A Seven Nightly News Melbourne update from 1999 AFL Grand Final day. Does anyone know who the V/O is?
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Sally Young.
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Here’s a link to just the report, could be useful for @TelevisionAU if he’s planning to do a write-up about the station for the website on Thursday (the date of MVQ’s 50th anniversary)! 
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When Optus started their AFL channel(later on C7 Sport) they were the first to do it nationally. Fox took it one step further, and since 2012, most people watch games this way.
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Absolutely love those caps! Do you happen to have any video from this era?
Yeah, that ABC News Victoria set hasn’t aged well and probably would’ve looked dodgy back then!
The NSW and ACT sets were a little better judging by the footage I’ve seen online, although the 2005 relaunch was a major improvement overall.
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Good reminder ABC Vic really needs another desk presenter these days. Perth has a sports presenter 7 days a week.
What sets Perth apart from the rest so that they get a sports presenter? Tas only has News/Weather presenters.
Yeah seems odd that Perth gets two sport presenters and a weather presenter, when all other markets have only one “secondary” presenter (weather presenters in Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas, and a weekend sport presenter in SA).
To bring it back to tv history, didn’t the Melbourne newsroom go on strike when Angela Pippos was moved to weekends?
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Why BCV11 Swan Hill wasn’t a translator actualy, @myfriend ???
I thought it was
I think I just have the last few minutes of a bulletin from 2002, which is where these caps are from. I’ll look for the video and will upload it when I do.
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I have post it previously but it seem that, (I don’t want to insult you, @myfriend) you need to change some moderator, actually…
The sign on and off of TV8/SCN have this part:
“…transmitting to regional Victoria and SNSW, through BCV8, GLV8, STV8 and BCV11, with translator stations : GLV6, GLV7, GLV11.”
When I look up on Wikipedia:
BCV11 was licenced as a translator (see below from the Australian Broadcasting and Control Board annual report 1967-68) but its power was a lot higher than other translator stations
This is the TV Times report for the opening of BCV11 (plus some other regional TV news) in May 1967
The “**” indicates a footnote “Intermediate UHF relay at Gredgwin”. Must be how the signal is being carried from Bendigo to the Swan Hill transmitter at Goschen
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@myfriend, what does it mean ???
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