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Here’s another that shows the local news opener plus station ident.
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Brings back memories!
Ah the days of when I could pick up ECN8 Taree here in Newcastle, even on a pair of rabbit ears (which wasn’t very often unfortunately).
Even 9-8 Television was ahead of NBN3 Newcastle with episodes on a number of shows … I used to have relatives come down from Tamworth and they would see something on NBN and say “we saw that episode months ago”.
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Newcastle is included in the weather report (not shown in the video)
Just noticed Hugh Riminton in the promo for Hinch @ 0:51 .
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Today, 18 March, is WIN Television’s 55th birthday. It was 18 March 1962 when WIN4 first launched.
Here are some TV Week articles from the early 1980s about the station.
FIrst, in 1982, when WIN4 became the first TV station outside of US-Canada to pick up the Donahue program. It was eventually picked up by the Seven Network and then later Network Ten.
And in 1983, WIN4’s 21st anniversary celebration included a guest appearance by Happy Days star Marion Ross
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She looks like Helen Mirren.
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Managed to find an old CD with a CTC7 news update from around 1995 with quite a bit of international content covered.
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Channel Nine ‘40 Years of Television’ Ident…
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Nothing beats those 3D idents from the 80’s. Purely magical.
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Wasn’t MTN 9 part of Midstate Television?
As far as AFL, was it tradition, before Fox Footy for Melbourne games to be highlights only, expect for let’s say finals or special games(like Victoria Park’s last game), or Grand Finals?
Sure was. CBN8 and CWN6 were Midstate Television. MTN9 was seperately owned and used its own advertisements and local news and local programming, but took about 95% of the programming from CBN/CWN. They used the Midstate Television branding on network programming but used MTN9 on local programming.
Thought that was the case
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It wasn’t until Optus Vision got the rights to Saturday, Saturday night (in Melbourne) and Sunday games (I think initially it was even just once a round) that AFL was shown against the gate in Melbourne. Previously Melbourne got replays on Friday Night, Saturday Evening, an interstate game might be live on a Saturday night, the second one delayed and then live interstate games on Sundays with highlights of the Melbourne based game at 5pm. That was the 90s.
Early on late 50s maybe early 60s, the last quarter of games was live at one point on all channels in Melbourne. The VFL didn;t like the drop in attendances and didn’t allow that to continue. Channel 0 and the VFA struck up a deal for live football on Sundays which switched to Saturdays when the ABC took over the VFA in 1987
Yes, used to be known as Midstate 6-8-9
(CWN 6 Dubbo, CBN 8 Orange and MTN 9 Griffith).
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As has been pointed out, yes they were part of the Mid-State network, but at the time (up until the reach rules were brought in), no-one could own a 5% stake in more than two television stations, so MTN was always separately owned to Country Television Services who owned CBN and CWN. (Which also explained why they were able to go it alone when CBN/CWN became part of Prime by the end of the decade.)
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For the same reason that STV8 Mildura was affiliated to BCV/GLV and essentially fully networked with them (except for local news and advertising) from the mid 70s to late 80s but was still owned independently.
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YouTube: GlowingTube
Some classic TV with an episode of Division 4 titled “The Girlfriend”. Includes guest stars Jeanie Drynan, John Bonney and the late Terry Gill.
The episode first went to air on Tuesday 5 August 1969 at 8.30pm on GTV9 and relayed around Victoria to GLV10 Gippsland, BCV8 Bendigo and BTV6 Ballarat. (SES8 Mt Gambier had the episode on Monday 25 August at 8.45pm, AMV4 on Thursday 28 August at 9pm, and GMV6 on Tuesday 2 September at 8.30pm).
The episode is interspersed with advertisements of the era but it’s unclear if they were from the actual night of broadcast or if they were edited in for YouTube. The 1970s Channel 9 ID at the start of the clip (which post-dates the episode going to air) implies that the video uploaded is a clever combination of different clips.
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Does anyone have any Seven News Perth openers from the 1990’s?
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Sadly the only thing I’ve been able to find is promos, but that’s about it! 
Guess no one in Perth found any value of them back then. 
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