Not related to the Prime7 petition: Today, I have noticed that the Seven watermark remains on screen during ad breaks and Seven News in Canberra. Did @SamuelGS, @TonyCTC or @Aaron_Evans_2005 also notice that?
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The Seven watermark is remaining on screen during the commercial breaks in Western Victoria
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Maybe the guy’s at 7 are having a joke and leaving the watermark on, in response to yesterday’s post in this forum 
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Time for a petition to have the watermark removed.
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It’s been a fairly regular occurrence for a few weeks now. It’s even staying on over 7News where, unlike the promos where it perfectly matches the 7 logo placement and just makes the 7 logo look a lighter shade of red, it doesn’t match the 7News logo placement at all and looks quite messy.
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7 don’t control their transmission anymore. All outsourced years ago on 7 and former Prime markets.
While you are at it, how about petitioning to restore the old RVN/AMV, Midstate TV and 9-8 Television brandings?
The axing of Prime7 and GWN7 branding was all about cutting costs, nothing more, nothing less. And as the new owner, Seven had every right to change it, their business, their call.
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Im not sure if the 9-8 branding would pass muster in the modern age
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It would on Media Spy!
I’m sure the oldies would refer to Seven under the old pre-Prime names today. And another thing, when 9-8 became Prime and took Seven programmes in 1989, why didn’t the Mt Dowe transmitter swap frequencies so that NEN was on VHF-7 with the ABC on VHF-9, so that viewers can turn their TVs on to channel 7 (this was in the days of channel dials) to watch Seven network programmes?
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It would cost money to advertise the change in frequency for no real gain.
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It’s expensive and serves no discernible benefit. Esp as most people had preset or push button tuners etc. And such a swap would incur costs for ABC as well, for no good reason.
And no other regional affiliate did a channel change. Viewers adapted to the affiliation arrangements. And as we saw in later years, affiliations can change, making any channel change irrelevant.
Mostly push button by then and in the instance of my family, we had a dial TV but had a VCR so we would watch TV through the VCR as it had a remote control. You could then tune the VCR to whatever channel you liked.
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As a 55 year old who grew up on a farm 50km line of sight to Mt Dowe I would like to point out most Country people at the time never really had a brand loyalty to a city network so that would’ve made bugger all difference and with the two biggest centres in the New England having local translators also with different channel numbers again (Channel 0 in Tamworth & Channel 10 in Amidale) This becomes even more pointless. I can remember when NEN changed to Prime and went hard on the 7 product there was a huge backlash against NEN with thousands of people spending big money on huge UHF antennas with the hope of receiving WIN & CTC from the Warrumbungles. Our family did this and what we did was diplex together the local VHF on one antenna pointing to Dowe & a huge UHF antenna pointing to Coonabarabran for WIN & CTC and with the fact that Southern NSW was aggregated a few years before Northern NSW this was quite common particularly in the Gunnedah & Narrabri region’s and then when the Northern Aggregation caught up most people then just swung the UHF antenna back around to Mt Dowe
On a side note to all of this most people at the time would of had a VCR as the main reception point so that ment you programmed the desired channel via a tuneable thumbnail at any case
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Most VCRs only gave you a choice of two output frequencies to TV via a switch on the back of the unit…usually VHF 0 or 1.
I think he meant using to VCR to tune into whichever channel they wanted to watch/record, not the channel to tune the VCR output to.
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Correct.
It’s been ages since July 2022
I guess it’s time I put this up
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At least they thought about including a sponsor at the bottom of the tombstone…I guess someone has to make some money somewhere… 
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