Jim Waley did the Sydney version, but it didn’t last very long, maybe 3 months? I remember seeing a Perth version while on holiday in '93, but I don’t remember much else.
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John Jost was the Melbourne presenter. Both Sydney and Melbourne versions lasted from memory until the end of 1992.
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Did Jim Waleybstill host Sunday at this time or is this one of the times Helen Dalley hosted Sunday?
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reporters for Melbourne Extra included Tracey Spicer, Helen Ballard, Natasha Johnson, Des Dowling and Stephen Claney.
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I couldn’t imagine Jim Waley doing a show like Sydney Extra. Not with his on screen presence and voice.
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Probably needed someone with a bit more personality. Probably also why he only lasted maybe a year as host of the 6pm news after Brian Henderson retired or was it due to him getting sick with Ferguson replacing him before being picked up by Seven?
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Waley had all the personality of a dead fish.
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What About Adelaide Extra?
As mucj as you may say thet, i would rather him over anyone named Stefanovic. Thank god neither Peter nor Karl are on National Nine News
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Hi Everyone
I have recently been looking at Youtube videos showing the role that early commercial regional stations played and noting that many of the original tv studios in both city and regional areas have been demolished in recent decades. I would love to tour the old DDQ-10 studios if they are still standing.
One question that comes to mind is - what would have been the best/largest tv program ever produced by a rural tv station? Did any of the rural tv studios have the resources to produce a live variety show like Hey Hey Its Saturday for any period of time?
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BTV6 Ballarat produced Six Tonight, a weekly variety show, from 1972 to 1984. In its last year it was re-named Thursday Night Live and was broadcast across regional Victoria when it was picked up by GMV6 and Southern Cross TV8.
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NBN did do some variety shows, but I don’t think they were broadcast on other stations. I only mention them as they were the largest regional station pre-aggregation.
I think the Greek Variety Show was a regional production and that did go to multiple stations.
Other non-variety shows did get syndicated across multiple stations.
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I just had a look at thsi on Youtube. Wow what a show and how good if you lived in Ballarat and could be part of the studio audience.
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Hi all
I have searched around the internet to try and find and find who were the young guy and girl who sang “Perth, we give you 10”, the theme song for the launch of NEW-10 in Perth in 1988.
The theme song doesn’t seem to have done much for their careers and perhaps there is some kharma for wearing those mullets and excessive cheesiness!
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Hello again TV heads! I was debating whether to put this in the pre aggregation thread but here goes.
Was there any local content specific to Bega (WIN6) or Batemans Bay (WIN11)? My understanding is that they were basically high powered WIN4 translators. Latterly (in the digital era) I recall seeing local ads for Batemans Bay and the Far South Coast- as opposed to Wollongong- when staying down there.
I think the content was the same all the way down, as WIN-11 Batemans Bay was fed off air from WIN-4, and WIN-11 fed the relays further down “daisy chain” style.
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Yeah, daisy chained all the way to Eden (WIN3) was my understanding too.
I haven’t watched WIN Illawarra news in a long time, but Far South Coast content was always minimal whenever I saw it about 20 years ago.
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I think the digital era, WIN may have had a separate ad feed for the South Coast at some point (from Milton down), but news and programs were the same.
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And now the ads are the same, Wollongong ads can also be seen in the South Coast on WIN. Only Seven and 10 still have local ad feeds for their South Coast channels.
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