The changeover night. Oh, how I miss the yearly network promo!
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From 10 to ten
Ten had its best years in the early to mid 80s when they were constantly running second to Nine in the ratings for years. But they focused on a youth audience into the nighties even though they didn’t make it more than 3rd place in the ratings they were more profitable then the other two. But as the youth stopped watching as much TV in particular in the last 10 years they didn’t adapt their schedules well so hence their current position. Also once Canwest sold the station the company taking over didn’t invest and just cut everything out including news and they are still recovering from it now. It doesn’t help when they are owned by a multinational more interested in streaming than traditional free to air. But that is where the money is now so I don’t blame them. I don’t remember the last time I watched a full show on Channel Ten which I’d quite sad.
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i don’t watch a lot of free-to-air but what I do see is mostly Ten. I hardly ever watch Nine or Seven channels and my viewing of ABC and SBS is mostly through iview/OnDemand.
The only show I watch on Ten is ‘HYBPA?’.
An early ABC logo I don’t think I’d seen before, from 1960
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This was just recently uploaded on YouTube.
Great video for our younger audience who haven’t seen the former GTV9 studios.
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Great walkthrough. Awesome to see it on YouTube again. Wonder why it was taken down originally.
It wasn’t
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Looking at this set up and comparing to what we have now makes you think how big television once was.
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That’s still not the original upload. While that is Rob’s channel, the video was initially uploaded to the official Nine News YouTube channel, which has unfortunately been removed. I thought they might have removed it due to age, but there are other videos, and indeed other behind-the-scenes videos, also from 2010, just none of Rob’s. If I were to speculate why Nine News have taken them down, I would say maybe Rob has asked them to because he no longer works for them.
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Another reason Channel 0 was less of an issue in rural areas is that there is far less RF interference which afflicts the lower frequencies quite badly, especially in Metro areas.
A good example was ABMN-0 and RVN-2 from Mt Ulandra - extremely wide coverage across rural areas, but nearby Wagga Wagga needed a translator station due to urban RF interference.
Also, I grew up in a 1970s subdivision on the Eastern edge of Bendigo. Nearly half the houses in our street got good reception of ATV-0 with a 5 element Ch.0 Yagi mounted 8-10m above ground level. It was similar in Seymour, and they had a whinge after 0 went to 10 (couldn’t get it).
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Rob also made the same type of videos when GTV moved into its Burke Street offices. But I would say that office space has changed a bit in the past 15 years.
Indeed the long wavelength for Channel O meant the signal could be received at large distances.
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Don’t waste your time on that channel, it is full of ripped videos from other YouTube channels, the Internet Archive and DVD rips all processed through an AI upscaler with the settings turned right up. They have had issues with Nine and Somers Carroll Productions and their other channel got terminated.
That channel shadowbanned me because I keep calling them out with all their stolen videos.
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I’ve found the articles regarding the axing of Ten News out of Coffs Harbour. May 1995 is when it happened.
Source: The Coffs Harbour Advocate
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almost a year to the day after SCN did same in Victoria
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Interesting to read, I’ve often wondered why Telecasters axed the northern NSW bulletin but kept the North Queensland and Ten Satellite bulletin at the time.
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Townsville and Cairns were home turf for Telecasters and the satellite service which included the ITQ licence was essentially operated as part of that market initially. I remember seeing QLD TV guides with regional variations for Radiant Living for the old TNQ/FNQ and ITQ/QQQ whilst there were variations for Rockhampton to screen Racing Roundup. From memory the other regions received infomercials at the same time, Sunday mornings I believe.
Although hindsight is a great thing, Telecasters could have broadcast Ten Eyewitness News followed by Ten Local News in the old TNQ/FNQ, ITQ/QQQ and NRN areas. This would have given choice of 2 standalone local news services. A few years later Prime Northern NSW had an ad campaign with a older lady saying “i prefer my local news separate”. This lady might have been the type who would have chosen Ten News at 5 over Seven News at 6:30. Unfortunately it never happened. Much on the same way as Video Killed The Radio Star, Aggregation Killed The Local Stars
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That’s what they ended up doing in North Queensland before axing the local news entirely.
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