1] Source: "Channel 7evon: Closing Transmission, 1982.
[2] Submitted by: Marvyn Glost. Recovered from a dusty Betamax tape stored in the back room of a Melbourne pawn shop, marked simply “Don’t Watch.”
[3] Uploaded to the archive: February 20, 2025. NotstalgiaArchive.org
Background
The recovered 1982 closing transmission of Channel 7evon presents an anomaly within the realm of broadcast history - an artefact suspended between the mundane and the inexplicable.
Originally airing as a routine farewell to the viewing audience, the footage resurfaced decades later under strange circumstances, marked simply as “Don’t Watch.”
What at first appears to be a standard compilation of viewers enjoying their evening television soon reveals a subtle yet persistent disturbance. Beneath the announcer’s familiar cadence, a strange undertone emerges, a dark presence neither mechanical nor human, pulsing like the hidden breath of the Earth itself.
Some scholars have suggested that moments like these are not mere artefacts of a failing Betamax tape but manifestations of something beyond our understanding.
Was this a signal, a breach in the veil between perception and reality?
Did the transmission, whether by arcane design or cosmic happenstance, function as an unwitting aperture to forces unfettered by the constraints of time?
Scholars of esoteric media whisper of the ‘liminal screen’ - a spectral threshold where the ephemeral flicker of broadcast imagery converges with the ineffable currents of the unseen, exposing truths so vast and disquieting that the fragile human psyche can scarcely endure their weight.
Whatever it is, it’s nice to see people laughing.
Further Resources
https://archive.org/details/1982-hsv-7-sign-off
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