I certainly hope no one was bicycling a tape between any of the capital city stations.
It was just a separate channel (under the datacast rules) - here’s an old discussion topic on it from the archives of the DTVforum - Nine Network Election 2004 | TV - Free to Air & Streaming
Unfortunately the screen captures are dead links, but my recollection is they just cycled through the numbers in each electorate with the same full screen graphics as the broadcast.
Not that i know of myfriend
Celeb sighting alert 
— Just saw Geoff Mullins in a Brisbane cafe. Very exciting. He still looks good, the old bastard! He drinks long blacks too - very good taste.
Just a translator - but it’s worth discussing… especially that’s an abandoned mining community.
And remember - that’s Mary Kathleen - not Katherine, @myfriend.
Second:
(BLACKLINED @myfriend) ABIQ6 ???
Second Google result for ABIQ6 is https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/5165493/when-tv-came-to-the-isa/
The word from the North West Star files is that television officially arrived in the Isa on December 21, 1970 when ABC was first relayed from Townsville under the call sign ABIQ-6.
The first commercial channel did not arrive until the following year.
Does anyone know what year this was?
There was a problem with electricity supply in Queensland due to record demand and hot weather during February 1998. I believe that logo was in use at that time.
LWT was a fascinating station in London. I spent 3 years there as a kid at this time. Fascinating because - as ‘London Weekend Television’ - they only aired on the weekend. So, their (extremely threadbare) news operation only turned on the lights and churned out content from Friday 6pm until Monday morning. What a waste of resources, in today’s mindset! Their news was always a poor cousin of the weekday ‘Thames News’, very folksy with Pam Royle, and their set reminded me of a parking lot - but I remember it fondly.
The London Programme - with one of the best intros of all time, in my opinion. Taped by me.
and their version of ITV’s stunning ident that impresses to this day:
If you already thought the 10 TV Australia logo was ugly, here it is in PRG form as seen on ATV10 in late 1989. (ATV10 didn’t find colour for its PRG until 1990)
YouTube: David Whytte
