WIN showed the State of Origin at 9:30pm, while Nine Perth showed the State of Origin at 10:30pm. To make matters worse, some Perth NRL fans had to suffer through delayed telecast of the State of Origin. This had a big effect on ratings in the west.
Temptation wasn’t shown on WIN but had Big Brother at 7pm, followed by two repeats of The SImpsons. This caused a backlash for Regional WA viewers as people miss out on watching that game show.
That listing shows off the brief time that Seven aired AFL Wrap in a late night slot, which I believe was produced by Seven for ESPN/ESPN2 in the US as a one hour weekly highlights package.
I remember coming across it a couple times as a sleepless kid and wondering what the deal with it was, particularly as unusual phrasing (referring to the teams by their full names, and reading out the type of score - e.g Geelong Cats, 5 goals, 2 behinds for a total of 32 points) made it clear it wasn’t intended for a local audience.
In WA, Perth had to suffer through a 4-hour delay of the State of Origin. I’m not sure whether Perth was the only city to have the Origin game shown on delay. With the State of Origin delayed, this had a huge effect on the ratings.
That night, SBS showed a soccer match between Australia and Greece in front of 95100 people at the MCG. I wonder if this soccer match was a pre-World Cup match during that night.
Ellen DeGeneres Show used to show on 10 during middays back in 2006, but that was stopped. (I don’t know why 10 stopped showing Ellen back in 2006.) I think that might have been got to do with the launch of 9am with David and Kim, which rated very low during its 9am timeslot.
Sydney TV: Saturday 26 May 1990
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 World of Bowls: Australian Men’s Singles
10.00 Gardening Australia (repeat)
10.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
11.00 Journey Into Thailand “The Long March South”
11.30 NBA Basketball 1989/90
1.00 Soccer: Littlewoods Cup final highlights
2.00 Rugby Union
3.00 Saturday Super League: Illawarra v. Wests
4.45 Sports News
5.00 Grandstand (includes Rowing: King’s Cup Regatta)
6.00 News
6.30 Horizons
7.25 Come and Get It
7.30 Mother & Son
8.00 To the Manor Born
8.25 News
8.30 Ladies in Charge
9.30 Aspel & Co.
10.10 NSL Awards 1990
11.10 Movie “Letters from Frank”
12.45 Rage
ATN7
6.00 Devlin
6.30 Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Video Smash Hits (music)
12.00 Mouse Factory
12.30 Tomfoolery
1.00 AFL State of Origin highlights
2.00 AFL: Hawthorn v. Melbourne
5.00 Great Mysteries of the World
6.00 News
6.30 World Around Us “Land of the Long Canoes”
8.30 Movie “Dominique”
10.35 Knots Landing
11.40 Movie “Sunday Lovers”
1.55 Movie “For Love and Honor”
3.35 Movie “Saigon: Year of the Cat”
5.30 People’s Court
TCN9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoon Company
9.00 C Company
12.00 The Dukes of Hazzard
1.00 Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat)
6.00 News
6.30 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
8.30 21 Jump Street
9.30 Wiseguy
10.30 News
10.35 Hawaii Five-O
11.35 MTV
1.30 Rude Health (British comedy from Channel 4)
2.30 Movie “The Howling”
3.40 Movie “I’ve Got a Horse”
5.25 The Young Doctors
TEN10
6.00 Bricks & Mortar
6.30 Soccer: World Cup
7.00 Great Space Coaster
7.30 Kids’ News
8.00 Sea Urchins
8.30 Fraggle Rock
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Movie “Young Mr. Lincoln”
2.00 Movie “Three Hundred Spartans”
4.30 Swiss Family Robinson
5.00 Jack Thompson Down Under
6.00 News
6.30 Movie “Mac and Me”
8.30 Movie “Jesse James” (1939 version)
10.50 Movie “Belle Starr”
12.35 Movie “Return of Frank James”
2.25 Movie “Valley of the Dolls”
4.45 Space Ace
5.00 Down Under Show
SBS
3.30pm In Search of the Trojan War
4.30 Chanel Chanel (British documentary)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Floyd on France (visiting Brittany)
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Movie “The Sudden Fortune of the Poor People of Kombach” (West Germany)
10.05 Movie “A King and His Movie” (Argentina)
11.50 Movie “Cap Canaille” (French drama)
1.35 Movie “Blindman’s Bluff” (Turkey)
3.10 Movie “The Lead of the Jaguar” (Yugoslavia)
4.50 sign-off
Correction, Ten bought the rights at that stage, but ratings were poor, so they did not extend. Around 2007, WIN purchased it, then after WIN and Nine made up, Nine got the rights to air it nationally.
State of Origin was the first sporting match to be shown on a 3D telecast. However, REgional WA and Perth viewers had delayed coverage of the State of Origin at 9pm and 9:30pm respectively. When STW9 was owned by WIN, they delay the rugby league. This caused an uproar from Nine Perth.
What also didn’t help was the fact they lost the IPL rights on the eve of either the 2nd or 3rd tournament (think there was some sort of last minute contractual issue as they had played the promos throughout).
