I don’t remember seeing a breakdown of ratings between the North and South. Southern Cross had the advantage of AFL coverage which was a huge ratings boost.
Where it was most pronounced was in news, Southern Cross in the North and Tas TV in the South. However Southern Cross did make a key strategic decision of moving it’s bulletin from 6:30pm to 6pm. As explained in this article from the Mercury in 1998
I wonder if Steve celebrated that win like he did when his daughter was going well in the Commonwealth Games…
“Good turn, now. F***, yes, good turn. Push. Push of that wall. Push. Go Southern Cross. Go. Go Southern Cross. Keep going now. Go. Go Southern Cross, c’mon. Faster, faster. Go, go. Woo. Yes. Wooo.”
I was wondering if anyone has any videos of Sunday, the Sunday 9AM news that replaced it or the original TODAY on Saturday. I remember watching Sunday when it was Ellen Fanning and Ross Greenwood and then just Ellen the year later. The 9AM news was initially done by Tara Brown I think and then moved to the Today show set with Michael Usher.
This may be of interest to some…
and some more ripping outtakes from Agro’s Cartoon Connection on this one:
And here’s an interesting one - a compliation of NBC Today’s broadcasts from Sydney in 1986.
It’s interesting that Willard’s interviewing Max Walker in full Channel 9 commentary uniform, considering that they would technically have been ‘rivals’ with NBC affiliated Channel 7 (whose logo you can see emblazoned next to the ‘Today’ logo at certain points).
^^^Ten Sydney PRG from 1979 from here:
A couple more instances of ident/signpost/promo tracks popping up in different situations (or on production music sites)…
Ch7’s old classification music…
And right in the now… 7’s Cadbury-filled 
Royal Wedding promo…
… is actually “Dreams Last Forever” (particularly from 2:43). I’ve heard it previously but I’m not sure where. Fun fact: TT Adelaide’s “A Path To Heaven” theme is from the same label (X-Ray Dog).
Are you happy with these sorts of post here in TV History or would they be better in a dedicated thread? 
Happy 30th birthday today to NEW Ten in Perth
YouTube: fuzzybearish
Speaking of NEW-10, it was known as WCW-10 originally, but according to Wikipedia, it was changed to NEW-10 before the station even went to air.
It doesn’t say why, but it seems odd for a callsign to exist for such a short period of time.
There was a change of ownership of the licence before it had gone to air, plus in branding terms “NEW” probably made a much better callsign
So World Championship Wrestling were the original owners of the licence?
Apparently it was like that behind the scenes at West Coast Telecasters in Western Australia. 
most likely
Some Ten, Nine and ABC News (Melbourne) openers from sometime in the mid 1990’s, not sure of the exact year.
This was from The Age sometime in 1987 when all 3 networks were in the midst of takeover activity
The table incorrectly attributed CTC7 to the Seven Network when at that point it was probably still not aligned to anyone as aggregation was still 2 years away. They probably just made the assumption that “7” equalled Seven Network.
By the end of the year, Skase would buy out ATN/HSV/BTQ7 and sell off TVQ0 to Darling Downs Telecasters.
STW9 was later sold off to comply with ownership restrictions
ATV10/TEN10 sold off to Frank Lowy
TCN/GTV/QTQ9 sold to Kerry Packer
ADS7 (picked up by Kerry Stokes earlier that year in the HWT carve up) became ADS10 to align to the Ten Network, SAS10 became SAS7 to join Seven, as Robert Holmes a Court’s TVW7 was aligning to the Seven Network.
An example of an ABC regional variation in 1992- a Melbourne only promo for tickets to The Late Show, not including an area code at the beginning of the phone number.
Presumably other regions would have gone to a promo or something while this was being played out.
They probably played that to regional Victoria as well. I can’t see them opting out just for a 30-second promo. Country people watching would have had to be wise enough to know that the show was based in Melbourne and being 7 digits was a Melbourne number. Country telephone numbers were 6 digits.
I reckon it happened often that ads and promos appeared on country TV (ABC and commercial channels) that had Melbourne telephone numbers without an area code shown (in the days before it was all “03” across the state)
Thursday May 11 in the Ten opener suggests 1995.
Good thing Lukey boy doesn’t visit this thread
Anyone in Ballarat this weekend it looks like their is going to be a lot of history on about BTV-6
from the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/352548168483558/
Ballarat Heritage Weekend is bringing back the glory days of BTV6, with panel discussions, tribute variety shows and exclusive archival footage of the pioneering work produced by Ballarat’s first TV Station!
Archival footage & equipment supported and provided by WIN Television
SATURDAY MAY 26TH:
11am – BTV6 Footage Showcase #1– Highlights from the long running and highly successful ‘Six Tonight’ Live Variety Show and other BTV6 Footage on the BIG Cinema Screen with thanks to WIN Television Network (45mins)
12noon – BTV6 Tribute Music Showcase – Arts Academy Music Theatre students present musical tributes to the 70’s and 80’s in the style of BTV6’s ‘Six Tonight’ with Musical Director Rick Chew and Hosted by Bryce Ives.
Fill out our audience cards and go in the running for prizes from the BTV6 Wheel if your entry is drawn from the original BTV6 Barrel (45mins)
1pm – Heritage & Technology Panel with David Hunt, George Fong and Sue Hodges (45mins)
2pm – BTV6 Tribute Music Showcase – Brilliant local female vocalists with a connection to BTV6 present musical tributes from the 1980’s in the style of ‘Six Tonight’
Hosted by Bryce Ives and featuring Liz Kolisynk, Dani Fry, Molly Fry, Ruby O’Connor and Candi Wade. Fill out our audience cards and go in the running for prizes from the BTV6 Wheel if your entry is drawn from the original BTV6 Barrel ! (45mins)
3pm – BTV6 Footage Showcase #2 – Highlights from the long running and highly successful ‘Six Tonight’ Live Variety Show and other BTV6 Footage on the BIG Cinema Screen with thanks to WIN Television Network (45mins)
4pm – Remembering BTV6 Panel – Hosted by Bryce Ives with members of BTV6 Production and Technical Crew (TBA Soon!) talking about what it meant to be a part of Ballarat’s original Television Station in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
SUNDAY MAY 27TH:
11am – BTV6 Footage Showcase #3 – Highlights from the long running and highly successful ‘Six Tonight’ Live Variety Show and other BTV6 Footage on the BIG Cinema Screen with thanks to WIN Television Network (45mins)
12noon – BTV6 Tribute Music Showcase – Arts Academy Music Theatre students present musical tributes to the 70’s and 80’s in the style of BTV6’s ‘Six Tonight’ with Musical Director Rick Chew and Hosted by Bryce Ives.
Fill out our audience cards and go in the running for prizes from the BTV6 Wheel if your entry is drawn from the original BTV6 Barrel (45mins)
1pm – Heritage & Technology Panel with David Hunt, George Fong and Sue Hodges (45mins)
2pm – BTV6 Tribute Music Showcase – Brilliant local female vocalists with a connection to BTV6 present musical tributes from the 1980’s in the style of ‘Six Tonight’
Hosted by Bryce Ives and featuring Liz Kolisynk, Dani Fry, Molly Fry, Ruby O’Connor and Candi Wade. Fill out our audience cards and go in the running for prizes from the BTV6 Wheel if your entry is drawn from the original BTV6 Barrel ! (45mins)
3pm – BTV6 Footage Showcase #4 – Highlights from the long running and highly successful ‘Six Tonight’ Live Variety Show and other BTV6 Footage on the BIG Cinema Screen with thanks to WIN Television Network (45mins)
4pm – Remembering BTV6 Panel – Hosted by Bryce Ives with some of the Stars of BTV6’s On Air Team (TBA Soon!) talking about what it meant to be a part of Ballarat’s original Television Station in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s.
It’d be great if WIN put some of this to air. Even if it was buried late at night on a multichannel. Surely Bruce would be all over this as more content for his WINdependent Eleven
