AusText commercial from 1992 now up
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Ch7 news reportson Slim Dusty’s death in 2002 now up online.
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Courtesy: Lachlan Patterson Game Shows
Watch at the 22:55 mark for some televisions showing a young Peter Overton presenting (presumably) a National Nine News update in the background over Mike Whitney’s shoulder.
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Nice game show. However, this is actually from FlemishDog as Patterson mentioned, but did you enjoy it?
Currently listeing to an episode of American Top 40 from this week in 1976. At #7 that week was Still The One by Orleans. Wonder how many people would think it was just a TV Network jingle and not a pop song that just happened to get used as such.
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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