The area is on the fringe but probably closer to Midstate. I know I was able to receive Wagga stations as well as CBN at Forbes because the transmitter is quite high at Orange and the ground around Forbes and Cowra is flat and only about a hour or so drive away from one another.
CTC-7 broadcasted to Goulburn and Cooma on VHF-10, with translators at Bombala on VHF-2, Tuggeranong Valley on UHF-63, and Jindabyne on UHF-66.
Most of Cowra is on the Southern side of the hill, hence most people got both CBN-8 and RVN-2 before aggregation. All a bit moot after CBN and RVN became the Prime Network in 1987.
Perhaps bringing Murray in was to mentor those guys. Aaron Kearney got his start there too as the sports guy.
He could have done it in an off-air capacity.
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RVN2 I remember used to take more AFL games then CBN did similar to the other Victorian stations even once aggregation hit so there were quite a few differences even into the 2000’s. But that would be it locally apart from their own 6pm news bulletin.
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Just wondering out of curiosity when it was announced that the Nine affiliation was going to Star Television on Christmas Eve 1990, how long did it take for Star Television/WIN QLD and QTV take to adjust their schedules to reflect the changes eg were there changes that week of did they wait until 31 December 1990 to change the schedule?
This article is from the ‘Bendigo Advertiser’ on Saturday 21 May 1994 announcing that SCN had axed jobs and it’s local news (effective from Friday 27 May, the last bulletin being Thurs 26th).
This Prime ad from the ‘Bendigo Advertiser’ the following week made the claim they were now #1 for news at 6pm in Bendigo
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The day after the last news bulletin went out, SCN changed its name to Ten Victoria.
genuinely surprised by that. (although interestingly, Prime claims “No.1 News and Current Affairs” but the small print states this only reflects 6-6.30pm"!)
I thought VIC TV at least would have had a higher share at 6.00 but perhaps the audience for local news was split between VIC TV and SCN, and Prime getting everyone else. Once SCN local news was out of the picture, I wonder if VIC TV then overtook Prime at 6.00?
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One wonders if they kept the local news for much longer, they wouldn’t have changed the name to TEN Victoria until many years later perhaps.
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Perhaps VIC TV would have improved it’s share afterwards with this announcement of 25 May 1994 (with the bulletin to begin 30 May).
And the ad for it
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wasn’t VICTV doing local news in Bendigo before then at 6.00? Regional TV History (pre-aggregation) - #939 by Radiohead
That’s what I thought too, but I wonder if it was originally a more watered down service, maybe a statewide local bulletin with small windows, or an NBN style 1 hour bulletin with small windows?
As the article mentions increasing the Bendigo reporting capabilities from 1 reporter/camera operator to 3 of each.
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might have been the Ballarat news with some Bendigo stories thrown in
Who knows… though if this ad from 31 December 1991 is anything to go by, they were already providing a ‘complete’ coverage of local news anyway?
I had not heard of Peter Acfield before I saw this ad.. not sure if he was based on Ballarat too, or if Shepparton did some bulletins before that got moved to Ballarat?
The Albury/Wodonga ‘Border Mail’ ran a very similar ad, but with Geoff Vallance as their presenter (another name I had not heard of)… not sure if he was Shepparton or Ballarat?
he was a former ABC TV newsreader in Melbourne and I am led to believe is partner to former radio presenter Jane Holmes.
I guess he was presenting VIC News for both Bendigo and Ballarat editions from Ballarat, maybe commuting from Melbourne (his successor Denis Walter used to commute to/from Geelong)
Geoff Vallance was based in Shepparton, a long-time GMV6 newsreader
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Thanks! Good to know… FWIW, here’s the ‘Border Mail’ version of that ad for the Albury/Wodonga bulletin.
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love ya work with these!
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According to this following thesis (attachment below), VIC TV had switched their local news bulletins to a statewide bulletin in 1993 before changing back to local bulletins the following year.
Aggregation&RegionalTV.pdf (4.9 MB)
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