The last episode of At Home from WIN Riverland from 2001. At Home Final Episode - YouTube
Credit: Ben Tree (YouTube)
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Really hard to believe that this is from 2001, wow. Looks no different to the various regionally produced womens shows of the 1980’s (fashion and hair included).
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Advert in The Bulletin Feb 8th 1969 listing regional stations taking the Today Show.
Sourced from Trove
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No way it would have lasted as long if they spent more money in a pretty small market. Noting this was a few years after WIN had purchased the station.
For a tiny TV station with a service area of only around 30,000 people, RTS did well with its local productions. That of course doesnt include the very small number of people who could see the station in the very north western corner of Victoria west of Mildura and south western New South Wales past Wentworth.
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The guy who uploaded the last episode of At Home is a good mate of mine, I dont think he is a member here though
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I wonder if he has more 5A gold
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Yeah, Alt-NR1 was pretty much the old road to Wollongong - and yes it’s odd in roadgeeking terms when going via the F6 (Princes Motorway now) suggests going down the Illawarra escarpment and back up something like Macquarie Pass to get to Goulburn and beyond; an extremely roundabout way even then, more so now. 
But in 1981, the way to Canberra and RVN/AMV-land - and onward to Victoria and channel 6 territory - was hardly as good a snapshot as that (the F5, the south-western freeway, wasn’t officially the Hume Highway then and even then I don’t think the F5 had such a spectacular entrance sign-wise as the start of the F6 did).
So yeah, it’s odd but I guess a national media buyer in a cap city outside of Sydney wouldn’t have known any better!
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WIN News celebrating 60 years (18/3/2022)
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BTV - WIN TV - 60 years in Regional Victoria (27/4/2022)
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It would be great if WIN could return news prestation back to BTV Ballarat.
I believe WIN have moved out of the old studios though. They’d need to build a new studio space if that were to happen. Highly unlikely.
If anything, WIN news production for Victoria could move to GTV if Nine ever buys out WIN.
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Some screen captures for RVN AMV from the 1980s
Station Ident
Regional News
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That will never occur. No reason to return to the business model of the 1980s.
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Great to see screencaps from the RVN/AMV period.
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More screen captures for RVN/AMV from the 1980s
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That last cap makes some of today’s branding look subtle.
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Can’t tell if that’s Albury or Wagga Wagga?
I’m guessing they were tweaked slightly depending if it was AMV or RVN Local News.
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It’s got both station names on it, no need to tweak it.