Nine generally aired it with large black bars top and bottom on analogue at least for the time that I watched it which would have been the last two to three seasons.
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Ahhh digital TV without watermarks. That didn’t last long for Nine, they started watermarking only a couple of months after DTV started I think?
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When did they do that?
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From memory, it was around December 2001.
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I haven’t found the tape yet but here are some caps from when I did last see it:
So, it was aired letterboxed on analogue.
Everything else was normal 4:3
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Oh dear
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I miss the era of TV theme tunes 
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Wonderful Land by Mike Oldfield. Used in the ABC TV Closedowns back in 1987. Recently a clean version without voiceover or graphics was uploaded to the rage Facebook page.
Closedown
Clean Version
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Ahh, I could spot that distorted guitar from anywhere.
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I only learnt today this was the same guy who wrote Moonlight Shadow.
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And that’s a great song too.
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Found an old clip of the Dorrigo Railway on a news story on 11-8 News presented by Chris Wordsworth circa early 1980s. Starts at 2.06 https://youtu.be/_axqZ3pwqJ8?feature=shared
Source: David Page (YouTube)
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What would happen to world cricket had Kery Packer been in a deadly car crash in 1975? The “old boys’ club” of the MCC and such never face Packer and WSC? Presumably the ABC continue to telecast cricket for a start?
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Was he a bad driver?
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He was really good at driving … a Hard Bargain… Like getting Nine back off Bond for a lot less than what he sold it for.
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It was just a “what-if”? question like posted at alternatehistory.com for imaging how things would be different if WSC had not happened…
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A rare and very basic Capital 7 ID at the start of this video dating back to 1981.
Source: OZTVRewind (YouTube)
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Looking to the future at the national capital’s own television station, Capital 7!
Quite a slogan.
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