CTC7 had an animated PRG in the late 1980’s before aggregation. The iconic flag logo was unfurled to show the logo. There was an example of this online but it’s no longer there due to a copyright claim.
this one was my favourite back in the day…
YouTube: djdpower
For some reason the Melbourne channels were very late getting around to animating or colouring their PRGs. I think Ten was the first to do so when it revised its 10 TV Australia logo PRG early in 1990
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CTC’s was similar to TV8’s.
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what would of NBN have done with there’s?
From what I can recall, NBN just had a normal PRG with no animation.
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Continuing on the theme of PRG’s, NWS9’s
1982 computer generated effort. At the 8:02 mark https://youtu.be/LquEvsnubvw
Credit: YouTube (IfoundtheseVHStapesburiedinmybackyard)
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btw You can include the start time in the URL, click on “Share” which pops up a window where you can specify where to start the video and it includes this in the URL 
But to respond to that video, that’s computer generated logo seems… of its time but Nine couldn’t put their actual logo there??
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Well that just brought back some memories!
I don’t think the iphone YouTube app can do that unless I’m looking in the wrong spot. I know it can be done on the PC.
Oh yeah it might not be on the app
Does anyone know when exactly in 1985 it launched?
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Many of you here will remember the British police drama The Bill. IMO this is the best remix of the theme tune:
From memory, the show would air Saturday nights on ABC (once, in 2006, it went head-to-head with Blue Heelers on Seven and AFL coverage on Ten) and repeat episodes would be shown on weekday afternoons before the children’s programming blocks.
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I used to watch that show when it was on. It was one of the highest rating programs on the ABC at that time.
After the series ended in 2010 after more than 25 years, 7two aired the 1999-2002 eps between 2011 & 2014, mainly at around Midnight. In 2016, ABC aired repeat eps from the pilot in 1983 up until around mid-1991 on weekday afternoons.
9Gem are now airing eps from 2004 at 8:40pm Monday nights, airing 2 eps back-to-back.
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The Bill used to be on Tuesday nights on the ABC in the 1980s.
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And also between 1995 & 2007 after the ABC was about 18 months behind the UK in eps.
Interestingly, The Bill also aired on Wednesday nights in early 1988 for Series 3, and after it switched to a 30 minute format from Series 4 onwards in July that year, the ABC then aired it on Thursday nights in double eps mode, initially not long after the UK. However, the ABC often pre-empted the series from time to time to fit in a mini-series or special, and so it moved to Saturday nights in September 1990, where it was less likely to be pre-empted, except for elections.
After an extra ep was added in the UK in January 1993, the ABC started to gradually fall behind by as much as 18 months. So in November 1995, it added a 3rd timeslot for the show, in which it aired a single ep at 8pm Tuesdays. When the ABC caught up to the last 30 min eps before it switched back to a 1-hour (45-50 mins for ABC) format (as it initially was for the first 3 series in the 80s) in late 1999, the Tuesday eps were moved to 8:30pm in line with its Saturday timeslot. The ABC gradually started to catch up to the UK, given that less eps were airing there per week than in Australia at some point.
In late 2007, the ABC stopped showing the series on Tuesday nights, and then started showing double eps on Saturday nights, airing from 8:30 until 10pm. This continued until September 2009, when it was cut back to just 1 ep, in line with what’s occurred in the UK just a couple months earlier.
The final ep aired on 16th October 2010, just a month & a half after it aired in the UK. The farewell special aired the following Saturday.
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Daniel MacPherson, currently in hotel quarantine, tweeted that he’d been watching himself in these old episodes
https://twitter.com/DanMacPherson/status/1381566555117416451?s=20
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Are they on Gem? This is news to me!
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Everything sounds better with a sax.
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