Same name but a different person. You’ll see the name in many credits over the last few decades.
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Improved 7Text recovery, circa 1983
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I found this on YouTube. Its a 5 minute production i believe was on all 3 commercial channels in Brisbane as well as regional Queensland called Queensland Unlimited. Not sure about other regionals but DDQ 10-4-5a screened Shell Drive immediately before it at 5:50pm.
This video was from TVO Brisbane
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State government propaganda. IIRC it lead to several legal investigations.
The then premier of QLD became fodder for sketch comedy, but yet probably unnecessary as his own real interviews provided “entertainment “, say one thing one minute, then contradicts himself afterwards
And this
There was also an Australian version, hosted by Axle Whitehead (former host of World’s Strictest Parents) in 2017.
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Question - will the stations that mark 70 years of broadcasting this year (TCN, HSV, ABN, ABV, and ATN) and early next (GTV) actually mark it?
I only ask because I saw this mock 70 years ID from Broadcasting Australia on YouTube and thought it’s something that they might do? Or do they want to continue to look hip and vibrant when they’re anything but?
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Unfortunately i think the answer to that question will be no
Channel 9 Melbourne actually celebrated 20 years of television in 1976, rather than 20 years of GTV9 a year later, so they might even celebrate 70 years of television this year.
if the 60th is anything to go by, it will pass with barely a mention. I think the only programming dedicated to the 60th was a special episode of Studio 10 – on a network that wasn’t even turning 60. ABC, Seven and Nine barely lifted a finger.
Well to be fair they may have been arthritic. 
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FTA @ 70 -“Yes, we’re still here…”
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From the flemishdog page on the internet archive, some more RTS5A goodness from December 1986 including a local news intro.
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Young Pete Smith on the Elvis ad
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Here is the Friday Night Football opening theme on 10 from 1988, with a quick glimpse of the start of the coverage with Rex Mossop
https://www.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/w9rgsz/tbt_channel_10s_friday_night_football_opening/
And as someone didnt realise Moose was Rex Mossop’s nickname, here is evidence as such.
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https://www.theroar.com.au/2011/06/18/vale-rex-mossop-the-moose-who-roared/
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https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/rex-mossop/summary.html
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In the early days of digital TV, there were channels available on the 4x LCN series in the Hunter Region.
I know NITV was one of the available channels, now under the SBS LCNs.
What happened to the other channels?
Has the 4x LCNs been made unavailable just in the Hunter or everywhere?
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Was that Digital 44 from Sydney? It was a trial datacasting service IIRC.
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Quite potentially part of it.
There is a list under discontinued channels on Wikipedia, but given its not always reliable, I am not sure if its 100 per cent correct. It said it was available in Sydney only but I got many of the channels listed in Kurri Kurri west of Newcastle. I remember Expo (49), House of Reps (47), Senate (48), Teachers TV (45) Australian Christian TV (46) and NITV (40).
I actually thought SBN on the Southern Cross channels during their Nine years might have been a rebirth of it until I read it was a Jimmy Swaggert aligned channel
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