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| Channels | |
| Branding | 10 |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Affiliations | 10 (O&O) |
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| History | |
First air date | 23 January 1965; 60 years ago (1965-01-23) |
Former channel numbers | Analogue: 10 (1965) 11 (1965–2012) Other former channel numbers:see table below |
| Independent (1965–1975; 1987–1991) Great Eastland Television (1975–1987) | |
Call sign meaning | Northern Rivers New South Wales |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Australian Communications & Media Authority |
| ERP | see table below |
| HAAT | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Links | |
| Website | www.10.com.au |
NRN is atelevision station originating inCoffs Harbour,Australia. The station is owned byNetwork 10 and relays the network's content into the northern New South Wales broadcast market. The station was formally a partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour (launched 23 January 1965) and RTN-8Lismore (launched 12 May 1962).
NRN11 Coffs Harbour had merged with ECN8Taree to formNorthern Rivers Television, but later demerged in 1969. Around 1971, RTN8 Lismore and NRN11 merged, also formingNorthern Rivers Television (NRTV), but was known on-air originally as11–8 Television. The merged stations served theMid North Coast andNorthern Rivers areas of Northern New South Wales. During the mid-1970s, the station was concurrently known asGreat Eastland Television, when the partnership shared programming and advertising withNEN-9Tamworth and DDQ-10Toowoomba/SDQ-4Warwick, but they soon reverted to theNRTV brand.
In 1983, NRTV was relayed into theGold Coast after a lobbying campaign from residents, although they could also watch the metropolitan commercial TV stations fromBrisbane. NRTV's Gold Coast studios and offices were constructed inAshmore on Southport Nerang Road. The Gold Coast facilities did not contain a newsroom, but relayed local news from theCoffs Harbour studios. News crews fromLismore travelled to the Gold Coast for stories of importance.
NRTV produced a considerable amount of local programming (approximately five each week), including regional news, three hours of live women's variety "Round About", 5 half-hours of live children's variety "Get Set", "Birthdays", and "Razzamataz, with on-air presenter Rhonda Logan" weekly, holiday specials "Summerthon", and a half-hour daily exercise program "Jazzacize". Live sports specials included the annual Grafton Cup Racing Carnival and the Grafton to Inverell Cycling Classic.
Live programs mainly originated from the Coffs Harbour Studios with programs being recorded at both the networks other studios located at Lismore and Gold Coast.
Some of the memorable names from that era were:
In December 1987, NRN and sister station RTN were sold by Northern Star for $75 million to Darling Downs Television, a company controlled by David Haynes, which at the time owned theTen station in Brisbane.[1]
1990 saw plans for NRTV to be merged with southern Queensland's Vision TV to form a larger regional network to respond to the growing aggregation of television into regional areas of the nation, but they were called off. On 31 December 1991, Northern New South Wales became the third area to be aggregated, and NRTV, via links toNetwork 10 (it was part of Northern Star Holdings), owned byWestfield Group chairmanFrank Lowy), became its affiliate in the region.[2] At one stage, NRTV was the subject of a bid fromWIN Television. Nothing came of it, but had WIN gone through with the bid, it would have madeNRTV theNine Network affiliate (using the logos of its parent station in southern NSW and the campaigns of the Nine Network,[citation needed] attempting a replication of the affiliation steal during the 1990 aggregation of Regional Queensland television) and would have leftNBN as Network 10's affiliate instead in the area.[citation needed]
NRTV was sold to Telecasters Australia in 1993,[2] who also owned theQueensland affiliate ofNetwork 10. In 1994, the station was renamedTen Northern NSW, and its station identification was changed to that of Network 10.[2] The station stopped producing regional news forCoffs Harbour,Lismore andGold Coast in May 1995.[3] They had previously produced a licence-wide bulletin, but that was axed due to poor ratings.
Ten Northern NSW (NRN) and Telecasters itself were purchased bySouthern Cross Broadcasting in 2001.[4][5] The following year, NRN was rebranded toSouthern Cross Ten.[2] On 14 August 2005, the station and the whole Southern Cross Ten network, received a new star logo.[2][6]
Southern Cross commenced broadcasting Ten secondary channelOne HD via NRN on 2 July 2009 on LCN 50.
Southern Cross commenced running new Network Ten secondary channelEleven via NRN on 11 January 2011 on LCN 55, replacing a simulcast of the main channel.
On 1 July 2016,Southern Cross Ten's unique branding began to phase out on NRN in favour of Ten's mainstream branding asTen. This comes after Southern Cross switched all of its SC10 stations (except NRN) asSouthern Cross Nine as part of its new program supply agreement with theNine Network. Southern Cross announced on 13 September 2016 that10 HD would be launched on LCN 52 on 21 September 2016.[7][8] In addition, 10 Bold was reduced to a standard definition broadcast to accommodate 10 HD.
Southern Cross announced on 25 July 2016, that it would commence broadcasting a New Zealand-based datacast shopping channel,Yesshop via NRN on 1 August 2016 on LCN 54.[9] However, Yesshop's owner (Yes Retail) made the decision to cease trading on 29 September 2016 citing lack of funds to pay wages and the company's current losses of approximately 20 million dollars.[10] Employees were terminated the same day, and the channels were removed on Freeview later that day.[11]
In late January 2017, it was announced that Southern Cross had entered into negotiations withWIN Corporation, owners of regional Ten-affiliateWIN Television, over the sale of NRN in exchange for WIN's Wollongong radio stationi98FM.[12][13] This deal would have expanded WIN's television coverage across all regional markets in the eastern states and granted Southern Cross radio coverage in Wollongong. Southern Cross later withdrew from negotiations on 20 February 2017 with no explanation given.[14][15] However, WIN and Southern Cross later finalised an agreement where they would sell NRN to WIN for a total of $55 million,[16][17][18] with the sale taking effect on 31 May 2017.[19][20] NRN was maintained asTen Northern NSW until playout and transmission were transferred to WIN's MediaHub facility inIngleburn on 1 September 2017, when the station adopted the WIN branding.[21][22] The LCNs were also reshuffled for NRN to align with WIN's other stations, but as Nine-owned NBN Television holds the 8-numbered digital channels in northern NSW, NRN's digital channels remain on the 5-numbered digital channels.
In September 2018, NRN launches a new free-to-air channel,Sky News on WIN (now Sky News Regional) into the Northern NSW and Gold Coast areas.
In October 2018, WIN rebranded its versions of 10's multi-channels, One and Eleven, intoWIN Boss (later changed toWIN Bold in December) andWIN Peach. WIN also updated its logo, launching at the same time as the launch of Network 10's new logo.
On 23 June 2021, WIN announced that it renewed its programme and supply agreement withParamount Global, the owner of Network Ten since 2020, for NRN.[23] However, as WIN's main station's channels in other markets were rebranded from 1 July under a new PSA with the Nine Network,[24] the Northern NSW station also dropped WIN's own branding outside its local news content, and carried the Network 10 branding seen in metropolitan markets.
Unlike other 10 affiliates, as of 2023, NRN does not broadcast Paramount-owned channel 10 Shake, and its successorNickelodeon Australia.
On 13 February 2025, Network 10 announced they would be acquiring NRN fromWIN Television.[25] This followed Network 10's announcement that they would also be acquiringSouthern Cross Austereo's 10-affiliated stations.[26] The sale was completed on 1 May 2025.[27]
10 Northern NSW (formerly WIN Television Northern NSW) broadcasts its programming fromNetwork 10, includes their regional signals of10,10 Drama,10 Comedy,Sky News Regional andGold. NRN rebroadcasts the10 Sydney feed supplemented with local advertising for Northern NSW. NRN also rebroadcasts the10 Brisbane feed supplemented with local advertising for the Gold Coast.
From 2004 until 2017, Southern Cross produced short local news updates which are broadcast throughout the day. These bulletins were branded asSouthern Cross Ten News,Southern Cross News,Ten Local News Updates from 1 July 2016. The updates were produced from Southern Cross' Canberra studios and made use of news content from local radio stations owned bySouthern Cross Austereo in each market. Local sport and weather reports also aired on an sporadic basis. Short updates also aired throughout the day and evening alongside updates from10 News. The bulletins were researched, produced and presented by a single journalist.
Though the purchase of NRN by WIN was finalised on 31 May 2017, playout and transmission remained under Southern Cross' control until 1 September, when WIN formally assumed control over the station. During this interim period, Southern Cross continued to produce local news updates for NRN until 31 August. From 1 September 2017,WIN News took over the production of short local updates for NRN, which may run from 30 seconds to two minutes each.
NRN also aired WIN'sAll Australian News, a compilation news bulletin featuring news reports from WIN's newsrooms across regional Australia, despite the fact that no local stories from Northern NSW and Gold Coast were aired on this bulletin. The programme ended its airing on 30 June 2021, after WIN made adjustments to its news output following the return of Nine Network's programmes to WIN-owned stations outside Northern NSW the following day.
The last set of WIN News updates aired on 27 June 2025, almost two months after 10 bought the station. By 30 June,10 News took over production of the said updates, which are now fixed in 2-minute editions throughout the day.