the OG Eyewitness News newsreaders for me 
Their axing from the news was brutal (although they both stayed with the channel for years to come), and there was a bit of instability for a few months but Ten News did emerge a lot stronger in the long term.
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The actors pictured are Zachary Gordon and Robert Capron.
Ok, this is a bit of a random question but does anyone know how much content the Free to air networks would have been getting before the days of multi-channels and catch-up tv? How much more would they get now compared to back then?
If your referring to US content, a lot more back then as the FTA networks used to own at least 2 major output deals with the US content distributors.
Ironically around the same time they introduce multichannels they start dumping their output deals.
This is a question about Extra that I have been meaning to ask for some time: I think Extra launched on 1 July 2013 in Adelaide, and 30 September 2013 in Perth. I even added that information to Wikipedia. Now, what time did the channel actually launch in those two cities, as a result of Nineās takeover of NWS and STW, with references to prove it?
so youāre admitting to lying on the wiki and are now trying to find references to back it up?
@foxyrover, I was trying to add references to the channelās article this morning: Extra (Australian TV channel) - Wikipedia, but did not find any references specifically related to the channel coming to Adelaide and Perth.
When I went to the Gold Coast over the 1985 and 1986 Christmas holidays, the Channel 9 news theme seemed more hi-fi than in Melbourne. Was this because the Brisbane studios were much closer to the Brisbane transmitter than in Melbourne (e.g. maybe 9 Brisbane didnāt need a microwave link to the transmitter)? Or was it a different recording of the theme? Or another reason?
NOTE: In both the Gold Coast and Melbourne, this was received from the main VHF transmitter (Brisbane vs Melbourne).
Distance from studio to transmitter has nothing to do with it. Itās all to do with how the audio processing is set up.
Perhaps the TV might have made a difference. Better quality speakers?
True, but I thought that maybe the link between the Brisbaneās studios and the transmitter involved less steps and therefore had less audio quality reduction. The Brisbane studios and transmitter are both on Mt. Coot-Tha, while the studios in Melbourne are 10ās of Kms away from the transmitter at Mt. Dandenong. I thought that maybe they needed a Microwave link in Melbourne but not in Brisbane.
I heard the news theme on the same model TV at my cousinās place in Melbourne and it still sounded better in the Gold Coast.
The answer well may be that Melbourne and Brisbane had different versions of the theme (they had different owners as well). Nothing to do with distance. The best examples I can give of that era are here:
The closing themes however were identical.
Thanks @digitaldan. Looks like the Melbourne one is more compressed into a lower dynamic range. Thatās my non-professional opinion.
Hi TV nerds- Iām from the radio section.
I was wondering what religious content requirements applied to commercial television in the 80s and early 90s? I sometimes watch retro commercials/PSAs on YouTube; the religious messages declined sometime in the early 90s, probably after the passage of the BSA in 1992 which did away with religious content requirements.
Was there something that stipulated religious messages in childrenās programming, too? The infamous āthree pockets in my overallsā PSA seemed to air in kids shows.
Starting from about the mid 90s, religious content is/was pretty much confined to the early morning hours.
I know that for radio, religious content requirements were phased out entirely by 1992 and possibly earlier than that. 2CH kept its religious messages as part of the conditions of purchase from the Council of Churches.
And thank god we donāt have to watch them anymore!
Regional stations still aired them into the late 90ās (along with community service announcements) to fill slots when they couldnāt sell air time - even in primetime!
A lot of the old Australian commercial comps I watch tend to be sourced from Prime and WIN and the ones from the late-90s and early-00s still had a decent amount of weird christian commercials.
Another question I have been pondering recently: when did the ABC stop showing the cricket in regional areas? I know that they showed the cricket in the bush long after the WSC/Packer coup, which ushered in the golden age of Channel 9ās cricket coverage.
Places like Bombala NSW didnāt get local commercial TV until 1985, for example.