Channel Nine’s coverage of the Broncos vs Cowboys match from 2006. Note Kevin Walters on the sideline working for Nine prior to his stint as Queensland Origin coach and current Brisbane Broncos coach.
Courtesy: Sportscaster91
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Clips of BTQ-7 from February 1979
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Some great rare material there with voice overs from both John Knox and Frank Warrick.
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Ten also used to have a voiceover during the end credits of The Bold and the Beautiful. Same voiceover guy as the Ready Steady Cook one saying “stay tuned for the latest local, national and international news. Ten News at Five coming up now”. This was in Melbourne, and presumably in the other markets.
Had a look on YouTube, but I can’t seem to find a video. Think the show has always been pretty strict on copyright.
I didn’t know Sydney had their own daily voiceover by one of the Ten News at Five anchors. Here’s one with Bill Woods from 2011:
They stopped doing them when Ten started cutting out the credits in February 2012. However Ten did show the credits occasionally over the next couple of years when the episodes were too short because Ten had to cut stuff out to met the G classification. There was no voiceover when the credits were included.
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Yes! Remember it well.
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Most shows had a similar thing before the credits started to get chopped even the regionals had their own voice overs.
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Found on an old tape- several PRGs, commercials and an ident from AMV4 Albury, recorded October/November 1983.
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regional TV at its finest!
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IIRC Kerry Packer tried it when Ten was in receivership in the early 90s, wanting to turn Ten into a “secondary” Nine channel of sorts. It was not allowed. Also not allowed was a plan to merge 7 and 10 (both in receivership at the time) into one network. Thereby reducing us to 2 commercial networks.
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At one point there were also plans to merge ABCTV with SBS.
The story I heard that the proposed 7-10 merger was only for Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Sydney and Melbourne would still have 3 commercial TV channels. Thankfully that never happened.
There was similarly a plan to change regional TV aggregation so there were only two conpeting channels in each regional market.
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There were so many proposals and plans thrown around at the time. One proposal was for Ten to cut back to a national evening news from Sydney or Melbourne with a bulk of stories sourced mainly from agencies, as a similar model to what SBS did/does. Ratings would be low but so would costs.
There was also talk of Ten shutting down overnights and mid-mornings to save money.
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Adelaide and Perth still closed down overnight back then. AFAIK, those Ten outlets were owned by Capital Television (Charles Curran).
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Interestingly, when aggregation started in Wollongong and Canberra, Capital was on 24 hours for a while, but I think that stopped before they expanded to Orange and Wagga.
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Packer’s plan for Ten wasn’t to run it as a secondary ‘Nine’ but to convert Ten into a 24/7 FTA movie channel airing movies from studios Nine had output deals with at that time. Reports of Ten itself suggested that if the plan had succeeded, Packer intended to run Nine and the proposed movie channel as separate entities.
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yes i forgot that part
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Yes, you’re right. Capital and Prime were 24/7 in the beginning.
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Apparently when Ten owned Capital they had an identical look to ten (just with capital), took an overnight dirty feed of Ten Sydney. After the station was sold to new owners, the logo and branding were changed, and they thought viewers would get confused with the metro branding overnight, so they stopped broadcasting 24 hours.
When Southern Cross took over the station, and started cutting it apart, they simply went with 10 Branding, and switched it back to 24 hours.
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NBN took the Nine Sydney dirty feed overnight too in the early years of aggregation.
It was like watching a completely different channel, totally different logo (as NBN didn’t use dotty originally), different promos, voiceovers etc.
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GTS/BKN for many years took an overnight feed from Seven Adelaide, until at least 2005. Would of been the same, different promos, ads, voiceovers, logos, etc.
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