Adelaide remembers 50 Years of Channel Seven
Seven Adelaide is screening a special to celebrate their 50th birthday.
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Seven Adelaide today is screening a documentary special Flashback: 50 Years of Channel Seven, to celebrate Seven’s 50th birthday at 5.30pm.
When the station started, Roger Cardwell read the news, Gail Spiro presented the weather and Bobo the Clown and Miss Michelle entertained the kids.
At 4pm on Monday July 26 1965, Adelaide welcomed a new TV station – SAS 10, later to become SAS 7 after a call sign swap in 1987.
And on Sunday July 26 – exactly 50 years after the launch of Adelaide’s third commercial station – Channel 7 will celebrate the anniversary with a documentary special, Channel Seven: The First 50 Years.
SAS 10 began broadcasting on July 26 1965 at 4pm. The first program to screen was the locally produced The Bobo Show, featuring Hal Turner as Bobo The Clown and accompanied by Penny Ramsay.
Today Tonight has been building up to the anniversary with a series of special segments running all of this week.
Source: Mediaweek
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10 Responses
Not sure, what we are celebrating here?
SAS10 or ADS7?
It’s SAS7
memories of SAS10, Peta Peter, the weather girl, in the Seventies, being seconded at the last minute to read the main News bulletin.
memories of ADS 7 Alec Macaskill on Adelaide’s version of “It’s academic”
Happy 50th!!
Fancy celebrating 1 yrs TV shown 50 times,why on earth would anyone want to remember 50 yrs of Seven bloody boring and dreadful like 99% of FTA in OZ unfortunately the Murdoch owned monopoly is not that much better.
@ easygoing – I take it you’re not from Adelaide then?
Am astounded that SAS-7 has marked it’s original network’s milestone better than the Ten O&O’s on the east coast… with TEN/TVQ’s respective 50th’s being barely a blip on Ten’s radar, due to all the candles being blown out for the network in general, for ATV’s 50th last year.
If it’s the same Penny Ramsey, then that’s my cousin I never met, the daugher of my aunt Lois Ramsey.
I was the Director of the BoBo Show and can tell you, Lois was the mother of Penny Ramsey. Both wonderful people.
Why did SAS 10 swap call signs with ADS 7 in 1987 in the first place?
For your info go to this site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_(TV_station)
Because ADS7 had come under the control of Kerry Stokes who, at the time, had financial interests in Network Ten stations in other cities. And SAS10 was owned by Perth’s TVW7, which was aligned to the Seven Network. This anomaly meant that the Adelaide 7 and 10 stations were being shunned by their network partners because they belonged to owners of opposition networks.
So the decision was made to swap ADS and SAS between channels 7 and 10. SAS10 became SAS7.
These programs show us how good real TV used to be. WIN recently reminded us of all of the weekly local program they used to produce. All no more.
A Saturday night offering 5 hours of reruns of The Voice?