Looks like it was removed.
I’m quite a fan of this 1993 example. It’s very jarring seeing 80s - Mid 90s footage in HD, because unless it’s a film you always have this expectation that it’ll be 4:3, SD and most likely from a VHS tape.
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The prospect of NBN becoming a Ten affliate is one of those classic “What Ifs” Personally I think it would’ve been an unmitigated cluster muck.
Prime via Tamworth was more or less already a Seven affiliate and NRTV via Coffs Harbour was pretty much the Ten affiliate from my memory. So it would’ve been a case of turning things upside down and inside out. Where as NBN becoming a Nine affiliate made the transition much more seemless. Plus the fact that NBN already carried 2 of the major sports (cricket and Rugby League) it made sense.
Having said they they were still against the whole concept on grounds that they believed it would mean the demise of local programming. Well that ended up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy anyway.
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I understand and accept that NRTV were becoming aligned with Ten. However, so too were DDQ (a sister station of NRTV and part of the Great Eastland Television project) and RTQ in QLD until around 1 week before television aggregation in December 1990. IN December 1990, DDQ and RTQ (which was under the Star Television brand at the time) was bought by Bruce Gordons’ WIN Television, which being a Nine affiliate already, assumed the affiliation for QLD, forcing QTV to become the Ten affiliate for regional QLD.
So essentially the “what ifs” being discussed could very well have become a reality…
And as for the argument that " NBN already carried 2 of the major sports (cricket and Rugby League)", so too did most regional NSW stations including NRTV and NEN (Prime Television) prior to television aggregation.
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Yes, I was disappointed that Nine got the rugby league rights from 1992 for 2 reasons:
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Nine’s ordinary coverage compared to TEN’s. I think it’s a great shame that we never really got to hear much of Graeme Hughes’s TV commentary.
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I didn’t think NBN deserved to get the rights through the Nine affiliation as a lot of people (me included) weren’t happy that, up until 1991, NBN never showed the Sunday match of the day until after the Sunday night movie, which was usually 10:45 or later.
Even in 1991 on NBN, it was only 60 mins highlights from 6:30 to 7:30, but most other NSW regionals had been taking TEN News from 5:30 (the only night of the week they did that) and then the footy from 6:00 to 7:30 for most of the 80s to 1991. TEN even had a 2 hour coverage from 6pm to 8pm for some of that time too.
I think that was a big part of the reason why there were so many large Sydney VHF TV masts here in Newcastle then.
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In today’s instalment of TV graphics that have not aged well, this ABC-TV Lineup style which was first used in Late February 2000:
A considerable downgrade on the design which preceded that, used for at least the 2nd half of 1999 until February 2000:
YouTube upload credit: DrLizShawOBE2
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Looks like it came from a decade earlier! That brief era between the previous package and the launch of the modern logo had awful, awful graphics.
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Finally got around to uploading the Sydney Fireworks from Australia Day 1988 as seen on Channel 9 hosted by Ken Sutcliffe and Fiona Macdonald (seen at 6:02).
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Thanks for that. First time I’ve seen it in colour. Watched it originally on family holiday on our 34cm (why did we regress to inches?) National Panasonic b&w portable we’d take away with us.
As an aside, did anyone else have weird parents who bought a black and white telly almost 10 years after colour came in. Granted, it replaced an ancient set which began smoking one night, but really were looking forward to have a colour telly in the family room, not just the “good” room in the front of the house.
Yes. The TV in our spare room, our old Philips B&W TV from the 1960s, finally died sometime in the early 1980s. My parents replaced it with a B&W portable probably in about 1982 or 83. I can’t remember the brand. AWA maybe? Cheaper than a colour set, obviously but no doubt cash was a bit limited with mortgage and kids and so on. Despite its lack of colour it was a reliable set and chugged away for probably close to 20 years, being shunted around various bedrooms and taken away to use on holidays and that sort of thing. And it could only do VHF which wasn’t a real problem as it only meant missing SBS.
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Came across this on Facebook (Memories of Bunbury page) - a sale ad for the GWN building, and some old photos of the site
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I was looking at some old program guides on http://televisionau.com and just think how more filled out with content of interest if some of the FTA multichannels were used to broadcast special events… as an example DDQ10/SD4 (now WIN TV) had events like Carnival of Flowers, NEN9/ECN8 (now Prime) had the Manning River Aquatic Festival as well as the Grafton to Inverell Cycling Classic (in conjunction with NRN11 and RTN8 - now WIN TV), NBN3 used to air Rugby League grand finals and CTC7 used to air Summernats…
I am sure you all could think of more regional events that I havent mentioned that could air on the multi-channels now that would provide great entertainment…
They also televised the sadly short-lived Birdman Rally too: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/birdman-lake-burley-griffin
With the number of times some episodes of the same show are repeated, the regional stations could very easily slot some of these events into the schedule, it unfortunately costs money to produce, money a lot of networks refuse to spend
P/s: My country didn’t have aggregation TV until late 2015 (VTV-owned stations only)
I wonder if aggregation impacted how AFL matches were shown on Saturdays?
RE: further to discussion of SuperBowl in the Seven Program area:
This is what Nine’s coverage of the playoff for the 1982 season looked like on 23 Jan 1983. I had forgotten that the lead up to SuperBowl was covered.
By comparison the SuperBowl entertainment and coverage, Sydney Rugby League premiership pre-match later that year looked like this. I suppose, at the time, it was considered cutting edge.
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It was probably around the time of the famous Tina Turner advertising campaign(s) that the NSW-RL started to have Superbowl-inspired pre-match entertainment at the Grand Final?
I really don’t know how they convinced people to read the TVO logo as anything other than just ‘TV’ - that last image is just clearly ‘TV SPORT’ - which sounds like a generic fake channel in movies/tv shows - not an actual channel.
I think the segmented O worked better as a logo, they could have put that inside the circle if they wanted something to match the network.
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