NRN

NRN is a television station originating in Coffs Harbour, Australia.

History

Origins

NRN11 Coffs Harbour had merged with ECN8 Taree, but later demerged. Around 1971, RTN8 and NRN11 merged to form Northern Rivers Television (NRTV), but was known on air as 11-8. It served the Mid North Coast and Far North Coast areas of Northern NSW. During the mid 1970s, the station was known as Great Eastland Television, when they shared programming and advertising with NEN9 and SDQ4, but they soon reverted back to the NRTV brand.

In 1983, NRTV was relayed into the Gold Coast after a lobbying campaign from residents, although they could also watch other television stations from Brisbane. NRTV's Gold Coast Office and Production Studio were constructed in Ashmore on Southport Nerang Road. The Office didn't have a news bureau, although relayed local news from the Coffs Harbour studios. News crews from Lismore travelled to the Gold Coast for stories of importance.

1990s to 2000s

On 31 December 1991, Northern NSW became the third area to be aggregated, and NRTV, via links to Network Ten (it was part of Northern Star Holdings, owned by Westfield Group chairman Frank Lowy), became its affiliate in Northern NSW. At one stage, NRTV was the subject of a bid from WIN Television; nothing came of it, but if WIN had gone through with the bid, it would have made NRTV the Nine Network's affiliate and left an unhappy NBN as Network Ten's affiliate instead.

NRTV was later sold to Telecasters Australia, who also owned the Queensland affiliate of Network Ten. In 1994, the station was renamed Ten Northern NSW, and its station identification was changed to that of Network Ten's. In 1994–1995, the station stopped producing local news for Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Gold Coast. They had previously produced a licence-wide bulletin, but that too was axed due to poor ratings.

Main Transmitters

Region served	City	Channels (Analog/ Digital)	First air date	ERP (Analog/ Digital)	HAAT (Analog/ Digital)¹	Transmitter Coordinates	Transmitter Location
Grafton/Kempsey	Coffs Harbour	11 (VHF) 38 (UHF)	January 23, 1965	250 kW 250 kW	706 m 730 m		Mount Moombil
Manning River	Taree	65 (UHF) 44 (UHF)	December 31, 1991	600 kW 320 kW	633 m 633 m		Middle Brother
Newcastle/Hunter River	Newcastle	57 (UHF) 51 (UHF)	December 31, 1991	1200 kW 500 kW	439 m 439 m		Mount Sugarloaf
Richmond and Tweed²	Lismore	8 (VHF) 32 (UHF)	May 12, 1962	200 kW 200 kW	612 m 648 m	(analog) (digital)	Mount Nardi
Upper Namoi	Tamworth	34 (UHF) 40 (UHF)	December 31, 1991	600 kW 330 kW	844 m 874 m		Mount Dowe

1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
2. The Richmond and Tweed station was an independent station with the callsign RTN from its 1962 sign-on until aggregation in 1991.