Given the 7/10 frequency swap there in 1987, there is probably a good reason for that - especially if they were covering the times before then when it was SAS10.
Given the 7 Perth (TVW) ownership of SAS during many of the “Ten” years, covering them might be a little safer for a retrospective than it might have otherwise been I imagine.
At the start of that TAS-TV startup, we see a single frame of a promo. Is this unrelated (ie. a different recording on the same home videotape) or was that on the feed? Did they take a metro feed overnight?
Pretty sure it’s unrelated- perhaps a bad VHS edit. The station closed overnight in those days.
The rainbow logo looks pretty good in the PRG.
TVW used coloured PRG’s from 1987 onwards. There was a few coloured versions of the split Seven logo, first blue and then the dark gold one.
(I can’t post this in the Seven News thread, as I am limited to no more than 3 posts in a row).
Here’s Nov 4, 1985 episode of NewsWorld hosted by Laurie Wilson
(commercial for the first 5 mins, news program starts after that)
State based late news. Hard to believe we haven’t seen that for decades.
I believe HSV7 had local late edition right up until the 1987 take over.
But they had a local version of Today Tonight at least off and on through the 90s and 00s
TVW-7 PRG 1986. Used to alternate with an animated Seven morphing out of the classification letters.
Source: Flemishdog
Who remembers when channel NINE’s cricket coverage wouldn’t be shown in full into the local market if the game wasn’t a sell out?
Also, live crosses to random horse races during the cricket coverage?
The fact that if Nine or Seven did late local news at 9/9.30 every night bang on time it would rate so well, and nobody does it baffles me.
Yes to the local blackouts, but i don’t recall the horse racing, ABC Radio used to do that all the time during the football and cricket and it would drive me mad!
Certainly… usually got the last session of a test day in Sydney, or either two hours or the first innings of an ODI (depending on whether it was a D/N’er, usually the former if it was, 2.30-4.30 was typically shown).
Horse racing would have been an extension of the contracts they had to do the Sydney and Melbourne races on Saturday afternoons, during WWOS/Sports Saturday (Ken Callander’s coverage and all that).
Of course, crucially, this was before Sky Racing [original pay-TV edition] appeared on home Foxtel screens in 1998 - and not even all pub-TABs (and possibly a few standalone agencies) had Sky Channel, and would’ve been simply connected to 2KY/Sport 927/4TAB radio or equivalent.
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From the archive.org website, some old ads that aired on NRTV circa 1992. At approx 13:53 is an NRTV News update. This is the only known bit of NRTV News from the 1990s available in cyberspace. 90s Ads NRTV : NRTV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Great find there!
I’ve never really been familiar with what NRTV did for news. Was it a composite local/national bulletin or was a local bulletin aired alongside Ten News? Also did all sub regions get NRTV news or was it only focussed on the ex-solus regions?
And I’m guessing that any local news at all was gone when it became Ten Northern in 1994(ish)?
Back in the 1970s, the station relayed 7 National News from Sydney but for a couple of years from 1975, they relayed Eyewitness News from TEN10 before going back to the relay from ATN7 which lasted into the mid 1980s. Alongside it was a “rip and read” local news service before it developed into a full blown local bulletin with journos and camera crews. By the mid 1980s, they relayed National Nine News from TCN on weekdays and Ten News from TEN on weekends.
By the time aggregation came along, NRTV Evening News was a local/national/international bulletin with the two latter categories sourced from Ten and was shown across the viewing area but that got cut back to just being seen from the Gold Coast down to Kempsey by 1993. It became Ten News in 1994 when the NRTV branding was dropped, used its own graphics but had the Ten News theme music. It was all gone by February 1995. The studio where the news was produced out of is now storage room full of videotapes. The former main studio was being used occasionally for local TV commercials. Well, it was back in 2016, not sure if if still is now.
