Media in Melbourne
Relative to most other Australian cities, Melbourne media is unusual in its size and diversity. Newspapers Melbourne has two major daily newspapers, the compact format The Age owned by Nine Entertainment, and the News Corp Australia owned tabloid format Herald Sun. The Herald Sun was created from the merger of the morning tabloid newspaper The Sun and the afternoon broadsheet newspaper The Herald in 1990. A third major paper, The Argus was discontinued in 1957. The weekly Melbourne Observer newspaper was established in 1969. It is show business oriented. It is on sale and available free online. Melbourne is served by various newspapers published in languages other than English. These include newspapers published in Melbourne and those published elsewhere. There is also a wide variety of street press available in Melbourne. There are a variety of free, weekly newspapers focused on local suburban regions. These are usually distributed to households without subscription. The free afternoon tabloid format mX was a brief attempt at reviving the afternoon newspaper in Melbourne. Television Melbourne is served by six free-to-air television networks. The three commercial television providers, the Seven Network, the Nine Network and Network 10 have commenced broadcasting new sub-channels including 7HD, 7two, 7mate, 7flix, 7Bravo, 9HD, 9Gem, 9Go!, 9Life, 9Rush, 10 HD, 10 Peach, 10 Bold, 10 Shake. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation provides five channels, ABC (also available in High Definition), ABC TV Plus, ABC Kids, ABC Me and ABC News from their Southbank studios. The Special Broadcasting Service television also provides six television channels, SBS (also available in High Definition), SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS WorldWatch, SBS Food and NITV. C31 Melbourne is a public access community television station which screens mostly foreign-language television for migrant communities, and amateur lifestyle programs. Melbourne has a large and thriving television industry that along with Sydney, produces most of the Australian prime-time television content. Melbourne produced television series include Neighbours, Kath & Kim, Hey Hey It's Saturday, The Footy Show (AFL), Blue Heelers, Dancing with the Stars, Steven Spielberg's The Pacific, Rush, Underbelly, Thank God You're Here, Rove Live, Summer Heights High, The Project, The Marngrook Footy Show, Millionaire Hot Seat, Deal Or No Deal, The Chase Australia, Family Feud, Offspring, The Panel, The Real Housewives of Melbourne, Winners & Losers and House Husbands. The ABC has a large headquarters and production facility in the inner-city suburb of Southbank, SBS studios at Federation Square, C31 at Melbourne city, Nine at Docklands (previously Richmond), Ten at South Yarra (previously Nunawading) and Seven at Docklands (previously South Melbourne). Melbourne is also served by paid subscription television services Foxtel, Optus TV and UBI World TV. Radio Melbourne has a wide range of radio stations. For 2010, the Nielsen Company estimates the Melbourne radio market has 3,840,000 listeners. Sports radio Melbourne has several radio stations dedicated to sports broadcasting. One such station is 1116 SEN, which took over 3AK's old radio licence and replaced it with a 24-hour sports format. RSN Racing & Sport (formerly known as