Longest in Australia’s TV history I think.
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Report on NBN in 1986 about the draft plan for aggregation (or at least NBN’s opinion of it):
(from 5:56)
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interesting report. It appears to be based on the initially proposed aggregated markets which were much smaller in population size to the markets that ultimately got approved. I think some of the initially proposed aggregated markets were populations of only 400,000 over a huge geographic area requiring lots of translators/repeaters for coverage. Whereas it was largely accepted that a population of around 1,000,000 was needed to maintain 3 competing commercial services in decent health, comparing that as the size (then) of cities like Brisbane and Adelaide but did somewhat overlook that those cities could be covered from really only one major transmitter site. An aggregated market of the same population size needed (and still needs) a massive network of transmitters and relays to achieve coverage.
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Short montage of a 1994 episode of Video Hits:
And a bit of Meet The Press that followed it:
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So Meet The Press originally came out of Melbourne… then moved to Sydney with Paul, before making another return to Melbourne (with Hugh) in its final years?
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It was my understanding that when parliament was sitting it was done out of Canberra.
I’m amazed by the amount of staff needed for Video Hits a show that never had a presenter for most of its run.
When did they get their first presenter then? They had a few in the 2000s then I don’t think they did again for the final few years of its existence.
Not sure of the specifics but you could be getting mistaken with the show that replaced it. I don’t recall it’s name. Video Hits was appointment viewing for the youth at the time. I remember my sister used to watch it every weekend without fail
Video Hits did have hosts eventually, as did the show that later replaced it, The Loop on Eleven.
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They may have had guest hosts from time to time but I don’t recall Video Hits having a permanent host like The Loop had. But I didn’t watch it every week without fail.
yes, it had several regular hosts
Dylan Lewis (2010–2011)
Faustina ‘Fuzzy’ Agolley (2006–2011)
Hayden Guppy (2009)
Nathan Sapsford (2007–2008)
Axle Whitehead (2004–2006)
Kelly Cavuoto (2004)
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Those 0055 number competition lines were a nice little revenue earner for Ten back in those days. Daniel Rafferty, the current voice over for the Harvey Norman ads, was the voice over on Video Hits (and on Ten’s promos) in the mid to late 90s.
I came across this video in my collection that I captured from WIN Television in Central West NSW. This was played at various times during the day presented out of WIN’s Wollongong studios. I remember Tony Lynas who used to be the weather presenter on WIN News Canberra also doing the community service annoucements from time to time and he used to present weather updates into the region as well.
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Just been over fifteen years since the infamous Glenn Milne-Stephen Mayne incident at the 2006 Walkleys…
I remember at the time, Glenn Milne was formerly a political correspondent for Channel Seven while he would also later write for The Australian.
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What was the “disagreement” about?
Watching back at the video closely, I could not pick up exactly what was being argued about, but what is known was that Milne’s behaviour was caused by a mix of alcohol and migraine medication. He apologized later on, saying there was no excuse for his behaviour.
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Mayne was quite the provocateur when Crikey first came to prominence and was calling out Murdoch and the traditional corporate media long before a former PM joined in. Milne blamed his behavior on a mix of grog and medication.
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My understanding is that Kerry Packer bought NTD8 after he had sold Nine to Alan Bond. But then when Packer got Nine back in 1990, that brought NTD8 into the network.
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Could be right?
I recall Packer inherited STW, QTQ, NTD and Sky Channel when he bought Nine off Bond? Not sure if EMTV was part of all that back then, that may have been separate altogether?
packer then sold STW being it breached just introduced audience reach limits but kept QTQ, NTD and Sky Channel along with TCN and GTV?
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