@anon36025973 CV ran for a year - from April until December 1989. It originally screened in the same Sunday night slot as Radio with Pictures (RWP) but was moved to Saturday nights by mid-October.
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Thanks for confirming that. Who was the host? Mark Tierney?
Mark Tierney (with his deep, rich, velvety voice) was one of the show’s co-hosts and went on to join forces with Paul Casserly to form Strawpeople. The other co-hosts were Larnie Gifford and Robert Rakete.
CV was described as ‘the complete video show with reviews, competitions, gig guides and all the latest music’.
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CTC7 News bulletin Sunday 25 September 1983
Source: OzVideoFinds (YouTube)
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it’s an excellent series of articles
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Image of Nine Guide in 2003.
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It’s amazing how things like that are now considered history. Gosh I feel old now
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Image of Ten Guide from 2006.
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Yep, for how new and exciting it was when DTV first arrived and we had these “channels” appear for the first time. Unbelievable to think that was 20 years ago now.
And equally amazing how we are still stuck with MPEG-2 on most channels 20+ years on, when you see how quickly technology evolves elsewhere. And no sign of it going anywhere anytime soon.
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The only footage I could find of the defunct Channel Seven music program All Music Video, which aired in the early noughties before it was axed two decades ago to make way for Sunrise.
This is a clip of an interview with Australian music duo Aneiki, which aired in at least the second half of 2001.
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From memory AMV replaced Agro’s Cartoon Connection at the end of 1999? Maybe?
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Possibly. All I remember is that AMV began airing in 2000, but was axed possibly because of strong competition from Today on Nine, Cheez TV on Ten and children’s programming on the ABC (among other factors)
My only memories from AMV was that:
- sometimes, they’d briefly recap the current ARIA top 20 as a music video was beginning if the song in question is currently within it
- viewers could put in a request for a music video, so long as the content was appropriate. Some music videos were edited out or censored in order to fit the G-rating classification
- if I remember correctly, the same music videos (though not necessarily shown in the same order) would be replayed every day in a given week (or in a given number of weeks), with new music videos entering the playlist regularly
- I also think you could see a given day’s playlist on the internet in advance, much like you can on rage these days.
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Agro’s Cartoon Connection ended on 19 Dec. 1997. It was replaced three days later by the host-less Cartoon Connection which ended in February 1999.
Seven then replaced it with The Big Breakfast, which upon the launch of AMV in July 2000, moved to the afternoon.
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Courtesy of Greg Robson on YouTube, an episode of Sports Action from 1989 from Capital Television. Sports Action 1989 - YouTube
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And it was rebranded as The Big Arvo.
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…and was subsequently renamed The Big Arvo. If I remember correctly, the show was reformatted and then axed in May 2005.
Among my favourite segments:
- a viewer could email the show their seven favourite songs (at the time of popularity) and it would be read out during the show
- there was a segment where the viewers could submit a dare to one of the hosts (such as presenting the news or weather segment on the news or Sunrise, in which case they’d receive training on it)
- at the end of each show, they’d play part of a song that was currently on the airwaves.
I can’t remember exactly which of It’s Academic or Go Go Stop would replace it, but what I do know was that the two would alternate in airing blocks of episodes in the 4:00pm timeslot in the ensuing years.
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I think Go Go Stop started in late-2004 though I think It’s Academic is what ultimately replaced The Big Arvo in 2005.
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This was one of the main problems they faced - the G rating restriction meant they had an extremely limited roster of clips they could air.
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