exactly, this was in 1981 and there was the 4-11pm restriction a couple of years later, but anytime after that it would have been futile.
Rob Sitch was on Jam Nation today talking about the show that only ran for 2 seasons or 40 hours (“there’d still sbe 15 cooks left on MasterChef after 40 hours”).
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He didn’t have the brown underpants on for nothing.
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I can see why you’d make the stations go off air though if you were the Government - if the idea is to reduce power consumption, it potentially makes people think about what they are switching on (especially if nothing is on)
Agree it probably achieves the square root of jack shit in terms of lowering the total consumption - not sure what it’s like in Vic, but here in NSW a single manufacturer is responsible for at least 10% of the state’s total electrical consumption at any one time (and it’s like 25 businesses responsible for nearly 25%)
Back when these restrictions used to happen they used to apply strictly to commercial and industrial as well as to domestic power usage.
And what a great idea that turned out to be.
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10 would go into receivership just over a year after the relaunch and relaunch again as “ten” with the 1991-2018 logo
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10 really had had it rough following the 1988 Olympics.
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I mean seriously, 10 TV Australia?
Blame Bob Shanks, he wasn’t a fan of the X TEN logo.
Two years ago 26 July 2020 Seven News tweaked their graphics which saw the Media Spy Seven News topic break!
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26 July 1965: SAS10 Adelaide is officially opened as the city’s third commercial station. Although part of the Independent Television System (now the Ten Network), the station was in dispute with its eastern states partners over program supply deals and costs – seeing some network programs and movie purchases instead picked up by other Adelaide channels, in particular NWS9 – and the channel itself launching two weeks later than originally planned.
The channel switched frequency and affiliation to Seven in 1987.
Source: The Advertiser, TV Times
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Who knew Pennywise the Clown presented children’s television in Adelaide before he made the “It” movies?
“Penetrating probe”. Is Roger doing a rectal examination or presenting the news?
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27/7/2003 The Mole returns to Channel Seven with the new subtitle: “in Paradise”. That same evening, Australian Idol premieres on Network Ten.
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28 July 1984: Network Ten begins its coverage of the Los Angeles Olympics. The Opening Ceremony, broadcast here on a Sunday morning, rated a 56 in Sydney and 59 in Melbourne. Daily coverage then consisted of live coverage from 12 midnight-4pm with highlights from 9.30pm to midnight (AEST) although these hours varied slightly on weekends.
In Perth, where there was no Channel Ten, Ten’s coverage was split between TVW7 and STW9. The Opening Ceremony and first week of the Games was broadcast on Seven, with the second week and Closing Ceremony on Nine.
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Was there really no TEN in Perth even by 1984? That just seems kind of crazy to me. How were 10 programs broadcast in Perth before TEN has a presence in the city.
I believe it was 1988 when Perth finally saw the arrival of Channel 10 (NEW10).
Correct.
Network Ten shows were often split between Channels 7 and 9 on a case by case basis, though that inevitably meant some Ten shows missed out appearing in Perth, or would be delayed by a long time.
Despite the 7/9 split, in most cases it was 7 that got the Ten shows. This was possibly related to TVW7, while not affiliated to Ten, having ties to Ten through owning SAS10 in Adelaide. Also, STW9 was a Nine network member so it may have had less scope for slotting in Network Ten shows. Just speculation on my part.
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29 July 1981: The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer dominates the day on TV, with live coverage on ABC and almost every commercial station in Australia.
Despite the networks basically carrying the same BBC vision but using their own commentators, ratings for the night showed that viewers easily preferred the Nine Network’s coverage, with Melbourne’s GTV9 scoring a rating of 34 points in the prime time of 8-8.30pm, followed by ABV2 (20 per cent), HSV7 (15 per cent), ATV10 (10 per cent) and 0/28 coming last with zero per cent. An hour-and-a-half later, GTV9 was still in front on 31 per cent, followed by ABV2 (17 per cent), ATV10 (15 per cent), HSV7 (13 per cent) and 0/28 (one per cent).
In Sydney, TCN9’s prime-time coverage peaked at a score of 41 per cent, followed by ABN2 (16 per cent), TEN10 (14 per cent), ATN7 (11 per cent) and 0/28 (one per cent).
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