GLV/BCV

GLV and BCV, better known collectively as Southern Cross Ten Victoria, are television stations in regional Victoria, Australia.

History

Early years

GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia, on 9 December 1961, originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas. It was also the first station to use entirely Australian-made broadcasting equipment from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia. The original transmission equipment consisted of a 10 kW and 2 kW transmitter (standby) which was based on the RCA product and adapted to 230V 50 Hz by AWA. The Melbourne pickup was a Rhode and Schwarz off air receiver with AWA return microwave links to the Studio. BCV-8 followed two weeks later on 23 December 1961 (the same day as the launch of GMV-6 Shepparton), serving Bendigo and central Victoria.

Affiliations

GLV pioneered the use of live, 'off-air' relays of television programs from stations in Melbourne, including GTV-9's hugely popular In Melbourne Tonight. Since the station had no video recording equipment, engineers were forced to rely on picking up the original signal at the transmitter site to relay back to the studio. As the sole commercial television station in the region, GLV's program lineup included local output such as news and children's programs, combined with programs selected from Melbourne's commercial stations - the Seven Network (HSV-7), Nine Network (GTV-9) and from 1964, Network Ten (ATV-0, later ATV-10).

BCV

BCV could refer to:

GLV

GLV may refer to: