The road to August 16: Update

Hi everyone!

I am just announcing, that due to some unexpected recent events, the 50 Years Of Brisbane TV Part 6 post will be delayed until mid July. It will be posted as a doubleheader, with Part 7, on July 16.

Brisbane TV-Let's Make It Local!

PRESS/BLOG RELEASE: BRISBANE TV-LET'S MAKE IT LOCAL!

With the recent axing of Extra, this blog will make it's mission clear. Brisbane's three commercial stations, you are all on notice. Brisbane is fed up with Sydney networking, and interference with our sacred cows.

Q150: What does Queensland mean to you?

As we leave May behind, we head towards June, Queensland Week, and the official 150th birthday of Queensland on June 6.

The 50 Years of Brisbane TV series will take a wide look, on what makes Queensland great, including some classic ads, and some of our defining moments, that only Queenslanders can produce. As the saying goes, "It's our land, my land, Queensland".

50 years of Brisbane TV Part 5: The Gold Coast, Queensland's TV production hub

Dedicated to... Charles "Bud" Tingwell AM, a icon of Australian film and television, who has achieved many honours in his long career, 1923-2009.

This month we have left Brisbane behind again, to this time focus on Queensland's TV production heart, the Gold Coast, and look at it's two distinct roles in the history of the Queensland industry, first being the place where our early stars got away from it all, and second, the film and television sector wanting a piece of "Australia's Hollywood".

Regional Television Month, bids adeiu...

As we say goodbye to Regional Television Month, we forward on to our next themed month, GC Shines Month, where our focus switches again from Brisbane, this time to our fast growing neighbour to the south, the Gold Coast, which has become a major production centre, in the last twenty years, all due to the development of Warner Roadshow Studios at Oxenford, which also spawned the Warner Bros Movie World theme park (which opened in 1991).

50 years of Brisbane TV: Part 4-Queensland's regional television stations, the heart of Queensland's rural life.

Dedicated to those regional Queensland viewers who waited nearly thirty years for the same choice as Brisbane TV viewers.

Regional Television Month continues, with this fourth installment, of 50 Years of Brisbane TV, which will leave the big smoke, for a journey down the old bush track, we call memory lane, and stop and remember Queensland's great contribution to regional television.

BREAKING NEWS: Kuttsywood's Couch to become segment on 7 News.

Note: This was the blog's 2009 April Fools Joke, so all content in this post is jocular in nature.

Aggregation-Twenty years on.

This post officially starts Regional Television Month in honor of the 20th anniversary of the start of aggregation in Australia, where this blog will take looks into the history of regional telly, with the 50 Years of Brisbane TV feature having a country twang (with a small history of regional television in Queensland prior to 1991, when Queensland was aggregated), as well as a specific look at NQTV, the former solus broadcaster for Cairns and Townsville, which became QTV for aggregation, and eventually became Southern Cross Ten's Queensland affiliate. But now onto the first topic in this post:

50 years of Brisbane TV: Part 3-The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin's contribution to Queensland's TV industry.

Dedicated to Steve Irwin 1962-2006



2009, is a year where we don't just reflect on the living legacy of Brisbane (and indeed Queensland) television. We reflect on the fallen stars, who either died too young, like Brisbane TV personality Tony Gordon, who died tragically in a aerobatics accident in 2001, or died after a distinguished career, like former QTQ newsreader Don Seccombe who passed away suddenly in 1993 and BTQ-7's most notable personality from their 1959 launch, Brian Tait who passed away peacefully in late 2007. But one name is sadly part of this list, the person who brought their Queensland experiences into living rooms worldwide. That man is Steve Irwin.

50 Years Of Brisbane TV-Part 2-Shine On Brisbane, the 1982 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

Dedicated to the victims of Black Saturday, including former GTV-9 newsreader Brian Naylor and his wife Moiree...

Prolougue...
Television changed sport in Australia. It turned sport from a mainly spectator medium, to a national obsession. Radio did some work, same with newsreels, but it wasn't until television arrived in 1956 that people saw sport in a new light. Melbourne's Olympic Games that year was the first major event broadcast on Australian television, with all three Melbourne stations providing coverage, with film replays (the Sydney-Melbourne coaxial cable bearer not being built until the early 1960's) being screened in Sydney the next day. By the time the Brisbane stations launched in 1959, sport became a staple of any new television station's schedule.

50 years of Brisbane TV: Part two update...

Part Two, of the 50 years of Brisbane TV blog series will not be seen as planned on the 16th of February.

2009- A special year... in more ways than one.

2009 is a important year. It is our state's 150th birthday, QTQ-9, BTQ-7 and ABQ-2 celebrate their 50th birthdays, and some other events may or may not get a mention in the media... But I will mention them here...

50 Years of Brisbane TV-Part 1 Good night and Goodbye: Farewells from the newsdesk...

Dedicated to Mark "Mawk" Riccardi, [uploader of Marie-Louise Theile's farewell] 1989-2008.

Brisbane is a unique TV market. We were the first metro TV stations north of Sydney. We still cling to our localism like a raft. But we innovate, like no other. Before we get to the farewells, I will talk about some past female newsreaders, and one who is still going strong.

What's coming up in early 2009. Brisbane style...

So 2008's ending...

Lets see, what we have covered here this year...

The Logies moving to Queensland?

I saw an article, on the Courier Mail website, talking about a pitch by the Queensland Government to lure the Logies out of Melbourne. What the QLD Government is suggesting is a Gold Coast move, but industry insiders said, that the Gold Coast has no TV history.

The retro strategy and how it failed...

This is the symbolic sequel to one of my most popular posts of 2008, Bringing Back Love You Brisbane, but it starts in a strange place, aggregated regional Queensland, in 1995.

Seven... We have a message for you.

So what if you "claim to win 2008".

The Love You Brisbane Appreciation Society will not accept any victory if it was made using networked programs, having a attitude that Brisbane viewers aren't good enough for separate promotion, by destroying your history for office space that leaks badly and risking a backlash if Kay leaves to join the Paige / Lofthouse issue at 9.

Thanks for nothing 7. Networking can go to hell!

The Love You Brisbane Appreciation Society

http://au.youtube.com/group/luvyabnefanclub

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35322692002

Brisbane TV turns 50- My top ten Brisbane TV moments

2009. Brisbane's 150th as a city, Queensland's 150th as a state and Brisbane TV's fiftieth. If one were to pick the greatest moments of our TV industry, our list would be full of interstate imports. But if you restricted that list to moments that affected Queenslanders or brought Queensland to the world, it would be a fine list. So here is my top 10 moments over the last fifty years.

The Love You Brisbane Appreciation Society-The Facebook version...

I have said in a previous post, that a Facebook prescence is on its way.

It is now online, ready to discuss what was Seven Brisbane, what is Seven Brisbane and what will be Seven Brisbane. And if anyone from Seven Brisbane wants to know... We wanna Love You Brisbane once again in 2009.

It is at
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35322692002

Thanks for the "shoutout"!

John Schluter or the Seven Brisbane News department,



If you stumble along and find this blog during any Flashback research...

The first annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to Daylight Saving TV delays in Queensland

Daylight Saving. The great divider, between Queensland and "down south" starts this weekend.

I have listed below, the programs that will be live and those that will be delayed (as well as voting closing times during this period up until the end of 2008.

The Love You Brisbane Appreciation Society.

Seven... We Brisbane viewers are losing patience.
In fact, so are our friends over at www.wicketywak.com .

ten-9-08 (part 2) The lighter side of TVQ's life story- The "inevitable" blooper reel.

By now, you have seen the Darling Downs story, from their shock buy in 1987 to aggregation in 1991, but now here is a story of a different kind. TVQ-0/10 has had many great moments, Expo 88 being the pinnacle. But what happens, when the camera's rolling and you flub your line... or your on a commercial break and the camera's still rolling... These end up either on the cutting room floor, or in the case of some of the following, end up on the station's Christmas tape to laugh at during the station's annual Christmas party. But there has been rare occasions where the blooper comes through to viewers... Sit back and enjoy the weird moments when the stars didn't get it right the first time.

ten-9-08 Flashback-The 1988 Seoul Olympics...

As we countdown to September 10, I thought it would be novel to go back in time... to the event (other than the Expo 88 closing ceremony) that was the biggest selling point for Brisbane residents in 1988 to "come across to Ten", the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Expo. Brisbane Style. Part 3- "I've been to the River Stage too..."

(if you have missed Part 1, Click Here!) (If you have missed Part 2, Click Here)

What's coming up on the blog, soon!

Here is a rundown of what's coming up at "Kuttsywood's Couch"!

• I said it was coming on May 6, Part 3 of the Expo 88 Playlist which will be centered on the theme "on stage", the stage being some of the Expo River Stage's memorable concerts will be up sometime during the Olympics.

"This bridge be nameless says I"

Today, the Department of Public Works here in Queensland has announced a public naming competition for our newest footbridge over the Brisbane River which will be finished in 2009. I have gone to the effort of naming some suggestions

TV0 Memories...

"After 23 years TV0 becomes part of history, we shared a lot of memories and a lot of great moments. As we farewell TV0, we launch our brand new Brisbane Ten with new power and new goals. We want you to be part of a exciting new time in Brisbane television. Brisbane Ten , part of Network Ten, welcomes you to a brand new era. Our launch into the future includes the highlight of television in the world this year, the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Join us now as we turn to Brisbane Ten." Rob Readings (TV0/Ten Eyewitness News lead male Brisbane newsreader 1988) the last voice ever heard on Channel 0 in Brisbane, September 10 1988

Expo. Brisbane Style- Part 2 A Worldly View.

(if you have missed Part 1, Click Here!)
This is Part 2 of the Playlist which will be actually divided in to three "mini parts". The first is "Expo through The World's Eyes" which talks about the international media and Expo (and gives you a look at what Australia is through the eyes of a Alaskan news crew which has never been to Australia, who came down to Expo for Alaska's "National Day") The second mini-part is "Expo Memories- Advertising, Pavilions and World Expo Park" The third mini-part is "Expo Remembered- Retrospectives on the Exposition"

Expo. Brisbane Style- Part 1 TVQ-0/10 and Expo 88.

Ensemble We'll Être visible Les Mondial!-Together We'll Show The World! The promotional slogan for the only world exposition in Australia during the 20th Century in the two official languages (French and English) of the BIE-Paris (the governing body of world expositions).
If you understood what I said, I was referring to the event which brought Brisbane on to the world stage, World Expo 88.

Countdown to the Expo 88 Youtube Playlist reveal has now begun.

The Youtube playlist I have been working on since December concerning the Expo 88 20th anniversary will be revealed on the 20th anniversary of the Corporate Day for the host broadcaster TVQ-0 on May 6 (which was offically called Universal Telecasters [then parent of TVQ-0]Corporate Day.)

What to do with an old university campus?

In today's Courier Mail it was stated that QUT's Carseldine Campus may close, with students and staff being moved to the other main campuses at Gardens Point (on the southern edge of Brisbane's CBD) and at Kelvin Grove (five minutes from the Brisbane CBD). With the 45 hectare campus on Brisbane's northern suburbs going to be vacant soon I thought I would give some of my suggestions.

Save A Brisbane Icon-The Regent Theatre

Thirty years ago a icon stood. The "old" Regent on Queen Street. A single theatre was inside. Cinemas, theatres, picture palaces call them what you will they all have a sense of granduar. But in 1978 the first fight occurred. People marching, waving placards, blowing trumpets trying valiantly to save The Regent. The people lost and won.

Bringing Back Love You Brisbane......

One of the most popular Australian TV idents on Youtube is an little promo originally produced in 1983 which aired in one market only. Love You Brisbane is that ident and it has had multiple variations produced for Seven affiliates in Perth and Regional Queensland and for Channel Eight in Darwin (today owned by PBL and screens Nine Network programming).

My first post...

I thought that now would be the right time to setup a proper blog, as this is New Years Day and this year my New Year's Resolution is to be more blog-friendly. Some more features will be coming up soon. Stay Tuned In.