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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 11:44:43 AM on 19 March 2017.
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 Daro
 Location: Tanawha, QLD
 Member since 22 December 2012
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Yeah I miss the seeing the old PM5544 (electronic test pattern) on TV and the 1 kHz tone on the radio when ever they took strike action. lol
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 9:02:47 AM on 1 April 2017.
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 Ian Robertson
 Location: Belrose, NSW
 Member since 31 December 2015
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The Labor Party ownership of the ABC goes back well before Whitlam got sacked.

Company I used to work for (no longer in existence IHTA) had a contract to service TVs that were provided as perks for certain high-up ABC luminaries and Labor Party politicians. Reason given was so employees could report on any technical issues (such as wrong black level - TVs were HMVs).

A certain govt minister had a colour TV provided by the ABC in his home a couple of years prior to the official switch-over to colour. (I know, I serviced it!). This TV had been fitted with chroma-lock by the ABC technical services dept so his family could watch colour from ostensibly B&W transmissions. Worked pretty well too.

I also observed about the same time a certain union leader being regularly chauffeur-driven in a Rolls-Royce from an ABC office car park. Would that the "workers" could have seen that!

ABC Newsradio regularly runs a self-promo filler that claims they are "without bias or agenda"! LOL!!

Newsradio used to run a political "Fact Checker" segment. That got pulled because it often made the Labor Party look bad.....

I could go on but it would literally be Ad Nauseum.....
 
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