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Interesting! Australia and New Zealand are two other sparsely populated countries whose television was purely local at first, with no links between stations in their various population centers. News footage and other programming had to be flown or driven from city to city. Wikipedia describes the logistical problems this caused when major news stories broke in New Zealand:
"The most notable example of the unlinked facilities was when the inter-island ferry TEV Wahine sank in Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968 â newscasts of the disaster had to be transmitted over Post Office lines by WNTV1 to AKTV2 in Auckland. However, due to the storm disrupting both shipping and flights for a further 24 hours, the first video of the sinking crossed Cook Strait via regular transmissions from WNTV1 and was received on a privately owned television set in Blenheim, at the top of the South Island some 80 km line-of-sight distance from Wellington. A Blenheim based news reporter's film camera was pointed at the television, then the exposed film was rushed by road to Christchurch, developed and transmitted over CHTV3, concurrently sent further south to DNTV2 for transmission there via a coax cable link."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Broadcasting_Corporation
In late 1969, the New Zealand stations were finally linked to each other and the NZBC's first national newscast was launched. In Australia, however, the main evening newscasts remained state-based even after their stations were linked.
Could this also explain mainland China's Xinwen Lianbo being simulcast on every local and regional TV stations at the same time? It was first produced by the original Beijing Television (Today's CCTV, unrelated to the later BTV).
I recall that at least at the start of RBC's service, there were completely separate schedules for Salisbury and Buluwayo. Presumably there was no link between the two transmitters, and separate studios existed. Buluwayo generally ran episodes of film series a week after Salisbury. I have no idea whether the News was the same in both places, but was presumably read by different newsreaders.
Interesting! Australia and New Zealand are two other sparsely populated countries whose television was purely local at first, with no links between stations in their various population centers. News footage and other programming had to be flown or driven from city to city. Wikipedia describes the logistical problems this caused when major news stories broke in New Zealand:
"The most notable example of the unlinked facilities was when the inter-island ferry TEV Wahine sank in Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968 â newscasts of the disaster had to be transmitted over Post Office lines by WNTV1 to AKTV2 in Auckland. However, due to the storm disrupting both shipping and flights for a further 24 hours, the first video of the sinking crossed Cook Strait via regular transmissions from WNTV1 and was received on a privately owned television set in Blenheim, at the top of the South Island some 80 km line-of-sight distance from Wellington. A Blenheim based news reporter's film camera was pointed at the television, then the exposed film was rushed by road to Christchurch, developed and transmitted over CHTV3, concurrently sent further south to DNTV2 for transmission there via a coax cable link."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Broadcasting_Corporation
In late 1969, the New Zealand stations were finally linked to each other and the NZBC's first national newscast was launched. In Australia, however, the main evening newscasts remained state-based even after their stations were linked.
Could this also explain mainland China's Xinwen Lianbo being simulcast on every local and regional TV stations at the same time? It was first produced by the original Beijing Television (Today's CCTV, unrelated to the later BTV).
