Cheers I could be wrong I did hear it when I was young but that doesn’t mean it was correct
Somewhat interesting that after SESA TV aggregation happened in Dec '03, WIN SA taking dirty feed from WIN VIC (which mean that all programming on WIN SA is half-hour earlier (?)), outside of local news, some sports (until '10), and national news relay (?).
If WIN SA still taking dirty feed from WIN VIC, this can result an expanded main feed from the old SIX/SES days, @myfriend…
I don’t believe that SES (WIN SA) was a live direct feed from WIN in Victoria but someone may know this better than I. As far as I know its programming was still aligned to Central Standard Time (CST) not Eastern Standard Time.
Hmm…
But if that’s still the case right now, it will be, actually, the shadow of former SIX/SES partnership.
But I wonder… did SIX/SES “affliation partnership” continue in the VIC - and later - WINv days, @myfriend ???
Melbourne TV listings: Friday, August 7, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Open Learning: Let’s Learn Japanese
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Perspective
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 What-A-Mess
8.10 Johnson and Friends
8.20 Fireman Sam
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Petals
9.30 Play School
10.00 More Than Words
10.15 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.30 Oceans Alive!
10.40 Scientific Eye
11.00 Concepts in Science: Chemistry
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Foreign Correspondent
2.00 Correlli
2.50 Consuming Passions
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Adventures of Spot
4.00 Play School
4.30 Animal Shelf
4.40 Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Lands
4.50 Swinging
5.00 Genie from Down Under
5.25 Little Lulu
5.30 Press Gang
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Stateline
6.30 Gardening Australia (report on bio-control)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Good News Week
8.30 Dalziel and Pascoe “The World Beyond” (part 2)
9.20 What’s On ABC?
9.30 Silent Witness “Divided Loyalties” (part 2)
10.25 ABC News Update
10.30 Netball: Adelaide Thunderbirds v. Sydney Swifts
11.45 Australia Television News
12.15 Rage (simulcast on Triple J from 1am)
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
7.30 James Bond Jr.
8.00 Bumpety Boo
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Witness
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “The Girl Rush”
2.00 Ricki Lake “Fun Friday!”
3.00 Hey Dad! “Boarding Party”
3.30 The Wiggles “Spooked Wiggles”
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. North Brisbane
10.30 Home Improvement
11.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Movie “Hit Man”
1.55 NBC Today
3.55 Telemall Shopping
5.10 MacGyver
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 A Different World “Cabin in the Sky”
10.00 Real TV
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Can’t Hurry Love “The Boss”
4.00 Now You See It
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 The Price is Right
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “Taggart: Out of Bounds”
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Pacific Drive
12.10 Late Show with David Letterman
1.10 Entertainment Tonight
1.40 Movie “Hooper”
3.30 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.30 All Together Now “The Winner Takes All”
5.00 Law of the Land
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys
7.30 Bureau of Alien Detectors
8.00 Eek! the Cat
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 FCTV: Family Circle Television
2.30 Oprah Winfrey “Celebrity Weddings”
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld “The Calzone”
7.30 Sliders “Mother and Child”
8.30 Movie “The Secret of My Success”
10.45 Ten News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 Breakers
12.15 WWF Superstars
1.15 Sessions at West 54th
2.15 Telemall Shopping
3.15 Aromapower
3.45 Aboriginal Australia
4.00 Perfect Scoundrels
5.00 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn
5.30 Jesus Television
28 SBS
6.00 Greek News
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 The Legend of Cinecitta (Italian documentary)
1.40 Tea on the Set (Italian documentary)
2.30 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Insight
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 The Children of Nicaragua (Nicaragua)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia
8.00 As It Happened “Nagasaki Stories” (Netherlands)
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Three Women and a… Man?” (Germany)
11.05 Alchemy
12.05 Movie “Reincarnation of Golden Lotus” (Hong Kong)
1.45 close
5.00 Weatherwatch and Music
5.30 Japanese News
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Today’s TV: 11.8.1984, Brisbane.
Source: TV Week
- The Los Angeles Olympic Games take up much of the day and night on TV0.
- Hey Hey It’s Saturday Night at 9.30pm on Nine (it moved to 6.30pm and dropped the Night from the title later). This was the year HHIS moved to nights and IIRC was its first year showing in Brisbane
- Four Corners on ABC is only a half-hour program.
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25 years for Seven and Nine that year as seen in the advert for Seven - Nine’s anniversary a few days later.
QTQ9 had a 5-hour 25th anniversary special the following day, going from 12pm to 4.55pm. They then followed this up with a 1-hour prime time special on Thursday at 7.30pm, the actual day of its anniversary.
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A couple of idents from Nine - the second probably recycled from TCN’s silver anniversary.
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…or maybe they just got Bert Newton to record an Ident for QTQ before/after the show one night?
some of the footage in that 2nd clip looks to be from Tonight With Bert Newton which only ran in 1984. So I’d say it wasn’t recycled from TCN.
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Today’s TV: 14.8.1980, Sydney / Newcastle / Wollongong
Source: TV Times
- Profitable night for Crawford Productions with 3 dramas in the schedule
- Channel 7 has a local 6pm “Sydney News” before Seven National News at 6.30
- Seven also has the only late night news in Sydney with Newsnight
- TEN10 has The John Singleton Show four nights a week followed by re-runs of Number 96
- And Eyewitness News with Katrina Lee and Ron Wilson
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Today’s TV: 17.8.1976, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- Federal Budget night is covered by all channels to some extent
- Nine has the Grand Final of the National Football League, live from Adelaide though the two teams to get to the final were Victorian.
- Graham Kennedy, Denise Drysdale, Stuart Wagstaff are among the panellists on Celebrity Squares
- National Nine News is also having a brief stint at 6.00pm. I think this might have been in part triggered by the Olympic Games in July (which Nine, Seven and ABC were covering) so Nine had its news first at 6.00 while Seven was at 6.30. And also to provide a point of difference to the much more popular Seven bulletin. (Channel 0 had its news at 6.00 but it was well behind the other two commercial channels). It wasn’t long before Nine news was back at 6.30 so the 6.00 experiment must not have paid off.
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Interesting order for the channel listings 9 - 7 - 0 the 2 
Interesting to see Brian Bury presenting weather on GTV’s 6pm bulletin. I thought he had always been Sydney based. I certainly remember him doing TCN weekend weather in the years before Today started.
Home Edition News is an interesting title for Nine’s news breaks. Haven’t heard that before.
Surprised to learn Seven’s bulletin was the most popular considering both Nine and Ten’s news started earlier. The presenting team would’ve been their strength and the widespread culture of heavy drinking after work in the days before random breath testing started might also have been a factor.
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Why would number 96 and the box be 1 hr and 5 mins…?
I think because of Budget reports during the night
He did radio in Melbourne as well. I think 3MP?
TV Week was connected to Channel 9 so they got first place 
But TV Week reorganised the columns later in 1976 to be 2, 7, 9, 0/10
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Interesting. I wonder how they would’ve filled the half hour. I’m guessing there’d be longer form stories, more in a magazine style.
Also, I don’t ever remember seeing this in 80s, so I guess it was a short-lived experiment.
Seems quite a bit chunk of The Sullivans was shown as 60-minute episodes. It was originally a 30-minute show - not sure how long that lasted. I’m sure this would have varied between markets.
Today’s TV: 25.8.1972, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
- Documentary What Have You Done With My Country? apparently gives a stark review of what the arrival of white man and the mining boom has done for the indigenous population. You’d never see anything like that on a commercial channel in 2018!
- Friday night Homicide is presumably a re-run as the episode Two Down One To Go dates back to 1970
- Footy preview shows on ABC, Seven and Nine
- Don Lane is “the beast” on Beauty And The Beast
- John Bailey reads National Nine News while his wife Tanya Halesworth reads the afternoon news. Both were formerly of TEN10 in Sydney. Bailey later went to Channel 0 in Melbourne before returning to TEN10.
- Moneymakers (produced at TVQ0, Brisbane) with Philip Brady is Australia’s first five-nights-a-week prime time game show (Seven had the 7.00pm $25,000 Great Temptation but it was still only airing one night a week at this time. The success of Moneymakers eventually saw Temptation stripped five nights a week)
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