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Ticker symbol
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A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both, ticker symbol refers to the symbols that were printed on the ticker tape of a ticker tape machine. Stock symbols are unique identifiers assigned to each security traded on a particular market, for example, AAPL is for Apple Inc. OODH is for Orion DHC, Inc. and HD is for Home Depot, a stock symbol can consist of letters, numbers, or a combination of both, and is a way to uniquely identify that stock. The symbols were kept as short as possible to reduce the number of characters that had to be printed on the ticker tape, the allocation of symbols and formatting convention is specific to each stock exchange. In the US, for example, stock tickers are typically between 1 and 4 letters and represent the name where possible. In Europe, most exchanges use three-letter codes, for example Dutch consumer goods company Unilever traded on the Amsterdam Euronext exchange has the symbol UNA, while in Asia, numbers are often used as stock tickers to avoid issues for international investors when using non-Latin scripts. For example, the bank HSBCs stock traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has the ticker symbol 0005, symbols sometimes change to reflect mergers. Prior to the 1999 merger with Mobil Oil, Exxon used a spelling of the company XON as its ticker symbol. The symbol of the firm after the merger was XOM, symbols are sometimes reused, in the US the single-letter symbols are particularly sought after as vanity symbols. For example, since Mar 2008 Visa Inc. has used the symbol V that had previously used by Vivendi which had delisted. To fully qualify a stock, both the ticker and the exchange or country of listing needs to be known, on many systems both must be specified to uniquely identify the security. This is often done by appending the location or exchange code to the ticker, although stock tickers identify a security, they are exchange dependent, generally limited to stocks and can change. These limitations have led to the development of other codes in financial markets to identify securities for settlement purposes, the most prevalent of these is the International Securities Identifying Number. An ISIN uniquely identifies a security and its structure is defined in ISO6166, Securities for which ISINs are issued include bonds, commercial paper, stocks, and warrants. The ISIN identifies the security, not the exchange on which it trades, for instance, Daimler AG stock trades on twenty-two different stock exchanges worldwide, and is priced in five different currencies, it has the same ISIN on each, though not the same ticker symbol. ISIN cannot specify a particular trade in this case, and another identifier, following the introduction of the Sequence trading platform in 1996, EPICs were renamed Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonics, but they are still widely referred to as EPICs. Stocks can also be identified using their SEDOL number or their ISIN, in the United States, modern letter-only ticker symbols were developed by Standard & Poors to bring a national standard to investing
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Australian Securities Exchange
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Australian Securities Exchange Ltd, or ASX Limited, is an Australian public company that operates Australias primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange. It merged with the Sydney Futures Exchange in 2006, today, ASX has an average daily turnover of A$4.685 billion and a market capitalisation of around A$1.6 trillion, making it one of the worlds top 15 listed exchange groups. ASX Group is an operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It also oversees compliance with its rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australias listed companies. Its primary markets are the AQUA Markets, ASIC also supervises ASXs own compliance as a public company with ASX Listing Rules. ASX Compliance is an ASX subsidiary company that is responsible for monitoring and enforcing ASX-listed companies compliance with the ASX operating rules, the Reserve Bank of Australia has oversight of the ASXs clearing and settlement facilities for financial system stability. The major market index is the S&P/ASX200, a made up of the top 200 shares in the ASX. This supplanted the previously significant All Ordinaries index, which runs parallel to the S&P ASX200. Other indices for the stocks are the S&P/ASX100 and S&P/ASX50. A further exchange in Launceston, Tasmania, merged into the Hobart exchange, in November 1903, the first interstate conference was held to coincide with the Melbourne Cup. The exchanges then met on a basis until 1937 when the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges was established. Over time, the AASE established uniform listing rules, broker rules, Trading was conducted by a call system, where an exchange employee called the names of each company and brokers bid or offered on each. In the 1960s, this changed to a post system, Exchange employees called chalkies wrote bids and offers in chalk on blackboards continuously, and recorded transactions made. The ASX was formed in 1987 by legislation of the Australian Parliament which enabled the amalgamation of six independent stock exchanges that formerly operated in the capital cities. After demutualisation, the ASX was the first exchange in the world to have its shares quoted on its own market, the ASX was listed on 14 October 1998. On 7 July 2006 the Australian Stock Exchange merged with SFE Corporation,1861, Ten years after the official advent of the Gold Rush, Australias first stock exchange was formed in Melbourne. In the 1850s Victoria was Australias gold mining centre, its population increasing from 80,000 in 1851 to 540,000 in 1861. 1871, Thirty years after it lit the first gas light in Sydney, AGL took its place in history again
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Mass media
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The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information electronically, via such media as film, radio, recorded music, digital media comprises both Internet and mobile mass communication. Internet media comprise such services as email, social sites, websites. Print media transmit information via physical objects, such as books, comics, magazines, newspapers, event organizing and public speaking can also be considered forms of mass media. The organizations that control these technologies, such as studios, publishing companies. In the late 20th century, mass media could be classified into eight mass media industries, books, the Internet, magazines, movies, newspapers, radio, recordings, and television. The explosion of digital technology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries made prominent the question. For example, it is whether to include cell phones, computer games. In the 2000s, a called the seven mass media became popular. For example, the Internet includes blogs, podcasts, web sites, the sixth and seventh media, Internet and mobile phones, are often referred to collectively as digital media, and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media. Some argue that video games have developed into a mass form of media. While a telephone is a communication device, mass media communicates to a large group. In addition, the telephone has transformed into a phone which is equipped with Internet access. A question arises whether this makes cell phones a mass medium or simply a device used to access a mass medium. There is currently a system by which marketers and advertisers are able to tap into satellites and this transmission of mass advertising to millions of people is another form of mass communication. Video games may also be evolving into a mass medium, video games provide a common gaming experience to millions of users across the globe and convey the same messages and ideologies to all their users. Users sometimes share the experience with one another by playing online, excluding the Internet however, it is questionable whether players of video games are sharing a common experience when they play the game individually
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Perth
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Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2.06 million living in Greater Perth. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the central business district. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status in 1856, and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city is named after Perth, Scotland, due to the influence of Sir George Murray, Member of Parliament for Perthshire and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The citys population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia. During Australias involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for operating in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of immigrants after the war, predominantly from Britain, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia, Aboriginal people have inhabited the Perth area for 38,000 years, as evidenced by archaeological remains at Upper Swan. The Noongar people occupied the southwest corner of Western Australia and lived as hunter-gatherers, the wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain were particularly important to them, both spiritually and as a source of food. The Noongar people know the area where Perth now stands as Boorloo, Boorloo formed part of Mooro, the tribal lands of Yellagongas group, one of several based around the Swan River and known collectively as the Whadjuk. The Whadjuk were part of a group of fourteen tribes that formed the south-west socio-linguistic block known as the Noongar. The judgment was overturned on appeal, the first documented sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697. The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, Captain James Stirling, aboard Parmelia, said that Perth was as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed. On 12 August that year, Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship, Sulphur. The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantles diary entry for 12 August, Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, and was in 1829 Secretary of State for the Colonies and Member for Perthshire in the British House of Commons. The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murrays honour, the racial relations between the Noongar people and the Europeans were strained due to these happenings. Because of the amount of building in and around Boorloo
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Television station
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A television station is a business, organisation or other enterprise, such as an amateur television operator, that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, broadcast television systems standards are set by the government, and these vary around the world. Television stations broadcasting over a system were typically limited to one television channel. The term television station is normally applied to television stations. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements, most commercial television stations are owned independently, but many are either affiliated with a television network or are owned-and-operated by a television network. Another form a television station may take is non-commercial educational and considered public broadcasting, some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs. To get a signal from the control room to the transmitter. The link can be either by radio or T1/E1, a transmitter/studio link may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of the main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air, the license usually specifies which other station is it allowed to carry. In North America, full-power stations on band I are generally limited to 100 kW analog video and 10 kW analog audio, stations on band III can go up by 5dB to 316 kW video,31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1, UHF, by comparison, has a much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, despite this, in the U. S. the Federal Communications Commission is taking another large portion of this band away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown, since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in a variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials and they may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network, or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies, many stations have some sort of television studio, which on major-network stations is often used for newscasts or other local programming. There is usually a department, where journalists gather information
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Radio
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When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. The information in the waves can be extracted and transformed back into its original form, Radio systems need a transmitter to modulate some property of the energy produced to impress a signal on it, for example using amplitude modulation or angle modulation. Radio systems also need an antenna to convert electric currents into radio waves, an antenna can be used for both transmitting and receiving. The electrical resonance of tuned circuits in radios allow individual stations to be selected, the electromagnetic wave is intercepted by a tuned receiving antenna. Radio frequencies occupy the range from a 3 kHz to 300 GHz, a radio communication system sends signals by radio. The term radio is derived from the Latin word radius, meaning spoke of a wheel, beam of light, however, this invention would not be widely adopted. The switch to radio in place of wireless took place slowly and unevenly in the English-speaking world, the United States Navy would also play a role. Although its translation of the 1906 Berlin Convention used the terms wireless telegraph and wireless telegram, the term started to become preferred by the general public in the 1920s with the introduction of broadcasting. Radio systems used for communication have the following elements, with more than 100 years of development, each process is implemented by a wide range of methods, specialised for different communications purposes. Each system contains a transmitter, This consists of a source of electrical energy, the transmitter contains a system to modulate some property of the energy produced to impress a signal on it. This modulation might be as simple as turning the energy on and off, or altering more subtle such as amplitude, frequency, phase. Amplitude modulation of a carrier wave works by varying the strength of the signal in proportion to the information being sent. For example, changes in the strength can be used to reflect the sounds to be reproduced by a speaker. It was the used for the first audio radio transmissions. Frequency modulation varies the frequency of the carrier, the instantaneous frequency of the carrier is directly proportional to the instantaneous value of the input signal. FM has the capture effect whereby a receiver only receives the strongest signal, Digital data can be sent by shifting the carriers frequency among a set of discrete values, a technique known as frequency-shift keying. FM is commonly used at Very high frequency radio frequencies for high-fidelity broadcasts of music, analog TV sound is also broadcast using FM. Angle modulation alters the phase of the carrier wave to transmit a signal
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Newspaper
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A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising. A newspaper is usually, but not exclusively, printed on relatively inexpensive, the journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. As of 2017, most newspapers are now published online as well as in print, the online versions are called online newspapers or news websites. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly, News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format. General-interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news, typically the paper is divided into sections for each of those major groupings. Papers also include articles which have no byline, these articles are written by staff writers, a wide variety of material has been published in newspapers. As of 2017, newspapers may also provide information about new movies, most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. Some newspapers are government-run or at least government-funded, their reliance on advertising revenue, the editorial independence of a newspaper is thus always subject to the interests of someone, whether owners, advertisers, or a government. Some newspapers with high editorial independence, high quality. This is a way to avoid duplicating the expense of reporting from around the world, circa 2005, there were approximately 6,580 daily newspaper titles in the world selling 395 million print copies a day. Worldwide annual revenue approached $100 billion in 2005-7, then plunged during the financial crisis of 2008-9. Revenue in 2016 fell to only $53 billion, hurting every major publisher as their efforts to gain online income fell far short of the goal. Besides remodeling advertising, the internet has also challenged the business models of the era by crowdsourcing both publishing in general and, more specifically, journalism. In addition, the rise of news aggregators, which bundle linked articles from online newspapers. Increasing paywalling of online newspapers may be counteracting those effects, the oldest newspaper still published is the Gazzetta di Mantova, which was established in Mantua in 1664. While online newspapers have increased access to newspapers by people with Internet access, literacy is also a factor which prevents people who cannot read from being able to benefit from reading newspapers. Periodicity, They are published at intervals, typically daily or weekly. This ensures that newspapers can provide information on newly-emerging news stories or events, currency, Its information is as up to date as its publication schedule allows
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Magazine
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A magazine is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published. Magazines are generally published on a schedule and contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a price, by prepaid subscriptions. At its root, the magazine refers to a collection or storage location. In the case of written publication, it is a collection of written articles and this explains why magazine publications share the word root with gunpowder magazines, artillery magazines, firearms magazines, and, in French, retail stores such as department stores. By definition, a magazine paginates with each issue starting at three, with the standard sizing being 8 3/8 ×10 7/8 inches. However, in the sense a journal has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, an example being the Journal of Accountancy, academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed are generally professional magazines. That a publication calls itself a journal does not make it a journal in the technical sense, magazines can be distributed through the mail, through sales by newsstands, bookstores, or other vendors, or through free distribution at selected pick-up locations. The subscription business models for distribution fall into three main categories. In this model, the magazine is sold to readers for a price, either on a basis or by subscription. Paid circulation allows for defined readership statistics and this means that there is no cover price and issues are given away, for example in street dispensers, airline, or included with other products or publications. Because this model involves giving issues away to unspecific populations, the statistics only entail the number of issues distributed and this is the model used by many trade magazines distributed only to qualifying readers, often for free and determined by some form of survey. This allows a level of certainty that advertisements will be received by the advertisers target audience. This latter model was used before the rise of the World Wide Web and is still employed by some titles. For example, in the United Kingdom, a number of computer-industry magazines use this model, including Computer Weekly and Computing, for the global media industry, an example would be VideoAge International. The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen, a literary and philosophy magazine, the Gentlemans Magazine, first published in 1731, in London was the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentlemans Magazine under the pen name Sylvanus Urban, was the first to use the term magazine, founded by Herbert Ingram in 1842, The Illustrated London News was the first illustrated magazine
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Website
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A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server. A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol network, such as the Internet, or a local area network. Websites have many functions and can be used in various fashions, a website can be a website, a commercial website for a company. Websites are typically dedicated to a topic or purpose, ranging from entertainment and social networking to providing news. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web, while private websites, Web pages, which are the building blocks of websites, are documents, typically composed in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language. They may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors, Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which may optionally employ encryption to provide security and privacy for the user. The users application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal. Hyperlinking between web pages conveys to the reader the site structure and guides the navigation of the site, Some websites require user registration or subscription to access content. As of 2016 end users can access websites on a range of devices, including desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, the World Wide Web was created in 1990 by the British CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone, before the introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server. These protocols offer a directory structure which the user navigates and chooses files to download. Documents were most often presented as text files without formatting. Websites have many functions and can be used in various fashions, a website can be a website, a commercial website. Websites can be the work of an individual, a business or other organization, any website can contain a hyperlink to any other website, so the distinction between individual sites, as perceived by the user, can be blurred. Websites are written in, or converted to, HTML and are accessed using a software interface classified as a user agent. Web pages can be viewed or otherwise accessed from a range of computer-based and Internet-enabled devices of various sizes, including computers, laptops, PDAs. A website is hosted on a system known as a web server. These terms can refer to the software that runs on these systems which retrieves
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Seven Network
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The Seven Network is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main television networks in Australia. In 2011 the Seven Network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the season for total viewers. Seven is the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001, as of 2014, it is the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach. In 2016, the network had its biggest lead in total people over the Nine Network since the current OzTAM ratings system began, in Melbourne,30 of the 40 ratings weeks were won and all ratings weeks were won in Adelaide and Perth. Sevens administration headquarters are based in a warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, Sydney. The networks main playout centre is located in Docklands, Melbourne, National news and current affairs programming are based between flagship station ATN-7 in Sydney and HSV-7 in Melbourne. In 2009, Seven moved its Sydney-based production operations from Epping to a purpose-built high-definition television production facility at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, the present Seven Network began as a group of independent stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. HSV-7 Melbourne, licensed to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, was launched on 4 November 1956, ATN-7 Sydney, licensed to Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was launched on 2 December 1956. BTQ-7 Brisbane followed on 1 November, signing on as Brisbanes second commercial television station, ADS-7 Adelaide was launched on 24 October 1959 as the final capital city VHF7 station. In the early 1960s, coaxial cable links, formed initially between Sydney and Melbourne, allowed the sharing of programmes and simultaneous broadcasts of live shows, left without their original partners, ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to form the Australian Television Network in 1963. The new grouping was soon joined by other capital-city channel 7 stations, ADS-7 Adelaide, however, it was not until 1970 that a national network logo was adopted, albeit still with independently owned and operated stations with local advertising campaigns. Colour television was introduced across the network in 1975, when a new logo was adopted. Rupert Murdoch made a bid for the Herald and Weekly Times, owners of HSV-7, in 1979. Fairfax, however, successfully bought a 14. 9% share of the later in the same year. The 1980s saw the introduction of sound, as well as a number of successful shows, most notably A Country Practice in 1981, and Sons and Daughters. Wheel of Fortune began its 25-year run in July 1981, produced from ADS-7s studios in Adelaide, the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were shown live on the network the year before. Perth based businessman Robert Holmes à Court, through his business the Bell Group, bought TVW-7 from its original owners, the Herald and Weekly Times, owner of HSV-7 and ADS-7, was sold to Rupert Murdoch in December 1986 for an estimated A$1.8 billion
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Pacific Magazines
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Pacific Magazines is a magazine publisher operating in Australia and New Zealand, owned by Seven West Media. It has it roots in the Southdown Press, the publishers of New Idea, when News Limited acquired the Herald and Weekly Times in 1987, the Australasian and Argus titles were added. Rupert Murdoch spun off his Australian magazine holdings in 1991 into a new company, Pacific Magazines, Seven Media Group acquired Pacific Magazines in 2002, leaving PMP as solely a printing business. Two years later, Seven bought Murdoch Magazines, a corporate sibling in News Limited. Better Homes and Gardens, a monthly home/lifestyle magazine, bride to Be, a bridal magazine. Diabetic Living, a lifestyle magazine aimed at people suffering from diabetes. Family Circle, a magazine aimed at mothers. Famous, a celebrity tabloid magazine. Feast, a magazine in partnership with SBS Food Girlfriend. Home Beautiful, a home decorating magazine. K-Zone, a childrens magazine dealing with toys, gaming, anime, sport. Marie Claire, a womens fashion magazine. Mens Health, a mens lifestyle magazine. Monument, an architecture and design magazine. New Idea, a womens magazine. Practical Parenting, a monthly parenting magazine, prevention, a monthly healthy lifestyle magazine for women over 40 Thats Life. Total Girl, a magazine for preteen girls. TV Hits, an entertainment magazine for teenagers
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Marie Claire
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Marie Claire is an international monthly magazine for women. First published in France in 1937, various editions are published in countries and languages. The United States edition focuses on women around the world and several global issues, Marie Claire magazine also covers health, beauty, and fashion topics. Marie Claire was founded by Jean Prouvost and Marcelle Auclair and its first issue appeared in 1937, and it was distributed each Wednesday. In 1976, Prouvost retired and his daughter took over the magazine. One of the earliest international editions of Marie Claire is its German edition, the U. S. edition of the magazine was started by the Hearst Corporation, based in New York City, in 1994. Hearst has branch offices in France, Italy, and several locations in the United States such as Detroit, the West Coast, New England, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the Southeast. The Esquire Network reality television series Running In Heels follows three interns working in the NYC office of the magazine, Marie Claire UK is part of Time Inc. In 2006, it launched its website with segments on daily news, catwalk show, photographs and reports, fashion and beauty, buys of the day, daily horoscopes, and competitions. In Australia, Marie Claire magazine is part of Pacific Magazines, the Marie Claire website provides daily fashion, beauty, and lifestyle news to Yahoo.7. Marie Claire has also Arabic editions which are published in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, international editions of Marie Claire have also been discontinued in Estonia, Germany, India, Philippines, and Poland. Following a relaunch, since 2012, Marie Claire has been published in Japan under the name Marie Claire Style and this new format is offered as a free supplement in the Yomiuri Shimbun and distributed in wealthy suburbs of Japan. The magazine has now made available at subway kiosks for a cover price of 200 yen. In 2010, an Indonesian edition was launched, currently, Marie Claire publishes editions in over 35 countries on 5 continents. List of womens magazines List of Marie Claire cover models Marie Claire US Marie Claire UK Marie Claire Turkey American Marie Claire – magazine profile at Fashion Model Directory
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Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)
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Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. The editor in chief is Stephen Orr, Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation and it was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson. Better Homes and Gardens is one of the Seven Sisters, a group of womens service magazines, now in its 15th edition, the Red Plaid was originally published in 1930. Meredith also publishes the New Junior Cookbook for children learning to cook, the magazines title was used by Merediths real estate arm, which was sold and then called GMAC Real Estate. In October 2007, Meredith entered a 50-year licensing agreement with Realogy Corporation to license the Better Homes and Gardens name to Better Homes, the company is based in Parsippany, New Jersey, and has offices across the country. The program currently airs on stations owned by Meredith, Scripps, Fisher, some Meredith-owned stations produce their own local edition of Better. The brand offers a line of home products through a partnership with Home Interiors and Gifts. An Australian edition is published, under licence, by Pacific Magazines. The Australian edition is the 6th best selling magazine in Australia. The Australian edition has been publishing since July 1978, mad Magazine published a satire in 1958 titled Bitter Homes and Gardens, including articles titled They Built Their House on a Lot 22 Inches Wide, a How-The. Department which suggests putting a lawn on rollers so one can drag it to a spot where its raining. The magazine was also spoofed in the 1970s as Bitter Homes and Garbage, in an episode of I Love Lucy, Lucy jokes about the magazine as, Better Homes and Garbage when she and Ethel redecorate Lucys apartment. An episode of The Simpsons showed a brief shot of a magazine entitled Better Homes Than Yours, in Little Shop of Horrors Audrey sings in Somewhere Thats Green about how her dream house is a picture out of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. The music video of the song Sliver by American grunge band Nirvana shows a short take of the magazine at second 00,42, brandon Flowers mentions the magazine in the song The Clock Was Tickin from his 2010 album Flamingo
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New Idea
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New Idea is a long-running Australian weekly magazine published by Pacific Magazines and aimed at women. The magazine was first published in 1902 by Fitchett Bros, the founder was Thomas Shaw Fitchett. It was subtitled A Women’s Home Journal for Australia, in 1911 the magazine was renamed as Everylady’s journal, but in 1928 the title was again made New Idea. Fitchett Brothers changed the name of their company as Southdown Press, following World War II the company was acquired by Keith Murdoch and then became part of the Rupert Murdoch media. In June 2006, the magazine was ranked 3rd in Australia in circulation, with a circulation of 433,176. The magazines readership in 2004 was in excess of 2 million and had increased to 2.364 million in 2005/6, however, in recent years weekly sales figures have dropped to a March 2014 audit of 280,206. It ran updates on the story on two further occasions, when the United States Drudge Report ran the story on 28 February 2008, the prince was forced to abandon his posting and return to the UK. After the story much more widely, New Idea pulled the story from its web site. Two months later, the magazine issued an apology for publishing the story and we regret this serious lapse of judgment. We sincerely apologise to all our readers, to the servicemen whose lives are at constant risk while serving at home and abroad and to their families, New Idea was criticised on the Australian Broadcasting Corporations Media Watch for the use of sensationalist headlines and content
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The West Australian
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The West is the second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833. The West tends to have conservative leanings, and has supported the Liberal–National Party Coalition. Of Australias largest newspapers by circulation, The West is ranked fourth and is the newspaper in the top 20 not owned by either News Limited or Fairfax Media. As of January 2015, refraining from reporting greatly reduced print circulation, the Saturday edition was rebranded as The Weekend West in October 2010. There is an enlarged classified-advertising section for motor vehicles each Wednesday, a digital archive subscription enables past editions to be accessed for $220 per month or $2,200 per year. The West has conservative leanings, and has supported the Liberal–National Party Coalition throughout the political groups existence. At the state election held in March 2017, the newspapers editorial endorsed the Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Mark McGowan, the tabloid newspaper publishes international, national and local news. As of 23 February 2015, newsgathering was integrated with the TV news and current-affairs operations of Seven News, Perth, a breaking news and video news website are also staffed in the same area, together with sales and other departments. In the 1990s, the newspaper introduced a weekly Earth 2000 segment on environmental matters, opinion columnists now include Zoltan Kovacs, Paul Murray and a variety of writers syndicated from Fairfax Media including Gerard Henderson, Danny Katz and Brian Toohey. The paper publishes a supplement titled WestWeekend Magazine which is included as an insert in The Weekend West, the West Australian was owned by the publicly listed company West Australian Newspapers Ltd from the 1920s. The following year Alan Bond, through Bond Corporation, gained control of Bell Group and this ownership structure only survived for a few years until the collapse of Bond Corporation. A newly formed company, West Australian Newspapers Holdings, then purchased the paper from the receivers before being floated in an oversubscribed $185 million public offering, chairman Trevor Eastwood announced in the annual report that the company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 9 January 1992. A management fee of $217,000 and underwriting/brokers handling fee of $1,981,136 were paid to companies associated with former short-term directors John Poynton and J. H. Nickson. After having acquired Seven Media Group in February 2011, West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited became Seven West Media, the West Australian traces its origins to The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, the first edition of which appeared on 5 January 1833. Owned and edited by Perth postmaster Charles Macfaull, it was originally a four-page weekly and it was, at first, published on Saturdays, but changed to Fridays in 1864. The new publisher, M. Shenton, remained in place until 26 June 1874, when it was bought by a syndicate who renamed it The Western Australian Times and who in September 1874 increased production to two editions a week. On 18 November 1879, it was relaunched as The West Australian, in October 1883, production was increased to three editions per week, two years later it became a daily publication. The proprietors of the West Australian at that time also inaugurated the Western Mail, initially, delivery of the paper beyond settled areas was problematic, but the growth and development of the rural railway system in the early 1900s facilitated wider circulation
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The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
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The Sunday Times, owned by Seven West Media, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Formerly owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corp Australia and corporate predecessors since 1955, finalisation of the deal, which included the website PerthNow, was announced by The West on 8 November 2016. Established by Frederick Vosper in the 1890s, The Sunday Times became a vehicle for the harassment of C. Y, OConnor and the proposed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in the late 1890s until OConnors death by suicide in 1902. A subsequent government inquiry found no justification for Vospers campaign against OConnor, the paper was purchased from Vospers estate by James MacCallum Smith and Arthur Reid in 1901. In 1912 MacCallum Smith became sole proprietor and managing director, remaining in that role until 1935, a. T. Chandler succeeded J. E. Webb as editor around 1920, and was an effective promoter of MacCallum Smiths secessionist views. In 1935, a syndicate led by Jack Simons and including Victor Courtney and mining entrepreneur Claude de Bernales purchased Western Press Limited, Simons was chairman and managing director until his death in 1949 when Courtney took control. In 1955 Courtney sold Western Press to Rupert Murdochs News Limited, the two companies were already partners in Western Australias Community Newspaper Group. Under the sale agreement, printing and distribution of those 17 local papers and its statewide circulation and extensive advertising content make it probably the most profitable newspaper in Australia. The papers stated audited circulation was 282,585 in 2011,257,330 in March 2013, in June 2006, The Sunday Times launched PerthNow, an online presentation of local news from News Limited. Recent editors have been Don Smith from 1987, Brian Crisp from 1999, Brett McCarthy from 2001, Sam Weir from June 2007, Christopher Dore from April 2012, in November 2016, The position devolved to Michael Beach, a Walkley-Award-winning journalist and SWN senior editor. Western Australias diminutive population has not enjoyed a competitive Sunday newspaper since The Independent was bought out by News Limited in 1984, before 1990, Perth had competitive Saturday newspapers, as well as weekday morning and afternoon dailies. A joint venture between the two companies produces many suburban papers under the Community Newspapers banner, independents that are not produced by the Sunday Times-West Australian include Echo Newspapers, Examiner Newspapers, Herald Newspapers, and Post Newspapers. The committees findings included criticism of the Western Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet and it also recommended that the Attorney General continue to pursue the introduction of shield laws for journalists. List of newspapers in Australia The West Australian Dunn, Frank A Century of Sundays Perth, W. A. Sunday Times
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News Corp Australia
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News Corp Australia is one of Australias largest media companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers, the company publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia. According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 News Corp Australia accounted for 23% of the titles in Australia. With interests in media, the companys sites include news. com. au, Business Spectator and Eureka Report, Kidspot. com. au, taste. com. au. It has 50% stakes in CareerOne. com. au and carsguide. com. au, the companys other Australian assets include all of Fox Sports Australia, 50% ownership of subscription television provider Foxtel and shares in the Brisbane Broncos NRL team. Until the formation of News Corporation in 1979, News Limited was the holding company for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch. Since then, News Limited had been owned by News Corporation. In 2004, News Corporation announced its intention to reincorporate to the United States, on 3 November News Corp Limited ceased trading on the Australian Stock Exchange, and on 8 November, News Corporation began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two separate companies, Murdochs newspaper interests became News Corp, which was the new parent company of News Limited. News Limited was renamed News Corp Australia following the listing of the new News Corp on 1 July 2013, News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson, when he purchased the Broken Hill Barrier Miner and the Port Pirie Recorder. He went on to purchase Adelaides weekly Mail and to found The News, Sir Keith Murdoch acquired a minority interest in the company in 1949. Following the death of his father, Sir Keith, in 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, in 1964, News Limited made its next important advance when it established The Australian, Australias first national daily newspaper, based initially in Canberra and later in Sydney. The News Limited holding in INL fluctuated over the years and was just over 49 percent in 1997, the INL business was bought by News Limiteds main rival in 2003 – Fairfax Media. Over the next ten years, as his press empire grew, Murdoch established a lucrative financial base. In his early years of newspaper ownership Murdoch was an aggressive, by the 1970s, this power base was so strong that Murdoch was able to acquire leading newspapers and magazines in both London and New York, as well as many other media holdings. Chairman and chief executive of News Limited, John Hartigan, announced the appointment of Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the division, some of the victims of the alleged hacking, such as Austar were later taken over by News Corp and others such as Ondigital later went bust. The emails were from the drive of NDS European chief. It was also revealed that Australian Federal police were working with UK police to investigate hacking by News Corp, on 28 June 2013, News Corporation split into two publicly traded companies focused on publishing, and broadcasting/media respectively
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Yahoo7
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Yahoo7 is a 50-50 partnership between global internet company, Yahoo. and Australian entertainment and television broadcasting company, Seven West Media. Yahoo7 is a web portal, providing email, online news and lifestyle content, as well as weather, travel, Yahoo. s services originally came to Australia in 1997 with Yahoo. Australia launching on 1 September that year, Seven Media Group founded i7 in September 2000 as their online service. In October 2001, Seven partnered with service provider AOL. I7 was replaced by Sevens new website, Seven. com. au, Yahoo7 was founded in January 2006 as a cross-media entity which would expand the content distribution networks of both internet-centric Yahoo and broadcast corporation Seven Media Group. Branding with Seven West Medias red 7, Yahoo7 replaced Yahoo. s Australian and New Zealand websites which had been in operation since September 1997, taking on the majority of Sevens online operations in the process. In December 2006, Yahoo7 expanded its presence in New Zealand by partnering with Telecom New Zealand to establish Yahoo. Xtra, the venture was rebranded as Yahoo. New Zealand in April 2011 after Telecom sold its 49% share back to Yahoo7, in recent years, Yahoo7 has made a series of high-profile online acquisitions to supplement its core search and marketing businesses. The company purchased Australian sports tipping site OzTips in mid-2010 and acquired Australian group buying site Spreets for $40m in early 2011, Spreets saw its membership increase by 140 per cent to 1. 18m since the acquisition. In January 2010, Yahoo7 launched PLUS7, an online portal for viewers to stream select TV shows with locked commercials. The free service allows users to watch a range of content on demand, full length episodes from Channel Seven, 7mate. The service has been compared to the ABC’s iView which performs a similar function, the PLUS7 was released for Android and iOS in 2013. PLUS7 is now available on desktop, mobile and tablet devices as well as other platforms including Fetch TV, Xbox, PlayStation, Yahoo7 also hosts a localised version of its Yahoo. Communication and search as well as other search services such as Yahoo7 Answers. From its creation in 2006 until late-2014, Yahoo7 used an identical to the common purple logo of the time, with the addition of the Seven Network logo. This logo was replaced with the updated Yahoo, logo introduced to the United States in 2013, but included the Seven Network logo
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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KKR & Co. L. P. is an American multinational private equity firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts, headquartered in New York City. The firm sponsors and manages private equity investment funds, a pioneer in the leveraged buyout industry, the firm has completed over $400 billion of private equity transactions since its inception. KKR has completed investments in over 160 companies since 1977, completing at least one investment in every year except in 1982, KKR has 13 additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm is located in the Solow Building, but recently announced its intentions to occupy a newly constructed 30 Hudson Yards. In October 2009, KKR listed shares in the company through KKR & Co. an affiliate that holds 30% of the ownership equity. In March 2010, KKR filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, with trading commencing four months later, on July 15,2010. KKR is operated by its managing partners Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, KKR invests primarily through leveraged buyouts as well as growth capital investments. It has traditionally specialized in equity investments, focusing on specific industry sectors where the firm has created nine dedicated investment groups. The firm has traditionally had strong ties with its investors, KKR has historically relied primarily on private equity funds, pools of committed capital that are raised from a broad array of institutional investors. KFN was a casualty of the subprime mortgage crisis and in September 2007, Henry Kravis. On February 20,2008, KFN was once forced to delay the repayment of billions of dollars of commercial paper. Following the transaction, KFN converted from a REIT to a LLC, KKR Private Equity Investors is a publicly traded private equity fund that invests as a fund of funds in KKR private equity funds. KPE also co-invests in transactions alongside KKRs private equity funds, in May 2006, KKR raised $5 billion in an initial public offering for a KPE to serve as a new permanent investment vehicle listing it on the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam. KKR raised three more than it expected, as many of the investors in KPE were hedge funds seeking exposure to private equity. As private equity had been booming in preceding years, investing in a KKR fund was attractive to investors, however, KPEs first-day performance was lackluster, trading down 1. 7% and trading volume was limited. Initially, a handful of private equity firms and hedge funds had planned to follow KKRs lead. KPEs stock declined from an IPO price of €25 per share to €18.16 at the end of 2007 and they targeted family-owned businesses, many of which had been founded in the years following World War II which by the 1960s and 1970s were facing succession issues. Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions, despite a number of highly successful investments, the $27 million investment in Cobblers ended in bankruptcy
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ATN
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ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services and 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 stations switched their previous affiliations. ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to create the Australian Television Network, which became the Seven Network. ATN-7 is the home of the national level Seven News bulletins, the station opened in 1956 with principal offices and studios located at Mobbs Lane, Epping. The initial black and white cameras and other equipment was supplied by the Marconi Company of England, conversion to PAL colour occurred on 1 March 1975. Digital DVB-T commenced on 1 January 2001, the initial transmission tower in 1956 was located near the ABC tower at Gore Hill, Sydney. This was eventually demolished after ATN was invited to share a new site at Artarmon which was built by a new 3rd, aTN-7 commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 6 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 7. ATNs Sydney transmissions - both DVB-T terrestrial digital PAL - are broadcast from masts operated by Transmitters Australia 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, the on-air programs are sent by digital link from the Seven Networks national program play-out centre at Docklands in Melbourne. All Saints, Terry Willesee Tonight and Home and Away, News and live telecast programs are filmed and broadcast from the Martin Place studios. The Epping studios closed in early 2010 when new studio facilities serviced by Global Television, visiting commentators from the United States organised for ATN staff to supply the camera and transmission systems for CBS coverage of NASCAR races. A variant of RaceCam was also developed for yachts in the Americas Cup off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1985. Later in the mid-1980s, the American Broadcasting Company asked ATN staff to develop aerofoil-designed cameras suitable for Formula One cars, comprising 3,000 square metres, viewers and tourists can see programs being broadcast from the street level studio. The network claims that the Martin Place facilities are one of the most technologically advanced digital television centres in the world and this meant that guests could watch outside the studio as the eliminations were being carried out live. Notable guests included contestants from previous seasons, Seven News Sydney is presented from the networks national television studios at Martin Place, by Mark Ferguson from Sunday to Thursday and Michael Usher on Friday & Saturday. Mel McLaughlin and David Brown present weeknight sport and weather, while Jim Wilson and Angie Asimus present weekend sport and weather. News updates for Sydney are presented throughout the afternoon and the evenings, with updates during the night being shown nationally, they can be seen on Seven, 7TWO
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Sydney
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Sydney /ˈsɪdni/ is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australias east coast, the metropolis surrounds the worlds largest natural harbour, residents of Sydney are known as Sydneysiders. The Sydney area has been inhabited by indigenous Australians for at least 30,000 years, the first British settlers, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, arrived in 1788 to found Sydney as a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Since convict transportation ended in the century, the city has transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural. As at June 2016 Sydneys estimated population was 5,005,358, in the 2011 census,34 percent of the population reported having been born overseas, representing many different nationalities and making Sydney one of the most multicultural cities in the world. There are more than 250 different languages spoken in Sydney and about one-third of residents speak a language other than English at home and it is classified as an Alpha+ World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has a market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing. Its gross regional product was $337 billion in 2013, the largest in Australia, there is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as one of Asia Pacifics leading financial hubs. Its natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, man-made attractions such as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge are also well known to international visitors. The first people to inhabit the now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having migrated from northern Australia. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago, the earliest British settlers called them Eora people. Eora is the term the indigenous used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British. Its literal meaning is from this place, prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in Sydney from as many as 29 different clans. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan, the principal language groups were Darug, Guringai, and Dharawal. The earliest Europeans to visit the area noted that the people were conducting activities such as camping and fishing, using trees for bark and food, collecting shells. Development has destroyed much of the citys history including that of the first inhabitants, there continues to be examples of rock art and engravings located in the protected Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The first meeting between the people and the British occurred on 29 April 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay on the Kurnell Peninsula. He noted in his journal that they were confused and somewhat hostile towards the foreign visitors, Cook was on a mission of exploration and was not commissioned to start a settlement
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HSV (TV station)
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HSV is a television station in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of the AFL coverage, the HSV building is the networks operations hub, where the Master Control Room is located for all metropolitan and regional feeds to be controlled. Programming line-up, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring, in the opening ceremony, Eric Pearce declared, We dedicate this station to the full service of the community. To Australian life – the happy families in the homes – we promise to serve you faithfully, HSV-7 and rival station GTV-9 were formed in time to broadcast the Melbourne Olympics, while Sydney stations TCN-9 and ATN-7 in Sydney relayed the Melbourne coverage. HSV-7 was originally owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, owners of The Herald and it was connected back to the stations main Dorcas Street studios by multiple microwave links. The studios were opened with a live show featuring Bob Crosby and his band and Jimmy Edwards. In 1979, Fairfax bought a share of HSV-7 after many failed bids for the entire station. In December 1986 the station was purchased in its entirety by Rupert Murdochs News Limited, in February 1987 HSV-7 was sold back to Fairfax, along with Brisbane station BTQ-7. Walden later moved to Ten as a result of this, in late 1987, the government introduced cross-media ownership laws which forced Fairfax to choose between its print and broadcast operations. It chose print, and HSV-7 was sold to Christopher Skases Qintex, Skase himself pledged to revitalize the channel and its programs after a year of ratings losses against Ten and Nine, as well as SBS, and to bring it back to its place among Melbourne viewers. In 1990, Qintex was sent into damage control after Skase escaped extradition proceedings, entrepreneur Kerry Stokes bought the network in 1995. In November 2011, the station celebrated 55 years on air in Melbourne, at 9 am on Tuesday 10 December 2013, HSV-7 closed its analogue signal as part of the final phase of the national switchover to digital only transmissions. The event was marked on-screen with a special five-minute retrospective of the stations local, hSVs former production studios and headquarters were originally located in, Dorcas Street Studios, South Melbourne. HSV remained at Dorcas Street Studios until March 2002 when news, current affairs, the main production studios located on Dorcas Street Studios and were sold off to Global Television in 2007, while the former offices and news studios were demolished in 2009. The Seven Network now chooses to hire studios facilities for all Melbourne-based entertainment, drama, Docklands Studios Melbourne and Global Television are now home to shows such as Dancing with the Stars, and quiz show The Chase Australia. The new facilities, known as Broadcast Centre Melbourne or BCM, are located near the Etihad Stadium in Docklands, on 11 March 2002, the first Seven News Melbourne bulletin, fronted by Peter Mitchell, was broadcast from these offices for the first time. Approximately 200 full-time employees work in the building, with an additional 100 hired as casual or part-time. BCM experienced a power failure which resulted in a total blackout across the whole Seven Network, as well as all regional affiliates
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Melbourne
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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration spanning 9,900 km2, the metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of 4,641,636 as of 2016, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians. Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemens Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria, to whom Lord Melbourne was close, in 1847, during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the worlds largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government until 1927. It is a financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. It is recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature and a centre for street art, music. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australias busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo, Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the regional train. Melbourne is also home to Australias most extensive network and has the worlds largest urban tram network. Before the arrival of settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. At the time of European settlement, it was inhabited by under 2000 hunter-gatherers from three indigenous tribes, the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong. The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and it would be 30 years before another settlement was attempted. Batman selected a site on the bank of the Yarra River. Batman then returned to Launceston in Tasmania, in early August 1835 a different group of settlers, including John Pascoe Fawkner, left Launceston on the ship Enterprize
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BTQ
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BTQ is the Brisbane station of the Australian Seven Network. BTQ was the television station to launch in Brisbane, going to air on 1 November 1959. Along with other Australian television channels, BTQ began broadcasting on television on 1 January 2001. In the 1980s and 1990s, the channel opened its facilities to the Brisbane public - at Open Days. In the 1970s, BTQ also held annual telethons for the Childrens Hospital, in the mid-1990s, BTQ also produced Tourist TV, a tourist information channel which could be viewed at various Gold Coast hotels and resorts, including Sea World Nara Resort. Until 2007, BTQ was the host station of the national Austext teletext service, the service was later largely automated out of Seven Sydney until it was decommissioned September 2009. BTQ ceased analogue transmission at 9,00 am on 28 May 2013, Seven News Brisbane is directed by Ross Dagan and presented by Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald on weeknights and Kay McGrath on weekends from Sevens Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Sport is presented by Shane Webcke on weeknights and Pat Welsh on weekends, weather is presented by Tony Auden on weeknights and is presented by Paul Burt on weekends. The bulletin is also simulcast in Brisbane on local radio station 96, previously, Tracey Challenor presented the weekend news for many years until her resignation in February 2007. Cummins was replaced by former Nine weatherman John Schluter in early 2007, Ghidella joined Seven News in 2007 and replaced Challenor. In October 2002, Rod Young moved from ABC News in Brisbane to co-anchor with Kay McGrath and she had presented Seven News Brisbane solo for the previous nine months following the retirement of Frank Warrick. Their dual presenter format has proved to be successful, in 2008, Seven News Brisbane was officially the #1 bulletin in Brisbane, winning all 40 ratings weeks. In January 2013, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald were appointed Sunday to Thursday presenters with Kay McGrath and it was also announced that Ghidella will present a local edition of Today Tonight. News updates for Brisbane are presented by Sharyn Ghidella or Bill McDonald throughout the afternoon, patrick Condren, Bianca Stone and Jillian Whiting are fill-in news presenters, with Rohan Welsh presenting sport, and Liz Cantor presenting the weather. On 4 July 2016, a new local bulletin for the Gold Coast was introduced, produced,7 News Gold Coast is presented by Rod Young on weeknights and Amanda Abate on weekends with weather presenter Liz Cantor and coastal, beaches and fishing reports from Paul Burt. As per the rival Nine Gold Coast News service,7 News Gold Coast airs as an opt-out on BTQ-7s Gold Coast relay transmitters, Saturday Disney - Moved to ATN-7 in 1999. A*mazing - Moved to TVW-7 in 1997, the Mole - Gold Coast swing Television broadcasting in Australia
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Brisbane
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Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbanes metropolitan area has a population of 2.35 million, the Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite, one of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe,28 kilometres north of the business district. The city was marred by the Australian frontier wars between 1843 and 1855, and development was set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a role in the Allied campaign. Today, Brisbane is well known for its distinct Queenslander architecture which forms much of the built heritage. It also receives attention for its damaging flood events, most notably in 1974 and 2011. Several large cultural, international and sporting events have held at Brisbane, including the 1982 Commonwealth Games, World Expo 88, the final Goodwill Games in 2001. Prior to white settlement, the Brisbane area was inhabited by the Turrbal and they knew the area that is now the central business district as Mian-jin, meaning place shaped as a spike. The Moreton Bay area was explored by Matthew Flinders. On 17 July 1799, Flinders landed at what is now known as Woody Point, in 1823 Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay. Oxley discovered, named, and explored the Brisbane River as far as Goodna,20 kilometres upstream from the Brisbane central business district, Oxley recommended Red Cliff Point for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore. The party settled in Redcliffe on 13 September 1824, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Miller with 14 soldiers and 29 convicts. However, this settlement was abandoned after a year and the colony was moved to a site on the Brisbane River now known as North Quay,28 km south, chief Justice Forbes gave the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane. Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838, German missionaries settled at Zions Hill, Nundah as early as 1837, five years before Brisbane was officially declared a free settlement. The band consisted of ministers Christopher Eipper and Carl Wilhelm Schmidt and lay missionaries Haussmann, Johann Gottried Wagner, Niquet, Hartenstein, Zillman, Franz, Rode, Doege and they were allocated 260 hectares and set about establishing the mission, which became known as the German Station
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SAS (TV station)
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SAS is a television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Australian Seven Network, SAS-7 was originally known as SAS-10, commencing broadcasting on 26 July 1965, under the same owners as TVW-7 Perth. On 27 December 1987, SAS-10 and ADS-7 switched broadcast channels, ADS moving to channel 10, ADS was owned by Kerry Stokes who also owned NEW-10 and Capital Television. SAS was owned by TVW-7 starting from 1974 and thus, in 2 occasions, the station celebrated 40 years in 2005 with a special television program Made in Adelaide 40 Years of Television. Television shows made during the SAS-10 era include childrens shows Fat Cat and Friends, The Early Birds, Crackerjack, music shows included In Time, Trax and Simulrock. Variety talent shows included Adelaides New Faces and Pot Luck, there was also the long running daytime show Touch of Elegance. SAS10 employed actor Hedley Cullen as horror host Deadly Earnest, from 1973 to 1989 the Christmas Appeal telethon was held each year. Other shows after the change over included Fat Cat and Friends until 1992, currently the station produces Discover, Seven News and local editions of Today Tonight, which outrates the national A Current Affair. The last edition of Seven News and Today Tonight was broadcast from the Gilberton studios in North Adelaide on 14 December 2007, on weekends Jessica Adamson presents the news. Previously, Graeme Goodings had been weeknight presenter and John Riddell the weekend reader, Goodings and Riddell agreed to swap roles in 2004, both Goodings and Doyle had been presenting Seven News together since 1989, which had proven a success. Prior to 27 December 1987, the presenters and crew behind Seven News broadcast as Ten News Adelaide. On 27 December 1987, Seven National News reporter Alan Murrell reported the following on then-ADS-7, hours before the switch of channels, Tonight will mark the end of the callsigns ADS-7, tomorrow, itll be ADS-10 and SAS-7. Its the first time such a change has been made, the switch follows a media shake-up earlier this year, which left ADS in the hands of the owners of the Ten Network. Already, the changes are being made at Strangways Terrace. But viewers will notice little difference, theyll still turn the knob to Ten for Channel Ten programs, and to Seven for Seven programs. The only difference will be that the local personalities will be seen on different channels, so if you want to watch Steve Whitham and Caroline Ainslie reading the news tomorrow night, you simply turn the dial three positions, from Seven-to ADS-10. As a result, from the last days of 1987 up to 1988 the new SAS-7 adopted the On the Move slogan to mark the change, with a music video made for this purpose. Local News updates for Adelaide are typically presented by reporters in the afternoon, followed by news presenters Jane Doyle, John Riddell or Jessica Adamson in the late afternoon
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Adelaide
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had a resident population of 1,326,354 million. South Australia, with a total of 1, the demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, Colonel William Light, one of Adelaides founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Lights design set out Adelaide in a layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares. Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth—until the Second World War, it was Australias third-largest city and it has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, as South Australias seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street. Today, Adelaide is noted for its festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Units Worlds Most Liveable Cities index in 2010,2011,2012 and 2015. It was also ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011,2012 and 2013, prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation. Kaurna culture and language was almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the European settlement of South Australia in 1836, however, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture. South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, the event is commemorated in South Australia as Proclamation Day. The site of the capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light. Adelaide was established as a colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution. Wakefields idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen
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TVW
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TVW is a television station broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia, wholly owned by the Seven Network, whose principal owner is Perth-born Kerry Stokes. It was the first television station in Western Australia, commencing service on 16 October 1959 and it broadcasts a modulated 64-QAM signal of four DVB channels on VHF channel 6 at 177.5 MHz from Bickley in the Perth Hills. The TVW callsign stands for Television Western Australia, under the then founding general manager of the station Sir James Cruthers, TVW commenced broadcasting on 16 October 1959. The then Governor of Western Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner opened the station at 7. 30pm that night. Some of the first programs included Leave It to Beaver, Sea Hunt, Father Knows Best, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Epilogue, the signal was broadcast from the stations transmitter site at Bickley in the Darling Ranges. TVW-7 did not have a commercial television station until 1965 when STW-9 commenced broadcasting. However the presence of a rival did not have a negative impact on TVW. After STW-9 entered the market, a cartel was formed between the two stations for the duty of buying from both Australian and overseas production sources, the two stations set up a separate company, TV Facilities. This allowed the stations to purchase programs cheaper than if they were two separate entities, which would bid on shows and subsequently raise prices and this partnership was disliked by Eastern States stations who could not increase their charges to the extent which they would have liked. Allocation of programs was decided by a toss, which would allow the winner to pick first. However TVW would always be in a dominant position as it had the rights to continuing shows from the previous six years as well as half of the new programs. In 1971 TVW Enterprises purchased SAS-10 in Adelaide, now SAS-7, eight years later, TVW finally took on an affiliation, aligning with the Seven stations in the East. 1982 saw TVW purchased by Perth-based businessman Robert Holmes à Court’s Bell Group and this soon posed a problem for SAS, since Network Ten officials were unwilling to discuss network plans with Bell given that it owned a Seven affiliate. To solve this problem, SAS swapped affiliations and frequencies with Adelaides original Ten affiliate, ADS, in 1988, Perth finally got full network service when NEW signed on and aligned with Ten. 1988 also saw the station change hands when the Christopher Skase led Qintex group purchased the station, Qintex collapsed a year later, leaving TVW in the hands of receivers. In 1991 the network was floated on the exchange and by 1995 Perth-born Kerry Stokes was in charge of both TVW and the rest of the network. Since then, the station has continued to enjoy a dominant share of ratings in the Perth market. TVW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 6 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 7, the analogue signal for TVW was shut off at 9. 00am WST, Tuesday,16 April 2013
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7HD
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The channel is available to high definition digital television viewers in metropolitan areas through a number of owned-and-operated stations. On 25 September 2010, 7HD was replaced by the new channel 7mate, 7HD returned as a high definition simulcast on channel 70 on 10 May 2016. In 2004, after the 2001 introduction of terrestrial television in Australia. This simulcast showcased native high definition content alongside standard definition services on Seven, during the times that native high definition content was unavailable for simulcasting, a promo loop that showcased extracts from a variety of Sevens programs was broadcast. The channel replaced Sevens existing high definition service 7 HD Digital, the channel expanded its broadcast schedule on 10 December 2007 to include daytime programming which had previously been a full simulcast of the main channel. 7HD breakaway programming ceased transmission on Sunday 4 October 2009 in preparation for the launch of 7TWO a few weeks later on 1 November, 7HD then returned to being a full high definition simulcast of Seven, before finally being replaced by 7mate on 25 September 2010. On 10 May 2016, 7HD returned as a high definition simulcast on channel 70, however, Melbourne and Adelaide were the only cities that received 7HD as a simulcast of Sevens primary channel on that date, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth received 7HD as a simulcast of 7mate. This is so that upcoming AFL matches can be shown in HD in all markets, however, it was reverted to a 7mate simulcast in those markets on 22 August 2016, following the conclusion of the Olympics. As of March 2017, this change has not been reverted, up to seven hours of exclusive programming was broadcast daily. In the late evenings a mixture of exclusive series, movies, the only two series exclusively made for 7HD were The NightCap and This is Your Laugh. The NightCap was broadcast exclusively on 7HD on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10. 30pm until its axing during the Easter non-ratings break of 2008. In its former inception, 7HD was available Sevens owned-and-operated stations, ATN Sydney, HSV Melbourne, BTQ Brisbane, SAS Adelaide, TVW Perth, Southern Cross Televisions Seven-affiliated stations carried their own HD simulcast, Southern Cross HD, on TNT Tasmania and TND Darwin. Southern Cross other stations GTS/BKN Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill and QQQ Eastern & Central Australia, upon its revival on 10 May 2016, 7HD returned to 1080i high definition, but was broadcast in MPEG-4 format as opposed to the standard MPEG-2 format. However, on occasion, 7HD will simulcast Sevens primary channel Sydney, Brisbane and this first occurred from 5–22 August 2016 for the broadcast of the 2016 Summer Olympics. On 16 December 2016, this change occurred again to allow the Australian Open tennis to be broadcast in HD, however, as of March 2017, the change has not been reverted. 7 HD Digital Promo Loop 2004
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7TWO
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7TWO is the highest-rating Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 1 November 2009. The channel broadcasts a variety of programs, targeting a 25-and-over audience, with most programs originating from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. The channel was announced by the Seven Network on its breakfast program, Sunrise. Earlier, speculation suggested that Seven would launch its secondary channel around November 2009, with names including 7PLUS, PLUS7, Channel Mate. Sevens then-programming chief Tim Worner stated after the reveal that some of the names were red herrings to keep details of the channel a secret. PLUS7 and Channel Mate were later used for Sevens internet TV catch-up service and Sevens second digital multi-channel and this video was also launched on the multi-channels website and received cross-promotion on the primary Seven channel. The Seven Network continues its policy of cross-promoting each channels content across all three channels to this day, Seven presenters Tom Williams and Johanna Griggs initially served as the face of the channel and were seen presenting 7TWOs Friday and Sunday night lifestyle line-ups in early 2011. The channel did not launch on the day to many regional areas. From launch, Prime broadcast the channel as 7TWO on Prime, in January 2011, regional broadcaster Prime Television changed the name of its primary channel to Prime7, to reflect its strong relationship with its metropolitan partner, Seven. This led to Primes re-transmission of 7TWO being rebranded as simply 7TWO, prime-time programs used to screen under themed nightly blocks such as Action Time and Movie Time, however these disappeared as the focus of the channel changed in 2010. The revised channel included Best of British content such as thrice-weekly British murder/mystery, British comedy, the launch of male-skewing sister channel 7mate in September 2010 led to a number of programs moving across from Sevens already existing channels, including 7TWO, to the new channel. 7TWOs target audience was also refined to people 55-plus, the weekday daytime schedule has seen numerous changes since launch as channel executives tried to find the right mix with viewers. In early afternoon, a mix of repeated fare such as Mistresses, Murphy Brown, Doctor Finlay, occasionally, shows which first aired the previous night on the main Seven channel are encored on 7TWO during the day. While initially, dramas such as Greys Anatomy were encored, more recently this has remained only for Sevens local reality shows such as The X Factor. An early morning weekly omnibus of the weeks new episodes of Home. The 7TWO block was replaced by local Australian childrens programs in 2013, from 2012 to 2016 on Saturdays at 7 am, Saturday Disney switched to 7TWO for its last two hours shown while Seven broadcast Weekend Sunrise, later moving to 7flix in 2016 until its end. A library of films are broadcast on 7TWO, sourced from Sony Pictures, Rank Arena. In 2011, following GO. s ratings share success in 2010, 7TWO has stolen their crown as the number one multi-channel and the number one most-watched multichannel of the decade and century in Australia
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7mate
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7mate is an Australian free-to-air high definition digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel replaced 7HD as the Seven Networks only high-definition channel, the first program broadcast on 7mate was the drawn 2010 AFL Grand Final in high definition. Due to the rebroadcast of 7HD on 10 May 2016, 7mate was reduced to a standard definition broadcast in Adelaide, 7mate later reduced to standard definition in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth in December 2016. The channel began airing as a channel on 25 September 2010. The channels first program was the drawn 2010 AFL Grand Final, following AFL coverage, the channel began airing breakaway programming, with a promotional sneak peek of upcoming programming on 7mate. The first full program to air was an episode of That 70s Show, upon the revival of 7HD on 10 May 2016, 7mate was reduced to standard definition. 7HD became a HD simulcast of Sevens main channel in Melbourne and Adelaide and this configuration is so that upcoming AFL matches can be broadcast in HD in all markets. However, 7HD was reverted to its state as a 7mate simulcast in Sydney, Brisbane. As of March 2017, 7mate has not reverted to high definition simulcasts via 7HD in Brisbane, Sydney, the channel is targeting a demographic of 16- to 49-year-old males, after the success of the Seven Network with 7TWO with females 35+ and 25+ demographics respectively. Programs aired on the channel are a mix of repeated shows that moved from the Seven Network or 7TWO, programs that would make their free-to-air debut, Seven and 7TWO now target its 55+ demographic. Shows that moved from other Seven channels include new seasons of Family Guy, American Dad. repeated seasons of Scrubs, Last Comic Standing, Air Crash Investigations,30 Rock, That 70s Show, Lost and How I Met Your Mother also moved to 7mate. Mighty Ships, of three episodes aired as one-off specials on the Seven Network, moved as a regular series to 7mate. Programs making their free-to-air debut include Eastbound and Down, Monster Garage, Jersey Shore, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, brand new series include The Equalizer, Warehouse 13 and Caprica. Additionally, the channel will feature a number of sporting events, from 2012, all AFL are broadcast live on 7mate in New South Wales, Australia and Queensland, Australia. 7mates local production Bogan Hunters premiered to the channels highest ratings for a program on 13 May 2014. Air Cops Americas Toughest Jobs American Dad, American Pickers American Restoration Auction Kings Bid America Big. 7mate airs Seven News updates that air on the main Seven channel, all national news updates are across any state. 7mate televises live AFL coverage into New South Wales and Queensland, where rugby league is the dominant sport
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Racing.com
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Racing. com is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel, owned and operated by the Seven Network and Racing Victoria. com websites live stream starting 26 June 2015. Seven affiliate Prime7 began an interim broadcast on channel 68 on 28 July 2015, the channel was officially launched on 29 August 2015, with Southern Cross Television commencing broadcasting on the same day. Foxtel began broadcasting the channel on 12 September 2015, Dubai World Cup Carnival 2016 announced that it will broadcast the final three meetings of the Dubai World Cup Carnival on Racing. com
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Racing Victoria
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It assumed this responsibility, from the Victoria Racing Club, on 19 December 2001. Racing Victoria represents the Victorian Thoroughbred industry in dealings with such as the Australian Racing Board. The constitutional objectives of Racing Victoria include, Ensuring that race meetings are managed and conducted to the highest integrity, management of revenues, costs, assets and liabilities to optimise economic benefits for Victoria. Meeting its social obligations by encouraging responsible wagering and gaming, exercising its powers to ensure public confidence and independence from any improper external influence
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TiVo
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TiVo is a digital video recorder developed and marketed by TiVo Corporation and introduced in 1999. Since its launch in the United States, TiVo has been available in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Taiwan, Spain. Newer models, however, have adopted the CableCARD standard, which is deployed in the United States. TiVo was developed by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay through a corporation they named Teleworld which was renamed to TiVo Inc. Though they originally intended to create a network device, it was redesigned as a device that records digitized video onto a hard disk. They began the first public trials of the TiVo device and service in late 1998 in the San Francisco Bay Area, because 31 March 1999 was a blue moon, the engineering staff code-named this first version of the TiVo DVR Blue Moon. The original TiVo DVR digitized and compressed analog video from any source, TiVo also integrates its DVR service into the set-top boxes of satellite and cable providers. In late 2000, Philips Electronics introduced the DSR6000, the first DirecTV receiver with an integrated TiVo DVR and this new device, nicknamed the DirecTiVo, stored digital signals sent from DirecTV directly onto a hard disk. In early 2000, TiVo partnered with electronics manufacturer Thomson Multimedia and this partnership resulted in the Thomson PVR10UK, a stand-alone receiver released in October 2000 that was based on the original reference design used in the United States by both Philips and Sony. TiVo ended UK unit sales in January 2003, though it continued to sell subscriptions, TiVo branded products returned to the UK during 2010 under an exclusive partnership with cable television provider Virgin Media. TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, TiVo also launched a special 2009 Christmas TiVo DVR that has a 320Gb hard Drive and comes with the HNP free. TiVo Australia also launched Blockbuster on demand and as of early December launched a service called Caspa on Demand. TiVo also went on sale in New Zealand on 6 November 2009, Janet Jacksons Super Bowl halftime show incident set a record for being the most watched, recorded and replayed moment in TiVo history. The baring of one of Jacksons breasts at the end of her duet with Justin Timberlake, a company representative stated The audience measurement guys have never seen anything like it. The audience reaction charts looked like an electrocardiogram, a TiVo DVR serves a function similar to that of a videocassette recorder, in that both allow a television viewer to record programming for viewing at a later time. Unlike a videocassette recorder, which uses removable magnetic tape cartridges, a TiVo DVR also automatically records programs which the user is likely to be interested in. TiVo DVRs also implement a feature which TiVo calls trick play, allowing the viewer to pause live television and rewind. More recent TiVo DVRs can be connected to a local area network, allowing the TiVo device to download information and even video programs, music
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Prime Media Group
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Prime Media Group Limited is an Australian-based media corporation, owner of regional television network Prime7 in eastern Australia and GWN7 in regional Western Australia. Prime Media Groups primary source of revenue is advertising revenue. Prime Media Group head office and ASX registered office is located in Watson, a secondary corporate office is located at Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney. Prime7 have sales offices located in each regional sub-market, there are also national regional sales offices at the Seven Networks metropolitan offices/studios Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Prime7s national broadcast facility in Canberra, works with Broadcast Centre Melbourne for programming play-out operations, Prime Television Limited began life in 1970, when mineral explorer Altarama Minerals was incorporated and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Following its movement into the industry, the business changed its name to Altarama Ltd in 1973. Paul Ramsay gained control of Altarama in 1985, subsequently renaming it again to Ramcorp Ltd. Soon after, the stations began to be known collectively as The Prime Network, in the lead-up to television aggregation, Ramcorp signed a 10-year programming affiliation agreement with the Seven Network – the start of a close relationship between the two networks. In 1991 the business changed its name to Prime Television Limited, reflecting its new nature as a broadcaster in regional Victoria. Prime expanded into Western Australia when it purchased the Golden West Network from current Seven Network owner Kerry Stokes in 1996, in the same year, Prime Television expanded internationally with the purchase of the Canal 9 television network in Argentina. Prime paid A$224 million for the network, later renamed Azul Televisión, before selling half of its share to local media group Torneos, Azul Televisión performed below expectations, largely due to a global economic crisis, and the Argentine network did not make a profit. Prime Television pulled out of Argentina in 2000, selling their stake for A$108 million, the network expanded further into New Zealand, with Prime Television New Zealand on 30 August 1998. In 2002, Prime New Zealand went into a joint venture with Australian company Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, under the agreement, Prime Television was given access to Nine Network programs, expertise and money. In return, PBL was given the option to acquire 50% of Prime Television New Zealand in 2008, as a result, Prime Television New Zealands ratings and profits increased significantly. Sky Television purchased Prime NZ for NZ$30 million in November 2005, for the 2007 Australian federal election, Primes online division iPrime launched Federalelection. com. au, produced from Prime Televisions Canberra headquarters in partnership with Roy Morgan. The Seven Network purchased 14. 9% of Prime Media Group, recently, Lachlan Murdoch realised the potential and domainance of the Prime Media Group, taking up an 8% stake. IPrime was an Australian internet portal produced by Prime Media Group Limited, Prime7 GWN7 Mildura Digital Television West Digital Television Becker Entertainment Prime Media Group
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Hoyts
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The Hoyts Group is an Australian group of companies, including Hoyts Exhibition, Hoyts Kiosk and Val Morgan. Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 10 New Zealand cinema complexes, Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the Hoyts Group, dominates the cinema advertising market with over 95% market share. In the exhibition business, the largest part of the Hoyts Group, their competitor is Event Cinemas and smaller competitors include Wallis Cinemas, Palace Cinemas, Dendy. After a financially disastrous run, Russell returned to his work as a dentist, undeterred, he leased the old St. Georges Hall in Bourke Street, Melbourne, and began showing short films on Saturday nights. Unlike his previous venture, it was successful, and as a result, by the time he died at the end of World War I, Hoyts had expanded into the suburbs of Melbourne, and into Sydney. On September 29,1926, Hoyts and two companies, Electric Theatres Pty. Ltd. and Associated Theatres Pty. Ltd. merged to become Hoyts Theatres Limited. On March 27,1936, the Fox Family Pictures logo secured a major shareholding in the company, in August 1982, Twentieth Century Fox sold Hoyts to a group of four Melbourne businessmen. In April 1985, the Fink family subsequently bought out the partners to become the sole owner. The Finks began to expand the company, into such as film distribution, home entertainment, and cinema operations in New Zealand. In 1987, the corporation was restructured and two of the companies in the corporation were listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Hoyts Media, however, the company that owned the cinemas, Hoyts Cinemas, was not floated until 1996. In 1996, Hoyts Cinemas was floated and in 1999, the late Kerry Packers private family company, Consolidated Press Holdings, after that, Hoyts began to sell off cinemas. This trend began in 1999 when their Polish operations were sold, in 2003, Hoyts sold its Hoyts America operations to Regal Entertainment Group except for the Simsbury, West Nursery and Providence Place locations, which will remain the locations of Hoyts America. In 2004, it joined forces with Village Roadshow and AHL to bail out Val Morgan Cinema Advertising, in December that year, PBL and West Australian Newspapers purchased the company from Consolidated Press Holdings. On 29 March 2007, Hoyts opened their latest cinema in Sylvia Park, in Auckland, New Zealand—featuring what is now the largest 35 mm film screen in the world and bean bag seating. In September 2007, PBL and WAN sold each of their 50% shares in the Hoyts Group to Sydney-based private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners, the sale valued the company at A$440 million. In October 2008, Hoyts announced a bid for Australian Multiplex Cinemas. On 17 March 2010 Australias Hoyts Corporation announced its intention to expand its New Zealand cinema operations with the purchase of Barrie Everards Berkeley Cinema Group, the two companies completed the transaction in June 2010 after regulatory approval, adding four multiplexes to Hoyts New Zealand presence in Auckland. In October 2010 it was announced that Hoyts will acquire Australian Multiplex Cinemas and this purchase was successfully completed in November 2010
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The Herald and Weekly Times
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The Herald and Weekly Times Limited is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia. It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdochs News Corp Australia, the HWTs newspaper interests date back to 1840 and the launch of the Port Phillip Herald. The Herald had a 150-year history and The Sun News-Pictorial a 68-year history in Melbourne, HWT had bought The Sun News-Pictorial in 1925. The HWT also publishes The Weekly Times, aimed at farmers, the HWT bought a controlling stake in The Advertiser of Adelaide in 1929. From 1929 until 1987, HWT owned and operated Melbourne radio station 3DB, in 1929, 3DB along with 3UZ participated in experimental television broadcasts using the Radiovision system. The Advertiser took a stake in The News two years later, the News was sold in 1949. The HWT bought The West Australian in 1969, but sold it to Robert Holmes à Court in 1987 as part of the News Limited takeover
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Rupert Murdoch
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Keith Rupert Murdoch /ˈmɜːrdɒk/, AC, KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, after his fathers death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late fathers registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974, to expand into the U. S. market, however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, in 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. Murdochs News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox, HarperCollins, and The Wall Street Journal, Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990, and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000, Murdochs News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, Murdoch faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U. S. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International, on 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox. Murdoch and his own both 21st Century Fox and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust. In July 2016, after the resignation of Roger Ailes due to accusations of sexual harassment, Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne to Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, Murdochs parents were also born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent and later a newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his maternal grandfather. Keith Murdoch the elder asked to meet with his wife after seeing her debutante photograph in one of his own newspapers and they married in 1928. In addition to Rupert, the couple had three daughters, Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury, Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was co-editor of the schools official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived. He took his schools cricket team to the National Junior Finals and he worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father to take over the family business. After her husbands death from cancer in 1952, Elisabeth Murdoch did charity work, as governor of the Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne. At the age of 102, she had 74 descendants, Murdoch completed an MA before working as a sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years. Following his fathers death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of the family business News Limited, Rupert Murdoch turned its newspaper, Adelaide News, its main asset, into a major success
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News Corporation
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The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. It was the worlds fourth-largest media group in 2014 in terms of revenue, board members include prominent former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar. News Corporation was a traded company listed on the NASDAQ. Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, South Australia, the company was re-incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law after a majority of shareholders approved the move on 12 November 2004. News Corporation was headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York and its major holdings at the time of the split were News Limited, News International, Dow Jones & Company, the book publisher HarperCollins, and the Fox Entertainment Group. News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a company for News Limited. News Limited was created in 1923 in Adelaide, subsequently the controlling interest was bought by The Herald, in 1949, Sir Keith Murdoch took control of The Adelaide News. When he died in 1952, his son Rupert inherited a controlling interest in an Adelaide afternoon tabloid, News Limited operates today as News Corporations Australian brand, The Australian operating out of Surry Hills, in Sydney. News Ltd. made its first acquisition in the United States in 1973, soon afterwards it founded the National Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976 it purchased the New York Post. In 1981, News Corp bought half of the movie studio 20th Century Fox, in 1985, News Corp announced it was buying the Metromedia group of stations, setting the stage for the launch of a fourth U. S. commercial broadcasting television network. On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only United States citizens could own American television stations. In 1986, the Metromedia deal closed, and the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched and this network, known on-screen as Fox, can now be picked up in over 96% of U. S. households. In 1986 and 1987, News Corp moved to adjust the production process of its British newspapers, a number of senior Australian media moguls were brought into Murdochs powerhouse, including John Dux, who was managing director of the South China Morning Post. This led to a confrontation with the printing unions National Graphical Association and Society of Graphical, the move of News Internationals London operation to Wapping in the East End resulted in nightly battles outside the new plant. Delivery vans and depots were frequently and violently attacked, in 1993, News Corp acquired a 63. 6% stake of the Hong Kong-based STAR TV satellite network for over $500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 36. 4% in July 1995. Murdoch declared that, have proved a threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. In 1995, the Fox network became the object of scrutiny from the FCC when it was alleged that its Australian base made Murdochs ownership of Fox illegal, the FCC, however, ruled in Murdochs favour, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the publics best interests
