22-05-2023, 10:58 PM
(22-05-2023, 06:15 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: Seems strange that there were doubts that a weekend only TV station would work, but it hadn't occurred to me that LWT was the first - before that the 3 weekend franchises all had another region to bolster their coffers
ABC was unique IIRC as it had two weekend regions and no weekday one, though it did have other non-TV interests and other sources of money, being a cinema chain in the first instance.
Of course it could all have been so different, as ABC did turn down a 7 day franchise they were offered, but later picked up the two licences that a collapsed consortium had won and left behind - and (it says here) ABC bought all the consortium's ordered production equipment at a knockdown bargain price too.