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==Local media== ===Newspapers=== The weekly ''[[Latrobe Valley Express]]'' newspaper is delivered to all homes on Wednesday nights, in Traralgon, [[Morwell]] and [[Moe, Victoria|Moe]]. The ''[[Traralgon Record]]'' newspaper has been digitised from 1886 to 1932 as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.<ref>{{cite web|title=Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886β1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title135|publisher=Trove|access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref> Melbourne Newspapers such as ''[[The Weekly Times]]'', ''[[The Age]]'' and the ''[[Herald Sun]]'' and national newspapers like ''[[The Australian]]'', ''[[The Saturday Paper]]'', and the ''[[Australian Financial Review]]'' are also available. ===Television=== The area was the first in Australia to receive its own regional television station, [[GLV-10]] Gippsland (now Southern Cross 10), when it launched on 9 December 1961. Programs from the three main commercial television networks ([[Seven Network|Seven]], [[Nine Network|Nine]] and [[Network Ten|Ten]]) are all re-broadcast into [[Latrobe Valley]] by their regional affiliates β [[Seven Network|Seven]] ([[AMV (TV station)|AMV]]), [[WIN Television|WIN]] ([[VTV (TV station)|VTV]]) and [[Network 10]] ([[GLV/BCV|GLV]]). All broadcast from the [[Latrobe Valley]] transmitter at [[Strzelecki Ranges#Vegetation|Mount Tassie]]. All the commercial stations are based in [[Traralgon, Victoria|Traralgon]] and have local commercials placed on their broadcasts. Local news is available on all three commercial networks: *[[VTV (TV station)|WIN]] broadcasts a half-hour ''[[WIN News]]'' bulletin each weeknight at 5:30pm, produced from studios in [[Wollongong]]. *[[Network 10]] and [[Seven Network|Seven]] broadcast short local news and weather updates throughout the day, produced and broadcast from Seven's [[Canberra]] studios and Ten's [[Tasmania, Australia|Tasmanian]] studios. [[Nine Network|Nine]] previously produced a local news bulletin branded ''Nine News Gippsland'' and later ''Nine News Local'' for a brief period between 2017 and 2021 that aired on the [[10 (Southern Cross Austereo)|Southern Cross Austereo]] primary channel when it was previously affiliated with Nine. Both national [[Public broadcasting|public broadcasters]], [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] ([[ABC TV (Australian TV channel)|ABC TV]]) and [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]] ([[SBS (Australian TV channel)|SBS TV]]) are broadcast into the Latrobe Valley as well, via [[Strzelecki Ranges#Vegetation|Mount Tassie]], as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne. Additional digital multi-channels broadcast by all the networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called [[Freeview (Australia)|Freeview]] to viewers in Traralgon and the Gippsland/Latrobe Valley region. These channels include HD simulcasts of the primary channel (available on channels 20, 30, 50, 60 and 80). As well as [[ABC Family (Australian TV channel)|ABC Family]], [[ABC Entertains]], [[ABC News (Australian TV channel)|ABC News]], [[SBS Viceland]], [[SBS World Movies]], [[10 Bold Drama]], [[10 Peach Comedy]], [[Nickelodeon (Australian TV channel)|Nickelodeon]], [[7two]], [[7mate]], [[7flix]], [[7Bravo|7bravo]], [[9Gem]], [[9Go!]], [[9Life]] and [[Sky News Australia|Sky News Regional]]. Television transmissions from [[Mount Dandenong (Victoria)|Mount Dandenong]] for the Melbourne market (Seven, Nine and Ten) can also be received in [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] in Traralgon with a suitable roof-top antenna. Subscription television service [[Foxtel]] (previously [[Austar]] until 2014) is available via satellite. ===Radio=== There are two radio stations with studios located in Traralgon β [[TRFM]] (99.5 MHz) and [[Gold 1242]], both owned by [[Ace Radio]]. The FM station is broadcast along with the television channels from [[Strzelecki Ranges#Vegetation|Mount Tassie]] while [[Gold 1242]] is broadcast from an AM transmitter near [[Sale, Victoria|Sale]]. [[Warragul]] radio stations [[Triple M Gippsland|Triple M]] (97.9 MHz) and [[3GG]] (531 kHz) also service this region. Most [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] stations are rebroadcast locally and available in Traralgon, along with [[ABC Radio Melbourne|774 ABC Melbourne]] which is able to be received directly from [[Melbourne]] and the local [[ABC Gippsland]] station (100.7 MHz). Some Melbourne stations both on the AM band and the FM band can be heard in the more elevated parts of Traralgon, however DAB+ is not available without a vertically polarized roof-top antenna. Community radio stations Gippsland FM (104.7 MHz) based in [[Morwell]] and Life FM (103.9 MHz) based in [[Sale, Victoria|Sale]] are also broadcast into the Latrobe Valley and can be heard in Traralgon.
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