How to mark Ch 9's 50th Birthday without trying.
Channel 9 Brisbane this year will mark its 50th anniversary by holding two balls – one at Movie World, with a second at Jupiters Casino. Invited will be a number of local and national Channel 9 celebrities, as well as some lucky listeners from Hot Tomato and B105.
On the guest list are such luminaries as:
Peter Phelps – Underbelly
Matt Passmore – Underbelly
Dieter Brummer – Underbelly
Scott Burgess – Underbelly
Tracy Grimshaw – A Current Affair
Kerri-Anne Kennerley – Mornings with Kerri-Anne
Tim Campbell – Celebrity Singing Bee
Blair McDonough – Sea Patrol
Natalie Gruzlewski – Getaway / Farmer Wants a Wife
Farmer Tim – Farmer Wants a Wife
Farmer Damian – Farmer Wants a Wife
Farmer Jenny – Farmer Wants a Wife
Leila McKinnon – Today on Sunday
Karl Stefanovic – Today
Giaan Rooney – Today
Richard Reid – Today / Domestic Blitz
Scott Cam – Domestic Blitz
Andrew Rochford – What’s Good For You / The Waiting Room
Skye – Ladette to Lady
Bruce Paige – Nine News
Melissa Downes – Nine News
Garry Youngberry – Nine News
Andrew Lofthouse – Nine News
Eva Milic – Nine News
Heather Foord – Extra
Rob Readings – Gold Coast News
Beau Walker – The Shak
Drew Jarvis – The Shak
Kendal Rae – The Shak
When I received the press release regarding these balls, I was immediately irked.
It wasn’t that Channel 9 are hosting this event. Really, there is nothing wrong with a company holding an event like this to celebrate a milestone like this. As long as ALL Channel 9 staff are invited to the event and not just business partners and perceived A-list guests like Dieter Brummer and Sky from Ladette To Lady, that’s fine.
Rather, as a viewer, it feels like I am being left out. It’s not that I want to go to an event where Evermore are the featured musical guest. Heck, it’s quite the opposite. I just think its a shame that the money being spent on this could instead go towards producing a quality special (not just a clip show) that highlights the role that Channel 9 have played in Qld over the past 50 years. Focus on the history of the organization, where it has come from, where it is going. What are the significant news stories Channel 9 Brisbane have delivered? Tell us about that cameraman who has been with the station for 35 years (should he exist).
Sure, it would be entirely self-serving, but no more so than holding a ball.
Also, what better gift for Channel 9 to give back to the community than some work for the local industry?
Ultimately, this serves as a missed opportunity. Channel 9 need to remind us why they are important and why we should care that it’s been a part of our community for fifty years. This would have been a perfect opportunity to do so. Instead, they’re going to celebrate it off-camera (mostly).
5 Comments to “How to mark Ch 9's 50th Birthday without trying.”
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Simon Band says:
I actually meant to give a serious comment before that comedy gem came to me.
Do you think that “the role that Channel 9 have played in Qld over the past 50 years” isn’t being pursued because the role they play in Queensland is mostly fluff nowadays?
Focus on the glitz, the glam, and the superficial. This seems to be the over-riding strategy for the network.
If I didn’t have a broner for Andrew Lofthouse I’d rubbish their news as well.
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I was set to give serious comment to your comments, however I’ve lost all coherent thought at the very mention of Andrew Lofthouse. *Swoon*
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what’s so good about Andrew Lofthouse??
But on this occasion of Channel 9′s fifty years how about inviting and acknowledging some of the past names who have made the station over the last fifty years instead of these “stars” and reality show contestants.
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Dan,
At least 9′s celebrating.Meanwhile down the road, the networked station aka Channel 7 Brisbane, is a shell of it’s former self.
I was expecting at the very least a full revival of the station’s Love You Brisbane (i.e not as [Gotta] Love [It] You Queensland) campaign that made the station in the 1980′s.
Instead we got a stupid advertorial, promoting Q150, that should be on Ten, and the 2007 Love You Queensland’s got a new ender, with no retro footage.
7, Brisbane will stand up, yell thyne slogan one more time.
“Love You Brisbane,
7 meant the world to me,
Playout’s now down south,
Nothing local to be proud,
There’s no place I’d rather be.
Love You Brisbane”
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We didn’t get invited because they heard how much I took advantage of the free bar when Rove was in town.
They couldn’t afford the pounding we’d give their balls.