I think by then they had pretty much gotten out of the med game by that point. And even then, there are laws against making the kind of drugs they’d need after this week. 
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A 2008 newspaper advertisement taken out by Ten (printed 28 August 2008) - seriously number one in daytime again.
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Needed more Jerry Springer and Beauty and The Beast.
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That was back when they had Judge Judy, Totally Wild and a cooking show in the 90 minutes between 3pm and 4:30pm. How could you have fitted 2 more hour long programs in the 90 minute gap?
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Prime TV Albury - Wodonga transitioned from VHF 4 to 11 on Wednesday 6 May 1992 (with final 4 switch off on Monday 10 August). 4 was on reduced power during this time.
From “The Border Mail”.
These reminder ads were published in the dual transmission period.
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Wonder if that Prime 11 logo would have ever appeared on air, even if just in channel change promos. Even back pre-aggregation, the call sign was used for quite a lot of time over using “channel 4”, seeing a regional brand like that next to a channel number just seems strange.
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Forgive me for not knowing otherwise, but were there many stations still broadcasting on channel 3, 4 or 5 (not 5A) by the end of the analogue era? I’d be curious if there were as by then, they’d definitely been a pretty heavy nuisance on the FM radio band. Hearing their audio signals on the radio would have been novel but the video/vision carrier would have been painful to put up with, considering the buzz and noise they’d produced.
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I think there were a few
NBN-3 Newcastle
WIN-3 North Wollongong (and Narooma too)?
ABTQ-3 Townsville?
SSW-3 Bunbury
ABSW-5 Bunbury
GTS-4 Spencer Gulf
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There was also:
ABN-3 Nyngan
ABRS-3 Renmark/Loxton
VEW-3 Kambalda
ABNT-4 Savage River
These were listed in the ACMA’s Radio and Television Stations’ August 2009 edition.
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Interesting to see there were a few, I did know about ABRS-3 but didn’t know it was still on VHF-3 until the analogue shutoff.
Locally ABC used to be on VHF-4 (ABMV-4) until the 90s, when it was moved to VHF-6 for the launch of commercial FM radio (for 97.9 3MA-FM and 99.5 3MDA / Star FM)
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ABNT-3 Nth East Tasmania (until 2002) and
ABDQ-3 Darling Downs (until 1993)
also hung around for a bit after aggregation.
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Yes that’s correct,The good old days when we only had 2 TV channels to watch in the 70s in Regional QLD
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A relay station for ABN-2?
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Probably took ABQN 5/11 from Cenn Cruaich off air. I think the Nyngan commercials were fed that way.
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The CWN translator at Cobar received its signal via intermediate microwave repeaters at Hermidale and Mt Boppy.
The ABC stations were also received off microwave repeaters.
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Hey mate
Just wanted to let you know how much I love your clocks. I’ll run new the new ones you do on my livestream preview just to entertain myself for the day. Even did a ‘random mock’ of one for myself in the last pic haha
Keep up the good work!
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Let me see, I want channels 18, 24, 63, 109, 87 and the Weather channel!
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Five clocks now streaming on YouTube
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