Melbourne Cup racecaller Matt Hill calling a Sunline barrier trial in 2002
Credit: YouTube/Paul Lang
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From the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe in New Plymouth NZ.
This emerged about 10 years ago. Never knew there was any footage of thos match. But it looked like it was what I refer to as news bulletin footage. I don’t know of Grant Nisbert was calling the actual game solo or of it was canned commentary put in after the fact.
But this was the first successful 300+ run chase in ODI History
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With the Aussie cricket team currently in the West Indies. I go back to a memory of 1991. The first time a series from that part of the world was shown on TV. Not sure what other regional stations took the telecast but i know NBN did.
Remember i had one night where i had a sleep over at a mates place and we were going to sit up and watch it. (A big deal for an 11 year old) This was a Thursday night leading into the Easter long weekend. As a foreshadowing on what was to come when Aggregation came to be. The test finished early and instead of NBN going off the air they just stayed on air through the night. Basically a direct feed from Channel 9 Sydney. I remember one of the shows they stuck on was an episode of Naked City
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In regional Victoria pre-aggregation Nine’s coverage of this test series was on Southern Cross Network but not eventual Nine affiliate VIC TV who refused to show it. There was some complaints and backlash from viewers and advertisers about this but VIC TV showed it from the third test. This was one of the reasons why Southern Cross and VIC TV strongly opposed aggregation.
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Recently listened to a podcast with Shannon Gill and Gerad Wheatley and it was mentioned that when 1995 came round Channel 9 had little interest in it as the 1991 tour was a money loser for them.
Pay TV had just come in and it was on the newly formed Premier Sports Network on Galaxy (PSN) In the end Channel 10 got the FTA rights for free cause Galaxy saw it as an opportunity to be a promotion for their Pay Tv.
Plus being on during the overnight hours meant it was a bad timeslot.
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My recollection (it was a bloody long time ago now) - that while there was limited FTA interest, there was great concern that there would be a dramatic shift of sports content behind the paywall. Galaxy at that point didn’t have many customers either, and it was not cheap to get installed, hence the deal with 10.
It was the genesis for the Anti-Siphoning List from memory too.
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Exactly right. It had just come into the market and they wanted content. Let’s not forget that’s also what created the Super League war
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Here’s an interesting one - did Southern Cross Tasmania take TasTV’s coverage of the Hobart/Tassie Devils of the NBL when they were going around pre-aggregation? Or did the Hobart vs Launceston rivalry give TNT an excuse not to air it until they got the Ten affiliation and aired as part of whatever sports they wanted from Ten?
I know a few years later it was a moot point as the ABC stepped in, as I do recall Ten airing ABT’s coverage of a game when they still had it.
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Not sure what time frame you are asking about but this clip from 1986 might help answer your question
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That could be ABT taking NBN3’s coverage - it makes sense as I don’t think NBL had national coverage like they had a few years later.
I was thinking of the time when TNT split from TVT. I’d assume any Devils coverage prior to the split aired on both stations.
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Here’s some interesting gems from the time before aggregation took hold in Newcastle.
NBN took Prime’s coverage of NBL games when Seven still had the rights, as Prime were responsible for Hawks and Cannons games. Like how Capital resumed the rights for Cannons games and took on Hawks games when Ten got the rights (and NRTV took over Falcons games).
This 1990 clip has NBN’s on screen graphics, but from the looks of things the Replay graphic is Prime’s.
The 1991 clip is devoid of Prime’s on screen graphics
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I think i recall seeing that too, and seeing Prime presenters on NBN for those games. Can’t recall who they were though.
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One of them I think was Phil Lynch. Used to work for CTC-7 when they were covering the Cannons. Came across to Prime when they arrived in Canberra and had the NBL rights via Seven.
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Optus Vision Main Attraction promo for some PPV boxing:
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SBS coverage of NASCAR: Thunder at the Creek in November 1993:
And a World Sports update:
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Courtesy of Paul Lang, as you can see at the 8:00 mark of the video, there you can see a much younger Mark Howard (Prior to gigs at 10 and Fox) featuring on Seven’s Coverage of the Melbourne Cup Carnival of 2003. Would’ve been amazing to see Howie on 10 for 2019-2023.
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