This would have been more suited to The X Factor, wherein the judges could decide after this segment who to send home, or if it went to deadlock (in the case of there being four judges), whoever was eliminated would’ve been determined by the public vote.
I’m also of the view that while the 2005 season of said show tanked on Channel 10, Seven capitalized on 10 axing Idol (citing declining ratings) in early-2010 and revived The X Factor, subsequently turning it into a ratings smash (what helped was the fact that they had, by then, become the number one television network in Australia in terms of ratings, though would only win 23/40 ratings weeks in 2010; this of course preceded a clean sweep in 2011).
Though like Idol before it, ratings started to gradually decline towards the end of its run and X Factor would be no more after 2016.
I think Seven should have either The Voice or Idol not both. Personally I think Idol is a better show. What is interesting is that they broke the voting into two blocks which I am sure voting for the final 10 was open on both days for all 12 contestants not just 6 on each day last year.
I agree - it’s not necessary IMO to have two similar singing talent competitions in the same year, especially when the two formats are mostly similar.
The differences AFAIK are that Idol has an age limit, and the Voice is as the title says - it focuses more on the contestant/singer’s voice more than anything.
Idol is the more successful format IMO, even if recent winners haven’t really made it big.
Measure success - how long is a piece of string. Beyond Idol and The Voice, on Television where can you watch music videos on FTA? Rage is just about this these days. At one point we had MTV (Nine), Sounds/Video Smash Hits/AMV (All Music Video) (Seven) and Video Hits (Ten) as well as being placed on TV shows - some would remember E Street and the handful of songs and artists appearing on them (Melissa Tzaurtz and Toni Pearen to name a couple who had top 10 successes). This is why I believe Ten should try to relaunch a music video show (possibly Video Hits in its original format) on Saturday and Sunday mornings - perhaps the top 20 or top 30 Saturday mornings from 6am til say 8:30am or 9am and new releases and classic hits on Sunday morning with the Saturday show encored on 10Peach Saturday night and the Sunday show encored on the following Friday night.
The lack of television exposure is part of the reason for lower levels of successes well as people listening to their own music in cars these days on streaming services such as spotify or if older like me, USBs.
I remember this used to air on weekday mornings, following Sunrise (which wasn’t the one that we now know). However, as it was being shown against children’s programming on Ten, and Today on Nine, they were restricted to what music videos they could show.
This rare color videotape from 1974 belonged to Vic Basham, who ran a Retravision store in Wongan Hills, WA. Before most Australians had even seen color TV, Vic used this demonstration reel to showcase the future of television in his store—one year before the official 1975 launch.
Now, after decades in storage, this tape has been digitized and preserved. The client has kindly allowed me to share segments, offering a rare glimpse of Australian TV in full color before the official switch.
Watch the first recovered signal from this lost tape—what’s coming next?
On the topic of Seven Perth providing their own commentary team for Fox-produced Sunday matches at Optus Stadium…
I remember circa 2004-06 that QTQ would produce their own broadcasts of Brisbane Broncos matches that were produced by Foxtel, and aired only in Queensland while Sydney got the Nine-produced match, one such example being:
Courtesy: Dan Martin
At the start of this video you see footage from the Knights vs Broncos match which was actually a Fox match. The Nine match that day was the Roosters vs Bulldogs at the old Sydney Football Stadium.
FWIW, the AFL match Nine broadcast (nationally) earlier that afternoon was the Lions vs Swans match played at the Gabba.
it would probably create confusion with commercial stations that also had call-signs beginning with A, e.g. ATN, ATV, ADS, AMV. Easier to make the ABC stations ABx to clearly identify them as an ABC transmitter/service.
Kind of similar to how NBN used to broadcast Newcastle Knights games both home and away with Mike Rabbitt providing commentary until 1998 when NBN aired the Foxtel/Optus Feed for away games and Rabbitt providing commentary on the home games up until midway through the 2003 NRL Season.
Watch the first recovered signal from this lost tape—what’s coming next?
