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2 unusual facts about GTS/BKN


GTS/BKN

Based in Port Pirie with studio and playout facilities based in Canberra, the station's name originates from the original Port Pirie & Broken Hill stations callsigns, GTS-4 Port Pirie and BKN-7 Broken Hill.

GTS/BKN, known on-air as Southern Cross Television, is an Australian regional television station serving the Spencer Gulf of South Australia and the Broken Hill area of New South Wales.


BKN

Originally known as Amazin' Adventures until 1997, the block aired in national first-run syndication in the United States from 1992 to 2000 primarily on UPN, WB and Independent affiliates.

Broken Hill Football League

Indeed the city of Broken Hill to this day conducts itself in many ways as a city aligned to South Australia, using the same time zone (Australian Central Standard Time), being in the (08) Western/central area code, and its local television station, Central GTS/BKN, covers Broken Hill and parts of South Australia.

Dominik Farnbacher

Dominik Farnbacher (born 26 September 1984 in Ansbach) is a German sports car racing driver, and currently an SRT factory driver, driving an SRT Viper GTS-R in the American Le Mans Series.

EBags.com

In 2002, eBags took what they learned from eBags.com and formed Global Technology Services (GTS) - a division that operated e-commerce sites for two other brands in the bag industry: Tumi and Case Logic.

Emotional History

First press copies of the album came with a bonus track, "Always Love (Groove That Soul Mix)" remixed by GTS.

Ferrari 330

About 600 coupés and 100 spiders were produced before the 1968 introduction of the 365 GTC & GTS and the 365 GTB/4 "Daytona".

Ferrari 550

2003 would be the best year for the cars, as Prodrive won the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, took second in the GTS class championship in the American Le Mans Series with four wins, and Scuderia Italia won the FIA GT championship with eight wins.

Following the success of the 550-GTS, Ferrari would adapt the 575M for racing and offer it as a customer car for privateers.

Fiat 124 Sport Spider

The convertible body was designed by Tom Tjaarda, who used his earlier designs of Chevrolet Corvette “Rondine” and Ferrari 275 GTS.

GTS Technologies

In 2007, GTS Technologies formed a partnership with Geico spa the largest paint finishing supplier in Italy, another company with strong ties to Haden Drysys International.

Also based in the Midlands, GTS Technologies was founded by previous members of Haden Drysys management and took on part of the Haden Drysys engineering team.

IBM Global Services

GTS is the leading e-business on demand and hosting services provider, according to IDC, Forrester Research, Gartner/Dataquest and Meta Group; the leader in providing high-availability services, networking services and storage services, according to Gartner Group and IDC; the leader in the emerging wireless services market, according to IDC.

Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw

Laidlaw regularly competes in historic car racing around the world with his Porsche 904GTS, Porsche 904/6, Maserati 250S & Maserati 6CM.

Lamborghini Jarama

Ferruccio Lamborghini's personal Jarama GTS is on display at the official Lamborghini museum at the company's factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.

MAFless Tuning

The genesis for MAFless tuning of the LS1 in Australia was the HSV GTS version of the Holden Commodore, which was factory fitted with a Callaway-developed C4B version of that engine running in MAFless mode.

Porsche 928

Lagaaij reports that the car was very competitive and able to hold most 964 CUP GTs down, although the engine was no more than fine-tuned after having been chosen from a set of high power output specimen in Weissach.

Razerpak

With the immense multiplayer success of Quake, exemplified by QuakeCon and the award of a brand new Ferrari 308 in a Microsoft sponsored tournament in 1997, players were looking for ways to gain advantages in online play.

Rhys Millen

Rhys Millen (born in New Zealand), nephew of IMSA GTS driver Steve Millen, son of Rod and elder brother of Ryan, is one of the America's top competitors in drifting.

Salazar Racing

Salazar Racing is a Washington, D.C. based auto racing team currently competing in the One Lap of America, Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Autocross, and National Auto Sport Association (NASA) GTS and Spec E30 racing series.

SANET

International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).

Southern Cross News

Southern Cross GTS/BKN broadcasts a 30-minute local news program for the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill areas each weeknight at 6.30pm, following Seven News Adelaide.


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