I looked up Nickelodeon from that era, it was very interesting, suited to my taste, I did research on Trove after being in the library, it said in The Canberra Times article from 1982, Mr Townsend announced in Sydney that the channel would be called ‘Chatterbox’ saying it would have 50% Australian content and 50% overseas programs from Nickelodeon, Calliope, the BBC and other European producers.
He said “I would certainly like to pick the best from Nickelodeon, the only children’s channel in America”
He also said that the channel would provide access programming for children to produce their own programs around nearby TV facilities across Australia.
Check out the YouTube series ‘Nick Knacks: A Show by Show Retrospective of Nickelodeon’ created by poparena
It said that the channel would present films on how to turn off the TV and do other things
as well as programs on children’s opinions, lifestyles, a consumer program and kids versions of Reg Grundy-styled soaps. And believes that children would be the greatest consumers of cable TV.
Also, if that channel existed today, I believe it would have reality shows like Junior MasterChef Australia and The Voice Kids mixed with popular overseas programming from Nickelodeon in the US e.g. sitcoms like iCarly, and Australian versions of Nickelodeon game shows.
That channel would be very popular in the 90s for Australian kids.
— not sure where to place this but it’s okay #myfriends —
In 1984, a TV transmitter was set up at what would be currently known as “City of Cao Bằng” (capital of Province of Cao Bằng), the first TV transmitter in Northwestern Vietnam. That transmitter carried VTV programming sent by kinescope in B&W, and the film was used and used again (meaning that it was prone to deterioriation).
That transmitter could be considered the lowest powered in the entire planet, and in the television history: it only had FOUR WATTS of power!
Francis Monkman’s Strident Theme. Stock music that was frequently used on TV back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s https://youtu.be/WxEB6qAiSSs
Credit: Àlex (YouTube)
A fair few versions of Capital Television’s take on the 1993* Network Ten Launch IDs in this upload. Of course since “It’s On Capital” wouldn’t work quite as well musically as “It’s On Ten” did, the song was rejigged slightly and became "Catch It On Capital" for the SNSW/ACT market:
YouTube credit: Download - quite a few other gems on that channel too.
*Yes, despite the uploader titling it as “1994” I can confirm that it was a recording from 13/2/1993. For once, I’ve actually managed to use Trove’s archives of The Canberra Times to find the date of a recording from Canberra television!
Great video but give us a heads up about the sound next time will you? It’s unpleasant to be wearing headphones and be greeted with A VERY LOUD CROWD CHEERING OVER FIREWORKS.
