for VIC Television's aggregation, were retained until 2006. On 1 July 2016, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, VTV swapped affiliations with GLV/BCV switching from Nine Network to Network Ten, but VTV rebroadcast a feed of ATV-10 from Melbourne with local ads. On 1 July 2021, as the reverse of the 2016 affiliation swap, VTV swapped affiliations again with GLV/BCV from Network 10 to the Nine Network but VTV rebroadcasts a feed of GTV-9 from Melbourne with local ads. The stations is affiliated with the metropolitan Nine Network and also broadcasts most of Nine's sub-channels (9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life) except it doesn’t broadcast 9Rush. BTV-6 Ballarat & Western Victoria BTV-6 opened at 7pm on Friday 27 April 1962 with the documentary "This is BTV Channel 6". The station produced a wide range of local and part-networked TV programming through its history, most notably the chat show Six Tonight, which aired from 1971 to 1983, eventually also being carried on the Six (BTV6 Ballarat and GMV6 Shepparton) and TV8 (now Southern Cross) Networks across much of Victoria, as well as parts of South Australia and New South Wales. BTV placed a strong emphasis on local news, with the first news bulletin read by Arthur Scuffins on 27 April 1962. The nightly news program, Six News, was extended to 30 minutes in 1980 in response to the ABC dropping their regional news service in the late 1970s. The bulletin was rebranded as NewsCentre 6 in the mid-1980s. On-air talent included Arthur Scuffins, Eric Gracie, Val Sarah, Craig Campbell, Peter Gamble, Gary Rice, John Garland, Denis Walter, Glenn Ridge, Rob Gaylard, Glenn Driscoll and Fred Fargher. In late 2000, Ballarat's channel 6 moved to UHF channel 36, in order to allow neighbouring Melbourne station HSV-7 to commence digital television transmissions on Channel 6 without interference. GMV-6 Shepparton & Goulburn Valley GMV-6, one of the first regional television stations in Australia, began transmission from Shepparton on 23 December 1961 (the same launch date as BCV-8 Bendigo), broadcasting from a transmitter at Mount Major. Originally, the station was owned in conjunction with local radio station 3SR. The callsign of GMV referred to its coverage area which included the Goulburn River and Murray River catchment areas. The 'V' refers to Victoria as is the normal protocol for commercial TV station callsigns, where the third letter indicates the state in which the service