Friday 6 December 7:30pm 10
I noticed last night, both Wizard of Oz and Hairspray were different to the previous tapes Nine used to air which I remember quite well, even say a decade ago. Noticeable by the lack of ad break bumpers (for the former) and Roadshow TV opener (for the latter). The last few years this has been the case with Warners and Roadshow titles, I think ones that Nine lost rights to and got back. Or also just truncating broadcasts, such as removing a lot of openers and especially enders, rarely do you see full end credits now, except for some on 9Gem in daytime or late at night.
I know Wizard of Oz was on 7Flix last year, so could be that they got updated tapes from the studio when the rights returned to them.
Yeah most likely. Yet others such as Seven don’t seem to do this, even if they get new rights, they play old files, that is oldest for HD and 16:9 such as mid-2000s, most evident when they air their favourites like Con Air, Pretty Woman, Sister Act, Die Hard, Speed and the like.
And another thing, what really shits me, I’ve noticed that Seven at least use prints sometimes that are panned and scanned when the original aspect was in scope like 2.40:1, so instead of anamorphic or letterboxed with the significant black bars top and bottom, you get a full screen but cropped picture. Examples include last night’s “Tears of the Sun” [Sony] which I think they got more than a decade ago and I’m pretty sure some decades old Disney ones like tonight’s “Air Force One” in Perth and I think “Con Air”. I’m not suggesting it’s Seven, the distributor probably had TV prints from an archaic for the old 4:3 pre mid-2000s and gave them, but Seven shouldn’t air them then or request the proper aspect ratios as released both theatrically and on home entertainment.
A rarely seen these days Saturday ‘later movie’ promo, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005) on Channel 9 this evening, around 9:19pm at the end of the last ad break of the Stan original
The film started at 9:24pm. It is Nine’s master from the late 2000s, Roadshow’s TV print panned and scanned to 1.78:1 approx (it’s anamorphic originally), Roadshow TV/Warners/Castle Rock logos cut, starting just with the Village Roadshow Pictures logo into the first scene.
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This returns me to a topic I raised the other week, about true widescreen or scope pictures, being altered (usually by studios from older or masters at the dawn of digital TV, HD and DVD transfers in the early 2000s for distribution to broadcasters to suit the then still common 4:3 TV monitors). Going from an aspect ratio of 2.40:1 for example to a cropped presentation to fill a 16:9 flatscreen, essentially 1.78:1 or maybe 1.85:1.
@Vidiot mentioned Seven’s more than a decade old Love Actually file in last night’s ratings thread aired last night, I also noticed 9Gem’s The Jackal (a more recent file) as another one and recently noted ones like Tears of the Sun and Air Force One. The former two NBC-U and the latter two Sony & Disney respectively.
They should all be in their original theatrical exhibition formats, in this day and age. And as somebody renting or purchasing a digital (many of these are the same prints as TV though) or physical such as a pristine 4K version would expect.
Saturday 7th of December at 7:30pm on Nine and Nickelodeon respectively:
Tuesday 10 December Nine midday
Wednesday 11 December Nine midday
Thursday 12 December Nine midday
Friday 13 December Nine midday
Saturday 14 December 10 7:00 PM
Saturday 14 December Seven/ 7Flix (Syd, Mel)
Saturday 14 December Nine 9:30 PM
10 could advertise this and somewhat barely compete with 9, but noOOOoooo it’s going to get the Rock Island Mysteries treatment 
Do they even air promos for Nickelodeon on the main channel anyway?
It’s rare a movie gets a FTA screening one year after its premiere on Prime Video.
If they did, it’d be less aired than the news promos! 
It’s from Nine’s long-running program supply agreement with Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Even though it was a straight-to-streaming film. MGM is owned by Amazon.
Nine using their old promos (but updated for current package) from about 2015 when they were individualised, as I think timeslots are going to differ, due to swimming event next week. Which will affect audiences for the Bond movies, why not move some to 9Go!? Usually Nine air an extended franchise promo, featuring Bonds and scenes from all the films.