BCV-8 Bendigo used to advertise in the Shepparton News in the early 1970s, even though GMV-6 was the local station.
Taken from the Lost Kyabram fb group.
Taken from the Lost Kyabram fb group.
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Gary Sweet talked to The Age Green Guide about his role of Don Bradman in the 1984 miniseries Bodyline.
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Kyabram can pick up both Bendigo and Shepparton TV channels, even in the Digital age.
Interesting anomaly though, Kyabram (despite it being in the Goulburn Valley) is in the Bendigo TV1 license area, with the Shepparton TV1 license area beginning practically almost as soon as you enter Shepparton. Yet Kyabram is mentioned on the local SCA Shepp radio stations in local business ads during commercial breaks.
Another wild anomaly, Mooroopna is also in the GV and is about 10 or so mins from Shepparton but sits on the fringe end of the Bendigo TV1 license area, although Mooroopna’s Bendigo TV reception is mid to not so good.
Mooroopna should’ve been put in the GV license area, and so should have Kyabram, with Shepparton being full strength coverage into Mooroopna.
Any local business advertisers from Kyabram or Mooroopna looking to advertise on Shepparton TV would likely be redirected to their Bendigo representative for Seven or WIN as they are strangely in the Bendigo TV1 license area, and would only be guaranteed exposure on Shepparton TV as out-of-market advertising, which means very few spots from those towns on Shepparton TV are likely to be guaranteed. And way more exposure on Bendigo TV.
Unless they put their ads on 7twoHD, 7Bravo and 7flix but then they would be seen statewide, even across the NSW border.
BTW I’m on mySwitch and I can tell that this is the case.
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why on earth would they do that especially for Mooroopna given that
and that
Why would they waste their time and money advertising on a signal that barely reaches them when they are smack bang in the middle of the Shepparton coverage area and literally a short drive from the Shepparton CBD.
I am glad I don’t have you as my advertising manager.
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The Mount Major coverage map, I know for a fact (I used to live in Shepparton, plus I am a regular visitor to Google Street View) that 90% of antennas in the green, light green and orange areas (towns such as Mooroopna, Kyabram, Stanhope, Rushworth, Tongala) are pointed towards Mount Major as it is their local and are all close to Shepparton.
Bendigo coverage area to the north-east
There is no Shepparton TV1 or Bendigo TV1 in the ACMA coverage maps. Instead there is Eastern Victoria TV1 (10 callsign GLV) and Western Victoria TV1 (10 callsign BCV). Strange that all towns to the immediate west of Shepparton are in Western Victoria TV1 instead of Eastern Victoria TV1. Also the translators at Seymour has its off-air input from Shepparton because the 10 callsign is GLV.
Eastern Victoria TV1
Western Victoria TV1
From observations from holidaying in the Bendigo area: The majority of the local ads in Bendigo are businesses in Bendigo, Swan Hill, Kerang and Echuca.
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Shepparton, Mooroopna and Kyabram has a few UHF antennas pointed towards Mt Alexander because it had SBS while Mt Major did not until 2000.
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As the @TheHomeOfMusic said, They have changed it to Eastern and Western Victoria RA1 but Kyabram has always in the Shepparton TV1 area when they had the GMV area. The only issue is Echuca and north of Echuca to Deniliquin which falls into the technically Bendigo area but it was a grey line(A Bit like Wangaratta with AMV)
Just outside of Tatura(Where I live) There is a Tower which is the linking tower between Mount Major and Mt alexander(I am not to sure if it is being used at the moment). I can get major Commerical Station from Mt Alex on FM radio and TV and even the Amateur radio repeaters up there too(However it is bit more of a struggle but I can get them on the Vertical). If I own in Business where I live, I would transfer to Bendigo for advertising yet I am 15 mins drive from the Shepparton Office(It is only 5 mins from Mooroopna to Shepparton CBD), That would be a instant turn off
I can hear the Triple M Bendigo and Hit in Shepparton CBD very well. It is interesting to know if there is a delay in the Music Log between the two stations.
Regarding Attenna, Most in Stanhope, Kyabram and Tongala are pointed to Mt Major, Any West of that will start to change over to Mount Alex.
There is a house in Shepparton which has 4 Antenna going back to old day of Pre-Aggreation, One to Mount Major, One to Mount Alex, One to Albury( Mount Stanley or Baranduda???) and pointing to Mount Dandenong.
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Would message that have gone out nationally?
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When it aired in 1991, did the apology air across the SBS area or just in NSW?
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Reminds me of when NRTV used to lose audio during the first few weeks of aggregation here in Newcastle… there was no scrolling message or anything… just silence for about 5 or 10 minutes and it would return again… I think the problem only lasted a few weeks and was intermittent.
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27 November 2012, from the ‘Newcastle Herald’ when analogue TV was switched off in Northern NSW.. hard to believe that was nearly 13 years ago now!
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While visiting the Blue Mountains in May 2012, I made an effort to listen to NBN-3 audio on 91.75 MHz from a car radio at Blackheath before it went silent…
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On a separate note, it has been widely acknowledged that 7 made a mistake with axing Neighbours back in 1985. However, I have been thinking about 10s mistakes from the late 1980s onwards. I think the failed attempted reboot by Bob Shanks was part of it. I think putting The Price Is Right on at 6pm/6:30pm was a disaster waiting to happen - it should have been paired up at 5pm with Perfect Match. If 10 had done this, it might not have saved it from its woes, but it might have lead to differing results - Ian Turpie might not have ended up at 9 and it might have been Larry Emdur hosting Supermarket Sweep for 9.
At the time, 7 only had onegame show, Wheel Of Fortune pre-news.
Also I think that Family Double Dare may have faired slightly better up against Hey Hey Its Saturday. The Great TV Game Show, I think that was a blunder by the network, perhaps a modern version of Blankety Blanks might have done better at the time.
A different strategy by 10 may have paved the way fir different outcomes
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I spotted this today. News Centre Nine intro from 1975 at the start of the clip from a camera pointed at the TV screen.
Source: TheScrubby (YouTube)
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I never had one of those VCRs or GCodes devices (we could only afford a TEAC! 
) but i thought they allowed you to add x minutes to the timed recording so you didn’t miss the end of the show? Or maybe i just imagined that.
I never knew the formula for deriving the GCodes but ABC News at 7pm Sunday was often coded “1”.
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You could get a GCode adapter that supposedly allowed you to use GCodes on non-GCode devices. No idea how they worked or if anyone actually bought one.
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You could manually alter the timer, yes. But at that point, it was almost easier just to program the timer manually than find and input the G-code then modify it.
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Yeah cause i always use to program my VCR to allow 5 minutes before and after a programme i wanted to record cause how often did they start and finish right on time?
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The annoying thing for me coming back to the tapes years later looking for anything interesting was that my family intently watched everything being recorded, paused to slice out the ad breaks and end it immediately after, to maximise what fits on the tape.
I assume if anything was genuinely needed to be scheduled because we were all out, then I’d assume it got watched then taped over, because I got almost nothing out of them going through.
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