Sign-ons and Offs

A better quality version has appeared:

Combined with this

I wonder if the sequence was

Copyright notice (what is it with WA stations and copyright notices - GWN had a similarly scripted notice at the same time)
Slide of 9 Perth logo with instrumental version of jingle and announcer wishing everyone a good night - maybe with brief run down of the next day’s programs
could the epilogue gone here?
God Bless Australia
Test card

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It seems each state had its own quirks with television presentation. South Australian stations, mostly NWS9 and the country stations used to, after playing the station ID, announce what classification the show had. I’ve never seen it in any other jurisdiction.

Some more signing off goodness found around the joint…

ADS-10 sign-off from the early months of 1988. Notice the slide after the anthem - very generic looking. Also, how long did they use their AAF video? I think this was from their days as ADS-7 and it went into the 90s as ADS-10.

Prime TV (don’t know which one) sign-off from 1993. Did all the Prime stations use the same AAF clip? No announcement, just promos straight into AAF. I’d like to know which Prime station produced this one (if it was their doing), as there are plenty of military bases in the old Prime areas they could have used.

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Does Arthur’s girlfriend look familiar?

As if anybody paid any attention to that anyway. Plus pretty sure recording off air for your own viewing was deemed fair use years ago

I found the 9-8 Television sign-on clip from 1988. It was on Australia TV Fan’s channel, but managed to find it. It looks like it was the opposite of what Prime did a year or two later.

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NRTV sign-off at the end.

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