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After months of promotion, Australia's Ten network has finally launched their new high-definition multichannel, named Ten-HD. The station promises up to 50-hours of different content to the regular, standard definition Ten service, although most of this will be outside peak viewing hours. The Channel Ten evening news, broadcast at 5pm for many years now, will be repeated half an hour later on the high-definition channel, and already a number of low-rating programs have been moved off the SD channel onto the HD service.

Unfortunately, there isn't much prime-time multichannelling, and most printed television guides haven't yet listed the new station, so it remains to be seen whether it will gather much of an audience.

This is the second HD multichannel service to start operation in Australia; back in October, the Seven network commenced separate programming on their 7-HD channel.

This leaves the Nine network as the only metropolitan commercial network without a multichannel service, although they have claimed it will begin in 2008.