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*ANARCHY IN AUSTRALIA*

Oh, look, this is like the dream test in Doctor Who's Last Christmas...

Why's the title in italian?

11 years later, I'm back. In reference to the unrelated Oasis reunion after 15 years, I've put up this video on one of my private pages, and jokingly referring them to the group Oasis when they were just starting out. A few actually believed it! :0

Miss this

AMV4 is now owned and operated by Seven West Media, and is now just a Seven Network station. Local news at 6pm is really the only sort of opt-out programming on the station nowadays, if you live in Albury or Wodonga, that is. Outside of that local 6pm bulletin, it’s just HSV-7 Melbourne but with localised ads and “noodle” news updates. AMV4 Albury in 1988: Variety programming and independent AMV4 Albury in 2024: HSV-7 Melbourne

I wish American TV stations had this kind of sign off. A clock and a sincere sounding voice followed by really good music. Nice!

6:44-6:50 "We're a part of you, you're looking great on 8!"

loved watching this those sunny afternoons during my art college years

Max passed away May 2024 aged 87 vale Mr. Rowley, broadcasting legend.

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What is the exact date of this interview? It would be cool if it was the 16th, the day of the launch!

​ I'm not sure if Aus was the same but certainly in the UK, clocks were used as a method to genlock the local station's output to the company (generally in London) producing the news output. The clock was produced in the early years by literally pointing a monochrome camera at a physical device, in later years running it through a "Cox Box" to electronically add colour. The use of a camera rather than VT (which would generally be used for promos and ads of course) allowed the transmission controller to nudge the timing forward so it matched the incoming source (this was in the days before frame buffers which did away with this requirement) - if the station didn't do this there would be a "splat" in the video (non-synchronised switch over to the next programme) which would cause a visual disturbance on-screen to viewers. You couldn't do this with a VT source, it had to be optical. Once frame buffers became the norm (in larger ITV companies this happened in the mid 1970s but it wasn't in place until well into the 80s at a few smaller stations), and clock models moved to electronic devices they fell out of favour as companies wanted to get as much branding in as possible, and so clocks started to disappear starting in the 1980s, although there were a couple of companies still using them into the late 90s. The use of static optical slides into programmes, and in-vision continuity was retained for similar reasons. From what I've seen of US local stations they really didn't seem to care too much about technical glitches like this, and I've seen plenty of examples of hard-switching, and splats into programmes on YT. This would have been considered extremely unprofessional in the UK!

On Test card F, MUSIC!

30 years ago when i was 12 😢😢😢 i miss the 90s. As i watch this i am taken back in time to my time as a form 2 student and my family members who have since passed, just knowing that at one time we were all seated in front of the tv watching these commercials together. ❤

Harmonies down already yrs before LRB

interesting that their was no music 🎵 just a a 440hz test tone

Miss Sheila seems very nice

back when the abc was for the people/ unlike to day run they way they want to. haven’t watched the abc in years now/ become to woke .

Oh No! More! I loved this series as a kid! Aussies in Space! What more could you want? A few 'Boffins' to run and mend stuff, like.

*Riveting Australian drama that is something used in lieu of anaesthesia*

Li lo .bfd😂

1976 not 1978. The date is in Roman Numerals at the end of the Dave Allen credits.

Cool

1:30 this version I remember from early seventies but they used to play it in full. Don’t know where I can find the whole track.

Whats that music in 0:46?

Whats that music kn 0:46?

我記得香港買來播放時,易名為(太空爭霸 )

I liked this show, even though I was only 7 or 8 then.

Fun fact: the male announcer heard at the end of the sign-off happens to be voice of Graham 'Spider' Webb - who is still alive and kicking, and as a matter of fact, is still broadcasting his pre-recorded program "Webby's Golden Years of Radio" and "Webby's Wireless Show" - that voice cannot be mistaken 😊 He is well into his late 80s and is still going strong.

I have two DVDs with 1980s TV DX highlights that could be uploaded to my Google Drive. For starters, this 1984 ABMQ4 video could be uploaded as a 720b video. Big difference to 240p.

It was funky how you could hear the adjacent channel interference on the audio during fades (as the BSB FM service would have been 100-125 KHz away

My dad was the sweeper man in overalls they spotted him at granville skating rink he thought they was joking lol

The test card section of this video is from the Sweet Moods tape that was broadcast on BBC2 between June 1985 to June 1986. Which explains the ident being the old style stripy 2, rather than the stylised 2 from the 90's.

Hi from 2024 \o/

Somehow I don't think they were real horse hooves...

Ah Capital was part of my childhood, receiving Wollongong programs from Western Sydney. Gotta love 1:31 too🤣

skipped!!! - 1:00am

I'm not a fan of "Advance Australia Fair", seems underwhelming as an anthem, but this interpretation along with video was superbly done. Signed, a Seppo.

I don't like gery oldman

The picture quality could be better than 240p. Maybe I can eventually upload it at something higher like 720p.

Great memories! Thank you!

I found this episode on the IMDB website and it was actually a year before in 1974 which makes more sense because colour TV first came to Australia in 1975. The theme for the week was Friends and the episode title was Inclusions.

Advance Australia Fair "poor signal" remix!😀

3:00 philishave commercial, just wanted to timestamp it here

RFO Martinique

This is an early 1976 episode of The Celebrity Game (a 70s Australian game show), which already ended on Network Ten. 🇦🇺 🇦🇺

Actual TX date: Wednesday 5 March 1980, 7.25pm (the full news bulletin is on YT on the "oldnewsaus" channel)

Why cant we have stuff like this again channel 9 is all crappy scripted reality shows

I went to one of the Dr. lectures back in early 70's red lion hotel or CBC college?