Melbourne saw the end of the two presenter format in 2000 when David Johnston and Anne Fulwood were replaced with Peter Mitchell. He had previously held the role of the weekend news presenter for over thirteen years.[citation needed] Jennifer Keyte was appointed as the weekday news presenter in 1990, becoming Australia's first solo female primetime commercial news presenter.[citation needed] In a network reshuffle in 1996, Jennifer Keyte terminated her employment after the Seven Network attempted to pair her with David Johnston.[citation needed] She returned in 2003, assuming the role as the weekend news presenter, succeeding Jennifer Adams.

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One of Melbourne's longest running news presenters, Peter Mitchell has presented Seven News Melbourne in differing roles since 1987.

Following decades of coming second in television ratings to National Nine News Melbourne, Seven News Melbourne has been in a tight contest since 2005 to gain the first position. In recent ratings reports Seven News has gained the number one position.[1] This was subsequently followed by a series of advertisements and promos which have touted Seven News Melbourne as Melbourne's New #1 and Nine altering their promotions to simply say "Melbourne's Best News".

News updates for Melbourne are presented by either Peter Mitchell or Jennifer Keyte throughout the afternoon and the early evening. Jennifer Keyte and Rebecca Maddern are fill-in presenters for the Melbourne news service, with Michael Felgate or Dylan Howard presenting sport, and Rob Gell presenting the weather.

Reporters

Weeknight Newsreaders

Weekend Newsreaders

Current Melbourne Team

Past Programs

Reality/Lifestyle

Drama

Past

Sport

Past

Pre-network logos

HSV-7 used many logos throughout its pre-network history.

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Note: Post-network logos can be found at the following article; Seven Network.

References

  1. ^ "How Seven trumped Nine". The Age. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-06-27.

See also

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