I was one of those!
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Great show. That episode might be one of the rare occasions where the major dare went to co-host Tania Zaetta and she went through with it and successfully completed it. I don’t recall that happening too often.
Found this which was interesting
Sadly, with all the insurance and liability issues nowadays, they’ll never have another show like this again.
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Saw this on The Big Fat Quiz (SBS) - was that sort of VHF dial common in the UK - listing two separate channel numbering systems?
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It’s for those reasons that short lived reboot of It’s A Knockout was filmed offshore
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Could they do an Who dares wins series filmed in New Zealand but air it on Aussie TV?
Why?
Yes, It was called Police 10-7 hahaha
The Newcastle Knights maiden 1997 Grand Final win attracted 93% of the available Newcastle area viewing audience! (nb it was still a daytime Grand Final then).
(from the “Newcastle Herald” 29 Sep 1997)
But I recall reading somewhere that WIN Townsville attracted 100% of the measured audience during a State Of Origin game once (not sure what year that was), so 93% probably not a record then.. But that’s what happens I guess with relatively small sample sizes.
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They did a NZ version in 2009.
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Remember When Blue Murder Was Banned In NSW And The ACT Until 2001?
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I spotted this when putting together a table on NSWRL TV coverage in the 1980s earlier..
It seems in 1988 (so before aggregation) WIN Wollongong would split programming between VHF-4 and it’s new UHF-59 channel that would (eventually) replace it.
I don’t recall any other regional TV channel doing this within the same area.
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Frothy comedy?
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I suppose that was one way to encourage the locals to upgrade their old VHF-only TVs and antennas…
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Not to mention the prospect of getting three extra channels! (within a year at least).. and the ABC moved to UHF as well.
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…and those who invested in the latest technology early only to have to replace it a few years after with a new set-top box or brand new TV to continue watching their channels.
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10 years about par-for-the-course when it comes to needing to upgrade anyway. i.e. 1960s-1975 - B&W VHF, 1975-1990 - Colour TV VHF, 1990-2002 - VHF/UHF, 2002 - 2012 - MPEG-2, 2012 onwards - MPEG4…
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We’re overdue for an update then.
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Online Streaming / Smart TVs have cut across Digital Broadcast TV tbh…
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IIRC Wollongong was to be Australia’s first UHF-only market (of course, ignoring any fortuitous reception in the area from Sydney VHF channels) and WIN did have a long lead time of simulcast before shutting off Channel 4.
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