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Wow, Mildura missed out on 15 years of Channel Ten shows. When Nine and Ten took the AFL broadcast rights, the Saturday matches and all finals were shown on WIN until the end of the 2005 season.
Did VIC/WIN Mildura not carry any other Ten Sports telecasts of significance such as those for the Melbourne Cup or the Bathurst 1000?
VIC TV/WIN in Mildura also carried a small amount of Network Ten programs. IIRC this included The Simpsons, The Panel and possibly Neighbours, although my memory is not clear on the latter.
It would have also carried the Commonwealth Games from Ten in 1994.
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Yes, VIC TV/WIN Mildura also showed some Ten Sport telecasts like Melbourne Cup and Bathurst 1000.
I am talking about the general entertainment shows and movies Sunraysia viewers had missed out on, like the Law & Order franchise and early seasons of NCIS.
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There was a local pay-TV provider called Neighbourhood Cable that was available in Mildura and IIRC it picked up Ten Queensland via satellite and included that in its suite of pay-TV channels to Mildura.
I don’t think the channel lasted very long.
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Neighbourhood Cable was acquired by TransACT in 2007 and made effective 1 January 2008. NC was rebranded TransACT in June 2011.
Looking at the list @TV.Cynic posted screenshots of, there werent many that didnt participate
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Looks like some mistakes made on the list of broadcasters.
Forgot the “V” in “NRTV” and RTQ-6 is actually RTQ-7
Interesting to see FNQ-10 and TNQ-7 listed seperately despite both stations being networked at the time as “NQTV”
Also they did forget CWN-6 Dubbo which was a relay of CBN-8 Orange at that time.
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Although they were both NQTV, AFAIK each was a separately functioning station and it’s possible crews from each station were being used for the telecast.
CWN6 was only ever a relay of CBN8 so it’s not likely to have offered any crew or facilities for the program.
I posted a list of each OB location and the crew utilised. In some instances it is not the local commercial station crew being used, e.g. an NBN3 crew being deployed to Uluru, and WIN4 to Broken Hill.
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2 January 1988: Imparja Television begins transmission with a test Cricket match between Australia and Sri Lanka. However the channel is not opened officially until 15 January.
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4 January 1971, 50 years ago today: Sesame Street debuts on ABC at 8.00am and with a repeat (if there’s no cricket, that is) at 4.30pm.
Source: TV Week, 23 January 1971
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There was no cricket on 4 January as the test was washed out due to flooding at the MCG.
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… remember it well … usually in studio, but from time to time rostered in telecine or pres at Auntie … could sing along with all the songs …
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I has just grown out of watching Sesame Street stage when we’d go on holidays at Christmas and of course find only 2 TV channels and the ABC was the only one on in the mornings. I would end up watching Sesame Street just purely for the habit of having the TV on when having breakfast.
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5 January 1986: The last day of transmission on VHF Channel 0 for SBS in Sydney and Melbourne. (The date was originally meant to be in December 1984 but got extended by a year)
At the time it made SBS the first UHF-only broadcaster in Australia. Ironically, post-analogue it’s now back on VHF in the capital cities.
I thought we’d be losing SBS at our place as although our main TV had a UHF tuner, we didn’t have a UHF antenna and we’d never even attempted to tune in to Channel 28, but then after 0 went off we gave it a try and found we could get 28 just fine with an old VHF antenna on the roof. Weird.
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Why did SBS switch to UHF broadcast in 1986? It’s a strange move since all other networks broadcast on VHF.
SBS was always intended to be on UHF as the VHF band was deemed to be at capacity and it was decided by the government that all new TV services would be on UHF, and TV manufacturers were required to add capacity for UHF tuners from 1976. But the government allowed SBS a temporary licence to simulcast on Channel 0 in Sydney and Melbourne to give people time to get adjusted to UHF.
There was some speculation at the time that eventually all TV stations would go to UHF but that was not to be.
And the rule about no new stations on VHF had some holes as it turned out, e.g. NEW10 in Perth, and Imparja which used VHF channels at a number of sites including Alice Springs. And IIRC, WIN used some VHF channels when it started around regional WA in the late '90s
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But while Channel 0 was nothing new to Melbourne due to ATV having started on said frequency, it was completely new to those in Sydney.
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it probably should not have been used in Sydney because of the lack of compatible aerials etc, but also Sydney’s topography was also said to be an issue whereas Melbourne is a lot flatter. High-rise buildings were also a problem, as was also found in Melbourne.
There was also a problem with the installation of the Channel 0 transmitter on the ABC tower at Gore Hill, but that may have been resolved over time. I’m not sure of that one.
Apparently as much as 60 to 80 per cent of Sydney households couldn’t receive or get a clear picture on Channel 0.
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