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Sydney (and other areas) also had amateur TV on UHF

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We had those in Melbourne as well but I never saw anything other than heavily snowy pictures but could make out that they put their call-sign on screen. They seemed to just show still pictures, I suppose they carried audio as well but I can’t recall. As an outsider I never really saw the point of amateur TV because they never really showed anything, just guys broadcasting glorified test patterns?

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A very early form of Community Television?

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Educational television, as it was licenced for a specific purpose - as an experimental station I gather. UNSW also had an AM off-band radio station VL2UV.

The University of Sydney had an in-house video operation to record and playback lectures but I can’t find any evidence that they had a broadcasting licence.

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What people could receive was the amateur repeater station. Amateur licencees would broadcast their signal to that and have it relayed. So a lot of the time there was no input into the repeater. I would occasionally pick up the SEQ from Ocean View and see one someone’s travel videos; or even just photos.

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Now I’ve gone down a rabbit warren and found the Melbourne Amateur TV group

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The old BBC test pattern girl doing tic-tac-toe in the middle there.

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Fidgeon even had his cartoons appear in Mad Magazine back in the late 1980s.

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Adelaide too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAhNpHOXg4

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Today’s TV: 22.3.1985, Adelaide

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Source: TV Radio Extra

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Perfect Match, Willesee, a reboot of Blankety Blanks (this time hosted by Daryl Somers), Sale of the Century.

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While reruns of the original were airing over on 10 in the afternoon!

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…and if I’m not mistaken, the logo for Channel 4 UK is in there too! :open_mouth:

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Also noticed Come And Get It, with Peter Russell Clarke, he was very popular then.

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I used to rush home from school to catch the re-runs of the original

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Sydney TV: Saturday 24 March 1990 (Federal Election Day)
from Sydney Morning Herald

ABN2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Worzel Gummidge
9.30 Turning the Tide
10.00 Gardening Australia
10.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
11.00 Journey into the Himalayas
11.30 Come and Get It
11.35 NBA: teams not listed
1.05 English Soccer highlights
2.00 American Bowl '89: Cleveland at Philadelphia
3.00 Saturday Super League: Penrith v. Balmain
4.45 Sports News
5.00 Rugby Union’s Five Nations: Scotland v. England
6.00 News
6.30 Election '90: The Verdict
10.30 Call of the Board
11.00 Movie “Good Morning Babylon”
12.55 Rage

ATN7
6.00 Clue Club
6.30 Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Video Smash Hits (music)
12.00 Runaway Island
1.00 Movie “Abbott and Costello in Hollywood”
2.50 Movie “Who Done It?”
4.30 Get Smart
5.00 Great Mysteries of the World
6.00 News
6.30 Poll '90: Election Coverage
10.30 Knots Landing
11.35 Movie “The Seniors”
1.00 Hollywood’s America (with Charlton Heston)
3.00 Movie “This is Kate Bennett”
4.30 Science International
4.45 Movie “Oh Baby, Baby, Baby”

TCN9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Tennis: International Players Championship
1.00 Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat)
6.00 News
6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday!
8.30 Election '90: The Main Event
11.00 MTV
2.00 Movie “The Night Strangler”
3.45 Movie “Key West”
5.25 The Young Doctors (repeat)

TEN10
6.00 Bricks & Mortar
6.30 Soccer: World Cup
7.00 Great Space Coaster
7.30 Kids News
8.00 Moonjumper
8.30 Fraggle Rock
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Movie “The Errand Boy”
2.00 Movie “Law of the Lawless”
4.00 Swiss Family Robinson
5.00 Jack Thompson Down Under
6.00 News
6.30 Movie “Barnum”
8.30 Election '90 Update
8.35 Movie “Notorious”
10.50 Election '90 Update
11.05 Movie “Panic in the Street”
1.05 Movie “Pray for Death”
3.00 Movie “Rosie”
5.00 The Down Under Show

SBS
3.30pm The Struggles for Poland “Friends & Neighbours”
4.30 Ballerina (the lives and careers of ballerinas)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Floyd’s American Pie (Keith Floyd visits Texas)
7.30 Election Update
7.32 Dateline
8.40 Minga
9.00 Election Update
9.10 Movie “My Apprenticeship” (USSR; includes Election Updates at 10.00 and 11.00)
11.10 Movie “Dear Inspector” (France)
12.55 Movie “Tree of Knowledge” (Denmark)
2.45 Movie “Little Flames” (Italy)
4.05 Movie “Something in Between” (Yugoslavia)
5.50 sign-off

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Now that’s a Saturday well spent at home!

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Wish we had such a day these days!

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Well, with Kayo/Fox Sports, Optus Sport and streaming sport, you could really…

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Yeah I mean on FTA…

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