Did they ever film episodes in different locations when they ran out of contestants?
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i doubt it.
Maybe the Epping studio was at capacity at some point so they outsourced to NBN?
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you could say that NBN played a big role behind the seance in the TV Industry.
(Had to edit because SOMEONE does not accept judgement on spelling.)
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NBN3 tried to contact the dead? That’s news to me! 
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I would say that would’ve been the case. It might be worth researching how many studios ATN7 had at that time and what production were coming out of there for that year.
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Does anyone have proof of Blue’s Clues on Channel 9?
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I definitely remember it being broadcast on Channel 9. I think at around 9am on weekdays?
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Close. It was typically shown at 9.30am weekdays, after the P classification program.
For the completely useless information files, Nine first aired Blues Clues on Monday September 6, 1999. In a brief SMH Guide review of the show about a month after its FTA premiere, Robin Oliver mentioned that Blues Clues sometimes outrated Play School on the ABC.
Not sure when Blues Clues was last shown on the network (that research will have to be saved for a later date), but sometime during the early-mid 2000s would be my guess.
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One for the engineers
When the main high powered TV sites first went to air in the 50’s/60’s, what ERP did they transmit at? We’re they increased over the years like AM Radio was? I seem to remember the capital city VHF services were 200kW ERP prior to switch off.
Can’t answer the other part, but you remember right here, all the state capital VHFs were 200kW.
Just before analogue switchoff the highest was NEN8 at 320kW, and biggest on UHF were the three NE Tasmania/Launceston ones, all at 2000kW.
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The transmissions from the capital city and most major regional stations were 100kw vision and 10kw audio.
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Back in 1956, TCN-9 had an ERP of 100KW vision and 20KW sound.
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The broadcasting technical standard for Australia was that the power of the sound transmitter was 10% of the vision.
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SES8 had 500kw ERP directional. Not sure why they needed all that ERP.
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Maybe so the signal could reach a few towns in Western Victoria?
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They started out with 100kw, moving to 250kw in the mid 1980’s then 500kw in 1997/98. The power increase would have helped fill in dead spots in the main coverage area but in order to expand the coverage past the existing coverage, a higher antenna is what does it.
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I think the 500kw was aimed more north to north west - back towards Kingston SE and Padthaway, but only 100kw to the east towards Victoria.
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is it true that NBN used to supply programming for Imparja and Nine Darwin when they owned them?
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NBN has never owned Imparja.
NBN has never owned NTD although they are now both under Nine Entertainment Co
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sorry, it was PBL Media that brought NBN and had also bought NTD as well.