‘Central Coast Express Advocate’ TV guide for 25 June 1993. This one intrigued me in that Prime has ads up the top but their guide gets squished to the bottom right hand corner.. NRTV not listed either.
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Mostly because their guide was listed the only way regional channels should be shown: “All programmes are the same as… with the exceptions of…”
Not this.
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Did NRTV have transmitters on site there? We know they didn’t proceed at some of those Central Coast sites, leaving viewers with the Ten relay from Sydney.
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They did at Wyong, but not Gosford or Bouddi.
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There were no regional variation between NRTV and 10 on Central Coast at that stage as the old NRTV area was the only region in northern NSW with NRTV Evening News, rest of Northern NSW had 10 Eyewitness News at 5.
Also I cant remember Sale Of The Century screening at 11:30am in 1993 on NBN TV, was this just a Central Coast thing,?
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This is from earlier in 1993, but Newcastle (and almost certainly everywhere else) had Sale at 11.30am
NRTV had a number of variations from Ten in Feb 1993, mostly later at night, probably likely they did in June as well.
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i remember when the central coast first got NRTV the reception at my place was terrible i lived in ettalong at the time
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You might have been getting the signal from Newcastle then? That doesn’t surprise me.
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The show on NBN at 7:30pm would look very different if it was on today. 
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“Your Local Station”, I doubt it. That “local” news would be the Newcastle news surely.
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Yes, it would have been. NBN was the same back then too, I think the extra local NBN News windows didn’t get added until mid 1990s, but Gold Coast wasn’t until 2005.
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possibly - we also got NBN and that was always clear but i am sure there was a transmitter somewhere on the central coast for NBN where i dont think there was one for NRTV
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In recognition of last night’s WBBL cricket Final and the BBL starting tonight, below is Sunday 18 December 1994, the 50 over game where Zoe Goss famously dismissed West Indian superstar Brian Lara in a Sir Donald Bradman XI vs World XI match.
This guide from the Sydney Morning Herald also shows Brisbane variations (to accommodate the game due to DST) and also somewhat unusually, there was no blackout for Sydney viewers with the game being at the SCG (not sure if that was because the game was a sellout or not).
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My guess is that it was a special match and not one of the proper international matches and was not subject to the host city blackout.
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Friday 1 May 1992
First day of Prime and NBN on the Gold Coast, also from the “Gold Coast Bulletin”.
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Thursday 11 November 1993 - a time when there wss no requirement for regionals to timeshift programs into the Gold Coast due to DST, simply “deduct one hour” according to the guide
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Great to see Sky Channel being included.
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Still using the old 7 and 11-8 logos long after they were “retired”.
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Why did they include the Sky channel? Wouldn’t have been Pubs and clubs only back then?
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