# Random TV History **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Created:** [January 17, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489 "2020-01-17T16:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 132
**Author:** ![rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/rhettrospective/32/311779_2.png) [@rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/rhettrospective)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2686 "2025-01-27T03:46:49Z")
Promo for Mike Walsh’s short=lived ABC tv show in 1987 (from a beta recording of 1987 GF, digitised by Flemishdog) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iWcw26nxcks/maxresdefault.jpg "1987 promo for Mike Walsh Show - ABC TV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcw26nxcks) ---
**Author:** ![Mechsta](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mechsta/32/244653_2.png) [@Mechsta](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Mechsta)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2687 "2025-01-27T05:05:34Z")
The last commercial breaks of 1999 as seen on HSV7. Includes the very first screening of the then new logo. [https://youtu.be/r\_zEDg8YcKI?si=f7XICGbIB\_h8l6C7](https://youtu.be/r_zEDg8YcKI?si=f7XICGbIB_h8l6C7) Source: Didz (YouTube) ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2688 "2025-01-27T06:46:36Z")
The last big promo to feature the ‘Split 7’ logo. ![Seven 1999 3](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/7/9/9/7995c841991295a6fe77257892be9da7e3c02a8a.png) ---
**Author:** ![Didz](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/didz/32/115858_2.png) [@Didz](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Didz)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2689 "2025-01-27T06:58:43Z")
> [@Mechsta](#): > > The last commercial breaks of 1999 as seen on HSV7. [The full recording](https://archive.org/details/rock-the-millennium) ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2690 "2025-01-27T08:01:27Z")
> [@Didz](#): > > The full recording what does “WOC” mean? ---
**Author:** ![Zampakid](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/zampakid/32/270066_2.png) [@Zampakid](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Zampakid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2691 "2025-01-27T08:40:59Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > what does “WOC” mean? “With Original Commercials” ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2692 "2025-01-28T00:08:50Z")
> [@Sunrise (2020-Feb 2025)](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sunrise-2020-feb-2025/15232/13575): > > Especially after Today’s went viral. Of course we cannot forget when _Today_ reporter Jessica Millward and her report on a resident trying to chase someone who had crashed into a fish and chip shop in Brisbane went viral in November 2016. I remember the very next day, he was interviewed in-studio on _Sunrise_. ---
**Author:** ![IanG](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/iang/32/3121_2.png) [@IanG](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/IanG)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2693 "2025-01-28T00:20:00Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > If you were along the South Coast of NSW, WIN4 in the 1980s acknowledged the significant number of shift workers in its region and accommodated this with running late night re-runs of prime time shows through to about 2.30am. IIRC they also stayed on-air overnight on Friday nights with movies etc. > > Elsewhere, and even in some capital cities, TV options after midnight were limited. Newspapers and radio would probably have been your friend after work!! Funny you mention that. I recently came across a couple if old NBN listings from 1977. A Wednesday and a Saturday. The Saturday one they signed off at Midnight, but the Wednesday one they we on until 3am. In the later hours they had a couple late night movies. Also i agree with the radio and music. I pribably would have bought a walkman when they first came out. ---
**Author:** ![Didz](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/didz/32/115858_2.png) [@Didz](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Didz)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2694 "2025-01-28T21:38:03Z")
Anyone know more information about Video-Tran? It was a division of NWS9 Adelaide going by what the television commercial from 1985 says. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mXveNXXMZRM/hqdefault.jpg "TVC - Video-Tran: A division of NWS9 Adelaide - Kodak (1985)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXveNXXMZRM) ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2695 "2025-01-29T23:50:08Z")
> [@Tipping Point](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/tipping-point/10321/742): > > I imagine the US would try to make the machine as big as the TV show The Wall if that didn’t already exist as a format. I remember Australia had its own version, hosted by Axle Whitehead (formerly the narrator of _World’s Strictest Parents_) from the Poland set. Another one of those game shows that didn’t last long (The Master, anyone?). ---
**Author:** ![TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tv.cynic/32/316932_2.png) [@TV.Cynic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV.Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2696 "2025-02-02T01:52:29Z")
When “in widescreen” was a thing ![March 2009.mpg_000903378](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/5/6/9/569aaa6a53ae57b127bbe14f7f2305c12e05b210.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ElCapitanCranky](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/elcapitancranky/32/531872_2.png) [@ElCapitanCranky](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/ElCapitanCranky)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2697 "2025-02-02T07:29:58Z")
How good was the music for this TVQ ident? This just screamed 80s and shut up and watch us you pack of gronks. 🤣 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OCs6SmBQCmc/maxresdefault.jpg "TVQ0 Ident January 1985") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCs6SmBQCmc) ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2698 "2025-02-02T08:01:29Z")
So catchy! _Go TV0!_ ---
**Author:** ![jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/jcb301176)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2699 "2025-02-02T12:28:59Z")
If Ten Brisbane (and Ten Melbourne for that matter) werent able to arrange to swap the Channel 0 frequency with a regional network, how would programming strategies like the Give Me 10 campaign would have went. What type of alternative strategy would they have adopted if Brisbane and Melbourne were still channel 0 then AND even now? ---
**Author:** ![Mechsta](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mechsta/32/244653_2.png) [@Mechsta](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Mechsta)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2700 "2025-02-02T13:29:10Z")
I reckon they would have eventually adopted the Ten branding even if they stayed on Channel 0. ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2701 "2025-02-02T22:59:09Z")
There could also have been the possibility that NEW in Perth might have been assigned a UHF frequency as the government at the time had decided that all new TV services were to be on the UHF band, so potentially there could have been NEW-31 in Perth as part of the network. As it turned out a number of significant exceptions were made to this rule, eventually NEW was assigned 10 and Imparja was assigned 9 for Alice Springs. > [@Mechsta](#): > > I reckon they would have eventually adopted the Ten branding even if they stayed on Channel 0. this is probably the most logical potential outcome. Another possibility might have been using the “TV Australia” name from the 1989 relaunch, had Ten not have run into legal trouble over use of the name. It was already trademarked to someone else AFAIK, so Ten had to remove any reference to it in its branding. Awks. ---
**Author:** ![jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/jcb301176)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2702 "2025-02-02T23:08:09Z")
> [@Mechsta](#): > > I reckon they would have eventually adopted the Ten branding even if they stayed on Channel 0. The other thing I thought was if there was a push for ALL regionals to be moved to UHF frequencies to ensure a level playing field, which would free up Channel 10 in those regions adjacent to Melbourne and Brisbane ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2703 "2025-02-03T01:16:23Z")
Would that have caused problems for SBS? ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2704 "2025-02-03T01:23:52Z")
> [@Tane04](#): > > Would that have caused problems for SBS? why would it? ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/2705 "2025-02-03T02:00:54Z")
No just wondering, if all channels shared the UHF band, would there have been interference? [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489.md?page=131) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489.md?page=133)