Even if you didn’t subscribe. It would be a blank screen but you could still hear the channel. Don’t judge me. I was 15 at the time 
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This must be way before I had Foxtel lol. I only ever remember the blank screen then the pop up message that would tell you to subscribe.
Adults Only, which previously time-shared with Main Event—and prior to that, the original Sky Racing service—operated on a similar transmission model. During the Sky Racing era, it was common for the feed to terminate mid-race, triggering an on-screen prompt such as ‘To continue watching.’ Main Event employed a comparable time-sharing arrangement, although it generally maintained its broadcast until approximately 10:00–11:00 PM each night before transitioning control.
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What i remember is it just had a black screen saying No Signal
So, when did this get updated? And the two Adults only channels start? There basically way before my time as well but I only ever remember the AO content on these channels.
The two channel Select service came in with digital, around a year or so after it’s launch. While they were duel-casting analogue and digital, there was actually 3 AO channels, the original analogue channel (by then sharing with Fashion TV, which ran approx. 4:15a-10:45p when there was no Main Event on) which was a monthly subscription, and the 2 Select channels, which were ordered in 2 hour blocks.
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Thank you. This brings back memories but I don’t remember working on this one specifically - definitely worked on the standard remote guide, that little “remote eye” thing (thats what we called it internally) and the component cable guide. So it makes sense I would have had some input into this one.
Looking at the PDF you published, the biggest thing we would have done with that one is changing the wording to say FOXTEL IQ and aligning the onscreen prompts to match whatever firmware was active at the time.
I was in the TST Team at the time in the call centre in Moonee Ponds. We had an awesome set up there. Every desk had one STU box (either cable or sat, all pace), we had 6 TVs that had different platforms (cable dig, cable dig IQ, cable analogue, sat IQ, sat pace, sat “darth vader” box), we had a plasma screen with component set up and a tech room with all other equipment we could go in there for training and play around.
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The 2 AO channels started when it went Digital.