*Worldâs Greatest Commercials (Seven Network, Mid-Late 1990s)
*Kidspeak (Seven Network, 1998-99)
*One of the final presenters of 11AM before it was axed by the Seven Network
*Cross Promotion and Product placement Carols in the Domain during the Late 1990s/Early 2000s
*2008 & 2011 Seven Network psychic program The One
*12 episodes of THISafternoon for the Nine Network in 2009
But in fairness, being part of 2000 & 2008 Olympics coverage and narrating Nineâs âgo-toâ filler program RBT could be deemed as successful television roles for Andrew Daddo.
I donât think it was sloppy, itâs just business. Nine clearly made him a generous offer with a motive to try to destabilise Ten which at the time was giving it a thrashing in the early evenings. I imagine Ten would have tried to negotiate without matching it, so he went across.
I donât think that was the same thing? Seven dumped Burgo when it shifted production of Wheel Of Fortune from Adelaide to Sydney and decided to get Tony Barber to give the show a refresh. Burgo didnât have a million dollar offer from another network, although he eventually got thrown a lifeline by Nine to host Catchphrase.
This move for Wheel of Fortune was not the first move for the program. Having being moved when channel 7 and channel 10 in Adelaide switching affiliations in 1987
I never knew the logistics of this issue. Itâs labelled âNorthern NSWâ but included CTC7 and WIN4 which are as southern. Not sure if they were just there to fill in some spare columns because they would have been covered by their own local edition, âSouthern NSWâ.
Also to note that this is the day of the James Hardie 1000 from Bathurst, being covered on all regionals except on CBN8/CWN which is Bathurstâs local station (CBN11), with only a highlights package in the evening. I guess live and local coverage wasnât allowed?
I have a feeling Iâve read here (but might have been elsewhere) that local coverage wasnât arranged as an incentive for locals to go and watch the race.
Interestingly I found this letter from 1988 that mentioned that CTC7, NEN and RVN were not taking Touring Car coverage - I wonder if that extended to CBN as well (as they had common ownership with RVN)
In the listing above there were two schedules for the ABC - one for NSW and one for QLD. If you donât look closely at the variations you may be wondering why the ABC schedule appeared twice.
neither is TV0 and ABC (Qld) but their coverage footprints no doubt went over the border. I wonder if TVQ still got listed in NNSW when it became Ten, as its coverage might not have stretched as far into NSW as 0 did.
I guess it was a legacy of when they had state-based schedules but since the advent of Aussat, the state-based differences were rapidly vanishing, becoming useful only for things like state-based sport on the weekends.
The frequency for 0 gave a stronger signal in the area than band III signals.
Reception of 10 would have been possible with proper antenna (as opposed to 7 and 9 that were knocked out by the adjacent local 6 and 8). But the antenna would have been completely different to that required to receive 0. So viewers wanting to receive 10 would have had a potentially expensive change to make for their antenna setup.
This would have been either the last year or second last year that Midstate Television (as CBN8/CWN6/MTN9 were know) didnât show the Bathurst 1000 live.
I couldnât remember for sure if MTN9 took the race but judging by this TV guide, I am guessing not.
Over the years I have found programming of sports events and the overall handling of sports interesting.
For example in the early 1980s, at one point DDQ10 took the Ford Australian Open instead of test cricket. Another example is most stations in NSW screening NSWRL games either late afternoon or early evening, but NBN3 screening it after the late movie. Then there was the example of the local blackout for Midstate Television (CBN8/CWN6/MTN9)
I assume it was for similar reasons to why other nationally broadcast programs screened at different times in the schedule (60 Minutes, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Wheel Of Fortune, Days of our Lives etc), getting the best bang for their buck or put more simply - itâs business (and what the network would see as best for their audience and advertisers?
I would guess that MTN9 would have shown the Bathurst race. I can remember seeing a TV guide in a 1982 edition of the Australian Womenâs Weekly that had every regional channel in NSW showing the race except for CBN8/CWN6 but MTN9 had it. MTN9, despite taking the majority of CBN/CWN programming, did have their own local news, advertising, local programs and other breakaway programming.
Only 2 channels back then: the ABC and Ten Queensland (QQQ, switched affiliation to Seven in 1999). And from the same paper, an article about kids and television.
Looking at the Ten programme schedule they carried the cult cartoon Ren and Stimpy Saturday mornings at 8.30pm. In regional Victoria Southern Cross Network (SCN as it was known then) refused to air it, instead showing Chris Conroyâs Leisureworld in its place. They must have got so many complaints when Ren and Stimpy first aired the previous year on âThe Big Breakfastâ kids cartoon show with Tim Bailey.
Quickly browsing at the Ten Queensland guide, the first thing I noticed (aside from the home-made Ten logo) is that some of Nineâs rugby league coverage was broadcast!
