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Seven Network
TypeBroadcast television network
Country
Australia
AvailabilityMetropolitan and Regional Australia
Founded1963 as Australian Television Network
27.1% Nationally [1], 2005 Ratings Season
OwnerKerry Stokes
Launch date
1956 as HSV-7 & ATN-7
1963 as Australian Televison Network
CallsignsATN-7 Sydney
HSV-7 Melbourne
BTQ-7 Brisbane
SAS-7 Adelaide
TVW-7 Perth
Official website
www.yahoo7.com.au

The Seven Network (ASX: SEV) is an Australian television network. It has the distinction of owning stations with a combined population coverage greater than any other free to air network in Australia. Its parent company and namesake has, in recent years, grown into a diversified media company. Seven's main shareholder is Kerry Stokes, who also owns Australian Capital Equity and subsidiaries such as heavy equipment supplier Westrac.

The network's headquarters are in a converted warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, Sydney. Its news headquarters is in Martin Place, Sydney and its major production facility is at Epping in Sydney's northern suburbs. The broadcast signal for the network arises from the digital broadcast centre in the Melbourne docklands.

For all of its history, Seven has been in constant rivalry with the Nine Network and shall continue to be into the foreseeable future.

History

The network originated as an alliance of stations owned and operated by Fairfax (in Sydney) and The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd (in Melbourne).

The Melbourne station was sold to Fairfax following Murdoch's takeover of H&WT; Fairfax in turn relinquished ownership of the Sydney and Melbourne flagships through the disastrous privatisation by Warwick Fairfax Jr.

The buyer was the Qintex group, controlled by colourful entrepreneur Christopher Skase, a former Australian Financial Review journalist who had leveraged ownership of a small mining company to acquire specialist retail assets (eg the upmarket jeweller Hardy Bros) and then move into property development, notably the three Mirage resorts in Queensland and Hawaii.

Qintex had a station in Brisbane, which was sold in order to acquire the Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane stations. After that, it purchased the stations in Adelaide & Perth.

Qintex collapsed ingloriously after an unsuccessful takeover of MGM/UA, the Hollywood studio that has been recurrently bought and sold by Kirk Kerkorian.

Court Convictions

Convictions have been recorded against Channel Seven for broadcasting an inflammatory story on n the nightly news and on the Today Tonight and Sunrise programs the following day about a 14-year-old boy when they breached the law by broadcasting a story about a boy they said was trying to divorce his parents.D espite repeated warnings from government authorities and the head of the Children's Court the programs identified the teenager.David Koch, Melissa Doyle and Naomi Robson was cleared of responsibility when it was decided that they were not in control of what was broadcasted but the executive producer was responsible.

Magistrate Lisa Hannan imposed convictions against Channel Seven but not the individual news directors and editors due to their previous good character.

The Magistrate put the corporations on a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered them to donate $50,000 to charities for homeless people although seven said that they will be appealing against the conviction.[1]

Assets

While originally focusing on running a television network, Seven has recently diversified into a range of other media areas over the past decade. Below are some of the businesses it has run, or is involved with:

Current

Past

On Air

Entertainment

Seven has traditionally been the #2 television network in Australia, trailing Channel Nine but above Network Ten. In 2005 Seven has had a ratings resurgence after a disastrous 2004 with assistance from the following American programs:

Oddly enough, Seven won back market share on the back of Desperate Housewives and Lost, the same shows ABC used in America to gain back a top slot in the ratings.

Seven is also renowned for producing top rating Australian productions, some of which include:

For full list of Seven programs see:

Sport

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The Seven Network was once a major player in Australian sports broadcasting. In 2001 the network ended a 40-year run as AFL football broadcaster when Nine and Ten jointly won the television rights.

On January 5 2006, the Australian Football League conditionally accepted a bid from Seven and Ten to broadcast AFL games from 2007 - 2011. The success of the bid depends on Seven and Ten meeting the strict demands of the AFL set in the Nine Network's original bid. This may be rather more difficult than many people understand as it involves Seven and Ten finding a Pay TV partner. ESPN had been brought up as a Pay-TV partner in the Seven-Ten deal, however whether if they expressed interest is unclear. Due to the fact that PBL (Nine Network) owns 25% of Foxtel, it will be rather difficult for a deal to occur which would satisy both companies. They have until 4 May 2006, otherwise the AFL will award the rights back to Nine.

Channel Seven holds the broadcast rights to the following events:

News

The Seven Network's news service is called Seven News. Seven News produces the following bulletins/programs:

Seven News also assist in production of:

Callsigns

Callsigns for Seven Network stations in the capital cities:

The Seven Network also owns Seven Queensland, which covers the Regional Queensland market. This market covers the east coast of the state, except for South East Queensland.

Affiliates

Seven Network programming is also carried by the following affiliate networks:

Southern Cross

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  • Seven Darwin - Darwin
  • Seven Central - Remote Central and Eastern Australia
  • Southern Cross Television - Tasmania (non-exclusive)
  • Central - Spencer Gulf (non-exclusive)
  • Central - Remote South Australia (non-exclusive)
  • Central - Broken Hill (non-exclusive)

Prime

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  • Prime - Northern New South Wales
  • Prime - Southern New South Wales
  • Prime - Victoria
  • GWN - Western Australia

WIN Television

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  • Prime - Griffith (WIN owns both commercial broadcasters in Griffith - one carries their own programming, the other is a feed from Prime Television)

Slogans

  • 1970: "The Seven Revolution"
  • 1971-72: "Looking Good"
  • 1972-73: "Something Special"
  • 1975: "Seven Colour Telvision" (March-August 1975)
  • 1975: "Seven Colours Your World" (September-December 1975)
  • 1976-79: "The Colour Machine"
  • 1980: "You're on Seven"
  • 1980-81: "A Part of You"
  • 1982: "Take a Bow" (HSV-7)
  • 1983: "Just Watch Us NOW!" (based on NBC's promo slogan "Just Watch Us Now")
  • 1983: "Be There" (HSV-7) (again, based on NBC's one)
  • 1984: "Sevensational" (HSV-7)
  • 1984-88: "Love You Perth/Brisbane" (TVW-7/BTQ-7)
  • 1985: "Let's All Be There" (borrowed from NBC slogan)
  • 1985-86, 1988: "Hello Melbourne" (HSV-7)
  • 1987: "Say Hello!" (HSV-7/ADS-7)
  • 1989: "Only the Best on 7"
  • 1990: "The Place to Be"
  • 1991: "In the Mood"
  • 1994-96: "Discover It All"
  • 1997-98: "Everyone's Home"
  • 1999-2003: "The One to Watch"
  • 2003/04: "Lucky Seven"
  • 2005-: "Gotta Love It"

References

^ - "National" refers to the main five metropolitan markets. Shares represents free to air audience share from 6:00pm to 12:00am. Data gathered and published by OzTAM. OZTam


  1. ^ Seven news boss claims show trial in contempt case, The Australian, May 17, 2006
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