# Classic TV Listings **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511 "2016-01-01T20:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 78
**Author:** ![bubandbob](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bubandbob/32/299_2.png) [@bubandbob](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bubandbob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1553 "2019-03-30T01:22:19Z")
Interesting that WIN had a 45 minute news block, and NBN’s was 35 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1554 "2019-03-30T01:24:19Z")
From what I understand, NBN3 even then produced a composite bulletin of local and national news, while WIN4 supplemented a news relay from Sydney with a 15-minute local news ---
**Author:** ![bubandbob](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bubandbob/32/299_2.png) [@bubandbob](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bubandbob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1555 "2019-03-30T01:28:10Z")
I guess Newcastle was and is still the largest regional market, so being within broadcasting range of Sydney would’ve made it easier to get footage, I presume. ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1556 "2019-03-30T01:43:36Z")
From the info I can gather, NBN was the first station in Australia to produce an hour long news bulletin in April 1972! Although it wouldn’t overly surprise me if NBN were producing a composite bulletin of local, state, national & international news from the very beginning (or close to it) given the size of the Newcastle market and its relatively close proximity to Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1557 "2019-03-30T02:58:08Z")
> [@SydneyCityTV](#): > > From the info I can gather, NBN was the first station in Australia to produce an hour long news bulletin in April 1972! BTQ7 Brisbane was a month earlier… 20 March 1972 > **[Monday 20 March 1972 — BRISBANE](https://televisionau.com/classic-tv-guides/tv200372)** > > Number 96 makes its Brisbane debut on TVQ0. BTQ7's The Big News expands to a one-hour format -- with the station claiming it to be Australia's first one-hour newscast. Source: Courier-Mail, 20 March 1972   ABQ2 BTQ7 QTQ9 TVQ0 6AM 7AM 8AM 8am... ![btq7_bignews](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/f/7f5a8abf2b97f181a8f66a36524e4a1b37e2cf4e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1558 "2019-03-30T03:11:47Z")
Well in that case, I stand corrected! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Andycol77](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Andycol77](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Andycol77)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1559 "2019-03-30T03:38:42Z")
So in 1989, Home and Away was at 6 and Neighbours at 7. Does anyone know what year both shows moved to (their now current slots, 7pm and 6.30)? And did they ever go head to head at 7? Thanks in advance for any replies ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1560 "2019-03-30T03:49:04Z")
_Home And Away_ started at 5.30 (Adelaide), 6.00 (Melbourne, Sydney,Brisbane) and 7.00 (Perth) in 1988. (It later moved to 6.30 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane when Seven decided to move the news to 6.00) (_Neighbours_ was also at 7.00 when Channel Ten started in Perth in 1988 but for a time was on at 6.30 in double episodes to catch up to the eastern states. But _Home And Away_ was huge in Perth, often the city’s #1 program in those days, and _Neighbours_ never had the same popularity in Perth as it did in the eastern states due to somewhat sporadic scheduling by Seven in the pre-Ten days) In January 1992, Seven took the gamble and put _Home And Away_ on at 7 nationally up against _Neighbours_. By March, Ten had relented and moved _Neighbours_ to 6.30. ---
**Author:** ![theduytv](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/theduytv/32/334258_2.png) [@theduytv](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/theduytv)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1561 "2019-03-31T02:38:03Z")
Correct it on wikipedia please #myfriend ---
**Author:** ![south\_97](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/south_97/32/535524_2.png) [@south\_97](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/south_97)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1562 "2019-04-01T03:35:05Z")
Melbourne TV listings: Monday, October 3, 1988 from _The Age_ **ABV2** 7.00 Voltron: Defender of the Universe 7.30 Belle & Sebastian 7.52 Today’s Special 8.20 Sesame Street 9.20 PGR 9.30 Play School 10.00 Words & Pictures 10.15 20th Century History 10.35 Shakespeare in Perspective 11.00 Upper Primary Arts & Crafts 11.20 Storytelling 11.40 Flip, Slide, Turn 12.00 Howards’ Way 1.00 PGR 1.10 Paths of Development 1.40 Minimaths 2.00 David Copperfield 2.30 QED Robots 3.00 Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends 4.00 Play School 4.30 Mr. Squiggle & Friends 5.00 Monkey 5.45 Danger Mouse 6.00 World at Six 6.30 The Oz Game 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Brush Strokes (ABC News at 8.32) 8.35 Open All Hours 9.05 Four Corners “Dead Seas” 9.50 Rubbery Figures 10.00 English Soccer highlights 11.00 The World Tonight 11.30 Don’t Miss a Wax 12.10 close **HSV7** 6.00 TV-AM 7.30 Cartoon Connection 9.30 Fat Cat & Friends 10.00 Falcon Crest 11.00 Eleven AM 12.00 Movie “Far from the Madding Crowd” 3.30 Gidget 4.00 Wombat 4.30 Lassie 5.00 Wheel of Fortune 5.30 Press Your Luck 6.00 Home and Away 6.30 Seven Nightly News 7.00 Hinch at Seven 7.30 A Country Practice 8.30 Beauty & the Beast 9.30 The Equalizer 10.30 Newsworld 11.30 The New Statesman 12.00 NBC Today 2.00 Thriller 3.30 Hallelujah! 4.00 The Onedin Line 5.00 Newsworld (repeat) **GTV9** 6.00 National Nine Early Morning News 6.30 Business Today 7.00 Today 9.00 Here’s Humphrey 10.00 Diff’rent Strokes 10.30 General Hospital 11.30 National Nine Morning News 12.00 Midday with Ray Martin 1.30 Days of Our Lives 2.30 Young and the Restless 3.30 Maude 4.00 C’mon Kids 5.00 Live at Five 6.00 National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.28) 7.30/8.00 Cosby Show 8.29 Crimestoppers 8.30 Movie “Quicksilver” 10.40 Graham Kennedy’s News Show 11.40 Soap 12.10 Movie “Rattle of a Simple Man” 2.05 Movie “Out of the Dog” 3.45 Movie “And Millions Will Die” 5.30 The Young Doctors **ATV10** 6.00 USA Today 6.30 Ten News 7.00 Good Morning Australia 9.00 Good Morning Melbourne 9.30 Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten News 11:00 Another World 12:00 Santa Barbara 1:00 Bold and the Beautiful 1:30 House Calls 2:00 Hotel 3:00 Charlie’s Angels 4:00 Ridgey Didge 4:30 Flipper 5:00 The Munsters 5:30 Perfect Match 6:00 Ten News 7:00 Neighbours 7:30 Tour of Duty 8:30 Movie “Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom” 10:45 Starman 11:45 AfterMASH 12:15 A Cook’s Tour 1:15 Night Shift 5:00 Space Angel 5:30 Maya the Bee **SBS** 3pm TV Ed 4.00 Vox Populi 4.30 Kaleidoscope 5.00 Dance with Me (Brazil) 5.30 Rin (Japan) 6.00 The Noise 6.30 World Report 7.00 Sport Report 7.30 The Japan Project (conclusion) 8.30 Derrick (Germany) 9.30 Tonight with Paul Murphy 10.00 Writers 11.30 Lindenstrasse (Germany) 12.00 close ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1563 "2019-04-01T06:57:52Z")
Today’s TV: 1.4.1983, Melbourne, Country Victoria, South East SA (exc. SBS) ![tv_010483_0001](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/d/2def599416469fcef67bb6de730f08e9bfcfa4de.jpeg) ![tv_010483_0002](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/f/2/f264f300a864eaf1c37dd6ed3f2f629fbd7017cf.jpeg) Source: TV Week The _Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal_ dominates the day for HSV7 and is relayed across Victoria. And don’t forget those telephone numbers… 960 2211 in Melbourne, 21 9303 in Shepparton, 21 6700… ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1564 "2019-04-01T08:02:49Z")
I like how they listed the VHF channels for the regionals. Though does anyone know which towns they are for? I know GMV was 6 in Shepparton, and 10 in Deniliquin, but not sure about 3 or 8. And AMV was 4 in Albury, but not sure about 9 or 10. And BTV was 6 in Ballarat and 9 in Warrnambool, but not sure about 7 or 11? ---
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1565 "2019-04-01T08:10:30Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > _Neighbours_ never had the same popularity in Perth as it did in the eastern states due to somewhat sporadic scheduling by Seven in the pre-Ten days Did Neighbours air in Perth on TVW7 before Ten began transmission in the city in 1988? ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1566 "2019-04-01T08:20:31Z")
> [@Radiohead](#): > > I like how they listed the VHF channels for the regionals. > > Though does anyone know which towns they are for? > > I know GMV was 6 in Shepparton, and 10 in Deniliquin, but not sure about 3 or 8. > > And AMV was 4 in Albury, but not sure about 9 or 10. > > And BTV was 6 in Ballarat and 9 in Warrnambool, but not sure about 7 or 11 GMV3 Eildon GMV6 Shepparton GMV8 Jerilderie NSW GMV10 Deniliquin NSW GMV11 Alexandra (formerly GMV10) AMV4 Albury AMV7 Khancoban NSW (not listed) AMV9 Myrtleford AMV10 Corryong AMV11 Bright (not listed but this might not have been active in 1983) BTV6 Ballarat BTV7 Nhill BTV9 Warrnambool BTV10 Western Victoria / Mt Dundas (possibly not on-air in 1983) BTV11 Portland BCV8 Bendigo BCV11 Swan Hill STV8 Mildura GLV6 Toora/Foster GLV7 Orbost GLV8 Gippsland GLV11 Lakes Entrance (GLV was listed in the Melbourne edition but had a common schedule with BCV/STV) > [@JohnsonTV](#): > > Did Neighbours air in Perth on TVW7 before Ten began transmission in the city in 1988 It did but TVW I seem to recall bumped it around a bit. Initially it was only showing one night a week, in a double episode on Sunday nights at 6.30. They later shifted it to 7.00 weeknights but I don’t know when TVW dropped the show ahead of Channel Ten starting. They knew _Home And Away_ was coming and Channel Ten was coming so they would not have been too keen to keep _Neighbours_ going too much longer. Hence NEW10 inherited a considerable backlog of episodes when it started. ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1567 "2019-04-01T08:22:47Z")
I would say that TVW definitely aired Neighbours before Ten Perth came onto the scene if this promo (YouTube video credit - @Bergoine) is anything to go by: If my memory of the original post on the old Media Spy forums is correct, this one aired in November 1987 and was likely to be months behind the other states (probably even a storyline before Kylie & Jason’s wedding? That one aired in July 1987 on the East Coast & even Adelaide if I’m not mistaken). ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1568 "2019-04-01T08:23:08Z")
> [@south\_97](#): > > 5.00 Live at Five > 6.00 National Nine News Anyone know what Live at Five was? ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1569 "2019-04-01T08:29:05Z")
> [@BJT2](#): > > Anyone know what Live at Five was news/magazine show hosted by Terry Willesee and Jo Pearson. Loosely based on the US program _Eye On LA_, and eventually _Live At Five_ was cut down to a half-hour program at 5.30 and became _Eye On Australia_. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1570 "2019-04-01T08:34:09Z")
Did the show last long? ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1571 "2019-04-01T08:43:35Z")
It started mid-1988. It continued into 1989 but I don’t think it saw the year out. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/classic-tv-listings/511/1572 "2019-04-01T09:21:37Z")
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