In the late 1970s I could get all the VHF Sydney television stations on FM due to a quirk. There were only a couple of FM stations in Sydney then, and somehow a reflection (?) of the four VHF television stations appeared on the FM band. I remember listening to some TV programs as I worked overtime. The reception of them vanished when the commercial and more community FM stations started.
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Do you remember roughly what frequencies they were on
Eg. Down lower near 88-92 or up higher around 102-108 ??
Same with Townsville…
ABC 3 there was also heard on 92.75.
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Lol!
I remember on NBN News it was quite odd when listening on FM and on Sunday nights when the footy replay was after the news, they would say “if you don’t want to know the score, look away now”
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I think they were down towards the lower end to middle, but it’s a long time ago so difficult to remember details.
That was common with some early FM radios - they had a tendency to overload and produce images of the TV frequency sounds - so for example 1/2 the channel 10 sound frequency was 107.375, Seven was 93.875 etc In Brisbane double the Channel 0 frequency was 103.5.
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There was one other high power that I can recall - ABQN 5 Central West Slopes (Dubbo). Low power Murwillumbah was also on 5. RTQ and SEQ had channel 5 relays.
Check out the bloke with the ABC shirt/vest on, throwing cans at the cops during a riot in Newcastle in 1979 (and later getting thrown in the back of a paddy wagon). Would he have been a cameraman or something?
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Maybe he just bought the jacket from a second hand store or something.
I once saw an NBN3 cap on sale at a second hand clothing shop in Papua New Guinea. No I did not.
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Maybe he just bought the jacket from a second hand store or something.
I once saw an NBN3 cap on sale at a second hand clothing shop in Papua New Guinea. No I did not.
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I think I may have asked about this on the old forum but with limited information.
Does anyone have any more on NBN’s Project Restart?
I only came across this and this today.
I’m asking cause I remember a later version of it and have somewhat been trying to hunt for it. I can only remember seeing it once while watching TV late at night (it aired later at night like Drive Alive?) and on a VHS recording of The Bee Gee’s One Night Only (who aired that?).
I might have seen it on TV in 2000, no clue when One Night Only aired on TV.
Edit: Just found this version from '96. Not it though.
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I’m pretty sure that The Bee Gee’s One Night Only concert from the then-newly completed Sydney Olympic Stadium was held on March 27, 1999 and aired on Nine that night (not sure if it was a live or delayed telecast though) with NSW State Election coverage mixed in somewhere. This was mentioned and discussed on the old forums a few years ago, from memory.
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This is the concert you mentioned; although it’s a recording off Fox Family in the US.
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Sorry for double posting but found the 2000 version of it. It’s not the one I remember though. Maybe it wasn’t Project Restart shrugs shoulders
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Wasn’t it telecast until Sunday? I briefly remember Hey Hey kept doing live crosses to the concert.
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I was in an NBN Project Restart CSA in 1998. I have it on DVD. I’ll have to upload it to youtube sometime. It was shot when a few of us were all doing our year 10 work experience at NBN.
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I’ve done some research and it seems that the Bee Gees concert was only shown in Sydney/NSW that night with other states possibly getting it at a later date, while Nine in Melbourne (and probably Nine & affiliates in all non-NSW markets) seemed to get Hey Hey and a Saturday night movie as usual on 27/3/1999.
As far as I can tell, TCN & affiliated stations in regional NSW didn’t air Hey Hey on 27/3/1999 with state election coverage airing from 6.30pm* and there were updates during the concert (which is listed in TV guides as airing from 9pm*) with a full wrap-up afterwards judging by what’s on YouTube of Nine’s 1999 NSW State Election coverage.
*Source: TV guides from The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, via newspapers.com. Although the full editions are paywalled, you can preview some tiny snippets for free via the search function (which I did). I’m not a subscriber at the moment, but I’d probably consider one for the Fairfax Archives at some stage since the date cutoff is a bit later (the most recent papers for the SMH and The Age are from the Early 2000s, albeit with some gaps) than some of the other Australian newspaper archives on the net! 
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I guess the question for me is: is the recording on VHS that I used to have a recording of Nine or NBN? scratches head
If it helps others the version I remember (and looking for) has a similar intro to Project Restart (although I don’t remember it being called that) with the ECG green on a black background. The meat and potatoes of it was someone doing CPR with a white/greyish background behind them.
More on Project Restart, based on the trademark information it appears to have started in 1994 and ran until 2002?
Here’s another 1997 version of it.
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I remember watching the state election and the concert on Nine. One of my sisters was at the concert, reasonably close to the stage.
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