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  • I remember that song. Affair of the heart.

  • ABC Australia is becoming a communist television net work!

    I never thought it would come to this.

  • @therulingparty is this it ? check out you tube  TV sign off

  • I'm trying to find the great ABC end transmission music from the mid 80s. It would show sydney at night with the bridge etc panning over TV antennas on old roofs. It had a real ambient music piece with it. Anyone know where I can find that?

  • youtube.com/watch?v=0HZPtiC7YL­w

  • If I were to watch this in the wee hours on waking up, it'd send me back to sleep!

  • My recollection is typically dim, but I'm fairly certain there was another, more localised version of this opening (would also have been around 83-84). The announcer reeled off a list of all the relay stations in regional Victoria, and their associated channels. Just what I wanted when I was impatient to watch Sesame Street!

  • I'd say this is pre 1982 as it lists ABMKQ9 which was the relay station for the Queensland town Mary Kathleen which was abandoned around 1982 after the closure of the Uranium mine.

  • @QRhuggies After July 1981 though, as ABWV5A is listed

  • Advance Australia Where?!?

  • LOL TECHNOLOGY!

  • wow, so many stations! Just start the TV already lol :)

    Its sooo cool watching these old promos and ads again! I have some on old VHS tapes I have to try and get uploaded

  • ABC would have started transmission in about 1953 but I think this is just a promo from the 1960's thank for showing anyway.

  • The ABC commenced in 1956 (as did commercial TV in Australia). As this broadcast is in colour, it has to be after 1975. The voiceover commences with a reference to the 'Australian Broadcasting Corporation', so this must have been broadcast after 1 July 1983, when the Corporation replaced the former Australian Broadcasting Commission.

  • Thank you for your interesting and very helpful comments

  • That would probably sound about right. I noticed that the background music is "Affair of the Heart" by Rick Springfield, which was released in March, 1983. The album it was from, "Living in Oz", was released in June, 1983. I happen to be a Rick Springfield fan myself as well as a logo and station ident fan.

  • I am absolutely shocked that you think that the ABC started in 1953. Australian TV didn't start 'til 1956. Also, does this look from the 60's, considering that its not in black and white and that there are computer graphics involved?

    But generally, if you are from another country, fine, but if you are from Australia, saying such stupid things is unacceptable.

  • mudb1234 1953-1956 to be 3 years out as a guesstimate is nothing. Get of your high horse, with your holier than thou attitude, but if the truth is known you probably do have an attitude problem.

  • but being 20 years out is pathetic!

  • ABC started transmission in 1956, and this would be a promo from the early-to-mid 80s.

  • Thanks "ShedEntertainment" Best regards "roskruge"

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