Television Centre of Victoria (BCV/STV/GLV) selling itself to advertisers in 1979… and giving a shout-out to GET
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That’s interesting, as it mentions GLV11 Lakes Entrance. I was there in January that year and there was no GLV11 then. This must have been a new translator.
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What channel number is that for Foster/Bairnsdale? Can’t read it… is that a 6?
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“Boomtown”, the same word being used in an effort to sell regional television over the past decade.
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Toora/Foster was channel 6, yes.
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am surprised they list Bairnsdale. It is nowhere near Toora/Foster so it would not have come off the same translator, and there had never been any mention of a separate translator at Bairnsdale in later years, not until a UHF transmitter was installed by the early '90s.
We took a family holiday to Lakes at easter, 1979. I recall seeing the Good Friday appeal on GLV but tbh I can’t recall the channel number, if it was channel 11 or if it was maybe a faint signal from 10.
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In our motel it was definitely on channel 10. The TV was one with a rotary channel knob.
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Anyone Remember If Prime Television Albury Were Broadcasting The Rugby League State Of Origin In 1991?
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They would have in Tamworth/Taree where Prime was still the only commercial TV broadcaster. Not sure if Albury aired it.
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Prime Albury was almost entirety Channel 7 programming from 1989 but did have opt outs for some sports coverage pre-aggregation in 1992. So they might have shown SOO but maybe not live
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Yes it was the same in Tamworth/Taree… with very rare opt outs other than sport… I recall them airing 60 Minutes at around 10.30pm though.
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I also recall they would show the Channel 10 Winfield Cup matches too. And one day cricket in summer
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I don’t think Prime Tamworth showed channel 10’s rugby league. I recall my old man getting a “booster” to pick up the Capital and WIN signal from I think Dubbo.
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I’m pretty sure they did? (I know Taree did and they normally run the same schedule).
1 hour from 6.30pm from memory (but they didn’t show the full 90 mins-2 hours that 10 ran). And only the Sunday night game, I don’t think Prime (or NBN) showed any Friday night matches.
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I was only 10/11 so my recall is pretty vague, and I think it was only for a season or two pre aggregation. Maybe it was just for Friday night football - but the sole reason for the booster was so we could watch the NSWRL.
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What was the TV reception like in Tamworth?
(as Mt Cenn Crauich is about 180 kms west of Tamworth and Capital was on UHF).
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I don’t remember whether it was 10’s coverage or not, but I do recall them not carrying one of the games that I was able to watch when I lived in Sydney.
Pretty mixed I recall - we couldn’t get it, but I had friends a few km away who could
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I could imagine… if you were in East Tamworth up towards Oxley Lookout, it would have been significantly better I imagine.
I had relatives in South Tamworth who didn’t receive WIN or Capital.
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It was in East Tamworth where we got the booster to pick up what I was told at the time was the Dubbo signal for WIN and Capital
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