So that explains the significance of the steam train used at the end of at least one version of their Who’s Who of News promos in the mid-90s.
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TVT had a bunch of really good adaptations of those promos over the years right up til the late 90s but are very rare which is a shame.
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Also the helicopter shots with Tom Payne at the start of that same version.
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Some more MTN9 material. Source: YouTube (Cohen Family Private Account) https://youtu.be/1HQMg2HeuGA
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Includes MTN Television News content with dotty MTN News, MTN Sport and MTN community service announcement logos. Also a WIN Ident.
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“In Dubbo, you’re viewing MidState Television 6-8-9.”
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A bit like those positioners that Prime (and 7) ran in 1992. One I saw was:
“In the Boggabri area, or wherever you’re watching, this is Prime Television, your local station”.
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Might have been covered here already but why did CWN and MTN de-merge?
Presumedly Prime didn’t think there was much value in Griffith/MIA post aggregation and sold to WIN?
Seems odd when their only competitor would be the ABC and SBS, local news could have been presented out of Wagga Wagga or Orange and MTN Presentation moved to either Wagga Wagga, Orange or Canberra to cut costs.
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From memory it was related to MTN being excluded from the SNSW aggregation
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Also, MTN was always independently owned. They took Midstate’s programs on relay.
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It really makes me wonder if they could have gone the approach to 2 station markets.
With CBN/CWN and MTN for Central South West NSW then RVN and CTC for Central South East NSW/ACT.
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I guess kinda surprising that MTN didn’t have a partnership with RVN back in the day considering the distance between Wagga Wagga and Griffith was only 2 hours. Conciderbly more to Dubbo and Orange?
Surely people in Griffith and Leeton have more in common with Wagga Wagga than Bathurst or Coonabarrabran?
I guess RVN had AMV so didn’t need MTN involved as well?
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RVN and AMV were in partnership from 1971 until they de-merged in 1989 due to transmission problems following aggregation.
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The old AMV-4 studios in Albury/Wodonga, courtesy of the Disappearing Albury Wodonga Region Facebook page.
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Unfortunately the site has since been converted to a pentecostal Church since the studio closed in 2011.
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That’s one of the more ugly TV studios I’ve seen.
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It’s like they built the studios and just plastered the callsign on it.
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At least it has been repurposed instead of being torn down altogether.