Ah yes, can’t believe I forgot that one! It wasn’t even that bad.
Yes, even at the time I thought it was an odd combination for him to be at Nine.
He was up against Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope which would’ve been a tough ratings battle.
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Talk about a real dog… here’s a random episode of Seven’s 2002 game show stinker Dog Eat Dog. Lasted two episodes Friday 7.30pm before being yanked off until summer. You can kinda see why. Pity the host Simone Kessell, who someone at Seven must have hated - her other credit for them was Thorpey’s Undercover Angels - another stinker.
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So was this the big replacement for Friday Night Football then?
Although the game premise itself wasn’t horrible, it felt like it was trying to play off the supposed meanness of The Weakest Link, only more so (sounds like the BBC were looking for that as the chronology of the original UK versions of both were similar), and I dunno, the mood of it felt really off after a year or so of that game.
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MTN9 news bulletin and closedown circa 1981. Source: Aussie Retro TV (YouTube)
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They need to bring this back!
Even though it’s still reading without a teleprompter, it definitely looks chalk-and-cheese (in a positive way) compared to the old-school slide deck backgrounds in those 1979 tapes floating around YouTube. The only unfortunate thing is it didn’t change a heck of a lot from this in presentation in the following 30 years…
Attitude promo - with Bill Shorten as subject
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Good to see some of STV8’s history has been saved:
Treasure trove of historical footage saved in TV station clear-out - ABC News
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I wonder if any old Station ID’s and other promotional material was saved?
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That bin is a survivor. The spaces on the side held the divider for people to separate their paper and cardboard from everything else.
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There’s also dotty-WIN, green waste bins down in the Shoalhaven as well. I spotted one at a nursery near Shoalhaven Heads a few days ago.
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Came across these when I was going through the “Illawarra Mercury: Supplement of the Century 1900-1999” Special Newspaper:
First 30 Years of WIN:
“The Big Picture” Promotion:
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When Nine and Ten had the AFL from 2002-2006, did Central or Southern Cross Ten air Nine AFL games in the Spencer Gulf region?
SC Ten was essentially a dirty feed with ad-inserts, Central aired Nine produced AFL content.
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there were occasions where they would “swap” Central and SC Ten for AFL games to account for parts of the viewing area that still didn’t have a SC Ten transmitter.
YouTube: TV Australia
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Here’s the Movie Ident by ABC television in the early 90s.
And there doesn’t seem to be many ABC John Hinde intros up on YouTube sadly. So here’s one I’ve found tonight from my vault
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