I did not know this, but apparently WIN (TWT) tried to buy some Channel 7 stations back in 1986. It was only in this article that I discovered what TWT stood for (Television Wollongong Transmissions - an odd name at that.. I feel like the acronym is missing an A or an I!).
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Seymour Is In the Shepparton TV licence area, so the ABA would have flatly rejected this proposal.
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Funny you should bring that up, there’s a program called Gippsland today on YouTube with a tour of the GLV 8 studios around Christmas 1984 the lady conducting the tour was talking to the station manage & he was actually hoping on getting supplementary licences for the area, so more channels could be provided, Even that far back It was being talked about so the idea of aggregation didn’t just pop up suddenly but as someone stated In a different post local content would have died without aggregation anyway with everything being centralised.
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Who thought TWT would be a good fit for HSV and ADS? 
Imagine, Mappy in Melbourne and Adelaide? 
Also, what a name! Television Wollongong Transmissions. Could’ve just dropped the Transmissions bit. Or gone with WIN Television from the get go. The callsign was a good get - who doesn’t love to WIN? 
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Their news promos in the 1990s played off that .. eg. “Canberra Looks to WIN”.
All your favourites and a whole lot more…. Like Daryl Somers
To me it has a very ” Thunderbirds are go!” look and feel
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Never seen Bruce look that young in anything before. Even if this is a cartoon depiction.
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Skase looks grumpy and his empire hasn’t even collapsed yet.
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I think the GLV-10 presenter was Anne McKay. I wonder what became of her?
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Hmmm this sounds familiar
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Holy crap they stopped saying “netcast”…
That’d have been a few months before they’d be fully ‘Eyewitness News’ and then directly Ten branded? Never seen that before - it felt initially like it was some non-broadcast national bulletin, like the old Qantas Inflight News, just through how awkward “Australian Capital News” sounds.
Certainly seems a bit less polished than it became once it was a Ten product, also kinda odd cuts of the news theme compared to Nine and WIN.
Not sure of that host’s name, but I recognise him from some old Vic News clips - pretty big downgrade from Canberra.
Was he the one presenting WIN News Canberra on their first night in 1989?
Peter Russell.
Maybe they were hoping for big numbers from having a familiar sounding name.
Peter Russell V Peter Russell-Clark around 6pm
Monday 16 May 1988 was when WIN Wollongong launched it’s main UHF analogue signal, the first regional commercial network to attempt to go UHF for it’s main signal.
Some coverage from the Illawarra Mercury on the Saturday before.
WIN also promoted it’s split programming of some shows, whereby they were shown at a different time on the UHF channel (ads below).
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