Well the pool game England Vs Pakistan in Adelaide was televised for overseas tv it must been flim by Nws 9 it on youtube as well too
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Reckon the 1992 race was the real race of the century, but it probably would have been just a Melbourne add-on to WWOS for FTA coverage (and even then there may have even been a Mercantile Mutual Cup match which was the main coverage, can’t remember because I listened to that year’s race on the radio). That said the call was what made the race even more special than anything.
Some big name horses or the early 90s in that one. I reckon you’d be right about Nine’s coverage, but from memory the big races were more than just the quick cross during the cricket which they did every week for the Sydney and Melbourne daily double.
The match that day was South Australia v Tasmania, SA won by 36 runs with James Bradshaw man of the match with 101 not out.
Nine showed the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate in the 90s as well as from 2007-11
1990 Sports Action 10 graphics (from a FOX League replay currently on).
Looking back, they were BIG.
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They had to be. Your average living room TV would be a 51cm set, not 51 inches like they are today (that’s at least 4 times the screen area!).
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Another question.
What year did Friday Night Football start (Rugby League) all I know is it was some time during the 1980s during the Channel 10 era.
They tried Monday Night Football in about 1985-1986 so I’m guessing it was around 1987
The first Friday Night Football game took place on June 17, 1988 between South Sydney and Brisbane at the Sydney Football Stadium. The commentator was Rex Mossop. It was Live on TEN-10 from 7.30pm. A replay of the match went to air on NBN-3 at 10.30pm. WIN-4 broadcast the match at 9.30pm after a golden oldie movie but ran it Live on their UHF 59 channel at 7.30pm. Looks like they were incentivising the audience to switch over to UHF.
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That’s interesting! Never knew there was split programming on 4/59. I wonder how this was advertised on air eg. different promos.
I imagine WIN 3-6-11 further down the coast took the UHF 59 schedule.
Yeah I remember NBN 3 Not showing Friday Night Football until 10:30pm. Though they would bring it forward to 8:30pm on the rare occasion that the Knights played on Friday Nights
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Of course the first 2 seasons of Friday Night and all 3 seasons of Monday Night in the 80s was not a full schedule due to the midweek cup (National Panasonic and later Panasonic Cup). It wasn’t until 1990 whe yhe midweek cup became a pre season event that a full season of FNF games were played.
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NBN were very tardy with league replays back then.
NBN didn’t take Nine’s Saturday night replays in the early 80s (when ABC lost the rights). Sunday nights were also never on until 10.30 or thereabouts, only in 1991 was it brought forward to 6.30, but then only as a shortened version of Ten’s 90 minute - 2 hour coverage.
Frankly, I felt that NBN didn’t deserve to get the league rights via Nine when aggregation commenced in 1992 (when Ten lost the rights to Nine).
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No one has done this this yet, a history of NRL on TV.
1980-82: ABC, Seven, Ten
1983-91: ABC, Ten
1992-94: ABC, Nine, NBN (Newcastle games only)
1995-present: Nine, Fox Sports
Don’t forget the Optus Sports Channel during 96-99. Sports Australia/C7
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Fox Sports only from 1998 following the Super League split weren’t they? Which itself was broadcast by Nine, ABC and Fox.
Is this the first instance of breakaway programming by a TV station in Australia running over two frequencies?