TND-34
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TND-34 is the call-sign for the Southern Cross Television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. The station, created in 1998 as Seven Darwin and broadcasting to the greater Darwin region, home to about 100 000 people, is owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting (SCB). Its main competitor is the incumbent Nine Network station, NTD-8.
As Seven Darwin, TND-34 existed as essentially a carbon copy of SCB's remote Australia satellite service Seven Central, except displaying localized ads, inserted in SCB's Townsville, Queensland studios, and delivered to Darwin via Optus Trans-continental Fibre Optic cable. News is drawn from Seven Brisbane.
Since 2005, the station holds dual affiliations with the Seven Network and Network Ten, after picking up the Ten affiliation relinquished by NTD-8. At this time, Seven Darwin changed its name to Southern Cross Darwin. Its logo to the same one that, at the time, had been recently unveiled on Southern Cross Tasmania (and has since been used on Southern Cross GTS/BKN). Like its Tasmanian sister station, the Seven Network affiliation remains the primary one. The Network Ten affiliation is, in time, expected to be dropped from Southern Cross Darwin and given to a digital-only third channel (such as those found in Tasmania and Mildura), as proposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority Template:Ref.
Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34, Seven Central remains as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia.
References
Template:Note Australian Communications and Media Authority (2005-12-23). ACMA sets a designated time for a third commercial television service in Darwin. Retrieved on 2006-01-28.Template:Australia-bcast-stub