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The licence to operate Darwin's third commercial television station was allocated to Darwin Digital Television Pty Ltd, a joint venture with the two existing commercial television broadcasting licensees in the Darwin area, Regional Television Pty Ltd (TND – Southern Cross Darwin) and Territory Television Pty Ltd (NTD – Nine Darwin) in early 2007.
The channel was due to launch in late 2007 but was delayed until the channel started test transmitting a test pattern on 21 April 2008 at 6.00p.m. ACST The channel started transmitting television programs on 28 April 2008 as part of a testing period ahead of the official launch.
Since April 2008, the station also carries 10 News Melbourne bulletins from ATV-10, instead of the Brisbane and Sydney feeds, as well as a small amount of 10 Sport programming.
The station has carried a sole 10 affiliate, on relay from Melbourne instead of Brisbane or Sydney, despite time zone differences between Northern Territory and Victoria.
The sale of Southern Cross Austereo's Seven-affiliated stations, alongside its stake in DTD, to Seven West Media was finalised in July 2025.
From Wikipedia’s article on DTD (TV station), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4