NBN also only started stereo transmissions from aggregation too.
Capital canberra didn’t go stereo until about 2003 or so.
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From what I understand, CTC7 never went stereo and remained that way until analogue switch off in 2012. Some stations couldn’t go stereo for technical reasons and others didn’t for financial reasons.
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I remember when NBN-3 went stereo, it could be heard on 92.0 as well as 91.75 on an FM radio.
I would have thought 91.75 would have been FM stereo like a normal FM station.
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The Zweikanalton dual channel sound system had L+R on the original sound carrier and L-R as a separate carrier but lower strength. It provided better stereo separation than FM stereo, compatibility for mono TVs (as they only saw the L+R signal) and the possibility for dual audio tracks because of the high separation.
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Using NBN3 as an example, the 92.0 right audio carrier was actually 91.9921875MHz. The right audio carrier had to be exactly 242.1875Hz above the main audio carrier.
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The good old days, I could listen to the telly on my portable radio on the old occasion when I was down the highway in Newy. Bring those back. 
I used to laugh when NBN News was on and during sport, they’d say (when covering a football game to be replayed later) “and if you don’t want to know the score, look away now”.
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Did they do what Sports Sunday did and have an audio of a woman singing “For your eyes only”?
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was just listening to this on ABC.
First episode dropped on Friday, covering the rise of Christopher Skase and his takeover of the Seven Network, includes vox pops by Jennifer Keyte, Derryn Hinch and former journalist and Hinch producer Dermot O’Brien. Presented by Mark Humphries:
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as did all Southern Cross Ten stations in Victoria, even its original station BCV8 never upgraded to stereo! It wasn’t until digital TV came to regional Victoria in IIRC 2004 before the network went to stereo sound (only on digital, analogue was still mono until it was switched off in 2011).
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I remember after Seven axed The Big Arvo in May 2005, it alternated regularly between airing Go Go Stop (hosted by James Tobin, who went by the name Jesse) and It’s Academic (a national revival hosted by Simon Reeve) in blocks.
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That female voice was Sheena Easton.
That sounds right. Funny thing about BCV-8 is they kept their original Colour TV transmitter right to the end. One interesting change occurred in 2005 when they were upgrading the 1961 tower to add the UHF Digital TV antenna array. The tower had to be strengthened throughout, and the original VHF array also replaced - that array only got 6 years of use.
For a month or so a temporary BCV-8 antenna was installed. It was running on a fraction of the full power.
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How long did that last?
In Newcastle and the North West, only a bit over 11 months! Axed early December 1992 and replaced with the Ten Sydney early evening schedule..
The NRTV North Coast bulletin became Ten News in August 1994 (at the start of the Commonwealth Games when the NRTV brand was dropped) and then the local bulletin was axed entirely in May 1995.
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From what i remember of the few bulletins i remember seeing it was still very Coffs Harbour/North Coast sentric. Then again people in that region would probably say the same thing about NBN News
Yes, that’s right, NRTV Evening News didn’t have local windows, they only had one reporter in Newcastle (Rebecca Skinner).
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A 1994 ad for AusText:
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