The only one there I don’t recognise is It’s About Time
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It was a short-lived comedy from the same people who made Gilligan’s Island. It got a few runs between repeats of that show. It was a very silly premise.
Astronauts travelled back to a prehistoric time and lived with a cave-dwelling family. Somehow they spoke English. 
When that wasn’t working, they brought the family back to the 1960s for the second half of the season. 
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A clip from the launch of community TV station LINC TV Lismore.
YouTube: John Curtis
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There have been so many smaller Community TV channels that have come and gone over the years.
LINC TV Lismore, CTV 41 Bendigo, BushVision Mt. Gambier, LocalVision, Bendigo IPTV, ACE TV Adelaide.
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Even in Sydney, with TVS another casualty.
You can mostly blame the ‘digital dividend’ for that, whereby they were pretty much forced off air as the government didn’t have enough spectrum to go around post 2014 restack.
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LINC TV came and went so many times over its 18 years.
CTV 41 Bendigo had its license cancelled in June 1999 after failing to broadcast regular programming.
Bushvision shut down in 2007 after its license expired.
LocalVision closed sometime in 1998.
Information is scarce on Bendigo IPTV.
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There was enough spectrum, the government just played bully to get community TV taken off the air. Instead of fighting, TVS just packed up and shutdown. 31 Digital Brisbane tried to go to an online model, essentially what the government wanted them to do, but it failed.
Perth had Access 31 then WTV which has since gone dark.
Melbourne and Adelaide persisted and fought and are still going, for now, based on a flimsy commitment from the current government.
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Bendigo IPTV was essentially an online community TV station run by a group of local businesspeople from outside the media sector, relying primarily on Telstra’s BigPond service for carriage. The service operated mainly out of the old BCV-8 studios, with most programming recorded there.
Some owners also served as presenters, and to my knowledge, the station rarely aired live content.
According to Bendigo IPTV’s YouTube channel, their last upload was on November 3, 2016, which suggests that the company likely ceased operations shortly after that date.
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LocalVision was a group of community tv channels that ran on Optus Vision and served Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.
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I remember the time when Seven outbid Nine for the FTA rights to televise the 2013 (and later 2017) Rugby League World Cup.
This came after Nine televised the 2008 tournament, and were therefore able to use their commentary team (Rabs, Peter Sterling and Phil Gould to name a few).
IIRC, for Seven’s coverage they used a world feed which included Andrew Voss (ex-Nine caller) and Mark Braybrook, among others. Ryan Phelan would be the studio host.
https://x.com/asiapacificrl/status/1330776102382432258?s=46&t=pH8Nbt9ccJOMPCwK9J4Wtg
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And they still didn’t show any cartoons!
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what did they show?
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That’s a joke in response to the remark about Sophie Lee usually wearing “Something for the dads” on GTV-9’s The Bugs Bunny Show.
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Here we go folks, one of the best discoveries this year.
The unaired pilot episode of Mark Mitchell’s National Late Show 1985
(p.s I dont know why the youtube thumbnail is not loading, but I assure you the video works)
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And they did a better job too. 2008 as far as i remember none of the games 9 showed were live.
Then fast forward to 2022 it was only on Fox League
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Some new things out of the vault - from ABC 1984
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I know I asked for this before, and someone re-uploaded it but I cannot find it, but does anyone have the Seven - TV turns 50 montage and closedown that was on the Big Picture DVD?
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NBN Z1
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TVW-7 used the same jingle back in 1980.
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