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Speaker 1: Channel nine is turning sixty tonight Chickens Watch celebrating sixty

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Speaker 1: years Channel nine Perth seven thirty on nine and nine. Now,

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Speaker 1: we were just having a bit of a reminisce before.

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Speaker 1: I was telling Clazie how my brother went to school

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Speaker 1: with Flapper and Flapper was Michael Thompson Tracy with us.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, morning God, Happy birthday.

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday nine. Thank you, it's incredible. Sixty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Flapper, that's going on.

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Speaker 1: Jenny Dunstan, the show Causfree Sory was controversial and we

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Speaker 1: didn't care that.

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Speaker 4: You remind me. I was trying to work her what

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Speaker 4: Flapper was. And of course.

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Speaker 5: Jenny Jenny Dunstan features in this special tonight, which is Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's great to hear her stories of being on the

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Speaker 5: show all that time ago. So it's wonderful to see

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Speaker 5: her in the show. Yeah, in the.

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Speaker 2: Special, very good. Sometime much has changed, hasn't it hasn't it.

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Speaker 4: I was just saying that least on air that we

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Speaker 4: you can go to YouTube and see the old building,

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Speaker 4: which is a long time ago now.

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Speaker 2: Since you miss Yeah, sixteen years is it sixteen?

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Speaker 1: Is it.

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Speaker 5: Twenty sixteen?

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Speaker 2: We moved through sixteen nine year nine years twenty.

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Speaker 5: Sixteen we moved into Sat George's Terrace. Yeah, okay, and

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Speaker 5: oh gosh, Donella was Swett Hill was a distant memory

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Speaker 5: for last.

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Speaker 1: To leave the little television city that it was. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Louise Momba presented the last bulletin from there and

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Speaker 5: then I think we launched off his six pm and

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Speaker 5: then that we did like a major morning sort of

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Speaker 5: broadcast as well at the new studios, So it was

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Speaker 5: really yeah, it changed a lot.

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Speaker 3: And that those studios. On top of that, there was

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Speaker 3: an area where a cameraman could set up a tripod.

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Speaker 3: That's where Skylab the only pictures in the world Channel

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Speaker 3: nine person World Exclusive. John Cunningham was the chief of

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Speaker 3: starting but a camera on the roof and he got this.

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Speaker 3: It was just like a streak of light, the trail

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Speaker 3: of the sky and we got those pictures and that

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Speaker 3: they went around the world and then they found pieces

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Speaker 3: of Skylab down in Espirans and round three there.

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Speaker 2: That was a big deal. This whole generation that doesn't remember,

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Speaker 2: I would know about it.

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Speaker 1: I worked very briefly for John cutting Hair in the

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Speaker 1: eighties and I swear to God William mckinneson's character in

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Speaker 1: the newsroom is based on John cunning Hair politically incorrect

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Speaker 1: eighties news director. There there is nothing else like it.

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Speaker 5: Else.

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Speaker 1: Will we see pop up tonight on the special We've.

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Speaker 5: Got Jenny Seaton. Lovely Jenny Seaton and she still looks fabulous.

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Speaker 2: And it was really lovely.

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Speaker 5: Because the vision of her doing the weather day and

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Speaker 5: she remembers this is about how she thought she was terrible,

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Speaker 5: but she just looks really as fabulous as ever and.

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Speaker 2: That great voice.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and then yeah, we've got Terry Spence was who

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Speaker 5: was the former news director.

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Speaker 3: For a long time time. A lot of things happening

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Speaker 3: and just going back and looking in the early days.

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Speaker 3: Some obviously swap stations because Jeff Newman was on nine

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Speaker 3: in the early days. Lloyd Lawson was was there, Peter

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Speaker 3: Dean who spent time on seven, but he was on

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Speaker 3: nine in those early days.

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Speaker 2: Peter Harry's har Yes, entertain good people.

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Speaker 5: As well.

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 5: The team did so well in contacting all these people

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Speaker 5: who have been there, who had worked for Channel nine

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Speaker 5: all those decades ago. Yeah, and Burgo John is on there.

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Speaker 1: He's on there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Sadly some have passed away. Peter wal passed away recently.

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Speaker 3: He didn't worked at seven and worked at my Wally

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Speaker 3: Foreman and Wally was what Bruce Walker. Yes, and there's

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Speaker 3: you know, there's lots of people. Yeah, And I always

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Speaker 3: think of Channel nine for some reason. When I was

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Speaker 3: a kid, they had Gilligan's Island, which was which was

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Speaker 3: a show. You remember the stations for what you'd watched

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Speaker 3: the hade Gilligan's Island and they had Wimbledon Live and

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Speaker 3: that was We didn't have any It was the Cricket Cricker, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and all those things just going up with things like those.

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Speaker 3: We were very Americanized with our comedy back then. Michale's

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Speaker 3: Gets Smart.

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Speaker 1: My favorite.

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Speaker 2: Was Gilligan Coreck. Yeah, Terry and Michael.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got to interview Terry.

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Speaker 3: Terry looks incredible. Terry's eighty and he looks fantastic. And

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Speaker 3: he was a big star. He was probably our first

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Speaker 3: major star. He read the six Scott News, then he

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Speaker 3: did Terry Willis's Perth. He did a series of documentaries,

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Speaker 3: a lot of documentaries. Then he went on to take

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Speaker 3: on his brother. So Michael Willisey was hosting a Current

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Speaker 3: Affair which was obviously on nine here and he was

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Speaker 3: on Terry Willisey. I think it was Terry Willisey's Nation

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Speaker 3: or Terry Willisey's Current Affair show and that went head

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Speaker 3: to head with Mike. So the Willises Don Willisey worked

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Speaker 3: at nine Perth as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so they had a huge influence on massive.

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Speaker 4: What about with the celebrations. What about this Perth Symphony

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Speaker 4: Orchestra link. I think it's wonderful, it's beautiful. So it's

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Speaker 4: about a four minute peace.

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Speaker 5: There are about twelve musicians who performed this medley and

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Speaker 5: it's one of a kind. The Perth Syphony Orchestra hasn't

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Speaker 5: done anything like this before and the beauty of it

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Speaker 5: as well. With a conductor is Greg Schultz. And Greg

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Speaker 5: Schultz the former music director for Channel nine for thirty

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Speaker 5: five years. So when he got contacted by the Perth

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Speaker 5: Symphony Orchestra to put together arrange this medley, I think

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Speaker 5: he I think he got chuffed because the circle moment

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Speaker 5: for him. So we interviewed him and he's also actually

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Speaker 5: he's part of the special as well. But you're talking

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Speaker 5: about cricket, Lisa, and I was like, I said, it

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Speaker 5: was the wide World of Sports themes.

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Speaker 2: On when comes on it just.

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Speaker 5: Everyone knows what it is.

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Speaker 2: It gives me.

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Speaker 5: I've got goosebumps now with you just doing it now,

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Speaker 5: it's so good, you know, And that's that's that's a

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Speaker 5: big part of the medley. But you know it also

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Speaker 5: mixes in local production shows as well, So it's good.

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Speaker 2: Guru the News, it's iconic. We have to have a

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Speaker 2: little listener.

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Speaker 3: Just a bit.

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Speaker 1: I heard.

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Speaker 2: Told me that that was used in the movie cool Hand.

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Speaker 5: Look it was the theme song for nine News came

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Speaker 5: from the cool Handler.

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Speaker 2: Yes you believe, Yeah, so we do have a linked

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, jeff, youman.

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Speaker 5: But it was a wonderful medley from the percific. We

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Speaker 5: thank them, We thank them for doing them for us.

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Speaker 5: And you'll see the full masterpiece tonight.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know, you're a happening thing. When the Symphony

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Speaker 1: Orchestra wants very special, very special, they do star wars

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Speaker 1: and two.

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Speaker 3: Of those themes were written by a guy, Tim Halligan,

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Speaker 3: who works with a freelance opera. He wrote Just at

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Speaker 3: Water and the Postcards themes. A very clever guy. So

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Speaker 3: that's really nice. So a lot of it to come

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Speaker 3: back to the to the local factor in it, and

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Speaker 3: we all grew up with that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Didn't just had water.

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Speaker 5: That was iconic for for me growing up back in

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Speaker 2: That was that was program.

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Speaker 4: Obviously did the sport is. But you've mentioned Bruce Walker.

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Speaker 4: Bruce Walker was sitting next to Bob Hawk the night

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Speaker 4: that we won the America's Cup.

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Speaker 3: Was absolutely jack he was and that today I can

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Speaker 3: remember watching Sue Kellaway, I think Steve Leeb we're hosting

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Speaker 3: the today. So that night, I remember I was doing

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Speaker 3: shorthand exam that day.

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Speaker 2: I still remember.

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Speaker 3: But I remember watching into the early hours and into

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Speaker 3: the morning, like it was sort of six or seven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: Was still celebrating and still going strong. Yeah, Bruce Bruce

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Speaker 3: was look was an absolute legend at nine for a

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Speaker 3: long time. So I was, you know, and Wally I

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Speaker 3: remember that we had Wally Bruce, Terry Willisey Russell, Deer Russell's. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they were really iconic figures.

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Speaker 1: Well, we could sit here and reminiscence. We're going to

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Speaker 1: have to save some for tonight seven thirty tonight on

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Speaker 1: nine and nine Now celebrating sixty years Channel Night. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've all grown up with it. We all remember what

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Speaker 1: it used to close down at about Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You could, yeah tomorrow, that's right, even watching a pelothon as.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't believe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think we were the first. We were the first

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Speaker 3: station to go twenty four hours, which.

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Speaker 2: Was okay, and first color too, yes, first.

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Speaker 4: Well remember going to carry up shops, watching the.

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Speaker 1: Cricket, watching cartoons.

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Speaker 2: It was a big deal. It wasn't a huge deal.

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Speaker 2: Well it is a huge deal.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing this and we'll see you tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thank you on the telling you too.