Have you tried contacting the Transport Accident Commission?
When I was in high school in the 1990’s, a student did an assignment on them and the TAC sent her a VHS cassette of all their ads to that date.
Now that was a long time ago, but it shows that they had a record of them then.
Public Records Office Victoria may also be able to help. They may have records about the commissioning of the ads.
Yep, I did high school Psychology in the mid-2000s and certainly then my teacher had access to all the ads on a tape, so it was definitely available. I agree, I’d contact the commission.
Hot tip BTW - sitting through a 50 minute school session of nothing but back-to-back TAC ads was borderline traumatic.
I think I did fire something off a few years ago actually the first time I looked for info on something, just to speak to maybe an archivist if they have one or someone who has worked there a while, but got no reply. I will try again this weekend. Also there is a difference between the two use cases, so I expect I may get told that rights issues don’t permit it. I very much want these to be viewable somewhere, of course.
Second suggestion also very gratefully received, I’ll check that side of things out.
One issue is that what an ad is known as is often different depending on who you’re asking!
I had to do something like that once when I was at TAFE.
We were spared those ads in NSW, with the exception of one. Kid gets run over by a speeding driver who claimed he was just trying to keep up with traffic. The kids mum shows up at the scene and is understandably hysterical and inconsolable. Sadly, the kid dies and the ad ends with the mum screaming “My boy! Give me back my boy!”. I remember a radio news report the following morning after it aired saying that TV stations had to pull the ad because of a flood of complaints through the stations switchboards that night. I’ve never forgotten that ad and as a parent now, it shakes me up even more.
I’m not sure we only got one - I recall the Kombi one being shown.
Ah yes, I forgot about that one
Ah, the nice old says when saying “bloody idiot” on-air stirred a controversy.
When was the last time that there was an FM simulcast for a movie/music event that isn’t Rage/Triple J/Carols etc?
I think it might have been ‘Wave Aid’ in January 2005.
Broadcast on all three commercial TV networks and I think both SCA and ARN simulcast it as well on both their Hot AC/Gold formats.
Wasn’t their concert films on commercial networks simulcast on FM during the 80s?
Yes, lots of them, but I think the OP was asking about the most RECENT one (not the first one)?
Did anyone take the Bushfire relief concert in 2020?
I think that was a delayed broadcast on TV, at least in part. Pretty sure it wasn’t on radio.
Didn’t channel 7 show it live and Foxtel had it in full ad free.
This was more what I was thinking of and movie airings themselves rather than one off charity concerts or Rage/ABC Classic simulcasts.
I can’t recall any since the early to mid 1990s.
FM simulcasts of filmed concerts and movies were becoming less common as stereo TVs were becoming more widespread. So simulcasts became used more for fund raising concerts and carols instead.
Sound Relief in '09 went out on Triple M, Triple J, Nova and Vega among others.
Question for the Gen X crowd: Did WIN in the Illawarra ever have probably weekend bulletins? CTC Canberra for example had weekend bulletins from 1981-1994 (as Australian Capital News/Capital Eyewitness News). Per my memory, they only had weekend weather updates.
Only ever brief weekend updates, either at 5.57 or 6.28pm… was axed in the late 90s I think. Also had them in Canberra too.