The last big promo to feature the ‘Split 7’ logo.
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what does “WOC” mean?
“With Original Commercials”
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Of course we cannot forget when Today reporter Jessica Millward and her report on a resident trying to chase someone who had crashed into a fish and chip shop in Brisbane went viral in November 2016.
I remember the very next day, he was interviewed in-studio on Sunrise.
Funny you mention that. I recently came across a couple if old NBN listings from 1977. A Wednesday and a Saturday. The Saturday one they signed off at Midnight, but the Wednesday one they we on until 3am. In the later hours they had a couple late night movies.
Also i agree with the radio and music. I pribably would have bought a walkman when they first came out.
Anyone know more information about Video-Tran? It was a division of NWS9 Adelaide going by what the television commercial from 1985 says.
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I remember Australia had its own version, hosted by Axle Whitehead (formerly the narrator of World’s Strictest Parents) from the Poland set.
Another one of those game shows that didn’t last long (The Master, anyone?).
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How good was the music for this TVQ ident? This just screamed 80s and shut up and watch us you pack of gronks. 
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So catchy! Go TV0!
If Ten Brisbane (and Ten Melbourne for that matter) werent able to arrange to swap the Channel 0 frequency with a regional network, how would programming strategies like the Give Me 10 campaign would have went.
What type of alternative strategy would they have adopted if Brisbane and Melbourne were still channel 0 then AND even now?
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I reckon they would have eventually adopted the Ten branding even if they stayed on Channel 0.
There could also have been the possibility that NEW in Perth might have been assigned a UHF frequency as the government at the time had decided that all new TV services were to be on the UHF band, so potentially there could have been NEW-31 in Perth as part of the network. As it turned out a number of significant exceptions were made to this rule, eventually NEW was assigned 10 and Imparja was assigned 9 for Alice Springs.
this is probably the most logical potential outcome. Another possibility might have been using the “TV Australia” name from the 1989 relaunch, had Ten not have run into legal trouble over use of the name. It was already trademarked to someone else AFAIK, so Ten had to remove any reference to it in its branding. Awks.
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The other thing I thought was if there was a push for ALL regionals to be moved to UHF frequencies to ensure a level playing field, which would free up Channel 10 in those regions adjacent to Melbourne and Brisbane
Would that have caused problems for SBS?
why would it?
No just wondering, if all channels shared the UHF band, would there have been interference?
not particularly given that in most regional areas almost all stations were on UHF except for the legacy pre-aggregation ones and any Band II channels that hadn’t been forced off VHF. Not really sure that it would have been worth the effort/expense to do so, however.
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I’d heard NEW being on channel 11 was quite likely for a while, but not them being pushed to UHF.
I think we’d have just seen a unique brand for the 0-10 network if Melbourne never switched. Can’t imagine how bad Channel 0 reception would have been near the end of analogue though - the ABC was bad enough on 2.
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