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The similar strike in the late 80s in Argentina resulted in all non-ATC (now TPA) stations cut transmission hours. It took a very long time to these stations to recovery, since all Buenos Aires’ commercial TV channel didn’t came on air until noon until latter half of 2000s, but strangely, Canal Trece made a big exception when launched Arriba Argentinos in 2005, which continue to broadcast till present day, however, most (if not all) commercial stations only transmit breakfast programs after 7AM!

sorry for off the topic, #myfriends

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Aren’t there now laws in at least NSW and QLD to prevent this from occuring?

Today’s TV: 3.1.1976, Sydney

And 3 years later… 3.1.1979, Sydney:

Source: TV Week

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Fascinating schedules.

Was that the first time Seven had the rights to both Australian Open and test cricket at the same time? Seems that Seven broadcasting test cricket in the 70s is a forgotten chapter in Australian sports broadcasting history. Kerry Packer founded World Series Cricket after initially failing to snatch exclusive broadcast rights to Australian cricket from the ABC, so why did Australian Cricket Board allowed Seven to show test cricket alongside the ABC?
The legendary Norman May was known for his commentary at Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Didn’t realise he was a good cricket commentator too.

It was the second season of World Series Cricket so Kerry Packer could have allowed TCN9 to show the entire match between West Indies and the World live against the gate in Sydney, instead of just showing the first two hours of play with no highlights show to catch up later.

Even though it was a contest made for television, crowds were apparently slow in building so having full live coverage might have kept even more people away. And showing empty stands on TV is not a good look

Ten had a year with cricket as well during the 1970s which would have also been in tandem with ABC.

Not sure why Seven (and Ten) were granted rights over different years but Nine wasn’t.

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Also in response to @JohnsonTV.

I’ve found a thesis regarding ABC TV’s role in sport pre and post World Series Cricket. Here’s a table detailing cricket rights holders from 1956 to 1976.

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115247/1/115247_9773053_michael_ward_thesis.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjg_eKaxtHfAhXEULwKHW-pBKAQFjALegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw39koZP4JW0ObnoLFCjuZi6

Essentially it was a cost saving arrangement but before networking, only The ABC had the capacity to provide a national broadcast.

Fascinating read. The cricket rights are covered from page 22-33 ( of the report not PDF).

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Today’s TV: 6.1.1978, Melbourne

Source: TV Week

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Any idea what Rainbow was, at 9am on ATV0? Might it have been the UK children’s program (but that was normally only 15 minutes long)?

Unsure specifically about this instance but I know the UK series Rainbow was shown here in the 80s as half hour episodes. (I think Channel 7 had it by that stage) Maybe it was shown as 2 episodes put together?

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The format wouldn’t have made it easy to join two episodes together, but they may have played two episodes back to back, possibly with a commercial break between the two episodes.

Rainbow was devised as the UK’s version of Sesame Street, which was somewhat frowned upon by the IBA for being too “American” to have educational value.

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I believe Sesame Street copped similar criticism when it started here, probably not helped that a year or so later ABC unceremoniously dumped Adventure Island but Sesame Street kept going twice a day.

I think the critics underestimated just how educational Sesame Street came to be, not to mention popular. It’s only major flaw is that it caused Australian kids to have to be reminded to say “zed” and not “zee”!

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Indeed it is the UK kids’ show of the 70s

Youtube: 201081hero

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For those who haven’t seen the spoof suggestive version, only intended to be shown to ITV staff as part of a Thames Television “Christmas tape”:

YouTube Credit: Connor Wharton (apologies for low resolution)

Sydney TV listings: Friday, January 11, 2002
from Sydney Morning Herald

ABN2 (ABC)
6.00 Marketing
6.30 Dragon’s Tongue
7.00 Teletubbies
7.25 Maisy
7.30 Bear in the Big Blue House
7.55 Thomas the Tank Engine
8.00 Animal Shelf
8.10 Bob the Builder
8.20 Noddy
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Eckhart
10.25 Oscar & Friends
10.30 My Best Friend is an Alien
10.55 Zoo Olympics
11.00 Shadow Raiders
11.25 Feral TV
11.30 Destination Space
12.00 Great Mysteries and Myths of the 20th Century
12.30 Something in the Air
1.00 Ballykissangel
1.55 Consuming Passions
2.00 GP
3.00 Tweenies
3.20 The Cubeez
3.30 Play School
4.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.05 Arthur
4.30 Rugrats
4.55 Lisa
5.00 Horrible Stories
5.20 Wildlife
5.25 Custer’s Last Stand Up
5.50 Once Upon a Time
6.00 A Shared Table “Western Australia”
6.30 Dead Easy Gardening
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 My Hero
8.30 Second Sight
10.00 The Royle Family
10.30 ABC News Late Edition
10.45 Births, Marriages & Deaths
11.35 Rage (simulcast on Triple J from 1am)

ATN7 (Seven)
6.00 Sunrise News
8.30 Wacky World of Tex Avery
9.00 The Book Place
9.30 A*mazing
10.00 Wipeout
10.30 Tennis: Australian Open Draw
11.00 Tennis: Commonwealth Bank International (day session)/Adidas International (day 6)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Hot Auctions
7.30/8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
8.30 Tennis: Adidas International (repeat)
10.30 Tennis: Commonwealth Bank International (highlights)
12.30 Tennis: Adidas International (doubles; repeat)
2.30 Soccer: Northern Spirit v. Parramatta Power
4.30 Victor Paul Shopping
5.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class

TCN9 (Nine)
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Y?
10.00 Kirk
10.30 Jamie Foxx Show
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Movie “Lost in America”
2.00 Skiff Racing: World Series Grand Prix
2.20 One-day Cricket: Australia v. New Zealand (from the MCG)
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 One-day Cricket (cont’d)
10.15 Nightline
10.45 Barbara Walters Presents “Ocean’s Eleven”
11.45 Murder Call
12.45 Late Show with David Letterman
1.40 Spyforce
2.35 Dangerman
3.30 Victor Paul Shopping
4.30 Rainbow Country
5.00 Keynotes
5.30 Entertainment Tonight

TEN10 (Ten)
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Digimon
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Dragon Ball Z
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia-Summer Series
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Time of Your Life (final)
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Best of Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours (early episodes)
4.00 Cybergirl
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Unreal Ads
7.00 The Nanny
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie “Major Payne”
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Cold Live at the Chapel: Coldplay
12.00 Golf: New Zealand Open (day 2; highlights)
1.00 Twice in a Lifetime
2.00 Danoz Direct
3.00 Big Key
3.30 Victor Paul Shopping
4.00 E Street
5.00 Benny Hinn
5.30 Christian City TV

SBS
6.00 Cantonese News (cont’d)
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Seychas
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 The Irish Empire “The Scattering”
1.30 Future Tense “Can Science Beat Disease?”
1.55 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 Disaster: A Cancer in the System (UK)
3.30 Sportswoman
4.00 Asia Sports Show
4.30 Going Digital
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Games of the World (Germany)
7.30 Inspector Rex (Austria)
8.30 About Us “Living Forever” (UK)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “The 6.10 Train” (Holland)
11.35 Movie “Les Boys II” (Canada)
1.40 Athletics: IAAF World Athletics Gala (highlights)
2.40 Our Park
3.35 History’s Turning Points
4.35 Weatherwatch & Music
5.15 Japanese News
5.50 Cantonese News

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Today’s TV: 11.1.1981, Tasmania:

Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly / TV World

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Nine extending their reach into northern Tasmania.

Not sure how legit that use of the Channel 9 logo is. I suspect they just saw 9 in the listings so just threw in a dotted “9” logo to fill some space :wink:

I think TNT9 at that stage had the “9 stars” logo

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Today’s TV: 12.1.1987, Melbourne, Regional Victoria, South East SA

(excluding SBS)

Source: TV Week

The first day of the Australian Open but the last open to come from Kooyong before moving to the tennis centre

Looks like regionals didn’t bother with the tennis coverage. I suspect that they may have held off to only showing the closing stages of the competition - as being the only commercial channel in town to effectively block out all programming for 2 weeks is probably not a wise move when ABC is already blocking out much of its daytime with test cricket. And the regionals may have had to juggle some day-night cricket as well during those 2 weeks.

And even though ABC is listed as showing the cricket, that is only in regional areas. In Melbourne, ABC had regular programming.

@Si-Co here’s another showing of Rainbow… for a full hour on Channel 7

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Lismore, date unknown

Note at the bottom… Channel 11???

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