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HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, and its first and oldest station, having been launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of the AFL coverage. The HSV building (also known as 'Broadcast Centre Melbourne') is the network's 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 and national transmission output are delivered here. All Seven Network owned and operated studios have their LIVE signals relayed here (e.g.) ATN's output is fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optic to the towers around metropolitan Sydney, etc. ==History== The station began test transmissions in July 1956, and became the first 7 station in Australia and the first in Melbourne, commenced broadcasting on 4 November,〔Communications - Television - Radio and telecommunications - (The transmitting tower of Herald-Sun Television Pty Limited at Mount Dandenong, Victoria - Shown at the base of the tower are parabolic discs that pick up the signal transmitted by the studios in the city ) National Archives of Australia 1956 Retrieved on 18 December 2008〕 soon after the Commonwealth Government started issuing television licenses. 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 and well"''. 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 ''The Sun'' (now merged as the ''Herald Sun''). These papers gave rise to the call sign ''HSV'' (the 'V' stands for Victoria, as is the normal protocol for commercial television call signs to have the third letter indicate the state where the station is licensed, although for publicity purposes ''HSV'' was said to stand for ''Herald Sun Vision'') In March 1960, the station converted an old cinema in Fitzroy into the southern hemisphere's first fully remote studio, fully equipped with RCA TRT video tape recorders, cameras and vision mixing equipment, as well as major stage and artist areas and audience seating. It was connected back to the station's main Dorcas Street studios by multiple microwave links. The studios were opened with a major live show featuring Bob Crosby and his band and Jimmy Edwards, among others. The station began to identify as ''Channel Seven'' in the late 1960s, and since the early 1970s has used the national Seven Network logos, and has followed the network's on-air presentation and programming. In 1979, Fairfax bought a substantial share of HSV-7 after many failed bids for the entire station. In December 1986 the station was purchased in its entirety by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. In February 1987 HSV-7 was sold back to Fairfax, along with Brisbane station BTQ-7. As a result of the payback, HSV's unique faces-sports program World of Sport, newsreader Mal Walden and its Hello Melbourne campaign, Australia's contribution to the Hello News campaigns (which by then had spread to Seven's Adelaide and Perth stations, to Tasmania through TasTV and to Queensland through Darling Downs Television 10-4-5a)-were all pulled out. Walden later moved to Ten (ATV-10) 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 Skase's Qintex, which already owned Seven stations in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. 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, and the Seven Network became a discreet company. 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 station's local and networked programming during its 57 years on air. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HSV (TV station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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