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ATN is the Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 flagship
Flagship

A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the most well known....
 television station
Television station

A television station is a type of broadcast station that Broadcastings both sound and video to television receiver s in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television....
 of the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was one of the first four licenses (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 2 December 1956.

The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9
GTV-9

GTV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia owned by the Nine Network. It was the primary commercial television stations in Melbourne, and amongst the first to begin transmission in Australia....
 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content.






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ATN is the Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 flagship
Flagship

A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the most well known....
 television station
Television station

A television station is a type of broadcast station that Broadcastings both sound and video to television receiver s in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television....
 of the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was one of the first four licenses (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 2 December 1956.

The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9
GTV-9

GTV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia owned by the Nine Network. It was the primary commercial television stations in Melbourne, and amongst the first to begin transmission in Australia....
 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer
Frank Packer

Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, Order of the British Empire , was an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine network....
 ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9
TCN-9

TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby, New South Wales. The license, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
, so as a result the stations switched their previous affiliations. ATN-7 and HSV-7
HSV-7

HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia....
 joined to create the Australian Television Network, which later became the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
.

The studios and transmission tower

The station opened in 1956 with principal offices and studios located at Mobbs Lane, Epping
Epping, New South Wales

Epping is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Epping is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australias of the City of Ryde, the City of Parramatta and Hornsby Shire and is considered to be part of the Northern Suburbs ....
 (a suburb about 12 kilometres north west of Sydney). The initial black and white cameras and other equipment was supplied by the Marconi Company
Marconi Company

The Marconi Company Ltd. was founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company . It was renamed Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900 and The Marconi Company in 1963....
 of England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Conversion to PAL
PAL

PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a color-encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. Other common analog television systems are SECAM and NTSC....
 colour occurred on 1 March 1975. Digital DVB-T
DVB-T

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting ?? Terrestrial; it is the Digital Video Broadcasting European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television....
 commenced on January 1, 2001.

The initial transmission tower in 1956 was located near the ABC tower at Gore Hill, Sydney. This was eventually demolished after ATN was invited to share a new site at Artarmon which was built by a new 3rd, commercial broadcaster TEN-10
TEN-10

TEN is the callsign of Network Ten's flagship Sydney television station. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited , and began transmission on 5 April, 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic....
.

Digital and analog broadcasts

ATN's Sydney transmissions - both DVB-T terrestrial digital and analog PAL - are on VHF RF Channels 6 and 7 respectively and are broadcast from masts operated by (TXA) at Artarmon
Artarmon, New South Wales

Artarmon is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Artarmon is located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Willoughby....
 and/or Willoughby
Willoughby, New South Wales

Willoughby is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Willoughby is located 8 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Willoughby....
. Retransmission translators to UHF
Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency designates a range of Electromagnetic radiation waves with frequency between 300 megahertz and 3 gigahertz . Also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from ten to one decimetres....
 channels service Sydney viewers from Kings Cross
Kings Cross, New South Wales

Kings Cross is an inner-city locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney....
 and North Head at Manly
Manly, New South Wales

Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the Local Government Areas in Australia of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region....
 and north of Sydney at Bouddi
Bouddi, New South Wales

Bouddi is a coastal south-eastern List of Central Coast suburbs of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located within the City of Gosford Local Government Areas of New South Wales....
, Gosford
Gosford, New South Wales

Gosford is a city located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80km north of the Sydney central business district....
 and Forresters Beach
Forresters Beach, New South Wales

Forresters Beach is a coastal List of Central Coast suburbs of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located between Terrigal, New South Wales and Bateau Bay, New South Wales....
 (see the ) web site.

The on-air programs are sent by digital link from the Seven Network's national program play-out centre at Docklands in Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
.

Epping site satellite links

In 1983, one of the first full-time commercial TV satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 links was established between Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
 and Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 using the mid-Pacific Intelsat
Intelsat

Intelsat, Ltd. is the world?s largest commercial satellite communications services provider. Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services....
 satellite. This was unique for what was known as a half transponder link, as it carried 2 NTSC-M TV programs each with stereo sound and data. (Comsat pretested this at their Clarksberg MA center). The video was multiplexed using Thomson
Thomson

Thomson may refer to:...
 "Vidiplex", and the audio and data equipment was from Wegener. The various news and other programs were fed out of Seven's News Bureau at Century City
Century City, Los Angeles, California

Century City is a 176 acre commercial and residential district on the West Los Angeles of the Los Angeles, CA. It is bounded by Westwood, Los Angeles, California on the west, Rancho Park, Los Angeles, California on the southwest, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, California and Beverlywood, Los Angeles, California on the southeast, and the...
 in Los Angeles and then north to a Comsat satellite earth station at Santa Paula.

Because in 1983 the satellite power was very limited, a receive satellite dish (TVRO) for east-coast Australia needed to be in the order of 18 metres diameter. An alternative of two 12 metre dishes ("C-band" with Gregorian feed-horn from Andrews), were installed at the Epping site. The signals received from the two dishes were electronically combined so that the signal was equivalent to an 18 metre dish's reception. Later when replacement satellites with higher powers were placed in orbit, the two dishes were used independently on different satellites. Other innovations such as analogue video noise reduction were also used to improve the signal.

One of the TV programs carried was CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
. This was the first international transmission of CNN outside North America. In 1984 TV Asahi
TV Asahi

, also known as EX and , is a television Television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials....
 in Tokyo contracted to also receive CNN via the Iberaki earth station operated by Japan's KDD Corporation (Kokusai Denshin Denwa - now (KDDI
KDDI

is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed in October 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp.KDDI provides mobile cellular services using both the "au " brand....
). After ATN's engineering staff assisted KDD and TV Asahi with the special receiving adaptors, CNN was distributed on Japan Cable TV which mainly served the Roppongi district of Tokyo, including many foreign consolates and embassies. This first international distribution of CNN was formally opened by Ted Turner
Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an United States media proprietor. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel....
, CNN's then owner.

Subsequently, in 1986, a 13 metre Vertex "Ku-band" dish was added for Australian Television Network program distribution via the new Aussat satellite.

Program production

The Epping facilities were expanded to provide five operational studios and the centre became the largest producer of Australian produced TV content, including Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)

Wheel of Fortune was an Australia television game show, produced by Reg Grundy Organisation. It aired on the Seven Network from 1981 to 2004 and 2006....
, Sons and Daughters
Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)

Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It screened on the Seven Network in an early evening timeslot, running from December 1981 until 1987....
, A Country Practice
A Country Practice

A Country Practice was one of the longest-running Australian television drama series. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993....
, All Saints
All Saints (TV series)

All Saints: Medical Response Unit is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama which airs on the Seven Network. The programme debuted on February 24, 1998 as All Saints and has become one of Australia's highest-rating dramas....
 and Home and Away
Home and Away

Home and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered on 17 January 1988, and is now one of the longest-running series on Australian television and won 34 Logie Awards since 1988....
.

News and live telecasted programs are filmed and broadcast from the Martin Place
Martin Place, Sydney

Martin Place is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate Australia....
 studios. Nationwide program promos for the network and Home and Away are produced and filmed from the Epping studios.

The Epping studios are expected to close in 2010 when new studio facilities currently under construction open at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern.

RaceCam

ATN's engineering staff received two Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
s - making ATN the first Australian company to receive such an award - for the technology, invention and further development of RaceCam
RaceCam

RaceCam is a Professional video camera system used primarily in motor racing, which utilizes a network of car-mounted cameras, microwave radio transmitters, and Relay from helicopters to send live images from inside a race car to both pit crews and television audiences....
, live mobile point-of-view TV cameras which were initially developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the station's coverage of touring car
Touring car racing

Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, and Australia....
 races at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
. Visiting commentators from the United States organised for ATN staff to supply the camera and transmission systems for CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
' coverage of NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 races.

A variant of RaceCam was also developed for yachts in the America's Cup
America's Cup

The America?s Cup is the most prestigious regatta and match race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, predating the Summer Olympics by 45 years....
 off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle, Western Australia

Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia, located southwest of Perth, Western Australia, the state capital, at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia's western coast....
, in 1985. Later in the mid 1980s, the American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
 asked ATN staff to develop aerofoil-designed cameras suitable for Formula 1 cars, and these were subsequently used at the Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
.

Relocation

In 2004 the station was included with the shift of the Seven Network corporate offices and sales department into new premises in a "heritage" building at Pirrama Road, Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales

Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Sydney....
, close to the Sydney CBD
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
, while the news department shifted into a street level location in Sydney's Martin Place. In June 2006, the network announced that the Epping studio site will close and facilities would be relocated to purpose-built studios at the Australian Technology Park
Australian Technology Park

The Australian Technology Park is a business and technology centre in Eveleigh, New South Wales, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia....
 in Redfern
Redfern, New South Wales

Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Redfern is located 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Sydney....
 by 2010.

  • Epping
    Epping, New South Wales

    Epping is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Epping is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australias of the City of Ryde, the City of Parramatta and Hornsby Shire and is considered to be part of the Northern Suburbs ....
     (1956-2010, now shared with Seven Local TV)
  • Martin Place (2004-present, news/variety)
  • Pyrmont
    Pyrmont, New South Wales

    Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Sydney....
     (corporate offices)


Seven Martin Place


The Seven Network's Martin Place
Martin Place, Sydney

Martin Place is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate Australia....
 studios, referred to on-air as News Central and based on the first five floors of The Colonial Building in Sydney are the main news presentation studios from where national news bulletins, Seven News Sydney, Sunrise
Sunrise (TV program)

Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise are Australian breakfast television programs, broadcast on Channel Seven. On weekdays the program follows Seven News#Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am....
, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show
The Morning Show (TV program)

The Morning Show is a high rating Australian morning talk show that premiered on the Seven Network on 18 June 2007. The show airs between 9am and 11.30am weekdays and follows its predecessor and spin-off breakfast news program, Sunrise , both closely interlinked....
 and Today Tonight
Today Tonight

Today Tonight is an Australian tabloid current affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
 are broadcast. Comprising of 3,000 square metres, viewers and tourists can see programs being broadcast from the street level studio. The network claims that the Martin Place facilities are one of the most technologically advanced digital television centres in the world.

Seven News

Seven News Sydney is presented from the network's national television studios
ATN-7

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings, was one of the first four licenses to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia....
 at Martin Place
Martin Place, Sydney

Martin Place is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate Australia....
, by Ian Ross
Ian Ross (news)

Ian Ross is the presenter of Seven News#Sydney in Sydney. Commonly known as "Roscoe", Ross began his career in 1957 at Sydney radio station 2GB....
 from Sundays to Wednseday and Chris Bath
Chris Bath

Chris Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the anchor of Sydney's 6:00pm Seven News bulletin on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and of new Seven current affiars program Sunday Night ....
 from Thursday to Saturday. Alex Cullen
Alex Cullen

For the Australian sports presenter, see Alex Cullen Alex Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a current member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end....
 and Sara Groen
Sara Groen

Sara Groen is an Australian actress and television presenter....
 present weekday sport and weather, while on weekends sport is presented by tba, but Kylie Gillies
Kylie Gillies

Kylie Gillies is a presenter for the Seven Network based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Gillies was born in Tamworth, New South Wales where she worked as a reporter, producer and newsreader for Prime Television....
 and Johanna Griggs
Johanna Griggs

Johanna Griggs is a former swimmer and current television presenter from Australia. Griggs represented Australia at the 1990 Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke but her career was cut short after a lengthy battle with chronic fatigue syndrome....
 have been rotating on weekend sport.

News updates for Sydney are presented by either Ian Ross or Chris Bath throughout the afternoon and the early evening, with updates during the night being shown nationally.

At the end of 2003, a year before all of Channel 7's news and current affairs moved to Martin Place, the ill-fated dual presenter format of Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds

Ross Symonds is a former news presenter for the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1970s until the early 2000s.Symonds began his career with ABC Radio in Brisbane in his teenage years, and then went to Sydney with ABC radio and television to become ABC's Senior National News Presenter....
 and Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders

Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter. She is currently the anchor of the Seven Network's national 11:30am news bulletin Seven News....
 was abandoned after the pair failed to make an impact in the Sydney market, losing viewers to competition winner National Nine News Sydney
National Nine News

Nine News is the news service of the Australia Nine Network. Previously known as National Nine News, it has traditionally been the most popular service in the country, however in recent years, the Seven Network's Seven News has become the highest rating evening news service on a national basis....
, which had led in the ratings for decades. After Ian Ross took over from Symonds and Sanders in 2003, Seven News Sydney became the 6pm ratings leader by February 2005.

Presenters

Currently, the Seven News Sydney on-air team consists of the following:

Main anchors
  • Ian Ross (Sundays-Wednesday)
  • Chris Bath (Thursday-Saturday)


Sports presenters
  • Alex Cullen (Weeknights)
  • Johanna Griggs (Weekends)


Weather presenters
  • Sara Groen (Weeknights)
  • Monique Wright (Weekends)


Fill-in presenters News
  • Chris Reason
  • Samantha Armytage
Sport
  • Kylie Gillies
Weather
  • Fifi Box


Programming


Current productions

  • Seven Early News
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
     c/w *Sunrise (both now sponsored by Sony BMG, Jetstar and Nissan)
  • The Morning Show (now sponsored by Jetstar)
  • Weekend Sunrise (both now sponsored by Sony BMG, Jetstar and Nissan)
  • Seven Morning News
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
  • Seven Afternoon News
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
  • Seven Late News Updates
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
  • Sunday Night
  • Today Tonight
    Today Tonight

    Today Tonight is an Australian tabloid current affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
  • Home and Away
    Home and Away

    Home and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered on 17 January 1988, and is now one of the longest-running series on Australian television and won 34 Logie Awards since 1988....
  • Sydney Weekender
    Sydney Weekender

    Sydney Weekender is a travel show featuring destinations throughout New South Wales, and airs on Seven Network in New South Wales, Australia....
  • Packed to the Rafters
    Packed to the Rafters

    Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-orientated comedy-drama television series, which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday August 26, 2008 at 8:30 pm....
  • All Saints
    All Saints (TV series)

    All Saints: Medical Response Unit is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama which airs on the Seven Network. The programme debuted on February 24, 1998 as All Saints and has become one of Australia's highest-rating dramas....
  • It's Academic
    It's Academic (Australian game show)

    It's Academic is an Australian children's game show airing on the Seven Network. The show is based on the long-running United States version of It's Academic, and pits students from different schools against each other in a test of knowledge covering a number of diverse subjects including English language, mathematics, science, geogra...


Former Sydney productions

  • All Music Video
    AMV (television program)

    AMV was a music video show broadcast by the Seven Network between 2000 and 2002. It aired between 7AM and 9AM every weekday morning, following the hour-long Sunrise news bulletin ....
     (2000-2001)
  • Last Chance Learners
    Last Chance Learners

    Last Chance Learners is an Australian television program which was created by the Seven Network. The show gives ten learner drivers the chance to be trained by an experienced driving instructor and the opportunity to take their drivers licence test and win a brand new Hyundai Getz....
     (2007)
  • Popstars
    Popstars

    Popstars is an international reality television program and a precursor to the Pop Idol series. The series first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the five member all-girl group TrueBliss....
     (2000-2002)
  • Always Greener
    Always Greener

    Always Greener was an Australian television drama/comedy series that aired on the Seven Network which followed the fortunes of two families, one from the city and the other from the country, when they decide to switch homes and start a new direction in life for themselves....
     (2001-2003)
  • Big Bite
    Big Bite

    'Big Bite' was an Australian sketch comedy broadcast on the Seven Network in an evening timeslot. The cast included Chris Lilley , later of We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year and Andrew O'Keefe, who would go on to fame as host of the Seven Network's Deal or No Deal , Dragons' Den, The Rich List and Weeken...
     (2003-2004)
  • Better Homes and Gardens (1995-2005)
  • Fast Forward (1989-1992)
  • Full Frontal
    Full Frontal (TV series)

    Full Frontal was an Australian sketch comedy series which debuted in 1993. The show first aired on the Seven Network on May 13, 1993, and finished on September 22, 1997....
     (1993-1997)
  • Sportsworld
    Sportsworld

    For the American sports anthology series, see Sportsworld . See Sports World for the sporting goods retailer.Sportsworld was an Australia Sunday morning sports information program shown on Seven Network....
     (2003-2006)
  • Popstars Live
    Popstars Live

    Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It also spawned a spinoff single and album that made the Australian Recording Industry Association charts in April that year....
     (2004)
  • My Restaurant Rules
    My Restaurant Rules

    My Restaurant Rules is an Australian reality television series that aired on the Seven Network. The format also airs in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand and Germany....
     (2004-2005)
  • headLand
    Headland

    A headland is land surrounded by water on three sides.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...
     (2005)
  • You May Be Right (2006)
  • Good As Gold! (2006)
  • The NightCap
    The NightCap

    The NightCap was an Australian television talk show broadcast by Seven HD. It was the first Australian television program to be produced exclusively for a HDTV multichannel....
     (2008)


Logo guide

  • 'ATN Channel 7': 1956 - 1965.
  • 'Spearhead' Logo:1965 - 1969.
  • 'Revoultion' Logo: 1969 - October 1974.
  • 'Rainbow' Logo: October 1974 - 1988.
  • 'Split' Logo: 1989 - 1999.
  • 'Ribbon' Logo: 2000 - 13 September, 2003.
  • 'Red 7' Logo: 14 September, 2003-?


Pre-network logos

ATN-7 used many logos throughout its pre-network history.

Note: Post-network logos can be found at the following article; Seven Network
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Station slogans

  • 1956: "This is ATN Channel 7, Sydney"
  • 1968: "Seven is..."
  • 1974: "Looking Better than Ever"
  • Summer 1978/79: "Summer Fever"
  • 1979: "Seven's Reaching for the Stars"
  • 1980: "Channel 7's Proud in Sydney!" (borrowed elements from NBC's "Proud as a Peacock")
  • 1981-82: "All The Best!" (based on NBC's 1976 slogan)
  • 1982-83: "Just Watch Us Now" (based on NBC's "Just Watch Us Now")
  • 1984: "Be There" (based on NBC's 1983 slogan)
  • 1985-1988: "Let's All Be There" (borrowed from NBC, even though NBC changed slogans in '86)
  • 1986: "Sydney CBD" (used alongside "Let's All Be There")
  • 1986 (Nov.): "Thirty Years Together - Channel 7 and You" (based on WTTG's 1985 ID "Forty Years Together, Channel 5 and You")
  • Summer 1986/87: "Summer is the Time, Seven is the Place" (based on ABC (US)'s "Now is the Time, ABC is the Place")
  • 1987: "You're Invited on a Journey"
  • 2006: "50 Years in Sydney"


See also

  • Television broadcasting in Australia


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