Question: Since Channel Ten had the rights to air State of Origin in 1990, did NBN also air that year’s SOO series as well?
Yes they did.
My understanding is Prime Tamworth also did after the Wednesday night comedy double
And if the right teams are playing, it couldve become the Wednesday night comedy triple.
It was NRL State Of Origin, not the AFL version
Today’s TV: Monday, 12 June 2006, Perth, WA
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
2006 FIFA World Cup from Germany on SBS with Australia vs Japan in primetime at 8:30pm Perth time
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Today’s TV Guide: 23 June 2002, Perth
Source: The SUnday Times
Back in the days, Seven used to air repeat episodes of Wipeout in the Sunday mornings. I still remember watching this as a little child. Even on Channel Nine, they aired old episodes of Challenger at 7am.
I noticed on WIN, they broadcasted the AFL match between Port Adelaide and Richmond (AAMI Stadium), while on Nine Perth they did not and instead had the Sunday AFL Footy Show. I wonder why it was the case for Regional to have an AFL match shown live? WIN even broadcasted The Season So Far, while Nine Perth did not do so.
Nine also broadcasted the Formula 1 GP from Nurburgring, Germany with Darryl Eastlake as host. IIRC Murray Walker also commentated the race.
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The primetime schedules back then.
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Does seem odd.
I suspect there were never many Bunbury/Central Agricultural VHF/UHF or (illegal) VAST installs in the Perth area for these occasions, either at homes or in pubs/clubs or for when WACA cricket games were blacked out locally?
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I knew a pub in inner-city Melbourne that had a satellite dish that receives 7 Central and GWN7 and shows their AFL matches. I saw a few games at that pub. 7 Central/GWN7 had matches live that were shown on delay on free to air in Victoria.
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Yes, i know this kind of thing was more common in Sydney and Melbourne, not so much in the other state capitals.
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Today’s TV: Monday June 26, 2006
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
2006 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 action from Germany on SBS as well as the first day of Wimbledon on Nine. Back then, Wimbledon was delayed until late-night. A stark contrast to now where we have Nine and Stan airing coverage of this year’s event
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Today’s TV: 29 June 2002, Perth
Source: The Sunday Times
Quite a heavy sports schedule across various networks.
Over on WIN WA, they broadcasted the NRL match between Parramatta Eels and Bulldogs at 6am, which was on a huge delay. This may be due to AFL, Wimbledon taking priority over the NRL, hence the Rugby League game was shown in the early morning on a 13 hour delay.
Back then, Channel Nine screened some Daily highlights of the Wimbledon at midday. But as the media landscape changed, fans can watch the Daily Highlights of the Wimbledon Tennis on Stan Sport as well as catching up on every match of the tournament.
Nine broadcasted the 2002 FIFA World Cup 3rd Place Playoff match between South Korea and Turkey from Daegu World Cup Stadium, Daegu, in which the Turkey won the match 3-2 in front of 63,483 fans. IIRC, it might have been Simon Hill or Andy Harper who called the soccer game on the Nine feed. SBS and Nine both shared the rights to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan/South Korea, with SBS taking the rights to the Opening Ceremony the first match between France and Senegal in Seoul, and also the other 47 games, while Nine got the rights to 16 games, which includes the 3rd Place Playoff and the Final. I wonder what’s the schedule like for SBS and Nine’s games back then.
I still remembered back in the days when Channel 7 Perth produced a localised edition of It’s Academic with Jeff Newman as host. This show was designed for Secondary schools in Western australia. But then, in late 2005, Channel 7 relaunched It’s Academic with Simon Reeve hosting the show from Sydney studios. The relaunched version of It’s Academic was designed for primary school students, and a slightly tweaked format.
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Today’s TV: Sunday 30 June 2002, Perth
Source: THe Sunday Times
The Nine Network broadcasted the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final between Brazil and Germany where Brazil beat Germany 2-0 in front of 69,029 people at International Stadium Yokohama. Nine’s FIFA World Cup ratings have certainly paid off for the 2002 ratings year, due to Japan having a similar timezone to Australia.
I noticed that Channel 7 had counter programming, Titanic (1997) during that night.
Over in WIN WA Territory, it was a heavy sports load on that day. In the daytime, they had the Sydney-Fremantle game at SCG and after that the West Coast -Adelaide game at Subiaco Oval (though on NIne Perth, we get delayed telecast). After the news, it was the FIFA World Cup Final on WIN followed by Big Brother Eviction (though it is M-rated on WIN, while in TEN they had it PG-ratting), After that it was the V8 supercars, the NRL and the MotoGP being buried during the graveyard slot.
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Broadcast (broadcasted is not a word).
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Today’s TV: Wednesday, 6 July 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
Nine had Game III of the 2005 State of Origin Series but at 10:30pm AWST 4 hours after kickoff. Origin was delayed in AFL States during the 2000s
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More like 4.5 hours to me - sounds like the non-league markets would’ve omitted the pre and post-match segments with a truncated half-time segment.
In Sydney and Brisbane the telecast would’ve been about three hours including those segments I mentioned.
Similarly when Ten aired delayed AFL matches in Sydney, the match would “begin” almost immediately after the telecast began, and it would be crammed into 2.5 hours instead of the typical three hours if the match was live (or delayed by half an hour).
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Also noted a 40 year of Nine Perth documentary at 7:30PM with Dixie Marshall, Sonia Vinci and Michael Thomson. Only Michael Thomson remains as of 2025
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I scanned a few historical regional TV Guides from regional VIC newspapers when I was in Melbourne last week.
This one from the “Ballarat Courier” 1 Feb 1985… interesting format, and interesting that HSV-7 gets listed as BTV-6 would have interfered with reception for those in the majority of the Ballarat area. Similarly 0-28 would have been hard to receive too.
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I noticed that East of Ballarat (places such as Gordon and Ballan) most TV antennas were pointed towards Mt Dandenong instead of Lookout Hill therefore Melbourne TV was local in these areas and Ballarat TV was fringe reception.
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