Random TV History

FWIW, The Beatles Sing For Shell was broadcast on GTV9 and relayed to GLV10 and BTV6 on Wednesday 1 July 1964 at 7.30pm.

BCV8 screened it on 2 July at 7.30pm, and GMV6 on 3 July at 7.30pm.

It was one of the highest rating shows of the decade, averaging a rating of 53.5 across Sydney and Melbourne (noting that there were only three channels in each city in those days)

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Speaking of archives Monday 3 August at 9.25pm on Nine’s Ian Chappell special is a must see for TV history buffs - at least the first minute. :wink:

It opens with “A nondescript warehouse in a dusty Sydney industrial estate”. It’s Nine’s film and television archive and we see a short segment inside. The interview with Ian is filmed inside the warehouse.

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Ahh, so this must be Nine’s off-site Sydney archives I’ve heard about before! :slight_smile:

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Does anyone know where it is? It was in Chatswood many years ago but I get the impression they moved.

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That warehouse is getting a bit of airtime of late. The recent Beatles One Night Only special featured David Campbell in the same aisles.

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I wonder how much of it has been transferred to digital before it eventually dies in the arse?

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Seven News Sydney - “First For News” Promo (Feb 2014)

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Seven News in Adelaide did a Flashback segment earlier tonight focussed on the Channel Seven “Say Hello” campaign that ran in 1986

Minor technicality. The jingle and promos were from ADS7, which is now Channel Ten, so technically the promos were from an opposition channel but just happened to be “Seven” :wink:

Here’s a full version of the promo:

YouTube: Andrew Heslop

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Here’s something I just came across on the 'Tube.

It’s Capital 7 & ABC News’ coverage of the opening of Tuggeranong Hyperdome (now South Point) at Canberra’s southern suburbs back in November 1987.

Back then, Capital 7 News was a 30 minute bulletin that aired at 6pm nightly, whilst ABC News had a 10-minute local news insert on its NSW 7pm bulletin for Canberra viewers.

Credit: jmoul59

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Great song choice there by the ABC.

Wow, the ABC likely wouldn’t cover the opening of a new shopping centre on one of their TV news bulletins these days? :open_mouth:

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There wouldn’t be anyone in the shopping centre.

Well that’s true. But I’m also thinking about how the report was presented - very much like a commercial TV report and probably one you could imagine Stuart Littlemore grilling had Media Watch been on the air in Late 1987!

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Was Backchat still on back in '87?

I believe it was, ran until about 1995 if I’m not mistaken.

So are u saying it should’ve been presented better?

Frenchs Forest. Unsure of the address.

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ABC South East SA has published a story today about Dave Sigley, son of Ernie Sigley. It includes his recollections of having a famous dad growing up.

Dave is now a minister for the Uniting Church in Mt Gambier

And here’s a much younger Dave Sigley, age 3, with his twin brother Guy and parents Ernie and Glenys in a cheesy photo feature in TV Week in 1981. At the time Ernie had just returned to TV as host of Wheel Of Fortune and had returned to 3DB, where he started his radio career, to do the breakfast shift.

The Sigleys’ eldest son, Matthew, is a sound engineer for ABC

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This was posted on Reddit:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/iezw6b/1986_new_york_grand_prix_can_anyone_explain_what/

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appears to have been from Adelaide. Trax was a music video show on SAS10

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