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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On You Tube?… or maybe they should be on ‘Tik Tok’? 
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Coming up on the Clock Channel… six o’clock.
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