Some caps from MFYAH on Xmas Day 2016.
and just checking the WIN website it looks like they’ve reinstated Mass For You At Home. There must have been enough outcry from viewers missing it after the affiliation swap last year, and WIN chose to show paid religious programming instead.
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Here’s a bit of the 1985 VFA Grand Final courtesy of Gezza1987 on Youtube. Rex and Bruce are there along with Phil Gibbs. I think Eddie might have been around in 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVcf-jG2Tz8
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Back then it was a polished News service, but now…
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A rare find.
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From The Age on Friday 20 July 1979… how the weekly ratings used to be reported. Only a few paragraphs, very light on for actual numbers and only a handful of titles covered. And that was it for the week.
This particular week was a strong one for ABC with the British mini-series Edward And Mrs Simpson, which screened Sunday to Thursday at 7.30pm, scoring highly, and largely at the expense of Channel 0.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vbRYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zpIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4914%2C1499157
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April 13, 2005. Most states blacked out during Blue Heelers but because of the time difference, it was during Home & Away in Perth.
Video of this being mentioned on Seven News Perth, 14/4/2005 (courtesy of amnewsvideos)
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2 episodes of Back to Back Home And Away played 7 Perth back in 2005. I thought this might have an effect on TV ratings in Perth.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned here before (and have blogged) about another TV stuff-up, when ATV0 in Melbourne played videotaped episodes of Number 96 in the wrong order and confusing all of Melbourne 
It was the fault of human error when a videotape operator had coded the tapes incorrectly based on an assumption that an episode had aired on Good Friday when it hadn’t. The episodes went to air in their correct order in other states.
The channel had to do an episode double up the next night to play the sequence of episodes in their correct order.
It was a good source of mockery for The Graham Kennedy Show which was on opposition channel Nine.
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And of course, we all know about the one time Channel Nine was knocked off the air because of… an angry Kerry Packer.
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Who could forget? 
Although in Melbourne we didn’t even get the voice over announcement. GTV got as far as the last commercial break, probably about 9.20pm (I think TCN dropped the program at about 9.00), and then instead of returning to the show we suddenly got the Channel 9 ID and then the start of Cheers. No announcement or anything.
I believe that VIC TV (WIN) in regional Victoria carried the show in its entirety. Even though Kerry had his way with Nine he apparently did not have the option to dictate the change to the feed that went out to the regionals.
I used to get pretty good reception of VIC TV (and Prime) from Gippsland but I can barely recall now if I checked that channel after Nine had dropped the show.
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Judging by Trove’s archives of The Canberra Times, WIN in Southern NSW/ACT opted to air a special “Horses of the High Country” followed by (ironically enough) an episode of Cheers in lieu of Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos on that Thursday night in September 1992 it aired on Nine in Sydney.
It was later reported that WIN held off airing the show because they wanted to save it for a regional ratings survey period, although it’s highly likely that WIN Southern NSW/ACT never aired Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos at all until Nine decided to rebroadcast the show in full (but with Bert Newton-presented segments at the start & before the unaired bit was shown) in August 2008.
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there’s something I hadn’t known before. Thanks for that.
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NBN had also planned to hold back ANHVS too.
After the Kerry Packer intervention, it wasn’t shown up here until the 2008 rerun that @SydneyCityTV mentioned was on.
Ha, ever knew about that.
Just goes to show how young I am!
Another presentation blooper was made about 1990 when Seven accidentally played two segments of a film out of sequence (possibly a James Bond film?). It was reported at the time that the blunder was made on the playout in Sydney and was relayed across the eastern states including mentioning regional Qld (where I’m guessing Sunshine Television was possibly already taking a network feed ahead of aggregation)
Btw it was 28 years ago today that we saw this: https://youtu.be/YT1ELXck4dU
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I remember as a five or six year old around 2000-2002 waking up really early to see all the kids programs on ABC TV. One thing I remember seeing was a show which aired just before the kids shows started around 6am.
It was a Japanese language learning program, but it might have been any other language. I enjoyed watching it because it was pretty interesting to watch, but didn’t learn a single thing from it.
Can anyone throw any suggestions my way as to what the program was called?
Recently watched this footage of the continuity and ads from the late night film Rebecca, recorded from Southern Cross (BCV10) in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4HHgUHR1pQ&feature=youtu.be
I noticed at about 26:30 the Southern Cross PRG and Ten PRG play out on top of each other. Later in the film only Ten PRGs are shown.
The uploader states that Southern Cross took Ten’s overnight feed complete with Ten branded promos etc. Did they get a clean feed through the day then “go dirty” at some point around midnight (and on this occasion hadn’t realised the feed had been dirtied)?
The overnight feed appears to just be left to run, complete with the metro station’s ads etc. Was this pretty common back then (in the earlyish days of aggregation) for the regionals to “go to bed” and leave a dirty metro feed running?
Happened in a lot of regional areas back in the day. I used to wake up at 3am as a kid just to watch Brisbane 7, 9 and 10 instead of Sunshine, WIN and QTV for a few hours in the morning. I was fascinated by The transition that seemed to occur when all of a sudden the local station “took over” the broadcast at around 5:30 or 6:00. But the dirty feed was everything including ads, and idents for that short amount of time early each morning.
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