What was that for?
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that wikipedia article has more “citation needed” comments than actual content and explains nothing about why it had to swap AMN/MTN feeds over. I wouldn’t pay attention to anything in there. It’s loaded with a whole lot of vague and unstantiated claims.
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That is incorrect. When I was in Hay in July 2013 on an overnight visit en route to Adelaide, I checked the channel arrangements on the hotel TV and MTN was on Channel 43 and showing Nine programming. AMN was Seven on Ch 42 and MDN was Ten on Ch 44. The ACMA TV data spreadsheet has MTN as a Seven station and that is incorrect too.
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So the ACMA have it wrong also?
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it wouldn’t be for the first time.
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Have you ever known a government body to get it right all the time?
But yes, with the exception of July 2016 to June 2021 when it was a Ten affiliate, MTN has always been a Nine affiliate since 1989.
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6 October 1994: Channel 31, operated by the Melbourne Community Television Consortium, begins transmission. The channel initially broadcast TV programming only on Monday-Thursday evenings with Saturday evenings devoted to live coverage from Harness Racing Victoria (a major sponsor of the channel).
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Channel 31 Melbourne would of course go on to be the starting ground for stars like Rove McManus, Peter Hellier, Hamish and Andy, Corrine Grant, Stephen Hall, Merrick and Rosso, Dave Hughes.
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LOL i’m two years older than Channel 31 then that’s trippy
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Was the reception better or just as good as what you’d get with SBS?
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I feel the reception at the start was worse off than SBS when it started. I lived in Cranbourne at the time and I thought it was on par with Summer Ducting of getting WIN, Prime over the summer months. Brother live in Dandenong and was way better.
I moved to Pakenham in Late 1994 and could get all stations exepect for C31 up until Digital when I could get decent signal however I was on the side of a hill with the hill blocking Mt Dandenong area.
I remember the old Renannisance TV that aired for the oldies. Bring Back Fishcam!!!
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i loved Fishcam as a little kid!
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from my perspective reception was the same between SBS and 31 but I think 31 was on a lower power until the transmitter got an upgrade in time for Renaissance TV in 2001.
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7 October 1974: Colour test patterns are allowed to be broadcast in the lead-up to “C-Day” in March 1975
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10 October 1971: This Week Has Seven Days, a children’s educational/magazine program, debuts on the Seven Network. Screening for two hours on Sunday mornings, it had hosts in each city – David Johnston (Melbourne), Andrew Harwood (Sydney), Dina Heslop (Brisbane) and Tony Curtis (Adelaide).
It appears that over time it became a Melbourne-only production, with David Johnston hosting with Honor Walters, and eventually settled into a Saturday afternoon timeslot. After David Johnston left Seven in 1979, Walters hosted the show on her own but it was soon axed. I suspect that maybe it was not successful in gaining a new “C” classification, which came into force in 1979, so Seven might have just let it go.
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Possibly an early attempt at competing with Behind The News (which would’ve been on-air for a few years by the time This Week Has Seven Days launched)?
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13 October 1975: Roger Climpson presents the first edition of Eleven AM on ATN7, Sydney. It took a few years for it to extend to other cities (e.g. Brisbane in 1981, Adelaide and Melbourne in 1982, etc.) and eventually ran through to May 1999.
Hosts during the show’s run included Steve Liebmann, Vincent Smith, Ross Symonds, Graham Kennedy, Clive Robertson, Richard Zachariah, Ann Sanders, Andrew Daddo, Anne Fulwood and Melissa Doyle.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I_1jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5160%2C3772717
Source: TV Week
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I like that the news director made himself host. Hadn’t realised Graham Ross’s association with Seven went back that far.
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