Today’s TV: 10.7.1976, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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I take it TV Week put the Olympic Rings in upside down due to copyright?
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Could be, or maybe it was just a mistake in printing
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Was this a dedicated NT edition of TV Week or tacked in with another states issue?
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Dedicated NT edition
I should clarify that because Darwin listings for the week only took up 7 pages whereas most other cities had 14 pages, they’d fill the “spare” 7 pages, with Qld regional channels which served no practical purpose to anyone in NT. It was literally just page filler, like how the Tasmanian edition used to include the Melbourne channels to fill the gap.
There was no specific editorial for NT other than an “Imparja program highlights” page following the Imparja listing, while in other states they’d might have had a local columnist or page of state-based news.
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17 July 1996, Sydney
Source: Sun Herald
Any information regarding News at 5 on Seven? I don’t remember it at all. Couldn’t find any mention of it on this forum.
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It was a short lived bulletin around the time of the Atlanta Olympics. Presented by Naomi Robson and Peter Ford (not the showbiz reporter). Based in Sydney IIRC but went national. I vaguely recall it was to try and spoil Ten News running Olympic news or highlights “first at 5” ahead of Seven News at 6, with Seven as the Olympic rights holder. Although Ten was obviously severely limited with what they could run, anyway.
Once the Games were over there probably wasn’t much need for it, so it was quietly dumped. That’s just my recollection but others might have more concrete info about it.
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It also rated abysmally compared to 10’s news and combined with the Wheel of Fortune fiasco (ratings fell by one-third or so within a week) Seven was in a world of trouble.
WoF got retooled again, News got the axe within months.
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Yes that was a real mess. They were lucky to be able to rescue it.
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Nine would have their own problems with the franchise after reviving it in 2008. Their iteration would last just one month.
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From memory David Brown did weather from Melbourne.
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Rob Elliott took over in 1997. Tony Barber was dumped at the end of 1996
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…and made the show his own. The show (and the Australian franchise in general) went downhill when he left at the end of 2003.
After the Steve Oemcke era (even I didn’t know who he was when he took over) Larry Emdur did his best to rescue the show in 2006 but by that time the writing was on the wall (so to speak).
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doing alright for himself these days, not bad for a boy who started out in regional news (Southern Cross Network, Bendigo)
Actually, looking at WTFN’s website there’s a few former TV journos now part of the team: About WTFN Group – WTFN
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Some of the Steve Oemcke-hosted episodes weren’t shown until WOF went off the air in 2006.
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