Unlike what’s about to happen to the NBN building…despite Newcastle City Council’s knockback (see relevant thread).
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Have spent some time today trawling through some of the WIN Television news archive clips and scripts being digitised by the University of Wollongong. Came across this clip of some videotape equipment being delivered to WIN in 1967:
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they can’t help themselves with the WIN watermark, can they? 
Would this have been WIN4’s first video equipment or perhaps an upgrade? I can’t imagine it was 1967 before WIN4 got its first videotape machine, but, then again… 
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Totally unnecessary! A combined UOW|WIN watermark is all that is needed.
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It was probably a condition of UOW getting their hands on WIN’s stuff. Along with the myriad of copyright notices…
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Indeed.
One would imagine that as the original copyright owners, WIN are able to access watermark-less copies of any of their footage in the collection held at UoW whenever needed for a news report, etc.
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… that looks very much like an AVR2 … which wasn’t released until 1974 … WIN had two of them and two VR1200 which were released in 1966 and looked totally different …
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More highlights from the WIN4 collection at UOW:
Construction of the channel 3 translator at Brokers Nose: Footage of WIN channel 3 translator | University of Wollongong Archives
The announcement of the channel 11 translator for the Far South Coast.
WINTV announce new transmitter for Far South Coast Ch11 | University of Wollongong Archives
Mushrooms being grown near the WIN4 studios. If only they were the “magic” kind. 
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Growing mushrooms | University of Wollongong Archives
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I’m just happy to see a lot of footage survived and is being preserved. Pity the Wollongong bushfires of October 1968 destroyed a lot of WIN4’s earlier stuff. Plenty of recognisable landmarks for someone who grew up in the area even though the streetscapes are quite different these days with high rise going up across the city. Just the way people spoke and carried themselves in those vox pop clips with audio, particularly the elderly, brings back memories.
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That Channel 3 translator for WIN was not one of the best broadcast planning moments. It used to suffer from CCI courtesy of NBN3. When WIN3 was switched off in June 2012, NBN3 boomed into coastal Wollongong.
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… it had very little to do with “broadcast planning” … WIN4’s biggest problem was that most of Wollongong pointed their antennas to the north to pick up Sydney while the channel 4 tx was south … the solution was to put up the channel 3 translator so that Wollongong viewers could continue to watch Sydney while picking up WIN4 on channel 3 
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So channel 11 was in Moruya, Bateman’s Bay, and Narooma?
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and still today with Wollongong and Newcastle main transmitters on the same frequency there are issues with CCI.
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11 was Batemans Bay and Moruya
3 was Narooma and Eden (separate TXs) as well as North Wollongong.
6 was Bega.
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Makes sense to me, lol.
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An Ampex 1000. Bought by Rupert Murdoch when he bought the station in 1963 allowing WIN4 to air a lot of NWS9 programs. Country & Western Hour, Here’s Humphrey, Ernie Sigley Show (Adelaide Tonight), At Home - and others. They then bought a VR1001 (vertical version of the 1000) then two 2000s, then the ‘dream machine’ an AVR1.
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… when I was there they had two VR1200 and an ACR25 that handled on-air and two AVR2 that handled production …
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Not sure this is true. From 1962-1979 WIN4 was owned by Rupert Murdock, who intentionally chased a Sydney audience. He famously out-bid Sydney stations on US shows to that end. Much like Katoomba’s The Edge 96.1 radio station chases a Sydney audience.
This is the Canberra/Wollongong TV guide from 25 July 1978
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Was the News and Weather On WIN4 at 6:10 local? Seems overall CTC had more local programming.
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I’m surprised WIN News was only 20 minutes as late as 1978. My early memories of it were of it being branded as The Six O’Clock News. Seven National News ran at 6.30pm in those days.
I also recall a lot of local sport being covered in the 1980s- football and basketball in particular. Full games and stand alone local sports shows were broadcast.
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