Spotted at the start of a Steel City Rivalry game…the last NRTV ID. I didn’t recall them using the Just Look At Us Now slogan, I seem to recall the last one was NRTV, That’s Entertainment, using the edited version of Ten’s campaign. I recall vividly NRTV becoming Ten Northern NSW during an airing of the Jetsons Movie one evening.
It was on the first day of the 1994 Commonwealth Games that NRTV became Ten Northern NSW.
what time mark im i looking for?
Right at the start of the video.
Maybe the Jetsons Movie was on the same day as day 1 of the Commonwealth Games? Anyone got a TV guide to confirm this?
There are a couple of other NRTV “Just Look At Us Now” IDs online:
Maybe the campaign was only used for a short time before the rebrand, who knows. Going by the info I could find, the Lineup/ID is for July 10, 1994.
Here’s one from Canberra. And for anyone with a Newspapers.com account who can correctly rotate the page, one from Sydney!
So the NRTV > Ten Northern NSW rebrand would’ve happened on Saturday August 20, 1994.
Jetsons: The Movie aired at 5.30pm that day/night, between Ten News: Weekend Edition (first early evening weekend bulletin on the network in a year) and evening coverage of the first full day of competition at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
Oh man, I still miss evening line up billboards and station IDs… sigh…
I miss individual station names, closedowns, sign-ons, local news, local content, decent programs…sigh… 
Here’s an interesting question… would you be prepared to swap choice for localism?
e.g… go back to 2 channels in a regional area, but have local station names, sign on/offs, live and local news etc back.
I’d prefer the other model of equalisation, where the one company owned multiple channels.
Extra channels was always going to happen, but it was handled piss poorly by all involved.
The problem is more how they were allowed to fall under common ownership, which created opportunities for centralisation and a loss of localism and local jobs.
Limiting ownership may have been a better option.
Again, an example of things being handled piss poorly.
Potentially we’d have ended up with the same situation as we have now, anyway, as we’ve seen in markets like Regional SA, Griffith. The monopoly owner just turns the channels into remote relays of the major networks and doesn’t even bother with a local news. (GTS/BKN at least is some exception maintaining a local evening news)
I only just now saw this pop up - amazing video on a station I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything from other than TV guide references.
Also seems like each time they showed a logo for the station it was totally different - I suppose it really doesn’t matter if you’re the only station in a small town.
But if they were legislated that they must spend a certain percentage of their revenue ie they must spend 10% of their revenue or more on local content then that would not happen and it would be a relatively equal paying field for all stations with provisions for dodgy company’s that might hide their revenue. The TV organisations must contribute to the local community and not just take take take.
Apologies if this has been asked before, but was Lady Diana’s Panorama interview ever shown in full on Australian TV?
Four Corners will occasionally air Panorama stories, I was wondering if they showed this one or whether a commercial TV station beat them to the punch.
I have a hunch The 7:30 Report broadcast it here with a large watermark which was unusual for the time.
Yes - the ABC screened the interview on Tuesday November 21, 1995 live at 8.30am (I’d imagine there was an ABC watermark on this broadcast, being the likely source of news bulletin footage for rival networks) and as per @Frankie’s post above, during a special edition of The 7.30 Report that night.
… ownership was limited under the “two-station rule” … Paul Keating abolished that after Bob Hawke introduced aggregation … if they had both kept their sticky fingers out of it in their galloping rush to please Kerry Packer, maybe there would have been a better outcome for regional (and smaller capital city) television …
Wow, bold move for the ABC to carry it live! I hadn’t realised how anticipated the interview must have been before it went to air. Thanks for the info!