Memories of TV and Radio Coverage

[Benchwarmer]

Time for a spot of remimiscing ...

What are your memories of radio and TV broadcasting over the years, especially in pre-Crows times?
Which radio stations covered the SANFL (were all five matches covered over the airwaves each week)?
Who were the good radio and TV callers and what made them so good in your eyes?
What are some of their memorable quotes?
Who were the bad ones?

Unfortunately, my memories only go back to Grand Finals beamed over to Victoria and 'That Was The Season' videos ...

[on the rails]

Channel 9 - early 70's through to the 80's. The great Wally May and his special comments, Ian Aitken, Max Hall, Ron Kitchen and even KG!

Max Hall: "Comment Wally May"
Wally May: "No comment"
Max Hall: "Good comment"

Ian Aitken "Lept like a startled gazelle!"

Great days!

[stampy]

what he said!

was watching some 70s stuff yesterday and those blokes were the best without a doubt, daysie bruce and pfj marker werent bad in the 80s, didnt care much for oatey, conlon or campbell

[Magpiespower]

Ian Day was a great commentator. So was Peter Marker.

Calm and measured, though Daysie could ramp it up.

Special Bruce was much better back in the 80s.

KG was great on radio, too.

Very excitable.

STRIKE ME PINK!

[Dogwatcher]

Have always loved "around the grounds" and waiting for the score update from the team you support if it wasn't the feature game. Still find myself on tenterhooks if I'm driving and my they do an "around the grounds".

[Ian]

Live reserves coverage from the Adelaide Oval game
Sat night replays etc

essential viewing for someone growing up in the country, I was 14 or 15 before I saw North live but watched as much of them as was given to us on TV that I could

[on the rails]

They used to do live reserves from all grounds!

[FlyingHigh]

Agree with a lot of the above.
Used to hang out for the "around the grounds", but usually meant Woodville would be another 5 goals down. Also driving home and each radio station would have someone at each ground to give a summary. Really miss it now that by the time you get back to your car, the wrap-ups are just about finished.

Loved Ian Day, he was probably the voice of my childhood footy memories. Him and Lou Richards just had their naturally personalities come out when calling the footy, nothing overhyped or over-slick, a little rough around the edges.

Remember being young and reading an article on Daisy. Round of golf first thing on a Saturday morning, at the footy in time to call the ressies, feel the build up of the game, and then obviously call the league. What a great way to spend Saturday after Saturday.

[stampy]

the adelaide oval game? must have been before my time!

[Ian]

They used to do live reserves from all grounds!

oh well, I seem to remember the ones from Adelaide along with the SAFA match of the round as well (was that on Sunday?)

[on the rails]

Yep 9 did the SAFA games from AO on the Sundays!

[stampy]

safa was a must watch for footy addicts sunday arvos

[on the rails]

safa was a must watch for footy addicts sunday arvos

Adrian "The Bear" Hunt!

[robranisgod]

I can go back to when 5KA had Tom Warhurst and Max Hall calling, 5AD had Gordon Schwartz and Allan Crabb, 5DN had Ken Aplin (I don't remember his offsider) and the ABC had Arnold Ewens and Bob Bower. Most of them were great callers. Then big Rod McLeod came over from Melbourne to head up 5KA and Malcolm McDonald joined the ABC, probably soon after Arnold Ewens had a stroke at the completion of an Anzac Day game, maybe the one from 1966 but certainly around that time.

With TV it seemed that you were always a Channel Seven fan with Ian Day and Tom Warhurst or a Channel Nine fan with Max Hall, Ian Aitken and Wally May. My family were definitely Channel Seven fans. World Of Sport was our preferred Sunday lunch time viewing. We felt that the Channel Nine Footy Show was just too flippant and football was much too important to take lightheartedly.

[kempey]

I can go back to when 5KA had Tom Warhurst and Max Hall calling, 5AD had Gordon Schwartz and Allan Crabb, 5DN had Ken Aplin (I don't remember his offsider) and the ABC had Arnold Ewens and Bob Bower. Most of them were great callers. Then big Rod McLeod came over from Melbourne to head up 5KA and Malcolm McDonald joined the ABC, probably soon after Arnold Ewens had a stroke at the completion of an Anzac Day game, maybe the one from 1966 but certainly around that time.

With TV it seemed that you were always a Channel Seven fan with Ian Day and Tom Warhurst or a Channel Nine fan with Max Hall, Ian Aitken and Wally May. My family were definitely Channel Seven fans. World Of Sport was our preferred Sunday lunch time viewing. We felt that the Channel Nine Footy Show was just too flippant and football was much too important to take lightheartedly.

Ken Aplin's offsider was Wally Miller (1960s)
I worked with the 5AD team 1986-88 with Ian Aitken and Gary Window as our main callers, Peter Anderson, Brian Mulvihill and Denis Browne (DB) and myself around the grounds. We followed the pattern started by Rod McLeod from Melbourne.
(There is a youtube under the heading of Harry Beitzel which is an example of how this sounded.)
We also had Graham Cornes, John Halbert, Neil Balme and Doug Thomas as regulars on our lead in show 12-2 for the broadcast. Crackers Keenan was our Melbourne correspondent.
The three radio stations covering the games in those years were 5AD, 5DN and the ABC. So only three games were broadcast with the others being "around the grounds."
Stations tossed a coin for the first choices of game at the start of the season. They followed the pattern established for the first three rounds and chose what they thought would be the match of the round.

[Magpiespower]

Ian Aitken

Few years ago, I stood behind Elbows in-line to board a plane at Sydney Airport.

Still looked pretty sharp.

And his hair, as always, was immaculate...

[stampy]

former claremont star ian aitken, as max hall used to refer to him

[robranisgod]

former claremont star ian aitken, as max hall used to refer to him

Dropped from Claremont's side for the 1964 Grand Final after being a long time regular of the team.

[on the rails]

Max Hall - great commentator and host. One of his favourites regular quotes in describng the likes of Robran, Ebert and Bagshaw was: "You can say what you like about this man, he is a champion."

[FOURTH ESTATE]

Played 32 games for Claremont between 1964 -66