At the 6:43 mark roughly, a very basic PRG for RTS5A circa 1986. https://youtu.be/vBCkOzmf4kg
Credit: YouTube (CliffyD)
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not even a logo, just “5A” in text!
You think that’s bad, here’s ITQ8’s effort circa 1989. From the 5:41 mark. https://youtu.be/vBCkOzmf4kg
Credit: YouTube (sirmechie)
I think the link is incorrect?
Just looking at the ITQ8 menu there - was The Midday Show on delay from Sydney? Alice being 30/90 minutes behind, if live it would have started “early”.
It would have come from Sydney. I’m pretty sure this was from March 1989 and as such, daylight saving in Sydney would have finished by then (it used to finish on the first Sunday of March back then) so it would have been live.
… what’s “Alice” got to do with ITQ8 Mt Isa?
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ITQ8 didn’t broadcast in Alice Springs in 1989. In fact it probably broadcast in an area similar to the current 4LM/Hit FM Broadcast area.
In fact before Imparja existed many people in outback Australia like Alice Springs only could watch 1 channel - the ABC.
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Yes, I remember staying at the Sheraton Hotel in Alice Springs (now Crowne Plaza) in 1987 and they only had the ABC and SKY Channel in rooms.
Katherine had GWN as well as the ABC.
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Sky Channel? Makes you wonder how busy the TAB phone lines were back in those days…
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Sky Channel would’ve been on analogue satellite in 1987? I’d imagine that a fair few hotels, even in major metropolitan areas would’ve had it as part of their MATV system in the pre-Pay TV era…
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Even today a lot of hotels with PubTAB’s just pipe Sky to all rooms on the same MATV system. As a gambler, I like seeing this.
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Would Australian hotels have carried CNN International before the arrival of pay-TV, considering that the channel was available more-or-less worldwide?
Not that I ever saw anywhere.
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I remember around 1993 (a good two years before pay TV arrived) Billy Guyatt’s furniture/electrical store in the Melbourne CBD had one of its televisions tuned to CNN via satellite. There were a few places around Melbourne where you could buy large satellite dishes so you can watch CNN, CNBC, Discovery Channel et al and everything else that are available via satellite. And there are a few homes that have these dishes, mainly to receive foreign language channels from their homeland.
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You mean like this?? 
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yep
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With these types of dishes, what kind of box do you need for the LNB??
Ladies and gentlemen, a 1981 GMV6 Shepparton closedown! Recorded New Years Eve 1980-New Years Day 1981.
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