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 Station office inFannie Bay | |
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| Branding | Seven |
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| Language | English |
| Affiliations | Seven (O&O) |
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| History | |
First air date | 27 March 1998 |
Former channel number | Analog: 34 (UHF) (1998–2013) |
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| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
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| HAAT | 147 m (both)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 12°24′52″S130°58′9″E / 12.41444°S 130.96917°E /-12.41444; 130.96917 |
TND is a television station inDarwin, Northern Territory. The station, launched in 1998 asSeven Darwin and broadcasting across Darwin,Palmerston and surrounding areas, is owned bySeven West Media. Its main competitor is theNine Network's owned-and-operated station,NTD.
AsSeven Darwin, TND-34 existed as essentially a re-broadcast of SCB's remote Australia satellite serviceSeven Central, apart from localised adverts, inserted at SCB's playout centre inTownsville, Queensland, and delivered to Darwin via Optus Transcontinental Fibre Optic cable. The station also carriesSeven News Brisbane bulletins fromBTQ[citation needed].
From 2005 until 2008, the station held affiliations withNetwork 10, after the Ten affiliation was relinquished by NTD-8 as it becameNine Darwin. At this time,Seven Darwin changed its name toSouthern Cross Darwin. Since 2008, the station only holds affiliations with theSeven Network.
Like its Tasmanian and Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill sister stations, the Seven Network affiliation remains the primary one. The Network Ten affiliation was, in 2008, expected to be dropped from Southern Cross Darwin and given to a digital-only third channel (such as those found inTasmania andMildura), as proposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.[2]
Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34,Seven Central remained as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia. Since 2008, Seven Central has carried a small amount of10 Sport programming, in response to rival broadcasterImparja Television dropping its Network Ten licence early in the year.
In 2008, Southern Cross Darwin ceased broadcasting its last Ten content, as it was moved toDarwin Digital Television. The station has carried a sole Seven affiliate, on relay fromMelbourne instead ofBrisbane orAdelaide, despite time zone differences betweenNorthern Territory andVictoria.
On 1 July 2018, local branding on all of Southern Cross' Seven-affiliated stations was phased out to be replaced by generic Seven Network branding.[3][4] Consequently,Southern Cross Darwin becameSeven Darwin, the station's original identity that had not been in use for the past ten years.
Seven Darwin has the rights to broadcast AFL NT matches on their sister channel7two during the AFL Season. The matches usually air on weekends as daytime viewing.
7HD launched on 26 November 2018.[5]
The sale ofSouthern Cross Austereo's Seven-affiliated stations toSeven West Media was finalised in July 2025.[6]
Under previous owners, a localSeven News bulletin for Darwin and Central Australia was produced until 2000. Separate news update services for Darwin were introduced in 2005 before being merged withupdates for remote Australia into one service in 2013 – the updates were later separated in 2018. The shared three-minute short news updates throughout the day are broadcast on ITQ/QQQ serving remote areas and TND in Darwin, presented from studios in Launceston.