ITQ 8 Mt Isa closedown/sign-off - in two parts…
Video 1 - note the mention of the security service guarding the studios. I think there’s a closedown from MVQ-6 doing the same thing.
Video 2 - Notice the song and how it matches the video. Yet, others used this with the national anthem. I actually challenged the more advanced students to replace the song with the national anthem in class…
This might be one of the oldest Christmas tapes from Australian TV. The Daily Mirror ad is pretty interesting. Those views would have been very liberal for the time. I love the appearance of the lady who says ‘alcohol’s legal, so why shouldn’t pot be?’ - it’s just such a stark contrast between her conservative appearance and what she’s saying.
And Julius Sumner Miller being a total creep with the schoolkids, making a ‘rectum’ joke with a girl during a bit about parabolas (yes I know it’s relevant but to drag on it is a bit much…). That would never fly today!
As mentioned earlier…some MVQ 6 Mackay closedowns
Points of interest: end of the late news, a very familar news theme. Mention of the fact that Wormald is protecting the premises until they reopen tomorrow. What is it with Queensland TV stations and mentioning on air that they’re being protected by a security service? Also, as it was the poster’s last night with the station, there is a surprise after the national anthem.
Points of interest: Ad combined with clock, the first MVQ 6 palm tree logo, another mention of Wormald. The national anthem seems very laid back, almost Michael McDonald-esque.
what channel was ECV assigned to?
ECV would have been a production company rather than a TV broadcast station. Enterprise Colorvideo (note spelling 
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I know I’m a bit late to the party, but if Neighbours had been commissioned a few years earlier, could it have looked like this?
The “American” spellings never get my vote! Even “program” looks wrong, unless referring to computers.
Even though Neighbours adopted the correct spelling it was still listed in guides (such as TV Week and The Age) as Neighbors before they eventually followed suit to the correct spelling
Really? What does it matter. And “programme” looks really old fashioned. Unless you’re British.
Program is not an American spelling. It is the original spelling used for the word in England and endorsed by the original Oxford Dictionary. Programme as a spelling was first seen 200 years after program first appeared as a word and is usually said to have been an example of frenchification of English. Program is the standard spelling adopted in Australia by the Australian Government Style Guide for all uses of the word.
The difference I was taught is that programme is a schedule, whereas program is a computer file or TV show.
Found some gems on youtube:
Launch of the Ten website?
Ten Sport intro in widescreen:
Ten’s Thursday Night Fever:
A Christmas ident:
Video Hits intro:
More Ten promos:
Of course, that Good News Week promo is an obvious send-up of the “Who’s Who of News” promo Nine were using to promote their News/Current Affairs lineup at the time!
Holy shit that’s a deadringer.
Those bloody square brackets… hideous!
Southern Cross actually adopted elements of that Ten “square brackets” look which I always thought was a bad move back in the day. 
I love how there are 6 (at the time of writing) people who have tested that link! Try archive.org
I’ve found Vimeo is full of hidden gems, mainly because professionals upload their showreels onto there. You can find heaps of high quality videos from the late 90s-early 2000s by just searching.
(note this is BEFORE Foxtel Digital and it’s in widescreen)
