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| Branding | 10 |
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| Language | English |
| Affiliations | 10 (O&O) |
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First air date | 5 April 1965; 60 years ago (1965-04-05) |
Former channel number | Analog: 10 (VHF) (1965–2013) |
Call sign meaning | TENNew South Wales |
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Licensing authority | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
| ERP | 200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) |
| HAAT | 249 m (analog) 251 m (digital)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°48′20″S151°10′51″E / 33.80556°S 151.18083°E /-33.80556; 151.18083 (TEN) |
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| Website | 10.com.au |
TEN isNetwork 10's flagship station inSydney. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited (UTSL), and began transmission on 5 April 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety specialTV Spells Magic. It also serves as the Australian headquarters ofParamount.
Ten commenced broadcasting on 5 April 1965 after United Telecasters was granted aSydney commercial broadcasting licence. Shareholders in United Telecasters includedAmalgamated Wireless,Colonial Sugar Refining andEmail with 14% each,Bank of New South Wales with 7.5% and theNRMA with 2.5%.[2]
TEN often lagged in the ratings behind the more established commercial channelsTCN (Nine) andATN (Seven) who had dominated viewing habits in Sydney for eight years. The turning point came in 1972 with the premiere of the raunchy soap opera seriesNumber 96 which immediately lifted TEN's overall profile and helped raise the ailing network to No. 1 position by 1973.[citation needed]
TEN launched Australia's first metropolitan nightly one-hour news bulletin in 1975,[citation needed] whileNBN-3 in Newcastle was first to air a one-hour news service in Australia in 1972.[citation needed] In 1978,Katrina Lee became only the third female TV newsreader on Australian TV – the first being Melody Iliffe onQTQ-9. The current anchor for the10 News 5pm Sydney news bulletin on weeknights isSandra Sully.
TEN commenceddigital television transmission on 1 January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 11 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 10.
The analogue signal for TEN was shut off on 3 December 2013.
Since 2021, the Pyrmont premises also houses office facilities for Network 10 sister channelsMTV andNickelodeon.
| LCN | Service | SD/HD |
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| 1 | 10 HD | HD |
| 10 | 10 | SD |
| 11 | 10 Comedy | SD |
| 12 | 10 Drama | HD |
| 13 | Nickelodeon | SD |
| 15 | 10 HD | HD |
| 16 | You.tv | SD |
| 17 | Gecko TV | SD |
TEN's broadcast facilities have been in the inner city suburb ofPyrmont since 1997. These studios feature a large open plan newsroom and news-set where all Ten's national and local Sydney news bulletins are produced. This facility is also the network's head office and broadcasts the network signal to other cities. When TEN-10 opened in 1965, it operated from newly built studio facilities atNorth Ryde, these were sold in the 1990s when the network underwent financial turmoil. The North Ryde complex, which was used by Global Television in recent years, was demolished in September 2007. Following the move from North Ryde in 1991, TEN relocated to a small warehouse inUltimo, and then to new studios in nearby Pyrmont in May 1997. Most series are produced on location or at external studios by external companies, but a few programs are made in-house by TEN.
1Sport and Weather is still presented from theAdelaide studios in Eastwood. The Friday bulletin, presented by Tiffany Warne, is also presented from Adelaide.
2 Merged with the Sydney bulletin, with opt-outs for local news, sport and weather. Ceased on 30 August 2024.
3 Sport was still presented from Perth.
4 The Thursday and Friday bulletins were presented from Melbourne.
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TEN-10 produces a local news program on weeknights from its studios atPyrmont.10 News Sydney is presented bySandra Sully on weekdays andGeorgie Tunny on weekends with sport presentersTara Rushton (Monday-Friday) and Scott Mackinnon (Saturday and Sunday), weather presentersJosh Holt (weekdays) and Amanda Jason (weekends) and traffic reporter Vic Lorusso.
The 5pm bulletin was presented for almost eleven years byRon Wilson andJessica Rowe, between 1996 and 2005, when Rowe moved to present the Nine Network'sToday. She was replaced by the network's US correspondentDeborah Knight from 2006. Wilson anchored the nightly Sydney news until January 2009 when he became a presenter of the nationalEarly News and was replaced byBill Woods.[3] Knight was replaced by Sully in October 2011 following the axing of the network's long-running late night news program, as a result with Knight's decision to move to theNine Network.[4] Sully became sole anchor after Woods' departure on 30 November 2012, following the network's decision not to renew his contract.
Fill-in presenters include Scott Mackinnon (Sport) and Amanda Duval or Amanda Hart (Weather).
As of September 2020, TEN-10 also oversees studio production of the Brisbane edition of10 News. The Brisbane and Sydney bulletins are presented by Sandra Sully, combining local opt-outs for news, sport and weather with some shared content.[5] For three years, TEN-10 also produced the Perth edition for viewers in WA until production returned to Perth in 2023, and instead co-produces the Adelaide edition for audiences in South Australia. From September 2024, production of the Brisbane bulletin will be returned toBrisbane, withSharyn Ghidella to present.[6]
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