You expect Limited Coverage for the Australia vs West Indies ODI in Brisbane given the Gabba played host to that Match?
Unless the game was a sellout then the whole game would have been shown live entirely in the host city. Ahh, the good ol days of television cricket rights.
This would raise another question. If a game was played in Brisbane and not a sellout, obviously Brisbane would only get part of the match but would NBN on the Gold Coast been affected by this as well or would they have shown the match fully. Given that the Gold Coast is covered by both Brisbane and Northern NSW, it would be interesting to see how this was handled.
Sydney and Melbourne, Tuesday 5 January 1971. What should have been the fifth day of the washed out Third Test between Australia v MCC at the MCG was replaced by the first one day international cricket match - the $5000 Rothmans International Knockout. The game was live on the ABC in Sydney, (and presumably across Australia), with the ABC only showing the concluding scheduled two and a half hours live in Melbourne. Nine in Melbourne also showed the final session live.
Source: SMH, Age
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NBN Gold Coast aired games in full, as also presumedly WIN Sunshine Coast.
Melbourne TV listings: Saturday 8 January 1983
from The Age
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4pm Soccer highlights
5.00 Movies “Grandad’s Kasia”/“Lucy and the Miracles” (Finland)
6.30 News (Karina Kelly; she moved to ATN7 later that year to read the weekend news)
7.00 Rock Festival (Italy; includes a report on Spanish singer Miguel Bose)
8.00 The Tiger Brigades (France)
9.00 Movie “Mr. Klomp” (The Netherlands)
10.45 Movie “The Roses Are Blooming” (Italy)
12.35 sign-off
ABV2
12.30pm English Soccer highlights
1.30 Baseball (Claxton Shield): SA v. NSW (from Perth)
4.25 Pacing: 1983 Benson and Hedges Cup (also from Perth; taped on 7 January 1983)
4.30 Showjumping: Benson and Hedges Festival of Sydney Championships
6.00 What’s on Next?
6.15 It’s a Musical World
7.00 News
7.15 Today’s Sport
7.26 Weather
7.30 ABC Sportsman of the Year 1982
8.30 Goodbye Darling
9.20 Val Doonican Music Show
10.05 News
10.15 Fox
11.05 sign-off
HSV7
7.00 Flash Gordon
7.30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
8.05 Salty
8.30 NBA: Philadelphia v. Milwaukee
10.00 Pictures at an Exhibition (a modern arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky’s classical piece is performed by Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
12.00 Movie “Snow Devils”
1.40 Movie “Honeymoon” (stars Shirley Temple)
3.00 Racing: from Moonee Valley
5.00 Norm’s Neighborhood Concert
6.00 News
6.30 Doug Henning’s World of Magic 1981
7.30 Battlestar Galactica
8.25 Tattersall’s Super 66
8.30 Trapper John, MD
9.30 Tattslotto
9.35 Return of the Saint
10.35 English Soccer highlights
11.50 Sugar Ray Leonard’s Golden Gloves
12.50 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Family Hour Festival
8.00 Falcon Island
8.30 You Asked for It
9.00 The Lone Ranger
9.30 Jason of Star Command
10.00 Young People’s Special “My Father, My Brother and Me”
10.30 Richie Rich
11.00 Crocodiles
12.00 Games People Play
1.00 Wide World of Sports
3.00 Country Music Association Awards
5.00 Bugs Bunny
5.30 Candid Camera
6.00 News
6.30/7.00 WKRP in Cincinnati
7.30 Charlie’s Angels
8.30 Starsky & Hutch
9.30 Taurus Rising
10.30 Hollywood “Swanson & Valentino”
11.30 Soccer: England v. West Germany (from Wembley Stadium)
12.30 Movie “Guns of a Stranger”
2.15 Movie “You’ll Like My Mother”
4.00 Movie “Dead Men Tell No Tales”
5.10 Big Valley
ATV10
6.00 Felix the Cat/Courageous Cat
6.15 The Three Stooges
6.30 Superman
7.00 Spider-Man
7.30 New Fantastic Four
8.00 The Pink Panther
8.30 Superfriends
9.00 New Adventures of Superman
9.30 HR Pufnstuf
10.00 The Monkees
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes
11.00 Daniel Boone
12.00 Movie “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”
1.50 Le Grande Ocean (French documentary)
3.35 Heads and Tails
4.00 Tarzan
5.00 Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival (concert from Capital Theatre in Washington DC)
6.00 News
6.30 Best of Young Talent Time
7.30 Magnum, PI
8.30 Parkinson (guest Ben Vereen and David Loeb)
9.30 Movie “All This and Heaven Too”
12.05 Movie “Gentlemen Marry Brunettes”
2.00 sign-off
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So funny to see ABC so casually including event sponsors’ names. There is no way it would be allowed now.
Seems rather highbrow for Channel 7 on a Saturday morning!
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And Benson & Hedges, of all sponsors! Amazing how attitudes have changed.
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Also happened when the ABC showed the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in the 1990s I think. At the time it was sponsored by Colonial Mutual (later Colonial before it was bought by Commonwealth Bank).
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Was still happening during the actual broadcasts of golf last summer with RACV and ISPS Handa, think the strange thing is the listing in the guides.
I recall the late Drew Morphett discussing his former smoking days on air one day and he had two brands, one during cricket season and one during footy season when the sponsors product was made available at each match. Especially after television advertising was banned, so many sports and arts events became sponsored by the tobacco companies.
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Some of the finest prog rock going around!
Courtesy Pied Piper on YT.
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I noticed SBS was showing Oshin in January 1986. It was one of the hit Japanese dramas of the 1980s in many parts of the world. It debuted in Hong Kong in 1984 and was shown during a lifestyle show on TVB straight after the 1pm news. It was so popular that subsequent episodes had to be repeated in primetime.
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Note: “Adventures of the Little Koala” that was airing on GTV9 and VIC TV is actually a Japanese anime from the 1980s called “Koala Boy Kokki”
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Today’s TV: 10.1.1982, Melbourne & regionals
Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly TV World
Coincidentally, both BTV6 and SES8 are showing the film The Fourth Wish, which was a remake of the ABC mini-series of the same name.
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Both 7 and 9 televising the tennis; news at 9pm on 7 and a late night replay of The Mile Walsh Show on 10… interesting …
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9.30pm news on 9 and new The Mike Walsh Show so early in January! Things were different back then!
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