slogan turn on win channels analog see table below digital see table below affiliations ten owner win corporation pty ltd win television tas pty ltd first air date 23 may 1960 call letters meaning television tasmania former affiliations independent 1960 1994 nine network 1994 2016 transmitter power see table below height see table below transmitter coordinates see table below website www.wintv.com.au tvt is the first provincial television station in australia and hobart s and tasmania s first television station delivering its first official broadcast on 23 may 1960 . the callsign stood for television tasmania . initially it broadcast from the mount wellington transmitter on vhf channel 6 to all of hobart . its broadcast licence area covered all of southern tasmania these areas being reached by various repeaters and retransmitters . it continued to broadcast as tvt 6 until 1982 where it was bought by ent owner of launceston station tnt 9 . both stations began broadcasting under the unified on air identity of tastv by 1985 thus becoming for the first time a statewide network . ent also owned vic tv in regional victoria . in 1988 tnt 9 was sold to tricom corporation later southern cross broadcasting leaving tvt 6 continuing to service the south as tastv . and with the dawn of statewwide aggregration rising in the early 1990s tastv began its preparation this time as the nine network broadcaster for the state on the very moment it would restart broadcasts to northern tasmania thanks to aggregration . it adopted nine s idents and campaigns and a new slogan first in tasmania in 1993 and the news service was reconfigured to that of nine s. and indeed it came the biggest change to tasmanian television came in 1994 when aggregation occurred . this allowed both tastv tvt 6 and southern cross tnt 9 to broadcast across the entire state and for the first time give tasmanians a choice of commercial stations . tastv now once again broadcasting all over the state officially confirmed itself as the nine network affiliate and southern cross held dual seven and ten affiliations . in october 1994 win corporation bought ent in a forced takeover and thus tastv became win tasmania the state division of the growing regional network . it still uses the callsign tvt 6 for its hobart and southern tasmania licence . in 2002 win corporation and southern cross broadcasting formed a joint venture company to broadcast a third commercial station tasmanian digital television in a digital only format . on 1 july 2016 as part of a wide national re alignment of regional television tvt swapped affiliations with tdt switching from nine network to network ten but tvt rebroadcasts a feed of atv 10 from melbourne with local ads . contents 1 win news tasmania 1.1 reporters 2 main transmitters 3 references 4 external links win news tasmania edit win news produces an hour long bulletin incorporating national international and regional news seven days a week . win news tasmania is presented by georgia love on weeknights and stephanie anderson at weekends . sports news is presented on weeknights by brent costelloe and at weekends by virginia lette . the bulletin is broadcast from the abc studios in hobart with district newsrooms based in launceston and devonport . weekend bulletins were previously discontinued on sunday 26 june 2011 they were replaced by simulcasts of the melbourne edition of nine news 1 until they were reintroduced on saturday 14 july 2012 . 2 as part of the ten affiliation swap deal win news tasmania moved to 5.30 pm 6.30 pm weeknights & 5.30 pm 6.00 pm weekends launching a new look based on ten eyewitness news . reporters edit nathan motton also bulletin producer hobart brent costelloe hobart alison costelloe hobart stephanie anderson hobart sophie kuryl hobart elizabeth anile hobart jessica amir launceston main transmitters edit region served city channels analog digital first air date erp analog digital haat analog digital 1 transmitter coordinates transmitter location hobart hobart 6 vhf 2 7 vhf 23 may 1960 200 kw 50 kw 1004 m 1004 m 42 53 42 s 147 14 10 e 42.89500 s 147.23611 e 42.89500 ; 147.23611 tvt mount wellington north eastern tasmania launceston 35 uhf 2 50 uhf 30 april 1994 2000 kw 1250 kw 844 m 839 m 41 23 30 s 147 25 36 e 41.39167 s 147.42667 e 41.39167 ; 147.42667 tvt analog 41 23 27 s 147 25 28 e 41.39083 s 147.42444 e 41.39083 ; 147.42444 tvt digital mount barrow notes 1 . haat estimated from http www.itu.int srtm3 using ehaat . 2 . analogue transmission ceased as of 9 april 2013 as part of the national conversion to digital only television references edit win s tassie turn off the mercury 25 june 2011 local bulletins return the mercury 12 july 2012 external links edit australian television archive page on tvt6 television in australia portal v t e win corporation television win television southern nsw act griffith seven griffith nine griffith ten griffith victoria mildura queensland tasmania eastern south australia seven sa nine sa ten sa western australia multichannels win hd gold joint ventures mildura digital television tasmania digital television west digital television other assets i98 c91 .3 crawford productions selectv see also win news v t e television in tasmania tasmania abt abc tnt sctv tdt nine tas tvt win sbs remote areas abt abc qqq sctv imp imparja cdt ten central sbs retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tvt tv station & oldid 731902870 categories television stations in tasmaniawin televisiontelevision stations in hobarttelevision channels and stations established in 1960hidden categories use dmy dates from june 2011use australian english from june 2011all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 july 2016 at 07 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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