A screen cap from SBS’ 20th anniversary special.
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Full Frontal mocking Channel Nine’s lineup from 1995.
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2007 Election Coverage from ABC & Nine.
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I’m led to believe this picture is from 1967. Does anyone know what that newspaper headline ad board in the background is referring to?
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The spaghetti farm hoax?
In 1967, Melbourne station HSV-7 ran a segment, with reporting by Dan Webb, claiming that Australia had its own spaghetti-growing heartland in the Grampians region of Victoria. However, the spaghetti farmers were facing financial ruin on account of the spaghetti worm, or “spag-worm” ( Troglodyte pasta ), a creature that ate unripe spaghetti from the inside.
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Curiously that photo appeared on theagephoto instagram page recently which would suggest it’s a Melbourne photo, so why the Sunday Mirror headline?
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According to the Age/SMH archive on Twitter, it was taken in Richmond in 1967.
https://twitter.com/AgeSMH_Archives/status/1128893886858899456
Short answer for the Sunday Mirror banner: I don’t know.
Maybe potential answer: From what I understand, Sunday papers were a no-no in Victoria in those days. Possible The Sunday Mirror from Sydney was circulated in Melbourne? I am only speculating that though. Having the headline “Sydney TV fans” might indicate it was to appeal to Melbourne readers, otherwise why specify “Sydney”.
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This may be of help: the newspaper is The Age Monday 5 June 1967 page 3 - the story was that despite baking bread on Sundays being illegal it could be purchased across Melbourne at milk bars.
Assume that means the Sunday Mirror would be from 4 June?
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It might of been about the Grampians region however Dan Webb and the gang filmed in on a farm in Beaumont Road, Berwick
this was the status of the 3 networks sometime in 1987. It includes the WCW call-sign for Ten in Perth.
However, it also attributes CTC7 to the Seven Network which it wasn’t, and speculates that Robert Holmes a Court was going to buy Ten in Sydney and Melbourne, which he didn’t 
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Lazy reporting - they thought CTC being on channel 7 meant they were affiliated with Network 7.
Although imagine if Holmes A Court did buy ATV and TEN. SAS would still be Ten, possible switch between TVW-7 going to Ten and the new WCW-10 going to 7, instead of SAS becoming 7 and ADS becoming 10.
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When CTC was sold to Northern Star Holdings it remained on channel 7 because a move to 10 wasn’t viable due to the channel being picked up on said signal in Tuggeranong Valley, Cooma, and Goulburn.
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They could have switched Woden, Cooma and Goulburn all to VHF 7 but it probably wasn’t worth it.
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Come 1989, CTC would expand its reach to Wollongong, Orange, Dubbo, and Wagga-Wagga.
Indeed. There were very good reasons behind the some of the other frequency changes. Channel 0 Melbourne/Brisbane moving up to Ten would’ve been done so those markets could watch their third commercial channel at a quality of reception on-par with Seven & Nine. All the VHF-3/4/5 band changes made sense because it paved the way for FM radio.
Moving CTC-7 to 10 just to reflect the then-current network affiliation? That would’ve been a complete waste of time & money, especially if more recent history (most notably the transition to Digital TV and the big WIN/SCA affiliation switch of 2016) is anything to go by.
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And when TVQ moved to 10 it gave its 0 frequency to DDQ, resulting in DDQ adopting the name Vision TV, which made it sound like a religious channel.
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the name change was essentially because all 3 of their channel numbers “10-4-5A” were known to be changing. As well as 10 changing to 0, SDQ4 was to become SDQ42, and DDQ5A became DDQ65.
And “0-42-65” probably didn’t sound too friendly…
Agree it would have been a wasted exercise although I’m sure it led to some confusion at first by having branding like Ten News on Channel 7, and then having Seven Network programs on another channel altogether. But everyone adapted.
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I recall when NRTV was under the same ownership as DDQ and facing financial difficulties (this was in 1990) that they were going to be rebranded as Vision TV as well and be played out of Toowoomba.
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I think it was the other way around. NRN (NRTV) was to take over playout functions for DDQ (Vision TV) in Coffs Harbour. I don’t know what plans that entailed for branding purposes, and then DDQ was suddenly bought out by WIN just days before aggregation which meant that playout for DDQ was to ultimately go to RTQ7 in Rockhampton.
But I read somewhere (possibly someone that worked there at the time?) that in the interim, NRN handled playout of DDQ (WIN) post-aggregation to Darling Downs and Sunshine Coast markets while the RTQ facilities in Rockhampton were being quickly expanded to take over the DDQ regions.
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