The entire SBS coverage of Australia vs Uruguay 18 years ago today
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Was watching 10’s coverage of the 1996 Melbourne Cup carnival (Including the preview show) on Youtube and I feel that the coverage from the Early 1990s through to 2001 was way better than it was during 2019-2023. It was also noted that Nine also had Racing Coverage on Derby Day and Stakes day and I am sure you all recall Races being shown during 9WWOS Cricket Broadcast (In Which I’m not sure on when that all ended).
10’s Coverage of the 1996 Fosters Melbourne Cup Race:
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Tend to think the regular coverage of the Double from Sydney and Melbourne ended when the Saturday version of Wide World of Sports wound up in 1999. (The anti-woke crowd will point out that the show was wound up after a female host was added in Nicole Livingstone but suspect other cost factors were more prevalent).
Channel 7s coverage of the 1984 William Reid Stakes
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1996 Optus Cup coverage on Sports Australia.
Full game coverage plus a half-time update with Amanda De Pledge (formerly of 10 then went to 9).
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AFL 1996 Round 10 St Kilda vs Essendon from Waverley. The full game on YouTube for the first
time. Game finished the following Tuesday due to the blackout
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Great post. The 1996 Optus games are a rare find.
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I knew that they were permitted to select different teams for the continuation, but I wasn’t aware that they split the remaining time (25 minutes roughly) into two equal halves rather than having them just continue the clock as it was.
(I know the AFL Tables site listed the score at the interruption as their 3 qtr time score for a time - now I know why, because there wasn’t exactly a 3QT break - but that appears to have been updated to something a bit closer to what an actual 3QT score would’ve been)
Bit of an unusual way to handle the suspension all told, but it’s not like anything like that had happened in modern times either. These days, the game would have been called at the interruption and (as it was after half time) the score then would’ve been seen as final - in the end it wouldn’t have mattered as what happened in the continuation was fairly inconsequential.
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Looks like Optus carried a WIN QLD feed with their own graphics. Billy J Smith (RIP), former Rooster, Shark and NSW Origin rep David Trewhella and Steve Roach on the call.
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Football Park feed with scoreboard for an AFL game in 2003
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Some fun times at grounds as they had to grasp the fact that the Fox Footy/Ten games were showing the countdown clock all the time, which was still very taboo then.
Looks like the SANFL at this point compromised with hiding it only in the final 5 minutes of each quarter (rather than throughout) which was provably sane enough. Of course something Ten itself would start doing with the infamous final quarter Five Minute Warning…
Still kinda miss Football Park, as much as it wasn’t exactly fit (spectator-comfort wise) for elite sport by then - something that made it even more of a cauldron for teams visiting the Crows and Port - and Adelaide Oval has come up a treat since then.
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Billy J Smith was a great rugby league commentator.
R.I.P
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Coodabeen’s halftime performance at the 1987 VFL Grand Final has surfaced
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It looks like this game was Live on Optus and on delay on Nine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjn2sFajHHo) because Vossy, Sterlo and Fatty called it rather than TK and Blocker. Did Fox ever air a Nine match Live that was on delay on Nine?
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Is this the Sundays afternoon game? Back when the game would always start at 3 and channel 9 would delay it by 1 hr.
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Saturday game. Nine showed those on delay in 96.
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I think the Sunday afternoon 4pm delayed game on 9 started in 98
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Correct. Optus would show the Ch9 Sunday game in full in 96. Back then, Sunday games on Ch9 were only a one hour highlights package from 6:30-7:30pm. Optus aired one game on Sat, one Sunday. The highlights were getting very poor ratings due to people having Optus being able to see it in full, it was dropped in favour of Monday night football.
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Yes.
I’ve always wondered why Nine showed FNF in 97 at 9:30 rather than 8:30?
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So how many games did nine show back then? If one of them was basically just a highlights package
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