Television AU would know something about this, why was Shepparton offered a commercial television licence on its own in the first place? Remember in 1959 Shepparton’s population was only 9,000 and cities that could have got a licence such as Albury and Geelong missed out in the first round that year. In my opinion Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley would have been better served by a Border North East station based in Albury, we could have got a translator of the slick and professional AMV4 but instead we got yokel quality, looks like it was made in someone’s basement GMV6 instead. Shepparton getting its own station would be like Horsham, Hamilton and Warrnambool all getting their own TV stations instead of being lumped with translators of BTV6 Ballarat. And Geelong could have got a station of its own (frequencies were allocated, I’m sure local media and businessmen would have put in a bid) but I’m sure the Melbourne stations would have wanted none of that.
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