3 September 1990: Children’s TV series Johnson and Friends begins on ABC.
unsure of this date
September 1993: The Victorian arm of the Southern Cross Network changes its name to SCN.
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Loved this show as a kid.
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i’ve never seen any reruns
It could have still aired in Perth? Packer didn’t own STW9 and would not have the same control over that channel as the O&O channels. And it was apparently (citation needed!) still fed to the regional affiliates over a clean feed, so STW still might have got it to air. Or it might have been played off tape.
Also, although TCN ditched the show first, GTV Melbourne didn’t ditch the show until the last ad break when instead of returning to the show at the end of the ads it just went straight to the 9 ident and into an episode of Cheers with no announcement
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QTQ also put an unscheduled episode of Cheers to air about half way through.
Not sure what WIN was doing though.
I seem to recall reports at the time that the regionals (WIN, VIC TV, etc) aired the show in full but I’m not sure how reliable that memory is!
I know I used to get VIC TV from Gippsland fairly well but I don’t think I had the foresight to see what it was doing when Nine dropped the show early.
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Don’t know about other states, but from a Regional NSW/ACT perspective it’s to my understanding that WIN & NBN were running alternative programming when Nine Sydney aired (about half of) Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos on September 3, 1992. Those affiliates were originally intending to air the show during a regional ratings survey period, with this being a couple of years before regional TV ratings survey schedules were on-par with metro ones.
It seems likely that WIN/NBN viewers never saw Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos until the “Bert Newton Special Presentation” replay version on August 28, 2008 - which from memory was the same night Pamela Anderson was on The NRL Footy Show as a special guest, in a particularly tacky move at the time…
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4/9/2006 News breaks during the afternoon that Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin had been killed off the North Queensland coast.
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Yep.
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GTV aired more of Naughtiest Videos than TCN, if I recall rightly. The stations were airing the program independently and Packer had called TCN presentation directly to pull the program, as I understand. By the time someone thought to tell GTV and they responded, a segment extra had aired. Can’t recall exactly, but I have a feeling Vic TV didn’t have the program scheduled that night but, as noted above, were to hold the program for later transmission.
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Going by this*, I’d say that VIC-TV did have Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos in their schedule for 3/9/1992 with an exception for the Mildura version of VIC-TV which ran The Flying Doctors.
*Regional Victoria weekly TV guide pages for the week beginning 30/8/1992, from The Sunday Age TV Magazine via Newspapers.com
So sounds like GTV kept going, while TCN and QTQ pulled the pin at the same time. No network feed in those days?
I remember reading about the incident (might have been in one of Gerald Stone’s books) that Kerry Packer called David Leckie about getting it removed from the air immediately, but Leckie said he didn’t want to cut the program because it look messy. Pretty much told Packer he’d cut it in a commercial break. The decision was made to cut at 9pm so it wouldn’t cause a disruption to the night’s programming lineup and provide a clean transition to the affiliates.
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5 September 1959: NWS-9 Adelaide officially launches.
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5 September 1975: The famous ‘bomb blast’ episode of Number 96 goes to air, triggering a cliff-hanger leaving viewers waiting for next week to find out which characters were to survive, or not. The storyline was intended to give the show something of a refresh to exit some long-serving characters and to allow in some new ones in response to declining ratings but it was not to succeed.
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6/9/1997 All major networks take extensive coverage of the Funeral of Princess Diana.
For Seven, Ann Sanders and David Johnston anchor coverage in London while Heather Foord, Daniel Blyde and Mark Burrows (then Europe correspondent, if I’m not mistaken) lead Nine’s coverage.
This also forces the AFL to reschedule one of its finals matches to avoid a clash with the funeral.
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7 September 1963: RTQ-7 Rockhampton begins broadcasting.
7 September 1964: AMV-4 Albury commences broadcasting.
7 September 1966: FNQ-10 begins transmission in and around Cairns.
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7 September 1981: The New Price Is Right, reviving The Price Is Right that ended in 1974, debuts on HSV7 and ATN7. Hosted by Ian Turpie, the show runs for four years.
The show was taped at Festival Hall in Melbourne. Apparently it was too big for Seven’s South Melbourne studio!
Source: TV Week
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i’m going to assume RTQ7 Rockhampton was the first Regional Queensland Station.
DDQ10 in Toowoomba was the first in Queensland, 1962.
TNQ7 in Townsville followed later the same year
then RTQ7 Rockhampton?
I was reading up on some info about ABRQ ABC TV Rockhampton on it being the first regional ABC station with Studios to operate interdependently but follow ABC TV Programing?