ATV (Australia)

ATV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia, part of Network Ten – one of the three major Australian commercial television networks.

History

In April 1963 the licence to operate Melbourne's third commercial television station was awarded Austarama Television, owned by transport magnate Sir Reginald Ansett. The new channel, ATV-0 (pronounced as O, never the number zero), began transmission on 1 August 1964 from a large modern studio complex located in the then-outer eastern suburb of Nunawading, in the locality now known as Forest Hill, but referred to at the time as East Burwood.

The new station opened with a preview program hosted by Barry McQueen and Nancy Cato followed by a variety program, This Is It!. Reception difficulties in parts of the city resulted in the station's virtually permanent third position in the Melbourne television ratings.

ATV had been experimenting with colour transmissions from 1967, when the station was the first to mount a colour outside broadcast in Australia, from the Pakenham races. Many other colour test transmissions occurred subsequently. Full-time colour transmission was introduced to ATV-0 in March 1975 in line with other stations around the country.

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ATV may refer to:

In broadcasting

15 ATV

15 ATV is the Aruba NBC affiliate, broadcasting on Channel 15 on SETAR's Cable TV system and Channel 8 on terrestrial television in the NTSC television standard. The station has the call-sign of PJA-TV (following the standard in the Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles, with PJ callsigns), though it goes by its branding of "ATV". The station is an NBC licensee, the only one not located in the United States (following the 2014 closure of VSB-TV in Bermuda), airing many American television programs for the tourists in the area, with programming from WNBC New York City during primetime and overnight hours. 15 ATV also broadcasts several local productions, including Noticia Awenochi, Time Out, Mesa Rondo, 15 On 15, Pulso Latino, Trend Alert, Stylish Living and live coverage of events and breaking news.

15 ATV's studios are located at Royal Plaza Mall in downtown Oranjestad.

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ATV (Russia)

ATV (Author Television) is the oldest Russian private TV company. It was founded in the USSR in 1988 by Anatoly Malkin & Kira Proshutinskaya. It reached it height in popularity in Russia in the 1990s.