The Thursday night combo of E Street and Murder She Wrote seems particularly strange.
probably just to combat Nine having the same show at the same time… although in this particular week Nine had cricket (Fourth Test) from the UK starting Thursday night.
They are both female skewed shows.
E Street was skewing under 25s
Murder She Wrote was skewing over 55s
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Also E Street skewed more more than most other soaps.
Bob Shanks had just taken the show off air for a few weeks to refresh and retool it in light of the poor ratings it was achieving. It had been coming fourth in its slots. They wanted E Street to be holding and building on the same demographic audience the Neighbours lead in was providing.
We all hated the “10 TV Australia” logo when it first launched. Looked like a cigarette package. Big downgrade from the excellent “X TEN” logo
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Doctors warn that watching 10 TV Australia is a health hazard.
10 Kills. 
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as does shifting a daytime soap, Santa Barbara, to 11.00pm and screening a sketch comedy show that dated back to 1980 as its lead-in.
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24 July 2014 - THe Glasgow 2014 games opening ceremony was shown on a delayed telecast into Perth. Most other states had the coverage live on TEN. I would have thought that some Perth viewers took to social media venting their anger towards Network TEN with lack of live coverage of the Opening Ceremony from Glasgow. Originally this opening coverage would be shown at 3:30am into Perth but was pushed back to 5:30am. instead, they threw in Home Shopping from 3:30am right through to 5:30am (If i’m not mistaken).
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Also on this day in 2002, the Manchester Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony was just moments away from airing on Channel Seven (though due to the time difference it was early on the morning of 25 July).
This was the last time Seven had the Commonwealth Games until Gold Coast last year.
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As the ad from The Sunday Telegraph showed, 10 was already broadcasting NSW Rugby League matches live on Friday nights in 1989. Then when Nine got the NSWRL rights in 1991 it showed the matches on one hour delay, seemingly to protect the ratings of Burke’s Backyard.
What was the ratings like in 2002 Manchester games? Who did the commentary? Johanna Griggs And Bruce? (Given that nine and 10 had afl in 2002, Bruce was used for the games)
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Absolutely no idea, though I only remember Mark Beretta hosting the coverage from Manchester.
From what I can remember, the majority of play would’ve been from prime time to about mid-morning (think London 2012). But I’m not sure how it rated.
Ten Sydney appeared to show the Sunday Afternoon game on delay (and likely with some bits cut out for time/commercials) though, presumably to protect crowd attendance figures.
Yeah, I think Nine’s notorious reputation of delayed rugby league coverage until the more recent broadcast deals (wasn’t Nine’s coverage of Sunday Afternoon games delayed until just a few years ago?) could actually be a significant contributor to the higher than national average levels of Pay TV uptake in Sydney & Brisbane.
10’s Rugby League coverage was one of few programs to RATE WELL during the DISASTROUS 10 TV AUSTRALIA campaign. Rating in 20’s and 30’s, one game throughout the 89 season got a 37 in the ratings, providing a strong lead-in to the Comedy Company.
Few questions: What were ratings like for Superquiz, FDD, Great TV Game Show?
Any footage exist of Page One/Public Eye with Kerry O’Brien?
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Was Neighbours still rating well during this disastrous time?
Live coverage of Sunday matches began in 2015. Prior to that, only specific matches (such as Darren Lockyer’s final regular season match in 2011 and the Gold Coast Titans’ first match in 2007) were shown live on Sundays.
I was also a fan of the Friday night double headers which existed between 2007 and 2015. Depending on which teams were involved, one match would be shown live with the other a full replay immediately after.
In 2007, a south-east Queensland Derby (Broncos vs Titans) was shown live into both NSW and QLD, with the Wests Tigers vs Panthers match shown on a replay straight after.
The following week, there was also another Queensland Derby (Cowboys vs Broncos - the match in which Darren Lockyer suffered a serious knee injury), which was shown live into Queensland but shown on a replay in NSW. The match NSW got live was the Sea Eagles vs Wests Tigers at Brookvale Oval.
If both the Friday night matches did not involve a Queensland side, the match Nine thought was likely to rate higher, or whichever had higher-ranked sides, would be shown first (case in point: round 25, 2011 - the Sea Eagles vs Storm match was shown first then the Eels vs Roosters).
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I’d say not great given that they all were axed very quickly. Family Double Dare lasted 3 episodes. I think The Great TV Game Show lasted to the end of the year. Superquiz probably the same.
The Great TV Game Show never really stood a chance being up against Hey Hey It’s Saturday which was at its peak at that time. Ten started running The Great TV Game Show at 6.00pm to get a half-hour head start on Hey Hey. When that didn’t work, it got shifted to 6.30pm, taking Hey Hey head on. Was never going to end well. In a different timeslot or on a different night, it might have had a better chance.
It wasn’t quite hitting the same peaks as during the Kylie and Jason era which had just passed, but it still held up reasonably well given the average performers surrounding it.
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