Were there any homes in Shepparton with Melbourne TV antennas back then?
I remember seeing some in Ballarat, but not as many in Bendigo.
Towering antennas could be spotted around Nagambie which was near where i was.
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how good was the reception?
there were a few, but not many. Reception would have been a bit hit and miss. Although on days of e-skip I was able to pick up Channel 10 from where I lived in Shepparton but reception was fairly snowy. I was also able to pick up Melbourne FM stations EON FM, Fox FM and 3RRR there on these days, used to enjoy it, completely different and more professional than our only radio station at the time 3SR which was stuck in a Hits and Memories format.
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Channel 10 had a popular line up on Wednesday nights in 1998.
Video shows a Neighbours promo plus the end credits as well as line-up and station ident.
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Yeah I remember hearing about that at the time
Wow what a great lineup, love all those shows.
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That turn me on program was one of the best presentations for ten before 2000… before they went with the horrible bracket look.
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They even had an animated PRG
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I was 13 at the time (1998) so back then i thought it was cool. The promotion and animation they had for everything back then seemed to be much better then anything I saw from 7 and 9 back then.
Unfortunetly 2000 was the beginning of the end of good presentation for Ten (at least for me). If I remember correctly the brackets only lasted for about a year then they did a new one which looked more a bit polished.
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I think that was their first but from memory it wasn’t national at first. I seem to recall seeing it in Sydney but not when I returned home to Melbourne. I think it took a while for Melbourne to pick it up.
Each city probably did their own presentation still in those days.
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AFAIK prior to the animated was a static fade in
and before that I think it was this - also a fade in/out
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ATV10 had those two. Although the first “ten” logo they had when they changed in 1991 was just a flat blue with a white border and lettering.
But just by coincidence I stumbled upon this golden oldie from 1981 (click to start at 6:25). It’s from the most glamorously titled Australian Beauty Pageant. Seriously did they get the accountants to come up with that name?
It’s hosted by Lionel Yorke and Ann Sanders. Looks to be a TVW7 production in Perth but screened on Ten in Melbourne.
YouTube: oldtvhistory
Then there’s this even older classic from ATV0 circa 1975 (source: austvarchive)
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This is an example of an “animated” channel O logo from TVQ.
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As we are on the topic of older PRGs, I did find GIF a few months ago of the animated PRG logo Ten used in 2000:
And I also found the animated Seven multicoloured ribbon PRG logo used during ‘The One To Watch’ era between 2000-2001:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TrnbPg1mvY
I think they used a different CGI single colour ribbon animation in 2002.
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It used to annoy me that the TEN-10 Sydney logo didn’t include the Xs on the PRG in the 1970s/ early '80s. It just didn’t look right to me.
I’d love to know why TEN was rebroadcasting on UHF 52 in the early '80s. Would it have been a Central Coast transmission?
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I think UHF-52 may have been the Kings Cross translator of TEN-10?
I thought that the Central Coast translators started during the 1980s myself.
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I think you’re right. It’s ringing some bells. The licences for commercial television translator stations in that location would’ve been issued around this time
So did anyone watching TEN outside of Kings Cross wonder what the UHF was for? ATN7 I think similarly used to promote UHF 49 but to me seems like a lot of promotion for a signal that only operated in a small part of Sydney.
And it seems there must have been some re-assignment of the UHF channels in Kings Cross? By 1991, TEN had moved to Channel 55:
ABN46, ATN49, TCN52, TEN55, SBS58
(Source: Department of Transport and Communications, Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations, 1991)
EDIT: And just found this article from TV Times in 1980 reporting on the upcoming launch of the UHF services on Kings Cross:
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