Regional TV History (pre-aggregation)

How could I forget “The 4 Square Numbers Game”??
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Not sure if this has ever been posted. It’s only had 70 views on YouTube. Includes some of the shows I mentioned earlier, lots of local personalities and a few faces that some from outside SEQ would know.

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Is that the same studio they’re in now or have they moved?

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Same studio.

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As opposed to the one produced by WIN Wollongong that got syndicated

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I do remember NRTV, NEN and DDQ at one point aired the WIN version because my oldest brother tried telling me WIN owned 10-4-5a (DDQ). This usually aired weekday mornings but during school holidays (except Christmas) DDQ would move Jazzercise to the 2:30pm timeslot.

Later when NRTV and DDQ stopped screening Jazzercise, they aired Jazz Fitness (a 5-10 minute show), which from memory DDQ screened it at 1:30pm whilst NRTV screened it around 9:30am. Later moving it to 11am. I believe that NRTV produced it from their Gold Coast studios but happy to be proven wrong

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Jazz Fitness was produced out of Coffs Harbour with Jan Strom as host. She was later a councillor on Coffs Harbour City Council.

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Well…they did. Eventually. :rofl:

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I vaguely recall BCV-8 showing a program produced by WIN-4 in the 1980s as well. Might’ve been Jazzercise or a children’s program.

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NBN Continuity bumper c1981

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This is probably more of a tv history question, but I am curious as to how many Ten network stations and affiliate didnt air the US TV show, Studs. I know NRTV opted for alternative programming, but did any others fill the half hour slot with alternative programming

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In my trawls through the VIC regional newspapers last week, I was able to ascertain some aggregation start dates for some regions for each broadcaster. I’ve summarised my findings below

Albury
1 Jan 1992 - all three networks

Ballarat
SCN - either 22 or 23 January 1992 (there were delays as per article A below)
Prime - 1 March 1992 (as per ad B below)

Bendigo
VIC TV - 1 Jan 1992 (though the only hitch was the 6pm bulletin as per Article C below)
Prime - 1 March 1992

Mildura was not part of aggregation, but I did see Prime started there on 1 July 1997.

Article A (from the ‘Ballarat Courier’ Tues 21 Jan 1992)

Article B (from the ‘Ballarat Courier’ Sat 29 Feb 1992 - similar ads ran in the ‘Bendigo Advertiser’)

Article C - VIC TV Bendigo news hitch (from the ‘Bendigo Advertiser’ Thurs 2 Jan 1992).

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Shepparton had SCN from 1 January 1992.

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Good to know, do you know when Prime started there? I’m guessing 1 March in line with Ballarat and Bendigo.

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I don’t know, sorry. I was there in January but back in Melbourne soon after.

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Prime started test transmissions in Shepparton on 14 February 1992, full service commenced 1 March 1992.
Southern Cross (GLV46) had outage issues with its transmitter on Mt Major from 1992-1994.

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Nobody could fix it for 3 years?

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SES-8 12th May 1996.

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I came across this on a recent search. There is a goldmine of old TNQ7/NQTV material on here. This clip I think is from 1977 and they would have still been operating out of the Mt Stuart studio at the time. Board inspection of Queen's Hotel for new studio TNQ7 | Townsville City Council

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The video also features Ken Sutcliffe but only the back of him.

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