Optus Television

So you got them live.

And then that was with Optus Vision, which was a pay TV provider during this period.

So things change because all of a sudden we start getting this creep where there's wall-to-wall footy being played and And the replay is kind of sandwiched in between things and not so big a deal.

So later on in the 90s, the AFL experiments with playing Twilight games on a Saturday, which were played on full but delayed, which that's kind of the death knell for the replay.

Now, we didn't play Saturday night games in Melbourne up until this year of 1996, but It's broadcast by Channel 7 around Australia, but not into Melbourne.

So the game was not seen on TV in Melbourne, unless you had Optus Vision.

We must do Optus Vision.

Yeah, I was thinking about this on the drive-in, actually, that we've got to do Optus Vision.

There's lots there.

So this was...

And funnily enough...

The commentary team kind of intrigues me as well.

And that pay television in its day, was your Foxtel,

your Optus Vision? I would suggest it was Galaxy.

Galaxy? And

what was there, Ozstar? Was that

Yes.

Works for the Courier, Optus Vision, Triple M gets a mention, guest appearances and interviews as well as special comments.

Look at Spud.

Now, Danny

You do that shit good.

There's, there's the Optus Vision one where it all broke down.

Yeah.

There's ma- like, people do still remem- It is still like, good or bad-

It's just a matter of what number.

As bad as Billy Ida was, says Dave, you blokes need to go back to the 94 NRL Grand Final halftime show when Optus Vision, in its presentation of what to expect, put a heap of sporting celebrities in a big TV being lifted up by a huge crane, but the TV fell apart with pieces falling to the ground, endangering the musical talent underneath it.

Pretty sure it's on YouTube still.

Was it 94 or 95? Could have been, I reckon, 95.