I think that’s the point I stopped watching regularly because Seven was cutting the show to bits to fit three hours of it into a two hour slot. Interviews and reports would be promoted and you’d wait to see them but they never appeared because we were getting a heavily edited version of the show. It used to piss me off.
For many years the show aired dead on 12 midnight so when it was EST in Australia we were viewing it at the same time as west coast USA Pacific Daylight Time and in the Australian summer months we were getting it before west coast USA. There was a brief period, around 1990, when it was airing around 11.30pm.
It was quite a novelty when it first aired and gained a dedicated following amongst insomniacs and students who were up at that time studying. Within weeks of the gamble to schedule US overnight news on ATN 7 in 1985 proving successful, HSV 7 was following suit and taking News Overnight, also
And even now Seven wrecks Today by cutting out bits that have been promoted going into ad breaks. They almost always remove Al Roker’s weather segments even on days when there have been major events like tornadoes and flooding.
That schedule was from 1990. When Today extended to three hours in 2000 the infomercials had become an entrenched part of the early morning schedule. Seven was probably contractually obliged to run them.
If I understand you correctly, each market’s PRGs are inserted separately (due to potential variations in the schedules, I assume). If an affiliate is taking a dirty feed, they will get the PRGs from their relevant metro station.
Did Phil Baildon started voiceover at Nine in January 2006? I would have thought that bob peters has already gone to Ten during that time.
Also in that 2004-Jan 2006 era, Steve Britten voices the sponsor billboards! I think in January 2006, Since Bob Peters left, Steve Britten continue to do the voiceover for Sponsor billboards.
