English subtitles for clip: File:The start of TV ABC.ogv

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Hello there and good evening, ladies and
gentlemen, and children.

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This emblem that you've just seen

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is tonight the symbol of a historic 
occasion;

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the opening of the National Television 
Service.

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Which, of course, is your television 
service.

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And we hope that tonight and in the weeks
and years to come,

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that you're going to see and enjoy
a lot more of it on ABN-2: ABN Channel 2.

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And my name is Michael Charlton, and I'm
your host here tonight.

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I'm here to welcome you, and show 
you around,

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and let you meet a few of the people

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who are going to make this service tick.

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And, we're going to show you something too

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of how we bring these people, 
the entertainers,

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to your home; how we bring them to that

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small, bright screen in your living room,
that you're watching now.

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Or perhaps as many of you are doing,

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looking through shop windows at television
screens in the street.

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This afternoon, when we were setting up

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equipment for the program that you're

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watching at present, we recorded
what we saw.

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And here it is, with a sporting

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commentator whose name you probably all

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know already: from signed broadcasting,
Brian McLennan.

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So, it's over to you, Brian.

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(Brian) Right now, I'm looking down from

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the top of a tall building in Kings Cross,
and this is what's below me.

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There's our outside broadcasting van,

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being moved into the site for tonight's
opening program.

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As you can see, the men are working on it;

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in fact, there is one of our cameras being
carried out.

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This van is the nerve centre of our 
program;

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[inaudible] the camera cables, and from it

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comes the signal, that's directed up to

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the top of this building, to the microwave
link on the roof.

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And here's where I am, beside the link.

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I've got to use this sort of microphone

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because there's a lot of noise up here,
mainly caused by the wind.

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And from this link at Kings Cross,

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the signal, like the picture, moves over

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the Kings Cross roofs themselves;

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past the graving dock,

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across the harbour,

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past Woolamaloo,

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there's [inaudible], Denistone,

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with Mosman and the other suburbs in the
background,

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and from there, across to the bridge.

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And between those pylons at the
northern end,

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the signal passes to our transmitter at
Gore Hill.

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But, while we're up here, I think we might

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have a look at the rest of the city; 
it's certainly a wonderful view.

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We leave the art gallery, move left

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past the beautiful Botanical Gardens,

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there's St. Mary's Cathedral,

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and behind this the big offices and the
stores of the city.

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And now, you can see William Street,

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running up the hill to Park Street, and

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from there to the heart of the city itself.

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And now back again, across the city,

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back to the bridge, and beyond it 
to our transmitter.