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Seven West Media Limited is an ASX-listed media company and is Australia's largest diversified media business with a leading presence in broadcast television, publishing and online. The company is controlled by Australian Capital Equity, which is the largest shareholder with 40.2% of shares and $250m convertible preference shares (CPS).

Seven West Media owns the Seven Network, Australia's second largest commercial television network (by audience and advertising market share). It also owns The West Australian, The Sunday Times and Community Newspaper Group.

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The Seven Network is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. Channel Seven's head office is in Sydney.

The Seven Network is the broadcaster of popular franchises and programs, including the AFL, the Cricket, the Olympics, Sunrise, My Kitchen Rules, Big Brother Australia, The Chase Australia, Australia's Got Talent, House Rules, Home and Away, Better Homes & Gardens, and Seven News.

Seven's administration headquarters are in Eveleigh, Sydney, completed in 2003. National news and current affairs programming are based between flagship station ATN-7 in Sydney and HSV-7 in Melbourne. In 2009, Seven moved its Sydney-based production operations from Epping to a purpose-built high-definition television production facility at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh.

The present Seven Network began as a group of independent stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. HSV-7 Melbourne, licensed to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd (owners of two local papers at the time, The Herald and The Sun), was launched on 4 November 1956, the first station in the country to use the VHF7 frequency. ATN-7 Sydney, licensed to Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was launched on 2 December 1956. The two stations did not immediately share resources, and instead formed content-sharing partnerships with their VHF9 counterparts by 1957: ATN-7 partnered with Melbourne's GTV-9, while HSV-7 paired up with Sydney's TCN-9. TVW-7 Perth, licensed to TVW Limited, a subsidiary of West Australian Newspapers, publisher of The West Australian, began broadcasting almost two years later, on 16 October 1959, as the city's first commercial station. BTQ-7 Brisbane followed on 1 November, signing on as Brisbane's second commercial television station. ADS-7 Adelaide was launched on 24 October 1959 as the final capital city VHF7 station. The station later swapped frequencies with SAS-10 on 27 December 1987 as ADS-10 and SAS-7.

In 1960, Frank Packer, then owner of Sydney's TCN-9, bought a controlling share of Melbourne's GTV-9, in the process creating the country's first television network (unofficially called "the National Nine Network") and dissolving the ATN-7/GTV-9 and HSV-7/TCN-9 partnerships. Left without their original partners, ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to form the Australian Television Network in 1963. The new grouping was soon joined by other capital-city channel 7 stations, ADS-7 Adelaide and BTQ-7 Brisbane.

Cross-media ownership laws introduced in 1987 forced Fairfax to choose between its print and television operations – it chose the former, and later sold off its stations to Qintex Ltd., owned by businessman Christopher Skase. Qintex had previously bought, and subsequently sold off, stations in Brisbane and regional Queensland before taking control of the network. The network became truly national in 1988 when Skase bought TVW-7 for $130 million. In 1989, the network changed its name to simply the Seven Network, though it had been unofficially using that name for some time before then.

In 1995, Sunshine Television, a Seven Network affiliate in regional Queensland, was purchased by the network's parent company, Seven Network Limited. Sunshine Television's regional stations effectively became a part of the Seven Network, identical in appearance and programming to the rest of the business' stations.

From 2010, the Seven Network began to implement the tactic of creating a 5 to 20-minute delay in the scheduled start time of non-live programming after 7:30 pm in an attempt to minimise viewer channel surfing between prime-time shows. This is done by increasing the duration of the commercial breaks and then decreasing them once the prime-time period is over. This tactic not only disrupts viewer recordings of the shows, but has a dramatic effect on their regional affiliates such as Prime and Southern Cross who must adapt their inserted commercials breaks as the live play-out from Seven's Melbourne facility occurs which can cause either both the regional station identification and the Seven identification being displayed with a possible black screen between them or the start of a program being missed entirely by the regional break overlapping.

Australian programming shown on the network includes dramas Wanted, soap Home and Away, lifestyle shows; Better Homes and Gardens, gameshows; The Chase Australia, Australia's Got Talent, reality; My Kitchen Rules, House Rules, First Dates and Seven Year Switch, factuals; The Force, Border Security, Highway Patrol, Beach Cops, Surveillance Oz and Gold Coast Medical.

Most US programming that airs on Seven and its digital multichannels is sourced from Seven's deals with Disney-ABC International Television / Disney Media Distribution (long running; also shared with Disney+), 20th Century Fox / 20th Century Studios (long running), StudioCanal / Sony Pictures Television International and Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Television Distribution / Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (theatrical films only), and Icon Films.

Seven is a major purchaser of Australian sports broadcasting rights. Seven's most popular recurring sporting events include the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Big Bash League, Women's Big Bash League, Australian Test Cricket, World Rally Championship, Australian Rally Championship, Australian Off Road Championship, AFL Premiership Season and the Australian Open Golf.

Seven is a standard definition channel through digital TV. There is a 1080i high definition version which was launched in October 2007. Seven's core programming is fibre fed out of HSV Melbourne to its sister stations and regional affiliates with ATN Sydney providing national news and current affairs programming. The receiving stations and affiliates then insert their own localised news and advertising which is then broadcast in metropolitan areas and regional Queensland through a number of owned-and-operated stations including ATN Sydney, HSV Melbourne, BTQ Brisbane, SAS Adelaide, TVW Perth as well as STQ Queensland. Seven Network programming is also carried into other areas of regional Australia by locally branded affiliate networks Prime7, GWN7 (14% owned by the Seven Network), Southern Cross Television, and WIN Television in South Australia.

Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6 pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins for regional Queensland and the Gold Coast.

The news service is retransmitted via a number of regional affiliates, including Prime7, GWN7, Southern Cross Seven and WIN Television. It draws upon the resources of Sky News UK, NBC, MediaWorks New Zealand, CBC, CNN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage.

National bulletins
Seven Early News airs at 5 am on weekdays and is presented by Jodie Speers, and includes news, business, finance, sport and weather. It airs from Seven's Martin Place studios and is followed by Sunrise. The bulletin first aired on 14 July 2008.

Seven Morning News airs at 11.30 am on weekdays and is presented by Ann Sanders (Monday - Thursday) and Sally Bowrey (Friday) from Seven's Martin Place studios with sport presented by Jacqueline Felgate (Monday), Matt Shirvington (Friday) and a rotating team of presenters from Tuesday - Thursday, including Felgate and Shirvington, along with Mel McLaughlin, Sean Sowerby and Andrew McCormack, and weather presented by Sally Bowrey (Monday - Thursday) and Angie Asimus (Friday).

Seven News at 5 airs at 5:00 pm every Saturday and Sunday and is presented by Angie Asimus, which includes news, sport, finance and weather. Sport is presented by Matt Shirvington (Saturday) and Mel McLaughlin (Sunday). It airs from Seven's Martin Place studios. The bulletin does not air on a Sunday in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth during the AFL season. Seven's affiliate Seven Tasmania in Tasmania airs the bulletin on tape delay at 5:30 pm right before the main bulletin at 6pm. The bulletin first aired on 1 March 2015 as a 'Special Presentation' until it became permanent on 29 March 2015.

The Latest: Seven News airs at or sometime after 10:00 pm on weekdays and is presented by Melissa Doyle (Monday and Friday) and Michael Usher (Tuesday–Thursday) from Seven's Martin Place studios. As the title suggests, the late-night bulletin provides up-to-date information on the latest news of the day. Western Australia has its own local live version of The Latest: Seven News, presented by Angela Tsun with sport presented by Chris Young. Until December 2018, the bulletin was known as Seven Late News.

Short localised updates are presented during the afternoons by various state-based reporters and eventually presenters and evenings by the state-based presenters. When breaking stories occur, newsflashes are presented from Seven's Martin Place studio or Seven Melbourne's national broadcast centre.

Capital-based bulletins
Afternoon news:
Seven's national afternoon bulletin was introduced in 2003 as Target Iraq, during extensive coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and presented from Sydney by David Johnston. The program was retained after the initial invasion and moved production to Melbourne and was subsequently renamed the Seven 4.30 News. Johnston retired in September 2005 and was succeeded by Rebecca Maddern until production returned to Sydney in July 2006. On 3 December 2010, the bulletin was extended to 60 minutes and began to feature a sports bulletin. Hour-long local afternoon bulletins were launched periodically in the capital cities, replacing the National bulletin in full. Melbourne and Brisbane launched local afternoon bulletins in August 2015. In July 2017, Adelaide launched their own local edition while the half-hour Perth bulletin was extended to replace the national bulletin in full.

The Sydney edition is broadcast from the network's Martin Place studios and is presented by Ann Sanders (Monday - Thursday) and Sally Bowrey (Friday). Sport is presented by Mel McLaughlin (Monday-Thursday) and Matt Shirvington (Friday) and weather is presented by Sally Bowrey (Monday - Thursday) and Angie Asimus (Friday). The local edition simulcasted across New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory through Prime7, and in Griffith through WIN Television's Seven Griffith.

The Melbourne edition is broadcast from the network's Docklands studios in Melbourne and is presented by Jacqueline Felgate (Monday and Friday) and Mike Amor (Tuesday - Thursday), with sport presented by Sean Sowerby (Monday-Thursday) and Andrew McCormack (Friday), and weather presented by David Brown. The local edition simulcasts across Victoria and New South Wales/South Australian border areas through Prime7 Victoria and Prime7 Mildura, as well as Tasmania through 7 Tasmania.

The state-based Queensland edition is broadcast from the network's Mount Coot-tha studios in Brisbane and is presented by Kendall Gilding. Shane Webcke presents sport (Monday - Wednesday) and Pat Welsh (Thursday - Friday) and Tony Auden presenting the weather (Monday to Thursday) and Paul Burt (Friday). Initially launched as a separate 90-minute bulletin in the South East Queensland region (Brisbane and surrounding areas received by BTQ transmitters), it is now simulcast across the state via Seven Queensland and across central and remote areas of eastern Australia on Southern Cross Central. It is also being aired in Darwin, Northern Territory through affiliate Southern Cross Television (TND-34), where it broadcasts live into all relevant time zones, thus ending the bulletin at 4:30pm in Darwin. On the Gold Coast and in Regional Queensland, the bulletin ends at 4:30 pm.

The Adelaide edition is broadcast from the network's Hindmarsh studios in Adelaide and is presented by Mike Smithson (Monday and Tuesday) and Rosanna Mangiarelli (Wednesday - Friday). Sport is presented by Nicki Barnet and weather is presented by Amelia Mulcahy. It is simulcast across South Australia through WIN Television SA and Southern Cross GTS/BKN.

The Perth edition is broadcast from the network's Osborne Park studios in Perth and is presented by Samantha Jolly from Monday to Thursday and Amelia Broun on Friday, who also present weather and sport is presented by Basil Zempilas. Unlike the former breakaway, the bulletin runs for a full hour. Regional WA affiliate GWN7, however, will end the bulletin at 4:30 pm to accommodate its local weeknight news service at 5:30 pm.

Nightly news:
Seven News Sydney is presented by Mark Ferguson from Sunday to Thursday and Michael Usher on Friday and Saturday from the Martin Place studios. Sport is presented by Mel McLaughlin from Sunday to Thursday and Matt Shirvington on Friday and Saturday. Weather is presented by Sally Bowrey from Monday to Thursday and Angie Asimus from Friday to Sunday. The Sydney bulletin is simulcast to the regional areas of New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory through Prime7 on weekends and to Griffith via WIN Television's Seven Griffith every night.

Seven News Melbourne is directed by Shaun Menegola and presented by Peter Mitchell on weeknights and Mike Amor on weekends from Broadcast Centre Melbourne. Sport is presented by Tim Watson from Sunday to Thursday and Jacqueline Felgate on Friday and Saturday. Weather is presented by David Brown on weekdays and Melina Sarris on weekends. The bulletin is simulcast throughout regional Victoria and New South Wales/South Australia border areas that receive television services from Victoria through Prime7 (with the NSW Border receiving a trimmed down 30-minute version of the full-hour news on weeknights), and to viewers in Darwin, Northern Territory through Seven Darwin (TND-34) on weekends. During the AFL season, the Saturday edition of Seven News Melbourne airs for only 30 minutes to fit in with the Seven Network's Saturday night AFL coverage.

Seven News Brisbane is directed by Ross Dagan and presented by Joel Dry and Sharyn Ghidella on weeknights and Katrina Blowers on weekends from Seven's Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Sport is presented by Shane Webcke from Sunday to Wednesday and Pat Welsh from Thursday to Saturday. Weather is presented by Tony Auden from Sunday to Thursday and Paul Burt on Friday and Saturday. The bulletin is also simulcast in Brisbane on local radio station 96.5 Family FM, to regional Queensland viewers in the Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay-Burnett, Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns television markets via the Seven Queensland network and across central and remote areas of eastern Australia, through Seven Central on weekends.

Seven News Adelaide is directed by Chris Salter and presented by Jane Doyle on weeknights and Rosanna Mangiarelli on weekends from Seven's studios located at Hindmarsh. Sport is presented by Mark Soderstrom on weeknights and Bruce Abernethy on weekends. Weather is presented by Amelia Mulcahy on weeknights. The Adelaide bulletin is simulcast to the regional areas of South Australia on Southern Cross Television GTS/BKN in the Spencer Gulf region and Broken Hill in New South Wales, and through WIN South Australia in the Riverland and Mount Gambier/South East regions of the state. During the AFL season, Seven News Adelaide does not air at the regular time on Saturday or Sunday if there is a twilight match involving Adelaide and/or Port Adelaide, in which case, a shortened edition is broadcast at half time, replacing analysis of the AFL matches broadcast, or a full bulletin is broadcast immediately after the game.

Seven News Perth is presented by Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr on weeknights and Paula Voce on weekends from Seven and West Australian Newspaper studios located at Osborne Park. Sport is presented by Basil Zempilas from Monday to Friday and Adrian Barich from Saturday to Sunday. Weather is presented by Samantha Jolly from Monday to Thursday and Amelia Broun on Friday. Seven News Perth is also simulcast on the GWN7 network to regional and remote areas of Western Australia and Curtin FM 100.1 in the Perth CBD area.

Regional bulletins:
Local news bulletins for Regional Queensland are broadcast each weeknight at 5.30 pm, in all seven regional areas: Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Wide Bay, Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast, and Rockhampton. They are followed by Seven News Brisbane. The bulletins are repeated on a hour delay on 7Two at 6.30 pm. The bulletins are presented by Rob Brough, with Joanne Desmond co-anchoring the Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Toowoomba editions. Sport is presented by Nathan Spurling and weather is presented by Livio Regano. Reporters and camera crews are based at newsrooms in each of the seven regions with studio presentation for the Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Darling Downs, Rockhampton and Wide Bay bulletins pre-recorded at studios in Maroochydore. The Sunshine Coast edition of Seven News is broadcast live, but may also exchange it to any of the six pre-recorded regions at certain circumstances (e.g., cyclone coverage in the nearest region of immediate concern). News editing is undertaken by the local newsrooms, and sent to the main Maroochydore studios for transmission.

Seven News Gold Coast is presented by Amanda Abate. Sport is presented by Tom Hartley and weather is presented by meteorologist Tony Auden (Monday - Thursday) and Paul Burt (Friday), and coastal, beaches and fishing reports from Paul Burt on a Thursday and Friday. The bulletin airs on weeknights at 5.30pm on BTQ-7's Gold Coast relay transmitters, ahead of the main 6pm news from Brisbane, placing it in direct competition with rival Nine Gold Coast News. The bulletin does not air when Australian Test cricket matches are scheduled. The local bulletin for the Gold Coast was introduced on 4 July 2016. It is produced and broadcast live from Seven's Surfers Paradise studio.

Sunrise is an Australian breakfast show program. It is broadcast on the Seven Network, and is currently hosted by David Koch and Samantha Armytage. The program follows Seven Early News, and runs from 5:30 am to 9:00 am. It is followed by The Morning Show.

Like most other breakfast television shows, Sunrise blends a mixture of news every 30 minutes, interviews and light-hearted feature pieces into three hours each morning. Often they will go out and present the show from other locations, such as Hawaii, Las Vegas, Athens, Disneyland, Beijing and Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games, Beaconsfield in Tasmania and Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. A major feature of the show is that the viewer can send in their responses to stories via email, SMS, phone, Facebook and Twitter. Viewers can also bring up issues they want reviewed or investigated and it is recorded on the ROSwall (Responses of Sunrisers).

Since 2015, Perth viewers receive their own localised news update, presented by Matt Tinney from Seven's Perth studios and airing every half-hour, prior to the national news update. This news update provides viewers with the most up-to-date news for Western Australia, which is two hours behind the eastern seaboard (and three during daylight saving), and includes news items from local reporters.

Traffic reports are shown at four regular intervals during the show, presented from a helicopter or a traffic management centre. Traffic reports air in the metropolitan markets of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. They are produced and presented by traffic reporters from the Australian Traffic Network.

Weekend Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by Monique Wright and Matt Doran.

Similar to Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise blends a mixture of news every 30 minutes, interviews and light-hearted feature pieces into three hours each morning. Occasionally, Weekend Sunrise may present the show from other locations, however, unlike Sunrise, this is less common. As with Sunrise, national news updates are provided every half-hour, followed by a summary of overnight sport and weather.

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7Two is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 1 November 2009. The channel broadcasts a variety of programs, targeting a 25-and-over audience. 7Two offers a broad selection of programs covering a variety of genres including lifestyle, drama, adventure, reality observational-documentaries and comedy.

The channel was officially announced by the Seven Network on its breakfast program, Sunrise, at 7:45 am AEDT 23 October 2009. Earlier, speculation suggested that Seven would launch its secondary channel around November 2009, with possible names including 7PLUS, PLUS7, Channel Mate and 7TWO.

The weekday daytime schedule has seen numerous changes since launch as channel executives tried to find the right mix with viewers. In early afternoon, a mix of repeated fare such as Mistresses, Murphy Brown, Doctor Finlay, and movies from the Sony Pictures library are shown. Occasionally, shows which first aired the previous night on the main Seven channel are encored on 7Two during the day. While initially, dramas such as Grey's Anatomy were encored, more recently this has remained true only for Seven's local reality shows such as The X Factor and My Kitchen Rules. An early morning weekly omnibus of the previous week's new episodes of Home and Away airs on Sundays. A library of classic films are broadcast on 7Two, sourced from Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Rank Arena and RKO Radio Pictures.

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7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel contains sport and regular programs aimed primarily to a male audience, with programming drawn from a combination of new shows, American network shows and other shows previously aired on its sister channels Seven and 7two.

The channel began airing as a separate channel on 25 September 2010. The channel's first program was the 2010 AFL Grand Final, which was simulcast with the Seven Network. Following AFL coverage, the channel began airing breakaway programming, with a promotional sneak peek of upcoming programming on 7mate. The first full program to air was an episode of That '70s Show.

The channel is targeting a demographic of 16- to 49-year-old males, after the success of the Seven Network with 7two with females 35+ and 25+ demographics respectively. Programs aired on the channel are a mix of repeated shows that moved from the Seven Network or 7two, programs that would make their free-to-air debut and brand new shows to Australian television.

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7flix is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 28 February 2016. The channel features a schedule of movie favourites and first run US shows. 7flix offers a feel-good mix, spearheaded by movie favourites every night at 8.30pm.

7flix began broadcasting at 6am on 28 February 2016 in MPEG-4, as seen in a YouTube video showing the promo loop ending and a re-run of Once Upon A Time starting afterwards. The channel airs movies in its prime time slots with television series and other entertainment at other times. On 13 April 2016, it was announced the channel would amend its schedule, shifting its focus from movies to more American dramas.

In December 2019 it was announced that 7flix will rebrand in July 2020 to target a young female audience. It now also airs content from the defunct 7food network channel.

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Racing.com is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel, owned and operated by the Seven Network and Racing Victoria. The channel broadcasts live Victorian and South Australian horse racing, news, racing statistics and information, race replays, event calendars and other related media.

The service officially launched on 29 August 2015, after a blackout of Victorian horse races by Sky Racing, and is available to viewers in metropolitan areas, as well as regional areas via Prime7, GWN7 and Southern Cross Television, and nationally via Foxtel.

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The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times. The West Australian is the second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833. The West tends to have conservative leanings, and has mostly supported the Liberal–National Party Coalition. The West Australian has Australia's largest share of market penetration (84% of WA), of any newspaper in the country.

The newspaper publishes international, national and local news. As of 23 February 2015, newsgathering was integrated with the TV news and current-affairs operations of Seven News, Perth, which moved its news staff to the paper's Osborne Park premises. SWM also publish two websites from Osborne Park including thewest.com.au and PerthNow. Opinion columnists now include Jenna Clarke, Lanai Scarr, Paul Murray, Sarah-Jane Tasker, and Andrew Bolt. The daily newspaper includes lift-outs including Play Magazine, The Guide, West Weekend, and Body and Soul. Thewest.com.au is the online version of the daily newspaper available to subscribers.

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The Sunday Times, owned by Seven West Media, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Formerly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and corporate predecessors since 1955, the paper was sold to SWM in 2016.

Established by Frederick Vosper in the 1890s, The Sunday Times became a vehicle for the harassment of C. Y. O'Connor and the proposed Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in the late 1890s until O'Connor's death by suicide in 1902. A subsequent government inquiry found no justification for Vosper's campaign against O'Connor.

To counter decreasing demand for newspapers and competition from radio, television and internet news, The Sunday Times has made adaptations in style and presentation but remains a populist tabloid rather than a newspaper of record. Its statewide circulation and extensive advertising content make it probably the most profitable newspaper in Australia.

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The Kalgoorlie Miner (known commonly as The Miner) is a daily newspaper circulating in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Goldfields-Esperance region. It is published Monday to Saturday by Seven West Media in Kalgoorlie and printed by Colourpress Pty Ltd in East Victoria Park. The West Australian and The Kalgoorlie Miner are the only two newspapers in Western Australia produced daily. It is also part of the West Regional network.