In the context of this forum, I think that is quite mild.
If you don’t take a set top box with you when you go on holidays (as I often do), then you are not geeky enough! 
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A set top box and PVR/VCR so can record what you see. But the best times to do this is well gone. In the 90s if you travelled to country NSW you would see new unique Ids for Prime using the This is Where We Live branding you won’t see that anymore. I think in the Ten Capital days they did have local bumpers but they were shown on the whole network so if you were living in Canberra you still receive the same bumpers as Orange/Wagga. WIN had something similar but they weren’t localised like Prime’s was. Local ads are usually not very special once you have seen one you have seen them all.
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Here is an interesting paper on Television in far north QLD around the time of aggregation. Although not entirely about NQTV/QTV, it is interesting to read the initial challenges in the television industry, which is in some ways comparable to the market now, with economic challenges in the industry cause by new players
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Nice graphic.
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I remember that. In the dying years of the local presentation department in Coffs Harbour.
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Loved those lower frame supers.
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The Ten Eyewitness news theme is one of my favourites and by 1995 the other capital cities I am pretty sure would have changed to a different theme (not as good) at this point but it would stay on Ten Capital News for a bit longer to come. Canberra at this point had all three commercial stations with local news broadcasts with Prime going back to a 30 minute bulletin after the 1 hour bulletin not able to top Ten Capital News in the ratings. Now only Win’s bulletin remains a shell of its former self with the studio in Canberra closing and moving to Wollongong with all the other bulletins eventually.
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And the irony when Canberra had 3 commercial bulletins in the 90s, the ABC had closed their bulletin down and only re-instated it in 2001. With the ABC Canberra bulletin being the only local bulletin screened in the ACT that is still fully locally produced.
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This was probably done to make it look to be not hypocritical the investigation in commercial channels closing down regional news services
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The bulletin was re-introduced before 10 Capital News (and possibly the Prime bulletin) was axed.
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I found something odd in an old “Southern Cross Ten” Wikipedia revision. Back on 30 January 2005, a user called BigDan on Wikipedia added a line claiming NRN aired a 40th Anniversary promo using the NRTV branding.
I’ve never seen any evidence of this promo existing, and in 2025, neither WIN nor 10 produced any promos for NRN’s 60th either.
Pinging @mechsta and @rhysholmes19
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@ElCapitanCranky explain yourself 
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I remember sending an email to Southern Cross themselves when the ID went to air, and they actually sent me a copy of the ID. I did upload it to YouTube, but the account got terminated.
The video itself was like a tunnel based effect with the old logos flying through and flying out to reveal the 0 in 40, the logos on the bottom and the words Northern Rivers Television 40 years of television.
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i remember it from YouTube
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