At the end of last month, WIN News did a short story on the retirement of their long serving Victorian transmission engineer. I’m surprised that this role was kept in house and not outsourced. The video has some good footage of the old Walker Street studios in Ballarat.
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Barry Crocker has posted video of his appearances at the 1970 TV Week Logie Awards. His show, The Sound Of Music, won the Logie for Best Musical/Variety Show and then later in the evening he and daytime TV presenter Maggie Tabberer won Gold Logies.
The awards ceremony could have been over in barely 2 hours in those days. No long acceptance speeches, no showreels of nominees, or nominations at all… just straight to announcing the winner!
AFAIK there was no musical performances in the Logies then, either. That was something that apparently didn’t really become commonplace until the early 1980s when Ten started hosting them.
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A Nine HD demo loop + Mornings with Kerri-Anne segment from 2002 featuring a humongous newspaper printing kiosk which everyone thought would be the next big thing at the time…
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Came across ABC’s 15min promo reel for 1988 on a tape I was digitising
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Moments before 7 unveiled its new logo following Rock the Millennium
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Even during Princess Di’s Funeral - NBN’s Big Dog tells the children to go to bed.
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That was a good solution for an interesting dilemma that NBN had to go through on the night of September 6 1997. If you interrupt the funeral possession just to show a 30 second clip of Big Dog going to bed, you would have a lot of angry viewers complaining that they cut out a short bit of the possession but if you continue showing the possession, you would have a lot of children refusing to go to bed because Big Dog wasn’t on. So the compromise is to put a ticker on the bottom of the screen explaining that Big Dog has gone to bed during the possession and that is a win win situation for both audiences.
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How was that presented by the way?
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Complete with the obligatory Jean Michele Jarre music beds.
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Anyone have any caps or videos of this?
Also misspelled “Devina Smith”
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Cool, hey it was something different at least
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This is a bit random, a 1986 promo for A Town Like Alice, the 1981 Australian mini-series that appears to have got a syndication run in the US. This promo is from WTXX20, Connecticut.
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Has anyone ever come across any old tv ads from the 70’s & 80’s for cigarettes?
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There was one that Paul Hogan did that ended with the famous ‘Medicals authorities warn that smoking is a health hazard’.
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have a look on YouTube there used to be some from there, more from the black and white days.
There would not have been any from the 1980s as cigarette advertising was completely banned from television by the late 1970s. I think it was 1976?
it was a mandated government message, all cigarette ads at the time had that warning, not just the Paul Hogan one
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Seems weird that they had a ban on TV advertising that early, but you had nothing for over a decade afterwards of half of sport having tobacco sponsorship as a loophole, running a very long time if you count F1 having an exception for years.
Banning the actual ads that needed a health warning, but allowing references to the “Winfield Cup” and the like to broadcast without any disclaimers seems like effective lobbying to remove the most dramatic advertising but let the tobacco companies keep all the positive associations with good lifestyles, fun and sport.
There’s echoes with gambling advertising now, rules enough to try and reduce the heat, but not enough to actually upset the gambling operators that feed so much money into various governments.
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and even though TV advertising was banned from 1976, it was still open slather in the print media with newspapers and magazines allowed to continue cigarette advertising until even as late as 1990 IIRC.
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Yeah, I thought they may have had ads still going in the '80s because wasn’t the Winfield Cup (NSWRL) running then?
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yep as mentioned in @Moe’s post above, tobacco sponsorship of sport was rife as a means of getting around the TV advertising ban. The tennis Australian Open was sponsored by Marlboro, the World Series Cricket was sponsored by Benson and Hedges, the list goes on with the brand names all over the TV coverage but not breaching the so-called TV advertising ban.
And don’t think the ABC was above it, either. In those days ABC had a lot more diverse sports coverage for a lot of the less mainstream events. But if a sporting event had a commercial naming sponsor, the ABC would include the brand name. It was far less militant about featuring commercial brands than it is today.
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