Great Eastland Television

Great Eastland Television
Launched October 19, 1975
Closed 1987
Network Independent
Owned by Darling Downs TV, Television New England, Northern Rivers Television
Country Australia
Language English
Broadcast area Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland
Affiliates 7 main stations, plus relays
Replaced by 10-4-5a Darling Downs Television, 11-8 Television, 9-8 Television
Availability
Terrestrial
Darling and Southern Downs, Queensland DDQ 10/5a Toowoomba, SDQ-4 Warwick and relays
Mid and Far North Coast, New South Wales NRN-11 Coffs Harbour, RTN-8 Lismore, and relays
New England, North West and Manning River, New South Wales NEN-9 Tamworth, ECN-8 Taree and relays

Great Eastland Television (GET)[1] was a network of affiliated country television stations servicing northern New South Wales and South East Queensland from 1975 to 1987. The system combined three pairs of television stations in the Darling and Southern Downs regions of Queensland and the New England, Manning River and North Coast regions of northern New South Wales.

The stations involved in the network were:

All the stations were independently owned of each other, but shared common programming and branding. The stations were branded as GET (channel number), for example, DDQ/SDQ was known as GET 10-4-5a. The network was formed as a response to rising programming coasts incurred by regional stations in the 1970s.

The network was dismantled in the mid to late 1980s, although by the close of the decade, NRN/RTN and DDQ/SDQ were co-owned and at one point, DDQ's operations were to be largely based out of Coffs Harbour, before becoming part of the RTQ license in the regional Queensland market.

Today, they are now affiliated with metropolitan networks as part of larger ownership groups. DDQ and SDQ are now relays of WIN Television's Queensland license (as RTQ), NRN and RTN are now Southern Cross Ten's northern New South Wales station, and NEN and ECN are now the Prime7 station in the same market. In the latter cases, the RTN and ECN call-signs were replaced with those of NRN and NEN respectively.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bonney, B.; Wilson, H. (1983). Australia's commercial media. Macmillan Company of Australia. ISBN 9780333339145. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
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