General TV History

[TelevisionAU]

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.

[mubd]

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.

[TelevisionAU]

@mubd

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.

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)

[Herb]

Thursday May 11 in the Ten opener suggests 1995.

[Bort]

@mubd

This may be of interest to some…

Good thing Lukey boy doesn’t visit this thread

[djpower]

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.

[bubandbob]

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

[SydneyCityTV]

@marquisite

A couple more instances of ident/signpost/promo tracks popping up in different situations (or on production music sites)…

Ch7’s old classification music…
…was also used in ABC News 24’s launch promos in 2010 (from 1:09):

…and an early “See It First” promo for Nine News Sydney with Peter Overton in 2009 (@0.31 of the clip below):

Nine News Sydney - 8pm Update + 'See It First' Promo (20.2.2009)

Also on Nine, I think it was used for a State Of Origin promo one year around 2001-02.

[marquisite]

Nice find!

[TelevisionAU]

Found these old photos taken from a trip to London in August 2000

[Squee]

Still don’t know what itv was thinking with that early 00s logo. Garish and ugly.

[TelevisionAU]

One pic of BBC Television Centre (I had a better pic of TC but it wasn’t in the pile? Misplaced somewhere ) and another BBC building which I haven’t labelled but I think it was BBC International or something? Guessing it was nearby Television Centre

And a live stream of the first series of Big Brother at Leicester Square (again I had a better picture but it’s not here)

[TelevisionAU]

@Squee

Still don’t know what itv was thinking with that early 00s logo. Garish and ugly.

Yet the Channel 4 logo is timeless

[mubd]

And the BBC’s logo is…well, it’s not ugly but it’s not particularly nice though.

[Zacgb]

@SydneyCityTV

and an early “See It First” promo for Nine News Sydney with Peter Overton in 2009 (@0.31 of the clip below):

Funny how the year 2009 looks like it could have been from the 90s, considering it was only 9 years ago!

[SydneyCityTV]

Yep.

Not sure about others, but I reckon Peter Overton was still very much in his “60 Minutes reporter mode” (if that makes sense - more recently that has turned into a bit more dramatic, 6pm bulletin-style of presenting) while reading the news in Early 2009!

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