I thought (Graham Kennedys) Coast To Coast ended at end of 1989 and was replaced by World Tonight with Clive Robertson at start of 1990
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Robbo’s World Tonight started on 2 April 1990. Which shows just how short-lived Coast To Coast (post-Kennedy) was.
Here’s one episode of Coast To Coast:
YouTube: adelaidecrowsrdabest
And one episode, post-Gretel:
(and which includes a ratings wrap-up from the 43:58 mark for Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, including Coast To Coast reporting its own ratings in comparison to Tonight Live 
and… shock, horror… Channel 9 beats 7 in Perth, and Channel 10 comes close 2nd in Adelaide)
YouTube: AusVHSarchive
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Regarding regionals being behind metros with certain programs, in the 80s stations such as WIN4, NBN3 and CTC7 were often ahead of both Sydney and Melbourne with imports like Dallas and Dynasty. I assume they had to buy such shows directly from the distributors and not via a deal with the metro channels (however that would work). What about Perth? Did they have to buy imports directly too?
For that matter, how were such programs purchased and shared between the various metro channels? Was there normally a central office that acquired programs for network wide transmission?
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They had a joint venture that brought 10 Network programs and I assume some imports and they flipped a coin as to who got what. STW did join 9 and got access to their shows, and one would assume TVW brought whatever 7 had as they weren’t and out and out network station by that stage.
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If I recall correctly, each of the Metro networks had a national program sales subsidiary - in 9’s case it was called BSI, (I can’t remember the other names) and they bought some programs for Australian distribution. Days of our lives, Young and restless and such. Even the network’s own programs, like Sale of the Century, Country Practice, Midday show etc were bought by the regionals through these sales arms, regardless of the method of distribution. Regional Television Australia also bought international programs - Dallas, Dynasty, MASH, were all bought by RTA and on-sold to the regional stations that wanted them.
Otherwise stations could buy directly from the international distributor. There were also distributors who pushed movie packages, usually with a dozen “Sunday Night” type movies, packaged with a few dozen “late night” or “Saturday afternoon” type movies. It was often a programmer’s dilemma that they bought a bought a lot of crap in order to secure a few good movies.
I’m not sure how the Perth stations arranged for their programming, whether it was by individual purchase, or affiliation agreement.
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Tv Facilities was formed between STW9 and TVW7 in the 1960s for buying programs and would be split between them. STW9 was still at a disadvantage though as it was starting from scratch in 1965 up against TVW7 which had stockpiled program deals over the past 6 years as well as getting 50% of new TV Facilities purchases.
Even when STW became an affiliate of Nine in the late 70s it still had access to programs bought through the TV Facilities arrangement.
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Bond Services International? Bonded Services International? IIRC it was one of Packer’s companies.
That was based in Marrickville - not far up from one of my old schools, and down the road from Henson Park.
Also, when Bruce Gordon was head of Paramount’s international TV arm, WIN or parent company TWT was not permitted to buy programs direct from Paramount due to a conflict of interest.
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that explains this ad that appeared in the newspaper supplement promoting Tas TV’s (TNT9) 25th anniversary (1987)
(and just for some balance, similar ad for Seven Network)
(and there was no ad from Network Ten but there is one from Paramount)
Source: The Examiner
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Peter Ford here, showing how uninteresting and unlikeable he’s always been.
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I knew it was Bonded Services International! They put an ad in the Herald for NBN’s 21st too. I had it scanned once but lost that when the hard drive died.
Two things - one, well done to my brain for coming through in the crunch, and two - what a strange name. I Googled Bonded Services International and I get stuff related to shipping and goods and what have you. Nothing to do with Australian television program sales.
And a third - how nice of Bruce to put an ad in the Examiner. 
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there were other ads from American program distributors as well… MCA, Lorimar, etc. If I get a moment I can scan those if anyone is interested
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MCA and Lorimar didn’t put ads in the Herald for NBN’s 21st. What made TNT-9 so special?
When you get the chance, I know you’re a busy person. 
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maybe TNT were better customers 
These are very rough scans. The pages of The Examiner are just big enough that even when folded in half it doesn’t fit nicely over the scanner
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Rough scans are better than no scans.
I bet the Examiner’s readers didn’t know half these companies if it weren’t for the fact that the shows were listed below.
Well…ENT at least.
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Regina from Big Brother 2003 talking about how Tasmania apparently never got Channel 10 until she was on the show
Didn’t know who Sandra Sully is
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Tasmania got Channel 10 just before Xmas, the station launching in Tassie on 22nd December 2003.
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I wonder how she didn’t know about Channel 10 but knew what Big Brother was or how to apply to be on the show? I thought she would have had to apply through 10?
Southern Cross may have carried Big Brother prior to Ten/TDT starting? 
Casting was probably done by the production company, not Ten.
There was such hype about Big Brother that even Tasmanians may have been well aware of it without having it on their TV
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Big Brother would’ve been carried on Southern Cross (Seven affiliate) in Tasmania.
Yep, done by what was then known as Southern Star Endemol. Now Endemol Shine Australia.
It was carried on Southern Cross in Tasmania, which is the Seven affiliate. They carried Network 10 programs alongside Seven ones as Tasmania did not yet have Channel 10.
When TDT launched on 22nd December 2003 on LCN 5, it was only available in Hobart, and was a 100% direct repeater of ATV-10 Melbourne. No local ads, no local news updates, everything was purely Melbourne. That would be until late January 2004 when local ads were implemented to replace that of the Melbourne ad breaks.
Launceston wouldn’t get TDT until August 2004. And as the channel continued to roll out across Tasmania, Southern Cross began to progressively drop Network Ten programming from its schedule. Big Brother would continue to be seen on Southern Cross in Tasmania until 2006 when the program was dropped from their lineup.
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The mock funeral held for Fat Cat
