Media Spy: History and Memories

Yes, I remember there was a thread for most presenters. Sundar Sully, Chris Bath etc… it became clear that it lead to some unusual people joining the site. it was gradually phased out in the late 2000s.

MelbourneTV, Jezza, Newsworld, route marker, mr Q, jac, sydneysider, super Simpsons, woz and of course Reuder

Are any of these people around anymore? Those were all regulars

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I think Newsworld was here under a different guise for a while but haven’t seen him in some time.

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All I remember is trying to get on here back in 2011 or sometime around that time and the whole website wasn’t working lol. That’s basically why I never started coming on here until years after that.

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I think I remember joining around the time of the telethon for Asia after the Boxing Day tsunami.

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Perhaps this could be spun off into a MediaSpy History and Memories thread?

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Yep, merged @TVHead

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Who misses seeing this and knowing you’re gonna see a post defending Seven no matter what :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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September 26 2005 :blush:

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Every time I see this reposted I think it has to be the most iconic avatar ever used on Media Spy.

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Avatars and when we had them, signatures were such a massive deal back then. People even had slogans and channel branding in them like PR spokespeople.

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Omg. This website is so different now. I just took a look at some of the old content and wow. I’m very surprised the Aussie Caleb forum is still going to this day.

2021 for me. I was on a classic TV listings kick at the time and I stumbled upon the thread for it through Google Images of all places. Haven’t been the same since, love this place to bits.

Crazy to think it’s been nearly three years already, damn.

How on earth did you find that out? :astonished:

I remember using the old media spy forum, but was on that site for a brief time, and didn’t really post much there. After the “re-launch” of this forum, i slowly became more active.

I was more active in other television forums “back in the day”, but they had a slow death and have now been inactive for sometime.

And i’ve been stuck here ever since. lol.

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Thinking back to my own journey here on MedisSpy and believe I joined sometime in 2013 probably around the launch of Wake Up / Studio 10, wow.

Time flies!

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It was part of your asylum application when we fled from President Q back in the day :wink:

Real answer is archive.org. That was how I found mine a while back too since I couldn’t remember when I had joined either.

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From @SouthCoastTV’s video:


Man my original username and avatar… I think my OG username is cringe nowadays lol

the art of the forum signature back then was really something lol - while I never really took part in it on the old MediaSpy, I did take part on a (now defunct) Pokemon forum I was a part of


Forum signatures was a huge part of learning how to learn Photoshop for me - and in turn - also allowed me to create the mocks i am proud to make these days. <3

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Been here since March 2007! Loving it everyday :slightly_smiling_face:

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