Tim Hatfield (Anchor of Southern Cross News SA) has over the last couple of weeks been doing “LIVE” Facebook updates (using Facebook live stream). This has seen him taking viewers around the Southern Cross Television Centre and giving a backstage tour. Today was the playout centre responsible for the playout of all Southern Cross owned and managed channels. Well worth checking out.
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Southern Cross (GTS/BKN) is tonight running a webathon/telethon for its give me 5 for kids campaign. Tim Hatfield is hosting. running updates during ad breaks of Thursday Night Footy.
They hardly did much branding didn’t they? It’s only really the SC7 stations that have full SC branding but even those are getting more and more 7’s slipped in but I reckon they’re from the network feed. I wonder if that will ever change too and they become a 7 since they’re ditching their own branding for everywhere else with 9 and 10. Saves them a bit of money that way.
Really, apart from the odd logo slipping through Southern Cross Ten really took all Ten branding with not much SC at all. That is because before SC bought the Ten stations in QLD, NNSW, SNSW and VIC they were all just “Ten” so in effect they kept it that way
I think the difference is in Tasmania and regional SA the DC brand actually has value. One of the reasons SC is so dominant in Tasmania is the Local
Brand ties and heritage
I certainly see it eventually going away to become just "7"
But not just yet
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Outside of the mandated “2 Minute Chicken Noodle” Local News Updates, Community Service Announcements and the very occasional Lineup or Ident, Southern Cross Ten in Northern NSW (and probably all markets) was/is basically branded as Channel Ten for most intents and purposes from what I’ve seen.
I agree that sooner or later, the Seven-affiliated Southern Cross stations will most likely just take Seven Network branding despite the fact that Southern Cross is actually a strong network-independent TV brand in markets like Tasmania.
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Odd question, but does anyone know which 7 News bulletin SCA is airing on their Darwin station?
When I last visited Darwin 4 years ago, SCTV were airing 7 News Melbourne on 30 minute (winter) or 90 minute (summer) delay.
But i’ve noticed during the Olympics that their TV guide is only showing a 30 minute bulletin.
Is it possible they’re showing 7 News Adelaide at the moment? Or would they be airing a cut down Melbourne bulletin?
Whats the link for the SCTV tas livestream that was on some tv stream website??
SCTV Darwin has two local weekly productions, it seems, The Scoop (3:00 mins) and Around Palmerston (2:00 mins). They are ok, even though they are advertorials. A pity that SCA can’t expand that out and put together a weekly Weekender type program.
SCTV post the episodes of The Scoop and Around Palmerston on their Facebook page.
https://m.facebook.com/SouthernCrossTelevisionNT/
Is there enough happening in Darwin to fill in a full half-hour?? 
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I wonder if SCTV tasmania will ever get their main channel in HD like the mainland cities. Now we have Nine HD(TDT), Ten HD(Win), seven HD content is seriously lacking. We also don’t have the 7flix channel either or 9life.
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Not overly confident with 9Life being broadcast back in the state again to be honest. Southern Cross going HD is unlikely to happen either IMO (or if it does it will be quite some time away). 7Flix is probably more likely out of three though.
Speaking of, this scroller appears during Saturday Disney at the moment (sad that the show will finish in a couple of weeks time after 26 years! Great memories waking up early every weekend to watch it.).
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What HD channel does TDT broadcast across Tasmania? 7mate?
Why would they not change it to Southern Cross instead - and have the more popular network in HD
I had someone ask me again the other day when 9Life would be here since mid-August had now passed. WIN don’t like to talk about it and just direct people to Southern Cross but I haven’t seen anybody hassle them yet. I don’t think we’ll see it again unfortunately.
I’ll have to switch from ABC Kids to Southern Cross then, I haven’t watched Saturday Disney for years but I remember when it all started, even if it was never as good as Howie the Yowie and the Saturday Morning Fun Show.
TDT has 9HD in HD and Southern Cross have 7mate in HD.
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Why wouldn’t SC run SC in HD instead of 7mate
SC in tasmania is the highest rated tv station in Australia
Then they’d have to get rid of 7mate.
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Why can’t they do what Melbourne does?
7mate in SD
7 in HD
Because Seven has the extra equipment to broadcast all their channels, whereas SCTV makes do with what they have, like Prime/GWN.
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