Seven Regional

Television Regional and Community Television
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3575

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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3576

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.

3577

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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3578

Correct.

3579

It’s been ages since July 2022
I guess it’s time I put this up
my_tombstone

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3580

At least they thought about including a sponsor at the bottom of the tombstone…I guess someone has to make some money somewhere… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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3581

Well, Prime Possum was the longest ever lived possum ever as they normally only live 5 to 10 years of age. To live 28 years would have been a medical miracle!

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3582

Does Prime Possum still exist or has Prime Possum been put to rest?

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3583

The “tombstone” is probably a hint

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3584

I wasn’t sure if it was done in jest and if Prime Possum was still used for events at shopping centres etc

I believe there was a time that Fat Cat was used in this manner after his axing

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3585

What’s NBN’s Big Dog up to these days?

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3586

Being put to bed by Miss Kim probably lol

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3587

I am pretty sure Fat Cat killed prime possum via travelling to prime7 headquarters and killing him

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3588

Can this conversation about the Prime Possum please end?

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3589

About time this conversation was killed off.

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3590

Any news on Seven Regional News bulletins for Newcastle, Wollongong and Canberra or will they remain noodle updates?

3591

I can’t see them changing any time soon

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3592

Well, I for one believe that any additional funding that regional television receives should be tied to actual locally produced broadcasts and that the production should be over all markets, not just the heritage markets.

In defining local production, I believe it should be a minimum length of at least 10 minutes. In other words, multiple noodle updates would not meet the criteria.

Although my idea will probably get no traction, I think it’s a better system than what we have.

I understand the argument about the fact that in some markets broadcasters are losing money, I think it will continue whilst major media outlets are paying ridiculous sums of money for sports. The government needs to bring in fairer and more rational ways to protect sports in general

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3593

All good ideas, but the reality is they aren’t going to happen.

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3594

They’re going to remain the noodle updates