Modern day - seen tonight
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Possibly no more, appear to be removed from the updated webpage for facility hire and there was talk last year about outsourcing whenever th ABC required them.
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These were most likely embedded Flash files. On the other side, we at Media Spy prefer not to search for âlost mediaâ, whatever thatâs called.
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I for one would like to welcome our new forum spokesperson.
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How much you paying him?
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Anything would be too much
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What are you even talking about?
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I remember the first big cutbacks prior to Quarters being paired up with a co-anchor, and after Mike was allowed to leave the studio after a week or so stint in studio doing the weather, heâd have to basically follow the live eye around to wherever it is, theyâd flip the camera around to the other side of the road and heâd do the weather wherever it was on location.
This is how Iâm starting all my sentences now, itâs going surprisingly well.
âWelcome to McDonaldâs, what can I get for you?â
âWe at Media Spy would like a McChicken and a medium fries.â
âWould you like to make that a meal deal?â
âWe at Media Spy would like to make that a meal deal. Diet Coke please.â
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You know, you CAN legally change your name by deed poll if you like it that much 
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Speaking of TV stations promoting their state-of-the-art technology, this 1978 news promo from Chicago is so over-the-top in a '70s sci-fi way that it borders on the psychedelic. One canât but wonder what kind of mushrooms the producers were using:
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Does anyone know why XYZnetworks was part of Foxtel and Austar?
From memory its was a content/channel supply deal. They produced the channels to sell to Foxtel/Austar. Originally they were with Galaxy as well.
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It was a Foxtel and Austar joint venture company to produce channels for both platforms - in the early days it held the licence for local versions of Discovery and Nickelodeon then later Channel [V].
Austar produced two channels (CMC and The Weather Channel) which were then moved under xyz
From memory, Austar âboughtâ Galaxyâs share when Australis collapsed
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A quick question - back in the 80s, which Channel Seven station was on UHF45?
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Until 1983, ATN-7 had a relay station on UHF-46.
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Not that i recall.
The ones I know of
BTQ-52 Gold Coast
BTQ-39 Currumbin
ATN-60 Wyong
ATN-52 Gosford
ATN-44 (i think) Bouddi
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Which was then moved to UHF-49.
Itâs actually ATN-49. TCN broadcasts on UHF-52 in Gosford.
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Thanks @Tane04 and @Radiohead.
This newspaper ad is what prompted my question. I assume Iâve read it incorrectly (poor reproduction) and it refers to the ATN relay on UHF46. Out of interest, where was that UHF mast/tower located?
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