At one point ABC Started up at 7am and had Cartoons before Sesame Street. Voltron then i think Astroboy. But my memory is a bit sketchy
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In Bendigo pre-aggregation the choice was Sesame Street on ABC and Today Show on BCV-8. Test pattern before 6:55am…
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This coming Tuesday (April 29 of 2025) will mark 25 years since the final episode of Recovery was aired on ABC. To mark the occasion, What are your best memories of the program that first premiered 9:00 AM Local Time during April 20 of 1996 and was produced from ABC’s former Victoria Headquarters at Ripponlea?
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National Mutual Sponsored The Capital City Nine Network News Updates Between 1988 And 2000 As Well As Prime Television, Seven Queensland, WIN TV Tasmania And GWN. What About Channel Eight Darwin?
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I thought NTD8 was independent for some of that period, before being purchased by the Nine Network.
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I bet that rebrand from “Channel 8” to “Channel 9” confused a lot of Darwinites.
Do I need to retune my TV? Do I need a new TV aerial? etc
Imagine if that happened in Ayr, near Townsville.
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TNQ-7 Townsville airing Channel 10’s programs post aggregation. 
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This is an old joke on the forum, even older than the Amber Sherlock one..
Years ago, there was a member who had relatives in Ayr “near Townsville” that appeared very confused about the transition to digital TV (or something along those lines) as the questions they had were quite bewildering (to us anyway)
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NTD8 was bought by Kerry Packer in the late 80s and when he bought (back) the Nine Network in 1990 that brought NTD into the network, though it continued to be Channel 8 and showed programs from all 3 commercial networks, until Seven Darwin began in 1998. Then NTD dropped any remaining Ten programming when it rebranded to be Channel Nine in 2003.
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the letterbox drop version that went to households…
(There was also an Olympic Games themed version and an equivalent for Vision TV’s conversion from 10 to 0)
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Going Back To National Mutual Didn’t They Sponsor The News Updates On Eight Darwin As Well As GWN?
I’ll go for Bill Collins thanks Tony.
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And you’ve won… a brass razoo (sorry budget cuts).
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Not to mention at one point had a deal with Channel 9 cricket sponsoring the replay of wickets that had fallen.
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Might need a seperate topic for lotto draws but Tatts Keno from 4 September 2001:
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What was that? Was that basically a old NSW weekly Lotto?
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No, it was run by the Tatts Group in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT.
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That Keno music is still burnt into my brain after all these years. It was drawn nightly, right?
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Yeah, I remember it always being the thing after watching Sale of the Century/Temptation.
It also was many years later before I ever worked out the “spot, match, win” lyric…
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