Nine “stereo” PRG from 1987 used during MTV programming
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Possibly a Brisbane thing. I don’t think GTV ever did anything like that in Melbourne.
An A Current Affair closer from 2008 with everyone’s favourite game show host…Eddie McGuire!
I’m curious to know, did Eddie fill-in for Tracy Grimshaw when she was on holidays, or was this just a one-off hosting role?
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I’m pretty sure that Eddie McGurire’s ACA fill-in stint was just a one off for a week around mid-2008. I also seem to remember Nine using a shocking picture of Eddie on the promo endtag at the time as well!
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A montage of WIN Television Movie Intros from 1989 - 2005 (The only one i’m missing is the 2001-2002 version):
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Some old 1980s countdowns from ABW with handwritten title cards I captured:
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A montage of all WIN Television idents from 1989 til 2005:
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Here’s a nice old ABT countdown I captured with scenic shots of Tasmania in the background:
Anyone able to date this?
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Probably from the 1980s?
I’m also pretty sure, that this was coming out of Melbourne at the time. Tracey and the set were in transportation mode, coming down from Sydney I believe. Production later moved back in 2010.
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Some more countdowns:
ABV in 1995 - though the ‘5’ looks like it used to be another number:
The 7:30 Report countdown from 1996:
ABQ countdown from 2008:
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Some unusual programming to be found from WIN4 Wollongong’s listing from 23-29 July 1988 from TV Week.
The Friday night schedule lists the following for WIN4:
7.30 Movie: Return Of The Jedi
9.55 Rugby League
But also indicates the following ‘break-out’ programming for translator service WIN59:
7.30 Rugby League
9.30 Movie: The World According To Garp
Given that WIN59 was to be the planned UHF replacement for the WIN4 signal, I’m assuming 59 was on-air in simulcast with 4 well ahead of the planned closure of Channel 4 (to be sometime early in 1989?) but had the ‘lure’ of live rugby league to get people to convert to UHF?
Also interesting to see that 8 months ahead of aggregation that WIN4 was already operating a very Nine-loaded schedule, though not on a networked basis. The only Seven or Ten programs I can see here are the Rugby League (from Ten), Dallas (Ten), Falcon Crest (Seven), Wombat (Seven), the mini-series Shout (Seven), A Country Practice (Seven) and Bicentennial Minutes (Seven).
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I’m sure I’ve seen a clip or two on YouTube recorded off WIN-4 (judging by the “4” identifier in the top right hand corner of the screen) from 1989 or at least post-aggregation with the Nine-style Idents…
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I don’t think I’ve seen clips but i do remember a B&T report at the time advising that WIN was putting a “4” on screen as a reminder that viewers were tuned to 4 and as a hint that they had to retune.
Also not sure when WIN started using the Nine logo etc. I assume it was before aggregation happened. But yeah I don’t know when the 4 signal was turned off. It may have been post-aggregation.
@NewsWeary might have been around that area at the time?
similar to ABGV3 Shepparton they put a “3” and the ABC logo as a watermark in its last days on Channel 3 before moving to UHF 40 in September 1991.
Now that is interesting… I always thought WIN4 and WIN59 were 100% simulcasts…
The only on air difference I ever knew of was that the VHF signal had a little ‘4’ near the top left of screen.
And I assume WIN 3-6-11 (North Wollongong/Narooma/Eden, Bega and Batemans Bay respectively) took the same programming as 59?
Presumably like you said as a measure to get Illawarra viewers to tune to 59?
I have a recording from Early 1990 of a Nine-affiliated Ident off the WIN4 signal.
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This affiliation change has had me reaching back into my memory to recall details of the introduction of aggregation on the south coast. I certainly had the VCR running to catch all the new idents and news services. I remember being intensely interested but the change coincided with my HSC year and I was taking that seriously at the time by trying not to watch too much TV. My memory is hazy.
I remember there being an education campaign to get people to retune. I posted this clip from 1988 on You Tube that shows the “4” indicator.
I have a feeling the channel 4 signal was turned off fairly quickly after aggregation kicked in to ensure the incumbent broadcaster didn’t have too much of an unfair advantage. My grandmother had me look at her TV because she thought it was broken when she couldn’t get the 4 off the screen.
I don’t recall WIN using the dotty logo until the very start of 1989, a few months before Prime and Capital started on March 31. I think the first time I saw “dotty WIN” was on the “Shout!” campaign which was running ad-nauseam during January 1989.
WIN was still showing a few shows, such as A Country Practice, from the other networks during 1988. I seem to recall some controversy when they tried to remove it from the schedule in '88. Nine was also upset with WIN for running 60 Minutes on Mondays at 8.30pm pre-aggregation. Time shifted viewing wasn’t big in those days and Nine feared some Sydney viewers were catching 60 on the Monday at the height of the big battle with Ten for viewers at 7.30pm on Sundays.
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I recall reading in the Trove archive that Capital also had trouble securing some non-Ten programming in the few months leading up to aggregation. e.g. Apparently Nine would only make 60 Minutes available on a full-year commitment, knowing full well that Capital could not comply with that as it was to be a Ten affiliate from March and only really wanted it for a couple of months.
But Capital had managed to keep signature Nine shows like Midday and Days Of Our Lives going right up until the eve of aggregation.
As a side question, what Sydney news service was WIN carrying in 1988? Was it already showing 9 News or was it still showing Seven?
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WIN stopped showing Seven National News when the bulletin went to one hour in 1983 or '84 and went with the half hour Henderson bulletin.
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