TV Home Forum

Australian TV Presentation Thread

(November 2004)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
9Q
9Qld
Si-Co posted:
routemarker posted:
kenneth posted:

Anyway, I am sure that the network feed from Seven would have the same credits for all of Australia and SCT gets the network feed as well.

I think they do. With sevens generic credits usually containing promos of shows they may not show or are not comming up 'NOW' they usually get cut and are not shown at all.

thats what happens when you cant decide which network you want to affiliate with.


I thought that during Daylight Savings Time, Tassie is in fact an hour ahead of NSW/VIC (ie. at 7pm Melbourne time it's 8pm in Tassie). Therefore, how can they be taking the network feed, unless Seven plays it out early and delays it to the 'home' states - and I doubt they'd do that for the sake of Southern Cross Tasmania, who don't actually take the full schedule.

I heard that Tasmania is in fact running shows like H&A a week behind the main Seven network, and that the reason is because they're not allowed to play these shows before Melbourne/Sydney do? That said, GWN and 7 Perth showed H&A last Thursday, when in all other states it was postponed to Friday because of extended tennis coverage. Has this 'ruling', if indeed there is one, changed?

Am I right in assuming that live sport coverage (like the tennis) actually goes out 'live' countrywide - rather than the states in other time zones getting a delayed feed? Other live shows like the finals of Idol, Big Brother, and Dancing with the Stars don't go out live except in states on a par with Melbourne time-wise? So in fact people in Perth just have to check the internet or call a friend in the Eastern States to find out the winner, long before it has been announced on-air!


Tasmania is the same time as the NSW and Victoria in Daylight savings, but they start a month earlier. If they were up to the same point in H&A as the mainland markets, when Tasmania starts Daylight saving before NSW/Vic, new H&A eps would be shown an hour before the eastern states would see the episode, and under network guidelines, Regional affiliates aren't allowed to screen a program or an episode of a program before it's shown in the capital city markets.

7 Perth and GWN did show H&A before the rest of tho country last week but it was probably because the day's Live tennis coverage had finished, or the Perth programmer changed the schedule to suit the local market. GWN being in Western Australia probably just followed suit. Another reason is Perth/WA might have had a local program to be shown on Friday night so they were able to bring the H&A double ep forward a night.

Most of the big sporting events are shown Live, but some are played out on delay. It just depends what it is. Live shows like Big Brother, Dancing etc are always on delay so they're not being shown outside of Primetime in the Western states.
CA
Carlito
In WA, the morning tennis is shown live, and the night sessions are delayed.

In the eastern states the daytime tennis is scheduled from 11am to 6pm, shown live. In Perth their tennis starts at 8am and runs to 3pm so it can be shown live. At 3pm they have normal programming until 7.30pm, when they take a delayed feed of the evening matches which started at 7.30pm live to the eastern states.

Home and Away played in Perth the other night because they are 3 hours behind, and took the coverage live. When the tennis finished in Melbourne at 7.30pm, it was only 4.30pm in Perth so they continued with their normal afternoon programmes, so there was no reason to cancel Home and Away.

Brisbane, which does not take daylight savings, is an hour behind Sydney and Melbourne, so for the day sessions their coverage starts at 10am and goes to 5pm. Im not sure if the night time session is delayed by an hour or they take it up one hour into the match.
KE
kenneth
Flava posted:

Aaah, not a fan of HD then?! .


I am a fan of HD. It's just that even though Seven produces their programs in 1080i HD, they down-convert them to 576p which does not look that good (according to posters on the DBA forum at www.dtvforum.info).

Hopefully Prime (the Seven affliate where I live in Australia (who own's Prime NZ)) will broadcast 1080i when they start HD.
SC
Si-Co
kenneth posted:
Hopefully Prime (the Seven affliate where I live in Australia (who own's Prime NZ)) will broadcast 1080i when they start HD.


Firstly, thanks to Carlito and Pete (9 Qld) for the information about the tennis situation.

So, Prime TV (Aus) is an affiliate of Seven. Prime (Aus) owns Prime NZ, yet Prime NZ also has some sort of affiliation to Nine Network, as the 'nine dots' appear in its logo and it plays a lot of Nine Network shows. Have I got that right?!

I think Prime also owns GWN, the Seven affiliate in WA - is that right?
FL
Flava
Seven's logo got decorated for Australia Day:

http://img8.exs.cx/img8/4066/ep260105155rs.jpg

Any other Aussie Day idents spotted?
SC
Si-Co
Thanks for posting that James! I was about to ask if anyone had a cap of it. Which site is that from, because I'd like to see the moving sequence, with Tim the little TV Man (or whatever he's called) bouncing up and down and revealing that flag. Not to mention whether or not Clarissa caught any flies.
9Q
9Qld
Flava posted:
Seven's logo got decorated for Australia Day:

http://img8.exs.cx/img8/4066/ep260105155rs.jpg

Any other Aussie Day idents spotted?


No, Seven was the only station to do something this year. WIN Television (9 regional affiliate) had a special PRG last year but it didn't appear again this year.
FL
Flava
Si-Co posted:
Thanks for posting that James! I was about to ask if anyone had a cap of it. Which site is that from, because I'd like to see the moving sequence, with Tim the little TV Man (or whatever he's called) bouncing up and down and revealing that flag. Not to mention whether or not Clarissa caught any flies.


Hey Si - Valkyrie posted it up on BBTB.net... I'll have to wait for that day's ep to come up for download to see it in action!
RO
routemarker
Seven is going all out getting ready for the new ratings season ensuring thir new shows rate through the roof.

Heres a cap of their movie ECP featuring a 'premiere week' promo followed by one for Desperate Housewives noting that its the #1 new show in the UK and US.

Right click and 'save target as'
BR
Brekkie
routemarker posted:
Seven is going all out getting ready for the new ratings season ensuring thir new shows rate through the roof.

Heres a cap of their movie ECP featuring a 'premiere week' promo followed by one for Desperate Housewives noting that its the #1 new show in the UK and US.

Right click and 'save target as'


8 MB - any chance of reducing the size of the file - 8 MB isn't worth the wait for those of us stuck in the land of dial-up - and doesn't seem worth it for a file that can't be much longer than a minute or so!
EY
the eye
Brekkie Boy posted:
routemarker posted:
Seven is going all out getting ready for the new ratings season ensuring thir new shows rate through the roof.

Heres a cap of their movie ECP featuring a 'premiere week' promo followed by one for Desperate Housewives noting that its the #1 new show in the UK and US.

Right click and 'save target as'


8 MB - any chance of reducing the size of the file - 8 MB isn't worth the wait for those of us stuck in the land of dial-up - and doesn't seem worth it for a file that can't be much longer than a minute or so!


Yes I was thinking exact thing... especially for us Dial-up users. Smile
RO
routemarker
bbcworld2005 posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
routemarker posted:
Seven is going all out getting ready for the new ratings season ensuring thir new shows rate through the roof.

Heres a cap of their movie ECP featuring a 'premiere week' promo followed by one for Desperate Housewives noting that its the #1 new show in the UK and US.

Right click and 'save target as'


8 MB - any chance of reducing the size of the file - 8 MB isn't worth the wait for those of us stuck in the land of dial-up - and doesn't seem worth it for a file that can't be much longer than a minute or so!


Yes I was thinking exact thing... especially for us Dial-up users. Smile


aw fine, but its is 1.30 min so its long hence the large size. Heres one for all you dialup users. Reduced to 3.79MB so its half the size. any smaller and the sound would be screwed up bigtime and woulnt be worth it.
Right click and 'save target as'
ETA wait for about 13 mins after the time of this edit. File being uploaded

Newer posts