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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I would of said Six O’clock live across all matkets 
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Wait til you see what’s scheduled for 7:30, woah
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To quote Monty Python:
Well, it’s five past nine and nearly time for six past nine. On BBC 2 now it’ll shortly be six and a half minutes past nine.
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Listening to bits and pieces of this as I was coming back from the Comedy Store on Saturday night. This was interesting - didn’t know there was a synposum on this last week.
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At present Nine is in the process if attempting to se NBN TV to WIN. Over the years there have been different moments in time where WIN could have (and eventually did buy) 2 of the 3 northern NSW commercial stations.
Early 1990s WIN proposed to buy NRTV but sale didnt proceed
Mid 2000s, WIN bid for NBN TV and was unsuccessful with PBL buying NBN TV.
2017 WIN successfully purchased NRTV licence from Souther Cross. Later selling in 2025 to 10.
2026 WIN proposes to buy NBN TV subject to regulatory and shareholder approval.
If the early 1990s sale of NRTV to WIN had proceeded, then NBN would have most likely become the Ten affiliate unless NBN with help Capital Television had been able to dethrone Prime as 7 affiliate. In the event of NBN being a 10 affiliate, NBN News may have went by mid 1990s like NRTV News did
If the mid 2000s sale if NBN TV to WIN had occurred, the news format most certainly have changed by end of the decade.
If a NBN TV sale to WIN had occurred between mid 2000s and 2016 OR the above sale was to WIN instead of PBL, we would have seen changed affiliate status (from 9 to 10) with possible questions if whether local news in Northern NSW would continue. This also would have meant Southern Cross retained NRTV ownership.
Fortunately for NBN TV, none of these things happened. Now its uncertain times for NBN TV northern NSW staff
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One that seems to have been largely forgotten was, I think it was 2018, when Nine were thinking of selling NBN to SCA. It fell through at the last minute.
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