In a sign-on i found on YouTube, they mention a UHF signal coming from the Hyatt Kingsgate Tower in Kings Cross, Sydney.
Wasn’t SBS also a bit fuzzy (probably because of people not having UHF-capable antennas though) on UHF-28 in Sydney?
Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if it took Digital TV for many people in both cities to get SBS-TV reception on-par with those of ABC-TV and the commercial networks.
All 5 Sydney channels had local UHF translators at Kings Cross. IIRC that area was a particularly bad spot for reception from the main transmitters.
Probably the antenna issue
Ironically when digital TV came, SBS wasn’t an issue but we had to upgrade our old antenna as it could not receive ABC digital on Channel 12.
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We had perfect reception but we had relatives in another suburb not too far away who had fuzzy reception.
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The UHF translators at Kings Cross are still around (UHF 28 + 30-33 with Seven, ABC, Ten, SBS and Nine by order of frequency), of course these days transmitting digital services.
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SBS was always fuzzy in the analog days for me, no matter where I lived.
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Same here. Even changing my antenna got me a fuzzy SBS signal
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It was the same for people trying to watch Channel 31.
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8 January 2005: The three commercial networks join forces to present Australia Unites: Reach Out To Asia, a telethon to raise funds for the World Vision tsunami relief appeal, after a catastrophic tsunami hit southern Asia, claiming hundreds and thousands of lives and displacing millions.
As well as being broadcast simultaneously across the three networks, Australia Unites was also relayed via ABC’s Australia Network, which broadcast to some of the countries affected by the disaster.
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If memory serves, it was also broadcast live on Prime (then a Nine affiliate) in New Zealand.
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must be 10 years ago 10 launched its news revolution?
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It sure was a revolution, having gone through several phases over 10 years and the end results is the bare bones that it is nowadays 
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Quite a revelation.
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it began on 24 January
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Yes, the new line-up launched on Monday 24th January 2011, which consisted of the following:
5:00pm Ten News at Five
6:00pm 6pm with George Negus
6:30pm Ten Evening News
It was also the time when Ten rather foolishly dumped weekend news at 5pm & moved it to 6pm as a local bulletin. That caused Nine to launch its 5pm weekend bulletin, and soon enough, Ten reinstated its national weekend bulletin at 5pm, whilst maintaining its local weekend bulletin at 6pm.
In April, Ten News at Five was extended to 90 minutes, with 6pm with George Negus becoming 6:30 with George Negus to reflect its change of timeslot. In October, 6:30 with George Negus was axed, with The 7pm Project becoming The Project, extending to 1-hour from 6:30pm. The local weekend bulletins were also axed around the same time.
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From memory, they then moved The Project to a 6.00pm start for a year or so at the beginning of 2012.
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The 10 News Revolution absolutely destroyed 10.
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No, the endless changes from new management teams and ownership destroyed 10 at the time. The Simpsons / Neighbours hour was already loosing younger viewers and changes were needed at the time. News was the answer, as it is now but the execution was ill thought out back in 2011.
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