Thanks mate! Not sure why I couldn’t find this.
I did enjoyed Ten’s BBL coverage
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Would this have been the first domestic women’s game broadcast on FTA tv?
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As we prepare for the 2023 AFL Grand Final with Collingwood and Brisbane, the first two hours of 10’s first grand final coverage in 2002 which was also between the two sides.
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27 September 1980, Sydney: The NSW Rugby League Grand Final, Canterbury versus Eastern Suburbs, is broadcast live on Seven with a delayed coverage on ABC.
The VFL Grand Final in Melbourne is being played on the same day, with its coverage in Sydney limited to a delayed telecast on Seven and late night replay on ABC. Saturday 27 September 1980 — SYDNEY – Television.AU
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The 40th anniversary of which was on Sunday, September 24.
I was surprised that the match was shown (live?) on terrestrial TV in Hong Kong. Perhaps the VFL GF telecast was possible due to the station’s half-ownership at the time by the Australian consortium of David Syme and Co (which owned The Age newspaper) and mining company CRA (now part of Rio Tinto). The consortium had bought 61% of RTV from original owner Rediffusion UK in 1981. Then in July 1982, Hong Kong’s Far East Group, owned by the Chiu family, took a stake in the company, such that Far East Group and the Australian consortium each held 50% of RTV’s shares. RTV was renamed Asia Television (ATV) later in the same year, but for some reason RTV was still shown on screen. The Australian consortium withdrew from ATV in 1984 after heavy losses and Far East Group took control of ATV. ATV would have more ownership changes over the next three decades, but would stay on air until April 1, 2016.
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Channel 10’s intro to the 2003 AFL Grand Final between Collingwood and Brisbane
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I feel like “Clocks” and “Beautiful Day” were both used so much in video packages like this in the early-00s
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I think both songs may have also been used infrequently at Stadium Australia (not on the broadcast) following the NRL Grand Final. I know Seven used the latter song during its broadcast of the 2017 AFL Grand Final, just after the final siren.
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1997?
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The styling in the background definitely makes me think 1997; matches up with what they were using in the game intro that year.
The game itself in those stills was from 1996 (presuming it would’ve been the 3v6 qualifying final between the Bears and Bombers; both teams making the prelims but being stopped by North and Sydney respectively).
They wouldn’t put current year stuff on the marathon as they generally had a season wrap, That Was The Season That Was, directly before it.
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Is this C7 as in Channel 7? Or something completely different.
C7 used to be a pay tv Sports channel owned by 7. That would have been the scorebug on the sports channel.
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Late in the season in 2000, it seems. Mainline Seven’s graphics for the AFL looked very similar that year but with a different coat of paint. Young’un me always felt it a bit of a downgrade from the over-the-top animations Seven used in '98/'99, but then again Seven had to tone it down in '99 and in hindsight 2000 looked OK.
But 2000 also had much less in terms of Seven branding on the FTA games’ graphics - not like they needed it with the much larger channel bug they had… but as a Foxtel household (and thus not getting C7), I wouldn’t have twigged that they were basically using the same look on C7, just re-skinned to suit that channel.
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I absolutely loved the 1999-era Seven AFL graphics, with the animations and the permanent scoreboard seemingly suspended in the corner by some ‘bracket’. But then again, I was 10 years old so would have been easily impressed by such things.
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Oh, for sure, and agreed - compared to, say, Nine’s more staid graphics at the time, what Seven was starting to do in the late-90s - even the football bouncing in at the start of the quarter in 1997, before going to a lot more animated stuff in 1998 (and extending that to things like the golf and tennis too) felt very whizz-bang at the time.
That said, they didn’t use the animations for every single game - particularly when they had overlapping games like on a typical Sunday, when there was a game outside of Melbourne at 1pm, followed by the traditional Melbourne game at 2pm - which likely would’ve been just a replay into Melbourne; we got the second half of it live in NSW - they couldn’t use it or otherwise wouldn’t bother with it for the latter, and it looked pretty awful by comparison.
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