Echo Point is an Australiantelevisionsoap opera produced by Southern Star Productions for the Ten Network in 1995. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to finally trounce the opposition soap Home and Away shown by the Seven Network, Echo Point was scheduled directly in competition with Seven's Home and Away. Secrets and the City DVD cover Home and Away is a weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Australia. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
However, Home and Away demolished Echo Point in the ratings and the series was soon cancelled after exactly 100 episodes.
An echo can be explained as a wave that has been reflected by a discontinuity in the propagation medium, and returns with sufficient magnitude and delay to be perceived.
The intensity of an echo is frequently measured in dB relative to the directly transmitted wave.
In computing, an echo is the printing or display of characters (a) as they are entered from an input device, (b) as instructions are executed, or (c) as retransmitted characters received from a remote terminal.