It was usually 2 hours on television with a delayed telecast in the host city (usually 9:30pm).
The game was 7:30pm in the non host metro with regionals generally screening anywhere from a 7:30pm broadcast time through to as late as 10pm.
That would sound about right.
Kick off would have been within 5-10 minutes of the broadcast starting… None of this 1 hour plus pre game nonsense we get these days!
Of course, there’s a lot more money in the TV rights these days.
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Also we didnt have ready internet access for live sports results. Delayed telecasts in the host city were more common as well as partial coverage for some events (eg cricket)
Today’s TV: Wednesday, May 27, 2014 - Perth, WA
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
State of Origin in Perth but was bumped to GEM with the main channel airing repeats of TBBT and The Footy Show
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7 always did delayed telecasts on AFL unless the match was interstate. This was for Melbourne, although regionals could take it live. On Saturday afternoons, regional Victoria could air matches live unlike Melbourne, did the regionals get Around The Grounds along with whatever was the live match that day.
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A collection of guides from 2008-2019:
19th December 2008
24th June 2009
16th July 2009
20th August 2009
11th May 2010
15th July 2010
4th June 2011
29th November 2011
1st February 2013
3rd November 2013
23rd March 2016
26th July 2016
10th January 2018
29th September 2018
2nd February 2019
Also, the amendments from January 19th to January 25th 2013.
Thanks to TelevisionAU and MarkHD for the captures.
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Following on from this post, I’ve found TV Guides for the historic first ever Origin match (8 May 1980) for how Sydney/Newcastle and surrounds saw it.
(both items below are from 'The Newcastle Herald).
Only Sydney got any coverage, late night replay at 10.40!
Fast forward to Game 1 of 1986 (May 27) and there was an improvement, live in Sydney, delayed telecast for Taree (8) and a late night replay for Newcastle.
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I am astounded by that. You would think that in a Rugby League mad town like Newcastle it would be on live. The earliest memory i have of watching State of Origin was in around 1987 and pretty sure that was live. I was at my grandparents place and watched it on a small tv set they had in their bedroom.
To be honest, NBN were never great at covering league matches. Sydney games were always late night replays until the year before aggregation. No wonder there were so many tall Sydney TV antennas back in the day.
My dad was one of those, he got Sydney TV installed where we lived because he got sick of waiting until 10.30 or later for the replays, even though our suburb at the time was one of the worst for Sydney TV reception.
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