Pretty sure I have got that one but can’t find at the moment. I think I also had the TV Scene & Green Guide. Don’t remember it having much about it. Might have only been a few paragraphs.
The Green Guide had some reporting but it was supplemented by a 4-page advert which did most of the work
TV Week didn’t do much other than a single-page report in the local section with a bastardised version of the new logo
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I think the national mags were limited to the space available to report local news. A page in TV Week was significantly more than half a page in the smaller TV Guide.
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Wonder if content access was an issue - it predates AUSSAT
What about access to tapes and films and kinoscopes? Was that out of the budget at the time?
I have found the edition prior to that which does mention the frequency change in the preview of Local TV in 1980. That edition was 2 weeks before as it had 2 weeks programs (as did the Christmas & Easter ones)
Source: TV Guide
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… stations like VEW8 were run on the smell of a dry rag … Herb built stations where nobody else would and made them work, but there wasn’t much money and so the hours on air were short … it’s the story of bush television …
thank you so much for sharing that. This is awesome
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that Herb Lilburn had a hand in the establishment of RTS5A. Another one of those tiny stations back in the day. I think VEW8 had a total of four staff and just one camera.
And ITQ8
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poor Ralph Broom. Clearly not a fan of Blankety Blanks.
And interesting article re Ian Holmes. I think he was one of execs to green light Number 96 a few years earlier. IIRC he then went on to Grundys to launch Prisoner and Neighbours, amongst others.
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… a friend of mine, a former director’s assistant at the ABC, found herself at a loose end in Kalgoorlie when she moved there with her husband, a fencing contractor … Herb was just about to put VEW to air and she found herself operating camera, making commercials, switching to air, hosting the women’s show … and anything else you could think of pretty much seven days a week … she had a ball …
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One thing I only learned recently about VEW8 was that actor Mike Dorsey (Reg “Daddy” McDonald in Number 96, and others) was general manager of the station at one point in the 1980s, possibly just prior to it getting sold to GWN?
She wasn’t Maxine Cable by any chance?
(1) Tralee Cable - YouTube
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… nope, Dianne Parr … went on to become a producer at ABC in Brisbane …
I remember Ten in Sydney getting into a lot of trouble for the marketing campaign they conducted for V The Series that involved bill poster style advertising featuring the big red “V” plastered on poles and public property around the Sydney metro area.
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