10 September 1988: First day of transmission for Brisbane’s TVQ10 following its switch overnight from TVQ0
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And the movie that night appropriately was 10.
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Might just have been deliberate…
Yes it was no coincidence
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Here is Bill Collins announcing movie 10 and the change of channel.
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Those living in the Gold Coast were lucky they didn’t need to make any changes.
Like what, twist the dial a bit?
Retuning was slightly complicated back in 1988. While some people still had rotary dials, for them it was a matter of changing to 10 but they also had to use the fine-tune dial to tune in correctly.
For those who had push button TVs and VCRs it was a bit more complicated.
It was complicated by there already being a station on channel 10 on the Darling Downs. That meant that they couldn’t run a test pattern for a few weeks on 10. The only opportunity to test was after midnight. Then it was basically a cold start for most people - get up the next day and tune in 10.
Here is a compilation of some instructions.
Also news report explaining how the TVQ tower needed to be changed as it required a completely different array to transmit Band 3 compared to band 1.
The first transmission on 10
And first test program
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when Melbourne changed over in 1980, ours was the only household I knew that had a push-button tuner TV set, everyone else still had rotary dial tuners so for them it just as easy as turning the dial to 10. Ours had 6 presets, the first 5 tuned to 0, 2, 7, 9 and already had 10 tuned for the rare reception from GLV10, so after ATV changed over it was just a matter of getting used to pressing the 10 button rather than the 0 button. And then as it turned out, the 0 button was ready for when SBS started transmission a few months later.
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Did your household continue to receive GLV on channel 8 after the switch over?
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nope, not at all. tbh I don’t think i even tried until many years later. I think for a long time i just had the naive knowledge that GLV10 was still on air but we just couldn’t see it anymore because we had ATV10 over the top of it. I was only 8 or 9 years old so i clearly wasn’t clued up.
It wasn’t until the late 1990s when I moved out to Melbourne’s inner west that I found that I could get a very sketchy reception of GLV8 from way over the other side of Melbourne, pretty much just in time for it to vanish to UHF. I had a VHS recording of a very snowy reception of GLV8 with a scrolling message along the bottom of the screen that it was soon to be switched off and to retune to UHF.
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We had a TV that came with 0. 2. 7. 9 and 10 plus three Us for UHF but you could change them to whatever you wanted. . I switched them out for 3, 6 and 8.
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a wise move! haha. On our set we had a 6th preset that I don’t think we ever used for years, but then when we had to switch to watching SBS on Channel 28, we used that button, and then the 0 button i think ended up being for the VCR output when that was soon to follow.
The poor set, a PYE dating back to circa 1977, finally died sometime around 1990. The TV repairman who’d been our saviour on previous occasions had now conceded that the set was at the end of its life and beyond repair. RIP 
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GLV8 had a relay channel in Shepparton on UHF-46.
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that was under aggregation but the Shepparton transmitter only really “GLV” on paper, the statewide network was run out from Bendigo but for licencing purposes, BCV covered the heritage Bendigo market and Ballarat, and GLV was Gippsland, Goulburn Valley and Upper Murray (Albury). It’s a call-sign anomaly that continues today. There apparently was no obligation for call-signs to be amalgamated under aggregation but the operators all did, except for Southern Cross with BCV/GLV.
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Here is the TV
This one has 2 swapped for 3.
Apparently the order was 2 0 7 9 10 U U U
The draw underneath slid out for tuning purposes. There was a wheel for each channel with a switch for the 3 bands.
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I like how it’s green for VHF and orange/red for UHF.
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11 September 1967: ABC debuts its new children’s series, Adventure Island, starring Nancy Cato, Liz Harris, Ernie Bourne, Brian Crossley, Marion Edward and Colin McEwen. Meanwhile, ATV0 re-launches a half-hour news bulletin. The channel had abandoned the traditional news bulletin format in 1965 in favour of five-minute updates presented through the afternoon and evening.
11 September 1978: The Seven Network‘s historical mini-series Against The Wind, set in Australia’s early colonial era, makes its debut on ATN7 in Sydney, with the Seven stations in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide following the next night. On the same night, in Melbourne, The Daryl And Ossie Show debuts on ATV0 as a half-hour variety/game-show format.
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Ah yes, Nines obsession with countdown shows
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