I used to get Imparja, Southern Cross Ten, Seven Queensland from Victoria as well as Win,Prime and as well as 7.9,10 in my location.
I used to get watch imparja mainly for the NRL footy show at a decent time(when it was in the hey day) and watching the Rugby League on Friday night instead of waiting till after midnight on Nine and Win in Victoria
Ad for ATV10’s 1989 licence renewal hearing. Thanks to Oz TV VHS Archive.
A quick question while we are talking about VAST - are there any VAST users in the ACT? I read that ABC is carried on all VAST services, but with only seven “state feeds”. As there are 8 variations of ABC (one for each state and territory) I assume the ACT/Canberra version isn’t carried?
Canberra region is mostly terrestrial tv. In Regional and Remote WA, some towns will have terrestrial while others have satellite. In Broome and Kununurra, they will More likely have satellite television. In central Australia, most towns will get VAST.
Which are probably fed by satellite
Here he is reading a news break on ABC in 1985
YouTube: OZTVRewind
Remember the days when newsbreaks came from actual newsrooms? Does anyone actually do those anymore? I think SBS does?
Nearly all of Regional WA’s TV transmitter sites are satellite fed. Only a small handful re-broadcast an off-air signal.
Even the major ones for Kalgoorlie, Albany/ Great Southern and Geraldton?
As far as I know, the major transmitters are all fed by satellite.
Back in the early '90s, when viewers had little choice but to suffer FTA television, families would gather around the box at 6.30pm to lap up the shit served to them by Seven and Nine in the guise of current affairs. Television, being the most popular medium from which people got their news and current affairs, shaped and moulded our perceptions of events and newsmakers. Very few questioned the content of shows like ACA and Seven’s Real Life but there came a point when the stories featured on these shows became more and more outlandish as the egotists behind them tried to outdo each other. People started to question the worth of commercial television current affairs.
The unapologetically tabloid Real Life with Stan Grant, winner of the 1994 Most Popular Current Affairs Logie, had become a serious competitor to A Current Affair which had just installed darling of all housewives Ray Martin, fresh from a successful stint hosting Midday, as host to halt a ratings slide. The race to the bottom of the barrel had just been dialled up a notch.
A small group of comedians took note of the unscrupulous behaviour and unethical approach towards unsuspecting citizens in the quest for ratings and built a satirical show around Australian current affairs shows and the ruthless people behind them.
Frontline went to air on the ABC at 8pm 25 years ago today and viewers would never look at commercial television current affairs the same way again.
I’ve seen some WIN updates but they are very rare.
Gold Coast gets a update/preview from Brisbane at 5:55pm during their local news.
Their local news update sometimes comes from a newsroom.
Haven’t they always done that?
That’s correct - ABC ACT isn’t carried on VAST. I assume the NSW feed is used for VAST viewers there.
They have terrestrial. VAST feeds all the terrestrial sites though. I’m not sure how many towns converted from analogue terrestrial to VAST digital instead of opting for a digital terrestrial upgrade. I figure it was mostly the privately-owned self-help sites in smaller communities that did this.
I believe this is the case too. I remember a dispute happening between the WA networks and VAST. The networks wanted to use VAST to feed their signal to the transmitter sites, but VAST wasn’t keen as it wasn’t designed for this and went against its intention as a direct-to-home service. The govt funded the service for this purpose only, not as a replacement for the privately-owned DVN and Optus D1 space the networks were using previously. The networks obviously worked out a deal and ended up using it this way. If they hadn’t, who knows how long it would have been before we saw full digital services launch here.
Frontline was brilliant. I think it was Bruno Lawerence’s last gig?
I was responding to the question.
Bruno Lawrence passed away after the first season of Frontline.
Oh right, thanks
A channel scan of Austar and Cairns FTA TV from 2011. How times have changed…
Can we all say that Canal Trece (Argentina) predicted* the Channel Ten’s “push button” ID style, #myfriends ???
*graphics has been used from April 2002
