http://televisionau.com/classic-tv-guides/tv270567
TV Guide for the 1967 Referendum
Also TVW7 not only took Seven and Ten programmes pre-1988, they also had a few Nine programmes such as Days of our Lives and Young & The Restless.
All the Victorian regional commercial channels began getting their evening news bulletins from GTV9 by the beginning of April, Friday March 27, 1987 was Mal Walden’s last day at HSV7 and I remember that was when the regional network switched to GTV9 immediately after that date. Unless Television AU knows otherwise.
The change happened Monday 13 April, the first day of the new one hour Seven National News with Greg Pearce.
A legacy from before STW9 affiliated to Nine.
Speaking of Mal Waldern. here is a 60 Minutes story on HSV7’s 1987 crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuhE4V-_9fg
Interesting that Seven allowed for staff to be interviewed by rival station Nine at the time though.
The ratings were so bad they probably figured even bad publicity is good publicity
I’d have to check of course but I think I still have an early morning random recording somewhere of the feed “switching” from Southern Cross to Seven during this time period. Unfortunately though, I think most of these instances were recorded over long ago which is a shame.
Crippled the network!
TVW and STW operated more like country stations in those days. In order to avoid a ‘bidding war’ between themselves, they set up a ‘TV Buying Company’ that negotiated the purchase of TV shows from the Networks for the ‘Perth Market’. The two stations then took it in turns to pick shows from the pool.
Was there ever a case of Nine-produced programmes appearing on TVW7, or Seven programmes appearing on STW9 (once both channels were up and running)?
Double-post, sorry - but regarding recordings of the late night switch, it’s odd how both a SCN and a Ten PRG played on top of each other in that recording I posted earlier from BCV in 1993. The Ten PRG appears on screen suddenly (after it had faded in) which made me wonder if that was the actual point the switch was made… however local ads continued in the next break. No reason they couldn’t have dirtied the feed and still opted out for ads and trails, but it seemed an odd time to flick the switch.
If I remember correctly, a similar thing occurred when SCTV used to handover to Seven Melbourne. Both the SC and Seven PRG’s would appear for a couple of segments of the current content at first, and then just the Seven PRG appeared by itself from thereafter. The local promos and commercials would continue to play over the top however for some time, and in some instances, when SC returned a little too early to the program you would often catch a glimpse of the metro feed ad-break fade-out and return the program as well.
It’s interesting to see that the SCN and Ten PRG’s are slightly different in that clip. The SCN PRG displays that it’s a “B&W transmission” movie whereas Ten’s PRG doesn’t.
The original Family Feud was produced at TVW but then shifted production to GTV9 in Melbourne, but continued to air in Perth on TVW7.
In a weird anomaly Family Feud was also shown on 7 in Brisbane and Adelaide even after production shifted to 9 in Melbourne.
The Mike Walsh Show was also on TVW7 even though produced at 9 in Sydney. TVW fought to keep the show after STW9 gained the Nine affiliation but eventually lost out and the show went across to STW.
These snippets of the metro feeds often seemed to be shown when a station was working off a dirty feed - it still happens these days when timing issues arise with automation. I wonder why the networks didn’t insert a second or so of black at either sides of the breaks or at opt points? Stations like ITV in the UK still do that now with a fade to black between idents, programmes and promos so their affiliates (these days only STV, but previously others) can opt in and out cleanly. Australian TV’s junctions have always been faster-paced than the UK’s though - so it probably just wasn’t the “done thing”.
Another question - when aggregation came along and stations aligned their schedules with the metro stations, what happened to serials like Neighbours and H&A or imports that they had previously shown at their own pace, some months behind the city stations. Did regional viewers miss a chunk of episodes when the stations began taking the metro feed?
I would assume so but have nothing to verify. Of course for some of these regions those shows had never appeared before aggregation. For instance Canberra I don’t think got H&A at all before Prime came on there.
Tasmania just stayed months behind for years with both Neighbours and H&A on Southern Cross. The only thing that changed was the times of both but that might not have even been due to aggregation. It was in the 2000’s when we finally caught up on both shows. neighbours was just in time for the switch to being on TDT only as I think there was a period where TDT was ahead of SC.
While retrieving today’s TV listing in Classic TV Listings I came across this article about a singer-songwriter called Jamie Dunn.
Reckon this is the same Jamie Dunn a.k.a. Agro?
Check out the big '70s hair!
Source: TV Week
You are right, Canberra didn’t have Home & Away until Prime started in March 1989.
RVN in Wagga showed Home and Away at 5.30 - though by 1988 RVN was showing mainly Seven shows anyway. They never showed Neighbours.
WIN in Wollongong didn’t show Neighbours or Home & Away.
WIN kept Seven’s A Country Practice on air throughout 1988 but I seem to recall they dropped it at the start of 1989 in the lead up to the start of aggregation on March 31. I think Prime may have added those unaired episodes to their schedule when they started broadcasting on the south coast.
When aggregation came to Tassie, Tas TV on the day it launched in Launceston ran ads in The Examiner to give locals a “catch up” on what had happened in the daytime soaps since Southern Cross had dropped them in the months leading up to aggregation.
I seem to recall Southern Cross in Victoria dropped A Country Practice and replaced it with E Street during 1991 ahead of the 1992 launch into aggregation.
Not sure how Southern Cross had progressed with Neighbours pre aggregation but they ran in sync with Ten’s episodes when the 1992 series commenced in January.