Around 4 hours(!) of airtime from NEN9, Tamworth, relaying Network Ten’s coverage of the 1988 Olympic Games on 1 October, then the tail end of a Seven Nightly News bulletin from 18 September.
Included in the ad breaks are promos with a mix of station identities, so it must be in the very early stages of NEN9 changing over to “Prime Television”. Some promos give the name as “9-8 Prime Television”, some “9-8 Television”, some “Prime Television” but they only have the “9-8” logo. No actual Prime logo.
NRTV were much less prolific in their newspaper advertising. They didn’t really seem to start advertising in the Herald until after aggregation. As per this one below from 11 Jan 1992.
On that subject. Interesting i remember that the 2 new channels didn’t start broadcasting into the Upper Hunter until March 1992. Cause i remember that it kicked in around Newcastle and being in Muswellbrook at the time still not there
There were definitely some areas that didn’t get Prime and/or NRTV from day one.
Today I’ll post articles I found on how (for instance) the Kotara and Merewether infills for Prime weren’t ready (which didn’t get switched on until February from memory).
Didn’t guarantee a service for commercial TV either… As NRTV never operated from Gosford or Bouddi, and to this day, still no WIN10 digital service at either site, and probably never will be now.
Remember visiting the studios of VIC TV Mildura back in the early 90s they were able to take programs from all three networks before Prime entered the Mildura market & then WIN would revert to taking some network 10 programs especially on a Friday night.
If I recall correctly back in late 1989 when BTV6/GMV6 change to VIC TV they used a different channel promo for a couple of months before the one they used in 1990/91 to aggregation
