Buenos Aires, Argentina: Thursday, March 20, 2003
from La Nación
Notes:
*The late sign-on time extends to 4 of the 5 stations: Canal 9, Telefe and Canal 13 started transmission at 11.30am, and América at noon. Canal 7 is on from 7am.
Was there subscription TV at that time?
But yet Network 10/0 had the first morning television/news show
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Thankfully, there was!
No it didn’t. There were numerous breakfast/news shows, mostly called Today in various formats, on various channels dating back to the 1950s
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, November 11, 1989
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 close
11.30 Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness
12.00 Golf: Australian PGA Championship (day 3)
5.00 Red Dwarf
5.30 Festivals of the World “Trinidad Carnival”
6.00 ABC News
6.30 Horizons “A Planet for the Taking”
7.25 Come & Get It
7.30 Hollywood Legends “Gary Cooper” (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 The Money or the Gun
9.30 Inside Running
10.20 Movie “Raspberry Ripple” (from the BBC)
11.50 Golf: Australian PGA Championship highlights
12.50 Rugby: France v. Australia
2.35 Rage (to 8am)
HSV7
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Heyyy, It’s the King!
6.30 Hong Kong Phooey
7.00 Super Saturday Show
9.00 Saturday Morning Live
12.00 Movie “Charge of the Lancers”
1.40 Movie “Campbell’s Kingdom”
3.55 King Solomon’s Mines (animated)
5.00 Great Mysteries of the World
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 The World Around Us “Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1989”
7.30 Unsolved Mysteries (Tattslotto at 8.28)
8.30 Movie “Doctor Zhivago”
12.35 Knots Landing
1.35 Science International
1.45 Movie “American Hot Wax”
3.25 Movie “The Norseman”
5.05 The Persuaders
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoon Company
12.00 The Dukes of Hazzard
1.00 Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday
8.30 21 Jump Street (Keno at 9.29)
9.30 Mission: Impossible
10.30 News
10.35 MTV: Music Television
1.35 Movie “Hair”
3.50 Movie “The Swordsman”
5.25 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Bricks & Mortar
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Bionic Six
7.30 Superfriends
8.00 Double Dare
8.30 Fraggle Rock
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Horse Racing: VRC Spring Racing Carnival (from Flemington Racecourse)
5.00 Six Million Dollar Man
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 The Great TV Game Show
7.30 The Fragile Planet
8.30 Movie “Dark Passage”
10.40 Movie “High Sierra”
12.45 Movie “Romeo & Juliet”
3.30 Movie “Top Gun” (1955)
5.00 Throb
5.30 House Calls
SBS
1.30pm Rubber Tarzan (Denmark)
3.00 Spanish News
3.30 Latin America in Vogue
4.00 The Maltese
4.30 Indoor Soccer: 1989 NISL Season
5.30 World Soccer: highlights of Austria v. Turkey
6.30 World News
7.00 The Taste of Health (UK; return)
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Movie “El” (Mexico)
10.05 Movie “Man of Iron” (Poland)
12.40 Movie “Words and Music” (France)
2.25 Movie “Flights of Fantasy” (USSR)
3.55 Movie “Temporary Divorce” (Yugoslavia)
5.30 close
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That was the City vs Country game played at Parramatta
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Today’s TV: 28.3.1971, Adelaide
Source: TV Week
All 4 channels simulcast a press conference with Prince Philip, in Australia for the 50th anniversary of the Royal Australian Air Force
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Today’s TV: 29.3.1969, Sydney
Source: TV Week
EDIT: Just for something extra, here’s the week of NBN3 and WIN4 programs at the back of the guide. Friday is Good Friday so that would account for the shorter broadcast hours on that day
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Two iconic TCN-9 Saturday shows there - Clarence the Clocker and Joe the Gadget Man. Rex Mossop’s The Club Show on ATN-7 was always good for a laugh, and it included trotting races from Harold Park.
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Interesting that WIN had a 45 minute news block, and NBN’s was 35 minutes.
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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
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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.
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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.
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BTQ7 Brisbane was a month earlier… 20 March 1972
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Well in that case, I stand corrected! 
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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
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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.
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Correct it on wikipedia please #myfriend
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
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