Probably cheapest option… and also because it had a pretty small population so wouldn’t have been cost effective to do such cherry picking.
I think QSTV was both ITQ-8 Mt Isa and the QQQ remote licence that served places like Roma, Longreach and Charleville.
but to give them a largely Ten schedule probably wasn’t very good with no Nine or Seven. At least VIC TV and Southern Cross Network in Victoria continued to cherry picked from 7 9 and 10 right through to the last second before aggregation (VIC TV’s last programme before switching to a Nine schedule was the Matt Dillon movie “The Flamingo Kid” in which Ten held the rights). Southern Cross Network in Tasmania when aggregation occurred was mainly a Seven schedule with a handful of Ten programmes sprinkled in. Some went to TAS TV/WIN eg. The Simpsons, NBL Basketball.
Though Prime didn’t… towns like Tamworth got a mostly 7 schedule from 1989, nearly three years out from aggregation.
that’s because of Christopher Skase and Paul Ramsay, both pro-aggregation campaigners!
and after aggregation in Victoria, VIC TV Mildura (STV8) often had optouts for Seven programming, not only football, Olympics and motorsport, but shows such as Beyond 2000 (when 7 had it) and whenever Nine had questionable programmes (Sex, Chances) STV went to Seven or Ten programming. STV also aired different movies to the rest of the state.
And I think they had their own local news bulletin locally presented, with Travis McNamara, whilst the rest of the state all had bulletins from Ballarat with Denis Walter.
Shepparton also had a local VIC TV bulletin with Geoff Vallance and the late Rod Kilgour on sport. The Shepparton team also did bulletins for Albury and Gippsland markets. This ended when WIN took over and all bulletins came from Ballarat.
It was always QQQ AFAIK, just branded QSTV on-air.
Probably because it was operated out of TNQ (Ten Queensland) in Townsville and it probably just made it easier to just extend the Ten relay to QQQ without much cost or resourcing required. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that Seven Darwin launched out of TNQ’s Townsville studio, and QQQ switched from Ten to become Seven Central.
I think Southern Cross were living in hope that a lightning strike would come along and zap aggregation away and then they wouldn’t be stuck with being a Channel 10! I think they were hanging on to as much other programming as they could until right up to the last minute. And in early 1992, Southern Cross did actually still show the Australian Open from Seven (although I suspect it was only the finals) as a special arrangement only because Prime was not available statewide yet.
why didn’t TNQ change affiliation from Ten to Seven? Would make sense all its stations under one affiliation. Same reason why SAS moved from 10 to 7.
Because Skase at the time aggregation was formed in Qld owned both Sunshine and Seven. And TNQ had all that hassle being unofficially aligned to Nine and then having to change to Ten at the last minute when WIN swooped in on the Nine affiliation for Queensland. TNQ had no chance of signing up to Seven.
Not the same reason. SAS/ADS changed because ownership of both channels was out of alignment with their network partners and swapping was a mutual agreement as beneficial for both parties.
Didn’t Imparja launch into outback QLD around 1992 with all Nine programming?
There was a weird situation IIRC that Imparja began broadcasting in Mt Isa, and Ten Satellite (QQQ) began in Alice Springs only, some years ahead of actual aggregation in 1999. But it was only in those towns and not across the wider region/markets, so AFAIK, Imparja still cherry picked programming from all networks, and Ten Qld only had the few opt outs for significant events/specials, etc. That was until aggregation properly came to the two regions in 1999 and Imparja became Nine/Ten and Ten Satellite switched to Seven Central.
I remember that ,can’t remember what year though
Interesting that it used animation from Seven’s ‘All the Best’ campaign at the start.
Does anyone remember a tv show from around 2003 on channel 7 called big bite?
Yes?
The sketch show that gave us Chris Lilley and Andrew O’Keefe.
And Stephen Hall who went on to work on Mad As Hell and Phil Lloyd who was on Review with Miles Barlow and The Moodys. And one of the two Kates. Kate McCartney.
The reason this all came about was someone posted a clip of the Chris Lilly skating sketch from this show. At the time I didn’t really know what it was. I was then watching the other Chris Lilly shows because they are all on Binge at the moment and googled his name and Big Bite came up.
