10 started from the beginning and replayed the episodes that aired on Nine. From memory it didn’t rate well at the start.
Was it airing in what would become its traditional Tuesday slot at the time?
From memory (not 100% sure) nine had it on Wednesday nights…. I believe it may have started at 8.30 but was pushed back to 9.30 soon after. They only aired 4 or 6 episodes.
10 I believe launched it in its traditional (Tuesday) time slot and kept it there. The show eventually won its age group and gained a strong following with young viewers. It just took awhile.
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Eventually moved to Fridays when S4 started in late 2006 as 10 was fast-tracking it so it was airing a day after it had aired in the US.
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The OC / One Tree Hill / 90210 just wouldn’t work on free to air TV these days. Young / Youth originated shows are only reserved for streaming service. Half the reason why 10 as a network had to change direction in the early 2010s.
It barely worked back then, The OC rated abysmally in TP (~600k at a time when 1m+ was the expectation in its timeslot, even on Ten) but its 16-39 performance is what kept it around.
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I do miss when 10 was the youth-oriented network in the 2000s. It was the FTA channel I watched the most growing up. I feel like they have been flinging anything and everything at the wall since their big direction change in 2011 after that failed on them.
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Today’s TV: 4.1.1994, Melbourne
Victoria “Country”
Source: TV Week
SCN’s news hour is actually SCN News (Gippsland and Bendigo/Ballarat/Shepparton) and SCN Eyewitness News at 6.30, except for Albury which has the Ten Eyewitness News hour on delay from Sydney.
Odd that there is no mention of Prime Local News for Albury in either this week’s edition or the next. Either TV Week ballsed up and stopped including the variation, or the local news was in hiatus over the Christmas/New Year break.
Should Prime Local News been airing in Albury, it would have most likely been at 6.00, Seven Nightly News at 6.30 and Real Life at 7.00.
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Prime not showing the day sessions of the Hopman Cup. Seven’s coverage is restricted: the day session telecast was cut at 5.30pm and only two hours of the night session at 10.30pm. Prime/Seven had no confidence in the Hopman Cup, they relinquished the rights after 1994, the next year it moved to the ABC and in 1996 the ABC shared rights with Premier Sports Network/Fox Sports, the latter exclusively showing the night sessions with the ABC’s commentary team. This continued until 2010 when Ten got the rights for a couple of years, then the Hopman Cup was considered part of the Australian Open Series and Seven got it back, with Ten getting the BBL rights at that same time.
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I see RTS’s operating hours were quite limited even for 1994
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Oh yes, I forgot 10 briefly has the Hopman Cup rights for a couple of years at the start of the 2010s. It was always such a staple of the ABC when I was growing up.
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Seven also relinquished other tennis rights at that time such as the Brisbane International, the Adelaide International (was picked up by SBS later in the decade), and the Rio Tennis Challenge. In the mid to late 90s Seven’s tennis commitments were just the Sydney International, Davis Cup matches involving Australia and the Australian Open.
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Seven, Nine and ABC TV has programs that aimed at older audience which keeps rating highly which had more success than 10 which tried with older skewing shows that tried to fill the shows replacing the youth skewing line up after mid 2012 as I agreed with you that have not gone well for them
and VIC TV still closed down for the night. It wasn’t until WIN took over that they went 24 hours, with the advent of infomercials.
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was Team Family Feud a special version of the show?
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Notice The Price Is Right on Nine at 7pm. Prime airing repeats in place of daytime coverage of Hopman Cup, yet still airing it at 10.30pm.
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How long was TB&TB on at 6pm?
Seven, Nine and Ten HD breakaway programming. I loved Ten HD because the credits would remain intact, whereas on the SD channel, they would get squished by promos and voiceovers.
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Must have been a short-lived thing for the summer period?