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)
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.
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.
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”
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.
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!
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.