Olympics meant there were NO Saturday Night games scheduled at all during the 2 weeks of the Games.
The second video concludes with the voice of David Tapp, he’s alongside a young Leigh Diffey by the sounds of it.
did southern cross always air the sunday double headers?
Moving this to the proper thread.
In 1991, Nine had State of Origin, Ten had the Friday, Sunday and other games which were sub-let from Nine, the ABC still had the Saturday games, and Seven had the test matches. Nine did the production for the Ten games, as indicated in this SMH article.
Source: SMH 10/11/1990
6 Likes
It will be just after Ten fell into financial troubles for the first time right?
1 Like
NBN coverage of the Central Coast 1st grade grand final 1999:
2 Likes
Does anyone happen to have the 2002/03 Ashes Channel 9 intro?
literally the first result when you google “2002/03 Ashes Channel 9 intro”
It’s not. That’s my upload of Australia A v England, not The Ashes. Although i think it was the same
Interestingly enough on 1993 Seven had to take the coverage of an international rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand in Auckland immediately before telecasting its normal Sunday afternoon AFL coverage. I wonder how that went.
2 Likes
not too well in Melbourne I think! I remember one year in the late 90s when Seven had the rights to the Bledisloe Cup it was shown live into Melbourne, and the AFL match was shown on delay. I was at my then-female friend’s house that night and she was not impressed! HSV7 learnt from that mistake and in future Bledisloe Cup matches were shown on delay and AFL had priority.
Every chance it wasn’t live in Melbourne. I don’t recall seeing much live league in that era other than a few rounds before the VFA season kicked in on ABC. [quote=“TheHomeOfMusic, post:237, topic:9762”]
Bledisloe Cup
[/quote]
Was always a bit more popular in Melbourne, especially the matches played at the MCG. The '98 match at the MCG was played during the bye round, I don’t recall many other matches being live in Melbourne.
i have a memory, SBS did do broadcasting of the v8 in the early 90’s (1993???). I remember the Sandown 500 was on there and John smalies(???) was host
Wasn’t that due to seven and commitments to the AFL finals? Seven got SBS to show it?
1 Like
I wonder if that was in 1997. some people bashed Seven for showing the Bledisloe Cup over an interstate AFL match.
It was (Adelaide vs Richmond IIRC)
1 Like
Wonder why they didn’t just do a Sunday double header that week with the West Coast-Geelong match(Adelaide vs Richmond being at 12.40, then the West Coast-Geelong one being at 3.20)
No, SBS had the rights to the Sandown 500 from 1992-95. The rights were always separate to the rest of the touring car season and sold by the promoter. Prior to that the ABC had the rights.
3 Likes
3AW had that game on the radio, likely using 5AA’s feed since they covered the Swans-Bulldogs game earlier.
Until the Supercars era the event wasnt part of the Touring Car season and in the early 90s had mixed success in attracting all of the touring car teams.
1 Like