There have been the odd occasions where National Nine News has aired in the evenings, but only when there have been technical difficulties. Probably only a handful of times and definitely has never been a permanent arrangement
I recall reading somewhere that back in the day, they were probably the only station in the world that access to all 3 US networks and both the BBC and ITN.
I don’t know if that was exactly true, but pretty nifty to have.
The Packers had shares in NBN for quite a few years, on and off. Clive was even a director of NBTC, NBN’s parent company IIRC. NBN was considered a member of the “National Television Network” early on in the piece, as was WIN IIRC.
Yes it was
I’m not sure but i only ever saw that on The Restless Years credits, no other 0-10 network show. I’ve never seen any connection between 0-10 and the regionals at any other time. Nothing in terms of programming or advertising or anything.
I wonder if they were just listed as joint investors/partners in that series?
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When I visited Ballarat in late January 1977 BTV6 showed the Seven evening news bulletin. So the affiliation wouldn’t have been exclusive to the 0-10 network unless something changed later in the year.
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Could be. CBN/CWN did do some investing in external productions - one example I know of was the 1978 film The Irishman. Joining them was NBN-3, TVW-7 and 4IP.
Another film that got regional TV investment was Manganinnie - both TVT-6 and TNT-9 invested.
Mind you, this was before the induction of 10BA - a massive tax break for investing in Australian films, so the directors of these stations must have had a good reason to invest in drama and films. Seven and Nine did invest, Breaker Morant comes to mind, but for regional stations to get involved is something that would’ve been massive.
Just a question out of curiosity. In the 1980s, was it mandated that the commercial channels screen ‘C’ rated programs between 4pm and 5pm or was it done by way of mutual understanding ?
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Given most kids are/were back home from school by 4-5pm, it just made sense to air it then.
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It was set by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal
Since 1 July 1979, stations have been required to televise between the hours of
4.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. Monday to Friday each week, an aggregate of not less than
three hours of ‘C’ classified programs, i.e. programs approved by the Tribunal as
conforming with the guidelines for children’s programs devised by the Tribunal’s
Children’s Program Committee. This requirement was increased to five hours per
week from 1 July 1980.
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They were probably the regional stations that took The Restless Years. These stations still cherrypicked programming from 7, 9 and 10 before aggregation.
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Yes they did. Though some were better at it than others.
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How did the relationship work between SES8 and BTV6? I seem to recall that SES picked up Thursday Night Live and had a similar logo…
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Possibly network partners given their logos are similar. Thursday Night Live (with Fred Fargher) also aired on sister stations GMV6 Shepparton, and the TV8 Network.
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A lot of stations back then teamed up due to the cost of running things.
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SES-8 joined the SIX Network in 1982. This would last until December 1989 when GMV/BTV took on the identity of VIC TV.
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Don’t know if this has been posted…but here’s TNT-9’s 21 years special.
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Pre-aggregation partnerships were interesting and i wondet if the partnerships continued and whether they could have affected aggregated markets or even affiliation partnerships.
One good example is the partnership between DDQ10/SDQ4, NRN11/RTN8 and NEN9/ECN8 under the Great Eastland Television name. The 3 networks above are now aligned to Nine, Ten and Seven separately.
Given NRN11/RTN8 and NEN9/ECN8 are in the same aggregated market, ignoring population size could CBN8/CWN6/MTN9 have been aggregated into thr northern NSW market in Great Eastland Television continued to exist?
Also given other ownerships at the time, it would have been interesting as to which network it could have aligned with. We know what would have happened if TWT had of proceeded to buy NRN11/RTN8 in the early 1990s.
Im sure there are other partnerships that could have altered aggregated markets had 1970s and 1980s partnerships continued. Tasmania comes to mind here.
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Speaking of Great Eastland Television, does anyone know when in 1987 it was dismantled?
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They were all independently owned, so I’d dare say any alliances were terminated due to aggregation. NRN/RTN and DDQ?SDQ were owned by the same company though until DDQ/SDQ was acquired by WIN.
Same with CBN/CWN and MTN - they were independently owned but MTN took programs on relay from CBN/CWN. Griffith and the MIA, for reasons known only to the ABT, were not included in aggregation, so that relationship had to be terminated.
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What i am getting at had is, had transactions had occurred to set the partnerships in concrete, could there have been different outcomes or would ABT have blocked purchases based on the draft aggregation plans?
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