ATN-7 - The Studios and Transmission Tower

ATN-7 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 Fairfax, was one of the first four licenses (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 2 December 1956. The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9, so as a result the sta ...

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• ATN-7 - The Studios and Transmission Tower
• ATN-7 - Digital and Analog Broadcasts
• ATN-7 - Epping Site Satellite Links
• ATN-7 - Program Production
• ATN-7 - First Australian Company to Receive Emmy Awards
• ATN-7 - Relocation

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The station opened in 1956 with principal offices and studios located at Mobbs Lane, Epping (a suburb about 12 kilometers NW of Sydney). The initial black and white cameras and other equipment was supplied by the Marconi Company of England. Conversion to PAL colour occurred in 1974/75. Digital DVB-T 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 replacement by a higher tower at nearby Artarmon, which was joint venture in 19 ...

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ATN-7, ATN-7 - The Studios and Transmission Tower, ATN-7 - Digital and Analog Broadcasts, ATN-7 - Epping Site Satellite Links, ATN-7 - Program Production, ATN-7 - First Australian Company to Receive Emmy Awards, ATN-7 - Relocation

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In 1983, one of the first full-time commercial TV satellite links was established between Los Angeles and Sydney using the mid-pacific Intelsat satellite. This was unique for what was known as a half transponder link, as it carried 2 NTSC TV programs each with stereo sound and data. (Comsat pretested this at their Clarksberg MA center). The video was multiplexed using Thomson "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 in Los Angeles and then nort ...

See also:

ATN-7, ATN-7 - The Studios and Transmission Tower, ATN-7 - Digital and Analog Broadcasts, ATN-7 - Epping Site Satellite Links, ATN-7 - Program Production, ATN-7 - First Australian Company to Receive Emmy Awards, ATN-7 - Relocation

Read more here: » ATN-7: Encyclopedia II - ATN-7 - Epping Site Satellite Links

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 Transmitters Australia (TXA) at Artarmon and/or Willoughby. Retransmission translators to UHF channels service Sydney viewers from Kings Cross and North Head at Manly and north of Sydney at Bouddi, Gosford and Forrester's Beach (see the Digital Broadcast Australia (DBA) web site. The on-air programs are sent by digital link from the Seven Network's nati ...

See also:

ATN-7, ATN-7 - The Studios and Transmission Tower, ATN-7 - Digital and Analog Broadcasts, ATN-7 - Epping Site Satellite Links, ATN-7 - Program Production, ATN-7 - First Australian Company to Receive Emmy Awards, ATN-7 - Relocation

Read more here: » ATN-7: Encyclopedia II - ATN-7 - Digital and Analog Broadcasts