I wasn’t insterested in DTV channel name listings til last year, and i’ve lived up and down a lot of the Austrailan East Coast and not really having interest in television then, my fasination has grown so much now.
I do remember Newcastle’s channels breifly in 2014;
SC10 Newcastle, PRIME Newcastle and NBN Newcastle thats about as far back as i can remember.
Love everyone to share there old DTV channels, now and then.
Also some where to put them
Nine Mildura was until 2016 known as Ten Mildura.
Newcastle, NSW (as of Feb 1st, 2020)
1
2
200. Double J
201. ABC Jazz
202. ABC KIDS Listen
203. ABC Country
204. ABC NewsRadio
205. -
3
300. -
301. SBS Radio 1
302. SBS Radio 2
303. SBS Radio 3
304. SBS Arabic24
305. SBS PopDesi
306. SBS Chill
307. SBS PopAsia
308. -
UHF 35; PRIME, UHF 36; NBN NEWCASTLE, UHF 37; ABC NSW
UHF 38; SBS NSW, UHF 39; WIN
There was a time in Victoria when WIN on LCN 8 was just the region name. No mention of WIN in the name. This might have been pre-Media hub in about 2005-2006.
eg. Bendigo, Ballarat, Latrobe Valley etc.
At this time I think their HD loop on 80 was labelled WIN HD though.
Regional WA doesnt have much of a digital TV history. But the commercials started out on a shared mux in 2010 with:
5 TEN WEST
6 GWN
8 WIN WA
Then when full digital rolled out a year later, it was:
5 TEN
6 GWN7
8 WIN
Multi channels all had standard naming without locations ever used (WIN WA was the only exception for the first year)
Here is how local Darwin television currently stands on FTA.
2
200 Double J
201 ABC Jazz
202 ABC KIDS Listen
203 ABC Country
204 ABC NewsRadio
3
301 SBS Radio 1
302 SBS Radio 2
303 SBS Radio 3
304 SBS Arabic24
305 SBS PopDesi
306 SBS Chill
307 SBS PopAsia
4
1 Larrakia Radio (Indigenous Demographic)
2 Darwin FM (Playing Pop and Electronic Music)
3 Aboriginal Radio
4 Palmerston FM 88
Does 10 Darwin actually have DDT in the name? Interesting. Darwinites are probably very familiar with the DDT acronym. They should do this on Central to save precious space (10 Peach Central - South is just way too long)
Edit: Also 7mate in caps is weird. Must be the same in Tas and SA
Yes, however when 10 Darwin came into the picture that added 10 onto the front of it.
For years it was simply DDT and called the station Darwin Digital Television. I miss good old Southern Cross Television also.
@WAtvVideos Foxtel in Darwin still has the old Channel 10 logo present on 110.
Yikes. It’s still cable there yeah?
Unfortunately when AUSTAR merged into FOXTEL in about 2012 everyone had to flick over to satellite up here. I believe myStar required satellite though.
Digging through my random archives of TS Reader outputs:
20 - ABC HDTV
2 - ABC1
22 - ABC2
21 - ABC1
23 - ABC3
200 - ABC Dig Music
201 - ABC Jazz
No SBS Capture in the folder.
5 - SC10 Gippsland
50 - One HD Gippsland
55 - SC Ten
6 - PRIME Traralgon
60 - PRIME HD
61 - PRIME View 1
62 - 7TWO on PRIME
63 - PRIME View 3
8 - WIN Gippsland
88 - GO Gippsland
80 - WIN Gippsland HD
Here’s a bonus, the tiny capture of “7TWO on PRIME” that it recorded:
No ABC
3 - SBS ONE
32 - SBS TWO
33 - SBS 3
34 - SBS 4
30 - SBS HD
38 - SBS Radio 1
39 - SBS Radio 2
5 - SC10 Gippsland
50 - ONE Gippsland
55 - ELEVEN
8 - WIN Gippsland
88 - GO! Gippsland
80 - GEM Gippsland
6 - PRIME7 Traralgon
60 - PRIME7 Traralgon
61 - PRIME7 Traralgon
62 - 7TWO Traralgon
63 - 7mate Traralgon
64 - Television 4
No ABC/SBS in recordings…
5 - SC10 Bendigo
50 - ONE Bendigo
55 - ELEVEN
54 - TVSN
6 - PRIME7 Bendigo
60 - PRIME7 Bendigo
61 - PRIME7 Bendigo
62 - 7TWO Bendigo
63 - 7mate Bendigo
64 - 4ME
8 - WIN Bendigo
88 - GO! Bendigo
80 - GEM Bendigo
84 - GOLD
Is it still named ‘Nine-NBN Gold Coast’?
Jesus, Gold Coast television is the biggest mess I’ve ever seen.
Can someone give me an insight into why they have both regional and metro channels?
Becasue in analogue days the area was served by Brisbane (0, 2, 7, 9) and Northern Rivers TV (ANCRN 6 and RTN 8) but there were no local relays - people had large antennas to receive Brisbane and/or NSW.
When UHF relays were introduced. the Northern Rivers station was allowed to have a relay station and when aggregation came - all three commercials were given space.
Later, when LAP were introduced, the area came under Brisbane and Northern Rivers TV services.
Same for Central Coast NSW and Sunshine Coast.
LCN-8 was still “Nine-NBN Central Coast” when I was there in November, so I’d presume that the channel name situation hasn’t changed on either of the metro/regional overlap coasts.
As per TV Cynic, it’s a legacy thing. Pre-aggregation, the sole regional channel was rebroadcast via the local TV translators alongside the metro stations, I guess to provide viewers with an alternative choice.
Of course these days, I agree that overlap markets should only receive one set of networks like the rest of us. Surely the Gold Coast & Central Coast (Sunshine Coast is slightly different though, since only the Southern part gets the Brisbane metros IIRC) are large enough places to support their own TV sub-markets?
It’s kind of the best place to be for a TV nut! Would have been better in the SC Ten days though.
At the time RTB 8 provided a local news services for Northern Rivers that included Gold Coast reports. Plus the signal from 6 and 8 was stronger than the Brisbane signals in the southern part of the coast - especially for 7 and 9 as there was potential for interference with stations on 6, 7, 8 and 9.
So it was hard to say that the area should be allocated to just one of the markets as it was almost a 50/50 situation with respect to signal strength at least.
Cobar is another overlap market as it has 7 Central and Prime7, as confirmed by @SamuelGS within the past couple of years, along with Imparja and 10 Central.
Cairns LCNs, circa February 2010:
8 WIN TV Cairns
80 WIN HD
88 GO QLD
5 SC10 Cairns
50 One HD Cairns
55 SC Ten
7 7 Digital
70 7 HD
71 7 Digital 1
72 7TWO
73 7 Digital 3
2 ABC1
20 ABC HDTV
21 ABC1
22 ABC2
23 ABC3
3 SBS ONE
30 SBS HD
32 SBS TWO
33 SBS 3
34 SBS 4
