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overview
holdings
landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1897
WR Rolph buys Launceston Examiner
1945 Hector Crawford Productions founded as radio program
production house
1954 becomes Crawford Productions Pty Ltd
1959 Examiner gains one of Tasmania's two television
licences, forms Northern TV Ltd
Northern TV
1962 Northern TV's TNT-9 Launceston launched
1960 TVT-6 Hobart launched
1962 BTV-6 Ballarat launched
1962 DDQ-10 Toowoomba launched
1963 RTQ-7 Rockhampton launched
TWT
1963 Television Wollongong Transmission Ltd (TWT) Wollongong
tv station launched by Rupert Murdoch
1965 STV8 Mildura launched
1965 Northern TV Ltd and Examiner Newspaper Pty Ltd merge
as Examiner-Northern TV Ltd (ENT)
1966 SES-8 Mt Gambier launched
1972 Murdoch buys 46% stake in Sydney Channel Ten
station, sells Wollongong station
1976 RTS-5 Riverland launched
Gordon takeover
1979 Bruce Gordon acquires control of TWT
1982 ENT buys TVT-6 Hobart
1982
Hector Crawford sells 40% of Crawford Productions to Herald
& Weekly Times (H&WT) and 10% to Gordon &
Gotch
1985 ENT buys Melbourne radio station 3UZ for $9.2m
1986 Herald & Weekly Times buys Hobart Mercury
1987 Murdoch gains control of H&WT for $1.8bn
1987 Hector Crawford sells his 50% stake in Crawford Productions,
Murdoch sells H&WT's 50% stake to Skase's
Qintex
1988 ENT sells Channel 9 Launceston for $40m
1988 buys Associated Broadcasting Services Ltd in Victoria
for $76 million (inc BTV-6 Ballarat, GMV-6 Goulbourn Valley,
40% interest in film/video distributor Filmpac Holdings
Ltd, and Victorian radio stations 3SR and 3UL)
1988 ENT sells 3SR and 3UL for $9.5m
1988 adds four radio stations in California and two in
Oregon to 7EX Launceston and 7HT Hobart
1988 DDQ-10 Toowoomba and RTQ-7 Rockhampton form Vision
TV
1989 Rouse bribery case
1989 Bruce Gordon’s Oberon Broadcasters buys Crawford
Productions
1989 Sunraysia Television buys STW-9 from receivers of
Bond Media
1989 ENT buys Sunraysia's STV Mildura for $18m
1990 ENT sells Examiner to Rural
Press group (60%) and Harris & Co (Burnie Advocate)
for $28m
1990 Vision TV becomes Star Television
1990 Gordon buys Star Television
1991 buys out other shareholders in WIN
expansion
1994 ENT buys 20% stake in Sunraysia
1994 WIN Television buys ENT for around $90m
1995 establishes Broadcast Transmission Services (BTS)
1995 unsuccessful bid to take over Sunraysia
1998 buys MTN-9 and MTN-31 Griffith
1999 buys SES-8 Mt Gambier and RTS5 Riverland
1999 establishes 60 transmitters across Western Australia
2005 buys 5% of TEN for $77m
2007 PBL Media announces it will
acquire 100% of Channel Nine Perth for $136.4m
2007 WIN agrees to buy Adelaide Channel 9 from Southern
Cross Broadcasting for $105m
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