 Logo used since 2020 | |
| Type | Adult programming • General entertainment |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Broadcast area | Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane,Adelaide,Perth,Regional QLD,Darwin,Tasmania,Regional VIC,Northern NSW,Southern NSW,ACT,Regional WA |
| Network | Seven Network |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 576iSDTV 1080iHDTV[a] |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Seven West Media |
| Sister channels | Channel 7 7HD 7mate 7Bravo 7flix TVSN Racing.com |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 November 2009; 15 years ago (1 November 2009) |
| Former names | 7TWO (2009–2020) |
| Links | |
| Website | 7plus.com.au |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| ATN Sydney (DVB-T) | 1314 @ 6 (177.5 MHz)[1] |
| HSV Melbourne (DVB-T) | 1330 @ 6 (177.5 MHz) |
| BTQ Brisbane/Gold Coast (DVB-T) | 1346 @ 6 (177.5 MHz) |
| SAS Adelaide (DVB-T) | 1362 @ 6 (177.5 MHz) |
| TVW Perth/Mandurah (DVB-T) | 1378 @ 6 (177.5 MHz) |
| Freeview Seven owned (virtual) | 72/62 |
| Freeview Seven Regional/SCTV (virtual) | 62 |
| Freeview WIN Griffith NSW/Eastern SA (virtual) | 62 |
| Streaming media | |
| 7plus | |
7two is an Australianfree-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by theSeven Network on 1 November 2009.[2]
The channel broadcasts a variety of programs, targeting a 25-and-over audience. 7two offers a broad selection of programs covering a variety of genres including lifestyle, drama, adventure, reality observational-documentaries and comedy.[3]
The channel was officially announced by theSeven Network on its breakfast program,Sunrise, at 7:45 am AEDT 23 October 2009. Earlier, speculation suggested that Seven would launch its secondary channel around November 2009, with possible names including7PLUS,PLUS7,Channel Mate and 7TWO. Seven's then-programming chief Tim Worner stated after the reveal that some of the potential names werered herrings to keep details of the channel a secret.[4]PLUS7 and Channel Mate (as7mate) were later used for Seven's internet TV catch-up service and Seven's second digital multi-channel, respectively.
The channel launched with the airing of a promotional video called "It's Time", featuring Seven Network personalities and clips of shows and movies intended to be broadcast on the channel, followed by normal programming. This video was also launched on the multi-channel's website and received cross-promotion on the primary Seven channel. TheSeven Network continues its policy of cross-promoting each channel's content across all four channels (Seven, 7two,7mate and7flix) to this day. Seven presentersTom Williams andJohanna Griggs initially served as the "face" of the channel and were seen presenting 7two's Friday and Sunday night lifestyle line-ups in early 2011.
The channel did not launch on the same day to many regional areas. 7two was launched forSouthern Cross Television viewers in Tasmania and Darwin on 1 December 2009,[5][6][7] and forPrime Television viewers in Regional Victoria, Northern & Southern NSW and the ACT on 23 December 2009 from 9 am. From launch, Prime broadcast the channel as '7TWO on Prime'.[8][9]
In January 2011, regional broadcasterPrime Television changed the name of its primary channel to 'Prime7', to reflect its strong relationship with its metropolitan partner, Seven. This led to Prime's transmission of 7two being rebranded as simply 7two, like the metropolitan counterpart.
In July 2020, 7TWO underwent a major rebrand, its first since its inception. The logo applies the same orange 7 ribbon logo but withTWO in lower case and the channel now referred to as7two.
From launch, premiere seasons of previous Seven shows includingLost,Ugly Betty,Heroes and24 were broadcast, along with a mix of other new and classic programming along with movies sourced fromDisney.[10]
Prime-time programs used to screen under themed nightly blocks such as 'Action Time' and 'Movie Time', however these disappeared as the focus of the channel changed in 2010. The revised channel included 'Best of British' content such as thrice-weekly British murder/mystery (Heartbeat andJonathan Creek), British comedy (Are You Being Served? andKeeping Up Appearances), and British lifestyle (Escape to the Country andBargain Hunt). The launch of male-skewing sister channel7mate in September 2010 led to a number of programs moving across from Seven's already existing channels, including 7TWO, to the new channel. 7TWO's target audience was also refined to people 55-plus. Programs that made the move from 7TWO includedAir Crash Investigations,Scrubs,NWA: On Fire,Whacked Out Sports,Lost,Last Comic Standing,That '70s Show,AFL Game Day,Gary Unmarried,Club Reps,Fifth Gear,Monster Garage, andThe Sopranos.
The weekday daytime schedule has seen numerous changes since launch as channel executives tried to find the right mix with viewers. At launch, 'Kid's Time' broadcast a block of children's programs each morning such asYin Yang Yo!, andDigimon Data Squad, soap operas aired in the early afternoon and 'Kitchen Time' featured in the late afternoons withEssence of Emeril andThe Martha Stewart Show among the programs broadcast. In 2010, soap operas includingShortland Street,Coronation Street and, briefly,Emmerdale andHollyoaks joined classic Australian soapSons and Daughters and early years ofHome and Away into its mid-morning schedule along with early episodes of quiz showDeal Or No Deal. In early afternoon, a mix of repeated fare such asMistresses,Murphy Brown,Doctor Finlay, and movies from theSony Pictures library are shown. Occasionally, shows which first aired the previous night on the main Seven channel are encored on 7TWO during the day. While initially, dramas such asGrey's Anatomy were encored, more recently this has remained true only for Seven's local reality shows such asThe X Factor andMy Kitchen Rules. An early morning weekly omnibus of the previous week's new episodes ofHome and Away airs on Sundays.
In 2012, theSeven Network introduced new weekday morning blocks of children's programming to air both on 7TWO and7mate. Branded asTotal Girl, the 7TWO block featured female-skewingDisney series such asHannah Montana,Wizards of Waverly Place,Sonny with a Chance andGood Luck Charlie, while the7mate block aired male-skewing programs branded asK-Zone.[11]Saturday Disney aired on 7TWO from 2012 to 2016, for two hours of its weekly episode.[12] From 2013 onwards, local Australian children's programs from the Seven Network were moved to air weekdays on 7TWO. These titles included game shows such asMatch It,[13] animated series such asThe Deep,The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill andBeat Bugs,[14][15][16] and programs for preschoolers includingPipsqueaks.[17]
In 2009, 2010 and 2011, 7TWO broadcast a wide range of both classic and new films that were sourced fromRKO Radio Pictures,Icon Productions,Entertainment One,StudioCanal,Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,United Artists,Orion Pictures,20th Century Fox,Walt Disney Pictures,Pixar Animation Studios,Touchstone Pictures,Hollywood Pictures,Miramax Films,Dimension Films,DreamWorks Pictures,DreamWorks Animation,Paramount Pictures,Universal Pictures,Columbia Pictures,TriStar Pictures, and most recently starting from 2017,Warner Bros. Pictures andNew Line Cinema.
By the end of Summer 2010/11, 7TWO had proven itself to become the most watched multi-channel in the country dominating primetime slots with a total 6.4% audience share via the network across the 5 major cities and winning 9 weeks over 9Go!'s two weeks (one joint with 7TWO) which is largely attributed to the channel's increased broadcast of British-originated content across the week. In 2011, following9Go!'s ratings share success (for digital channels) in 2010, 7TWO has stolen their crown as the number one multi-channel and the number one most-watched multichannel of the decade and century in Australia.
From launch until early 2013, 7two re-aired all daytime and prime-time nationalSeven News updates, no more than two commercial breaks after their original broadcast on the main Seven channel. These were all produced in Seven's Sydney news studio and presented by eitherChris Bath orMark Ferguson.
On 5 August 2013, a national news bulletin began airing on 7two, titledSeven News at 7, airing at 7:00pm Monday to Friday. It was presented byMelissa Doyle, withDavid Brown on weather.[18] Many months after the Nine Network's rival 7pm bulletin on9Gem had ended, 7two aired their lastSeven News At 7 bulletin on 2 May 2014.
7two televised live coverage of tennis tournamentWimbledon for the first time in 2011, first going to air at 8:30pm AEST on 7two whilst the primary channel continued normal programming before switching over to Seven at around 10.30pm. This practice has continued each year since.[19][20][21]
Between 2012 and 2018, 7two televised smaller tennis tournaments from Seven's Summer of Tennis, including theBrisbane International,Sydney International andAAMI Classic. This allowed Seven's main channel to continue with normal programming. Between 2015 and 2018, 7two started providing secondary coverage of theAustralian Open for the first week.
Additional coverage of sports on 7two extends to equestrian racing events.
In 2010, 7two broadcast classicAFL andAustralian Opentennis matches from the Seven archives between midnight and dawn.
In August 2016, 7two broadcast the2016 Summer Olympics and2016 Summer Paralympics from Rio de Janeiro in September.
7two is available instandard definition digital in metropolitan areas and regionalQueensland inHigh definition digital throughSeven Networkowned-and-operated stations includingATN Sydney,HSVMelbourne,BTQBrisbane,SASAdelaide,TVWPerth andSTQQueensland. As well as this,Southern Cross Television rebroadcast the service throughTNTTasmania[6] andTNDDarwin.[7] Seven Regional (Regional NSW/ACT and VIC) also broadcasts 7two, which launched in these markets on 23 December 2009.[9]WIN Television Griffith launched 7two on 5 June 2012, the day of the analogue switch off.Southern Cross Television (Regional SA, Central Australia) began broadcasting in January 2012 and GWN7 in Regional WA soon followed.
7TWO began transmission on 1 November 2009. Following the launch, the logo uses the generic Seven logo in an orange colour scheme, with the word"TWO" being added next to it. Despite the main logo being slightly changed in 2016, this logo is still in use as a secondary logo. On 24 January 2016, to coincide with new on-air presentation, 7TWO modified their 2009 logo slightly by downsizing the Seven logo.
On 24 July 2020, just days after7mate's rebrand, 7TWO unveiled their new logo for the first time since its launch in 2009. The word"TWO" is now in a different font with the letters becoming lowercase to be now known as 7two. It was part of theSeven Network’s major rebrand of their multichannels.
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