TEN (TV station)
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TEN is the callsign of Network Ten's flagship Sydney television station. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited (UTSL), and began transmission on 5 April 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic.
History
TEN often lagged in the ratings behind the more established commercial channels TCN (Nine) and ATN (Seven) who had dominated viewing habits in Sydney for eight years. The turning point came in 1972 with the premiere of the raunchy soap opera series Number 96 which immediately lifted TEN's overall profile and helped raise the ailing network to #1 position by 1973.
TEN launched Australia's first metropolitan nightly one hour news bulletin in 1975, which continues today. NBN-3 in Newcastle was first to air a one-hour news service in Australia in 1972. In 1978, Katrina Lee became only the third female TV newsreader on Australian TV - the first being Melody Illiffe on QTQ-9. The current newsreaders are Bill Woods and Deborah Knight.
TEN performed strongly in the 1980s, highlighted by the broadcast of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, top rated game show Perfect Match, Eyewitness News and early high ratings for acquired serial Neighbours starting in 1986. However a decline set in from 1987, when the station, along with ATV-0 in Melbourne, was bought by Frank Lowy's Westfield Group. In 1989, falling ratings and revenue prompted a major relaunch by American TV executive Bob Shanks. The station (and entire network) were rebranded as 10 TV Australia in 1989, however this did little to help Ten's fortunes with the network soon going into receivership. The network began to be turned around in 1991 under the control of Gary Rice, and was relaunced with a new logo and brand, The Entertainment Network. This logo continues to this day. In 1992, Westpac Bank bought Ten out of receivership and later sold the network to a consortium headed by Canadian group CanWest. In 1994, The network was managed in receivership and it was in this period that it sold its North Ryde studios and moved to the city in at a warehouse in Ultimo. TEN-10 began a slow and steady recovery, to the point where now, as the flagship station in the network, TEN-10 is the most profitable of the three Sydney commercial stations.
Studio Facilities
TEN-10's broadcast facilities have been in the inner city suburb of Pyrmont since 1997. These studios feature a large open plan newsroom and news-set where all Ten's national and local Sydney news bulletins are produced. This facility is also the network's head office and broadcasts the network signal to other cities. When TEN-10 opened in 1965, it operated from newly built studio facilities at North Ryde, these were sold in the 1990s when the network underwent financial turmoil. The North Ryde complex, which was used by Global Television in recent years, was demolished in September 2007. Following the move from North Ryde in 1990, TEN relocated to a small warehouse in Ultimo, followed by their final move to the new studios in Pyrmont in May 1997. All non-news productions such as Australian Idol are outsourced to third party studios, such as Fox Studios.
- North Ryde (1965-March 1991)
- Ultimo (March 1991-May 1997)
- Pyrmont (May 1997-present)
Station slogans
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Programming
Networked programming
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News and Current Affairs
Ten News at Five: Sydney is presented by Bill Woods and Deborah Knight from the station's Pyrmont studios. Sport is presented by Brad McEwan and weather by Tim Bailey. The bulletin also includes traffic updates presented by Vic Lorusso.
The bulletin was presented for almost eleven years by Ron Wilson and Jessica Rowe, between 1996 and 2005, when Rowe moved to present the Nine Network's Today. She was replaced by the network's US correspondent Deborah Knight from 2006. Substitute presenters include: Ron Wilson (News), Tim Webster (News/Sport), Sandra Sully (News), Neil Cordy, Rob Canning, Nicole Livingstone, Victoria Murphy (Sport), Emily Rice, Frank Coletta, Matt Doran, Angela Bishop and Dr Chris Brown (weather).
On Good Friday, Easter Monday (state-based news), Christmas Day and Boxing Day, every city receives this news bulletin.
Reporters
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News Presentation
Newscast Titles
- Television News (early 1970s)
- Ten Eyewitness News (mid 1970s-1988)
- Ten News (1988-1989)
- Eyewitness News (1989-1990)
- Ten Morning News (1990-1991)
- Ten Evening News (1990-1991)
- Ten Eyewitness News (1991-1995)
- Ten News First at Five (1995-2006)
- Ten News Five (2007)
- Ten News at Five (2008-present)