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Hey Hey video vault opens for the fans

Daryl Somers launches an online subscription service for nostalgic fans -and hints at Live shows if there is demand.

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2014-12-10_0017Daryl Somers has launched an online subscription service for nostalgic fans of Hey Hey it’s Saturday.

“Over the past few years we’ve been cataloging and digitising all the old Hey Hey material with the view to making it available right here on HeyHey.tv,” says Somers.

The revamped website offers a selection of free videos and the two 2009 reunion shows.

Premium Memberships at $6.95 per month, or $59.95 a year, can access full episodes from 2010, 2009, 1999 and 1998 with 1997 and earlier set to be added.

Somers has also been exploring the possibility of reuniting the team with Live stage shows.

“If people embrace the website, we’ll certainly look at doing live shows,” he told A Current Affair.

Last month Daryl Somers, Jacki MacDonald, John Blackman and producer Pam Barnes reunited at Foxtel’s bash for Molly Meldrum.

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  3. I like Hey Hey….but I I am not happy to ‘sign up’ for anything..not giving someone access to my bank/credit card details….Not news…not pay TV…nothing…..There are plenty of things to watch online, well more than enough to keep me happy.

  4. Just let it go Darryl. Pathetic desperate last gasp attempt to monetise on this old relic. Theres a reason the show has been axed 3 times now. It belongs in the past Darryl.

  7. I’d happily pay $7 a month if they uploaded every musical performance from the show and make them available for HQ download. The music was the best thing about Hey Hey. The “comedy”, not so much.

  8. Hey Hey was so last century. The show worked in the 70s,80s and 90s but ratings dropped every week in 2010. Pretty sure though Youtube still has clips from the show. I guess though are still some old die hard fans and some Aussie expats missing home that are willing subscribe to this service.

  9. I signed up to paid membership 2 weeks ago for $6.95 a month. The transfers are fantastic and the episodes are uncut. Daryl’s IT people have done a great job.

  10. It’s going to be interesting to see how many of those 600,000 people Darryl likes to mention that like Hey Hey on facebook actually sign up and pay for a premium membership.

  12. Hmm.. I hope it works out as while I’m not going to pay to watch old hey hey on the Internet I would love the show to be properly back.

    Hey he’s departure still hasn’t given us a proper replacement of what it provided. The closest thing we have is The Project and morning tv.

  13. Got for Hey Hey fans, not great as an indication of Australia’s televisual future.

    Within three months we will have two seperate streaming services. Withing three years, it’ll probably be four.

    Who wants to pay for all the different platforms?

    Again media companies just don’t get it.

  15. Curiosity Show segments are also available on YouTube. The problem with new episodes is cost. Dean and Rob did a one off new episode earlier this year sponsored by Kellogg. Somehow unless Somers Carroll make a packet from their online subscriptions (which is too much in my opinion, as this isn’t Netflix) new live shows will be a non-event.

  16. Fantastic move, reminiscent of the recently launched WWE Network – and the perfect solution for a show that has hundreds of thousands of devoted fans, but seems to struggle on TV when the nostalgia factor wears off. I look forward to seeing the archive grow week by week, as well as the potential live broadcasts.

  19. Nostalgia is lovely, but I can’t imagine anyone paying $60 a year to watch reruns of Hey Hey. Somers would have been better to strike a deal with a streaming service, like the upcoming Australian Netflix, or even uploading clips and episodes onto YouTube.

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