I’d never heard of Alternative 3. I had to look it up…
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This aired on 20.6.1977. This is how it appeared in the The Sun tv guide.
Source: The Sun
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I remember watching it. It played like a documentary, iirc.
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Correct, Lotterywest is still owned and operated by the West Australian Government, but lotteries in other regions are now operated by Tatts Group Limited under licence from various state and territory governments.
Today’s TV: 23.6.1981, Melbourne
40 Years since a Tropical Island turned up in suburban Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
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A show about a tropical island getaway shot during Melbourne’s winter.
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Gee, I can’t imagine why that one didn’t click with viewers…
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Because it is a wrong location that would be better suited to Queensland
I guess because Crawford’s being a Melbourne based company and the lack of drama studio space at TVQ Brisbane?
Something like that would be shot totally different these days.
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Reminds me of the phrase… just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should
Crawfords should have known better
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I believe one of the stars was John Blackman.
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Posted to the TV Week Appreciation Page on Facebook
Tasmania:
Tas TV splits between North (TNT) and South (TVT) but essentially an identical schedule
I see that it has the news at 6.30 read by Tom Payne across both north and south but I was under the impression that each of TNT and TVT still anchored their own news bulletins, it wasn’t statewide? Is it a typo by TV Week or was it a statewide bulletin?
Curious too that based on those summaries that Beyond 2000 running different episodes across north and south?
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As a non Tasmanian was there any reasoning behind having the same/very similar schedule? Did they have common ownership at the time or perhaps thought program supply could be cheaper for both if they teamed up together?
yes, both were owned by ENT Limited at this stage so they had the common brand and schedule.
In 1988, with aggregation on the horizon in the coming years, ENT split up the two channels. Sold off TNT9 to Southern Cross – hence its eventual re-brand to Southern Cross Network – and held onto TVT6 and retained Tas TV branding until WIN took it over in 1994.
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Thanks @TelevisionAU. Very interesting.
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Didn’t Southern cross used to own a Seven and Ten affiliate in some Tasmanian areas?
Yes, Southern Cross was the Seven and Ten affiliate for the state from when aggregation happened. It still is the Seven affiliate as Seven Tasmania
And Ten have gone to WIN
