Its not often you see a ‘communist’ political telecast listed.
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Shocked to see that Tattslotto on 7, I thought it was associated with channel 9.
It was a Channel 7 (HSV) production but I think aired in Sydney on Nine
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Yeah, that sounds about right. Lotto draws aired on Nine in Sydney (except Oz Lotto/Powerball which did air on Seven here from launch in the mid-1990s) but I think they were a Seven-exclusive in all other major capital cities.
SAS10 in Adelaide used to air the Tattslotto draw there but under the brand X-Lotto.
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Yes. Two different draws. Lotto in NSW was originally operated by a private company Lotto Management Services owned by Kerry Packer’s PBL, Rupert Murdoch’s News and Robert Sangster in a joint venture with NSW Lotteries. That is why the NSW Lotto draws on Monday and Wednesday were originally on Channel Nine in Sydney. When Saturday Lotto started in NSW, Nine still had the rights to the draws, so you had the situation where Nine Sydney would show Seven Melbourne’s Tattslotto draw, but overlayed with their own graphics and their own voiceover.
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Would that have been around the time of the Australian Lotto Bloc, where each state had its own lotto brand but it was all a common (Tattslotto) draw. Victoria had Tattslotto, SA had X-Lotto, I think Queensland had Gold Lotto?
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those graphics are one of my first memories of TV as early as 1995 lol
Where’s that from? I know it is nothing to do with NSW Lotto, which has always had a capital L in the logo.
Melbourne
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I couldn’t believe David Johnston and Jo Pearson read the news together on a Saturday.
And was that the same Peter Mitchell who presented sport on National Nine News who is now reading the news on Seven?
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Yes, I believe that’s correct.
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I think 10 just chose to run that ad on the Saturday page in that issue. It was usually Charles Slade and Jennifer Keyte on the weekends in 1986. During ratings weeks that year 10 were advertising in TV Week on every page of the Melbourne TV Guide.
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Yep Peter Mitchell was a sports reporter / presenter for GTV9. I believe he also did general news reporting prior to doing sports reporting.
Jennifer Keyte and Peter Mitchell were brought over to HSV7 in 1988 to help rebuild the stations local reputation. Both in their mid 20s.
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I believe the Bloc still operates, even though most states have common ownership of the lotteries agency
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