They’re probably also scared of getting complaints or investigations, as such promos which might be allowed in lower classified programs, might have a different demographic and larger audience watching, say young families, putting them at risk of exposure to seeing it.
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When Seven aired The L Word, was that M or MA?
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Pretty sure most if not all episodes were MA in a 9:30/10:30 timeslot.
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Another query re Sons and Daughters, if anyone can help?
We’ve established that in 1982 and 1983 Melbourne and Sydney both showed it four (occasionally five) nights a week at 7pm, and were pretty much in sync with broadcasts - unless anyone knows otherwise?
In 1984, Melbourne retained the 30-minute scheduling but Sydney moved to two 60-minute episodes on Sundays and Mondays. They started the season some three weeks after Melbourne - Melbourne’s episodes ran from 6th February to 9th November, again occasionally five nights a week. Sydney began on 26th February (effectively showing four episodes a week in two hour-long blocks). Unless they showed additional episodes somewhere this would take them until almost mid-December to complete the season, which seems unlikely?
In 1985, both Sydney and Melbourne showed 60-minute episodes on Sundays and Mondays. I understand the season began earlier than originally scheduled in Melbourne, on 13th January. TV Week does not show the series as scheduled that week, but The Age daily listings show the third and fourth episodes of the season scheduled for Monday 14th January - evidently a late change. Further listings for Melbourne confirm
the season must have began on 13th January. As for Sydney, there are indications they were slightly behind Melbourne, possibly by six episodes (3 hour-long episodes), as Abigail is advertised in The Sun as making her debut on Monday 4th March (she first appeared on Sunday 24th February in Melbourne). Unless the newspaper is wrong? Can anyone confirm when the 1985 season began in Sydney?
I’ll worry about 1986 and 1987 schedules later!
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One for the cricket fans here - when did they stop withholding coverage into a host city of an ODI or Test?
if i recall correctly they never showed the first session of play into the host city (so up until around lunch for a test or the first innings of an ODI) because CA were worried it would affect gate revenue.
I’m guessing it was late 90’s or early 00’s as i have memories of trying to tune into regional TV from my house in melbournes south western suburbs to try and catch the play that GTV was not showing
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Yeah it was the early 2000s. Not sure if an exact year. Basically the revenue cricket Australia was getting from TV rights became so lucrative that it offset any loss in gate receipts.
But before that they would show the match into the host city if the match was a sell out.
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sorry, you’re miles ahead of me in the S&D info 
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2005/06 was the last season of blackouts in Sydney and Melbourne.
Not quite sure about Brisbane but the blackouts in the other cities ended after the next broadcast deal which started in 2013
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Would that have had something to do with the hype surrounding the 06/07 Ashes series?
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I assume Nine were always pushing to ditch the blackouts. Coverage probably wouldn’t have been affected too much as most Ashes days sellout.
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I’d like to know this too
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Does anyone know why Prime kept showing their logo on a regular basis during programs in the 90s? It’s not a PRG.
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No idea, I wasn’t aware this was a thing.
Was it a long time between ad breaks? Maybe they had to have some sort of station identification at certain intervals?
If it was the early stages post-aggregation, it might have just been a brand recognition thing, to get people familiar with the Prime name.
TBH neither of those might be right, I am just having some guesses.
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No, normal timing between ad breaks. Shown probably in the middle of the program segment in-between ad breaks.
Circa 1993. They already had a watermark on screen anyway…
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I recall NRTV doing the same circa late 1992.
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Yes, and NBN was similar too, logo on all three would appear as the PRG and again halfway through before the next ad break.
Prime was the worst with the watermark still being there as well.
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For reference the recording is from Prime Riverina.
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Prime was pretty similar in all areas in terms of the look and feel except Tamworth and Taree didn’t have a watermark until 1995.
Until then, the watermarks were different in each region too. Wollongong was faint, Newcastle was pretty much solid though.
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Different Presentation play out software possibly? Prime had Presentation staff pretty scattered around the network in the 1990s (even Prime Gold Coast had its own team looking after 1 individual station at one point). By the mid 90s they had managed to merge it to Tamworth, Canberra and Ballarat with Canberra becoming the network hub in 2002.
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I would agree with that too… I think they were still linked in some way since I remember Newcastle getting the first few seconds of the 6pm Tamworth news one night by accident. And Prime Weekend News was produced in Tamworth but aired across Northern NSW (it was to try and counter the success of NBNs weekend bulletins but was only on air for less than a year).
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