SAS-7

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</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Type</th><td>Broadcast television station</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Country</th><td>Australia</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Founded</th><td>1965</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Slogan</th><td>GOTTALOVEIT</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Market share</th><td>25.8% (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Licence Area</th><td>Adelaide (map)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Owner</th><td>Kerry Stokes</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Launch date</th><td>July 26 1965</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Digital channel</th><td>VHF 6</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Analog channel</th><td>VHF 7</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Callsign</th><td>SAS-7</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Affiliation</th><td>Seven Network</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Website</th><td>www.yahoo7.com.au</td></tr>

SAS-7 is a television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Australian Seven Network.

SAS-7 was originally known as SAS-10, commencing broadcasting on 26 July 1965. On 27 December 1987, SAS-10 and ADS-7 switched broadcast channels, ADS moving to channel 10, SAS moving to channel 7. As the television industry was consolidating in Australia, these channels had each become associated by ownership with interstate stations bearing the opposite channel numbers, so to simplify network interaction, they agreed to swap channel assignments and network affiliations in Adelaide. ADS was owned by Kerry Stokes who also owned NEW-10 and Capital Television.<ref>NETWORK TEN TURNS 40. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.</ref><ref>James Barrington (2006-03-31). Switching Signals. Intertel. Transdiffusion Broadcasting System. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.</ref> SAS was owned by TVW-7.

The station celebrated 40 years in 2005 with a special television program “Made in Adelaide 40 Years of Television”

Popular television shows made during the SAS-10 era include children’s shows Fat Cat and Friends, The Early Birds, Crackerjack, Romper Room. Music shows included In Time, Trax and Simulrock. Popular variety talent shows included Adelaide’s New Faces and Pot Luck. Also from 1973 to 1989 the Christmas Appeal telethon was held each year.

The popular television game show Wheel of Fortune originally commenced recordings in ADS-7 studios since July 1981 on ADS-7 and after the changeover to SAS-7 continued until July 1996 when the show moved to ATN-7 Sydney.

Other popular shows after the change over included Fat Cat and Friends until 1992 and Trax until 1990.

Currently the station produces Discover, Seven News and the local edition of Today Tonight which out rates the national A Current Affair.