<P> In 1967 the NSWRFL grand final became the first football grand final of any code to be televised live in Australia . The Nine Network had paid $5,000 for the broadcasting rights . </P> <P> The first fully equipped - permanent - colour studios and post-production facilities were set up in 1969 at Video Tape Corporation in Sydney (VTC), by executives that decamped from TEN . Although the output was hobbled to monochrome until 1974, many original long and short form productions were completed over the years until its closure and eventual absorption into other companies in the late 1980s . </P> <P> Test broadcasting of colour began in the late 1960s . In 1967 ATV - 0 telecast the Pakenham races in colour under the supervision of the Broadcasting Control Board . The full changeover to colour transmission did not occur until 1975 . </P> <P> Following the new medium's establishment in most major metropolitan and regional centres, television continued to expand to remote areas, most notably those in the northern and western parts of Australia--Darwin, for example, did not receive television until ABD - 6 and NTD - 8 launched in 1971 . Similarly, VEW - 8 launched in Kalgoorlie on 18 June 1971, and ITQ - 8 launched in Mount Isa on 11 September 1971 . The youngest network, the 0 / 10 Network, as it was then known, launched the controversial sex - melodrama serial Number 96 in March 1972 . The success of this program led to this third network becoming commercially viable . </P>

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