"The fact is that the national standard now is Nine on 5 and Ten on 8. Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill are the only areas that are different to the rest of the country and the onus is on them to change. Because I can’t see the entire rest of the country changing and upsetting millions of regional viewers again just to put Nine back on 8 and Ten back on 5 just because “it’s the way it used to be”.
Ummm The last time I looked Northern NSW was the largest regional TV market in the country so be gone with your rest of the country BS & I’m more than happy for 9NBN to stay exactly where it is thankyou very much
PS None of this mess is 9NBN’s doing so I don’t see why they have to change anything when they had no part in any of this
In the analogue days, SES-8’s signal covered Far Western Victoria - in fact, I’m sure that was part of its official license area. Mount Gambier is very close to the SA/Vic border. I’m sure the digital signals must carry across the border too - these SA stations are listed in the Regional Victoria TV guide here:
Here in Hamilton we had two Antennas one BTV6/ABC3 and the other SES8/ABC1, Mount Gambier was some time clear and sometime snowy depending on conditions.
Watching a bit of QQQ (“7 Central - South” as per LCN) whilst on a stopover in Cobar.
They are still airing Melbourne editions of 7 News, feels weird watching Victorian News smack bang in the middle of NSW. Though I know Darwin gets this bulletin too!
Watermarks on “7 Central - South” (LCN 7), “7Two Central - South” (72) and “7mate Central” (70) are the same as the metro channels. No 7flix, HD or datacast channels. Just did a rescan on the motel telly to check!
