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| City of license | Melbourne, Australia |
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| Broadcast area | Melbourne |
| Branding | SEN 1116 |
| Slogan | "Melbourne's Home of Sport" and "Melbourne's New Home of Footy" |
| Frequency | 1116 kHz AM |
| First air date | 2004 |
| Format | Talk/Sport |
| Class | Commercial |
| Callsign meaning | SEN - Sports Entertainment Network |
| Former callsigns | 3AK |
| Owner | Pacific Star Network Limited |
| Webcast | http://sen1116.conexim.com.au/sen1116_16.asx |
| Website | http://www.sen.com.au |
SEN 1116 (callsign 3AK), the acronym standing for Sports Entertainment Network, is a commercial AM radio station based in Melbourne, Australia, operating on 1116 kHz. It is currently owned and operated by Pacific Star Network Limited.
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History
SEN began in late January 2004, leasing the 3AK frequency from Pacific Star. While initially, ratings were steadily rising, the station's financial position took a turn for the worst in early 2005, with several employees, including Dermott Brereton, Mark Doran, and Robert Shaw not being paid. This eventually led to Brereton walking out on the station.[citation needed]
Expansion into Adelaide
These financial problems also affected their expansion attempts into Adelaide, having leased the 1323 kHz frequency from the Australian Radio Network (ARN). ARN closed their classic hits station 5DN in December 2004 to make way for SEN 1323, which started the following month.
SEN's financial difficulties eventually saw control of the Adelaide lease revert to ARN in mid-2005 (who would eventually start Cruise 1323 on the 5DN callsign and frequency).
Purchase from administrators
On 2005-06-06, Pacific Star announced the purchase of the Melbourne business of SEN from its administrators. [1]. SEN is now owned and operated by Pacific Star, alongside its easy-listening sister station 3MP.
2006 onwards - AFL rights
After covering the Victorian Football League in 2005 and 2006, SEN is broadcasting 5 matches of live AFL football every round of the 2009 AFL Premiership Season. 1116 SEN's AFL Football Commentary team is Matt Granland, Anthony Hudson, Kevin Bartlett, David Schwarz, Dermott Brereton, Wayne Schwass, Terry Wallace and Billy Brownless. Grant Thomas was sacked from the network in controversial circumstances in June 2009.
Digital Radio and SEN
2009 sees the commencement of digital radio broadcasting in Melbourne. Digital radio transmissions are to be provided by Service Licenced radio stations within the Broadcast Services Bands (AM: 526.5 kHz - 1606.5 kHz and FM: 88.1 MHz to 108.0 MHz)
SEN will one of the establishment broadcasters in Melbourne's digital radio spectrum, and will present two services within its allocated bandwidth.
The services will provide the familiar SEN services under the "SEN" banner, and the second service will offer live sports broadcasts from non-AFL codes such as VFL, Basketball and Soccer. The second service is expected to be known as "SEN 2"
List of Programs
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The SEN AFL commentary team are:
References
- ^ Pacific Star Network Limited (2005-06-06). Pacific Star Network Limited purchases Sports Entertainment Network. Announcement to Australian Stock Exchange, accessed 2006-09-27.
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