Peter Ford is another Australian who made a career for himself as a news anchor in the U.S.
He was one of the original anchors at CNN2, later Headline News:
He later anchored on WSVN in Miami:
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Wow , he either lost his accent or was putting it on. Here he is on ATN7 in 1994 (scroll through to 0:56)
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Western Australia, Wed 28 Mar 1973
from TV Week
ABC
8.00 Sesame Street
9.05 For Schools: Geography
9.30 Play School
9.55 For Schools: Health
10.45 For Schools: Guten Tag Wie Geht’s
11.10 For Schools: Living Here & There
11.30 For Schools: History 1917-1967
12.10 For Schools: La chasse au tresor
12.30 For Schools: Hold Down a Chord
1.00 For Schools: En francais
1.25 For Schools: Science Magazine
1.50 For Schools: People of the Western Desert
2.20 For Schools: Here in the West
2.40 For Schools: Switched on Science
3.00 For Schools: Seeing & Doing
3.25 Play School
3.55 Adventure Island
4.25 Sesame Street
5.20 Cattanooga Cats
6.05 Ensign O’Toole “Operation Tubby”
6.40 GTK
6.55 (Perth/Geraldton/Carnarvon) To Market, To Market
(remainder of WA) Regional News
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.25 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Frost Over Hollywood (premiere; guest Julie Andrews)
8.35 Love Thy Neighbor (AO)
9.00 Mid-Evening News
9.05 Certain Women “Freda”
9.55 Soccer: Aston Villa-QPR (filmed 10 March)
10.45 Weather
10.47 close
TVW7 Perth
10.00 Kindy
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Beauty & the Beast
noon Movie “River of No Return” (A)
1.55 Days of Our Lives (A)
2.25 Temptation
3.25 Beauty & the Beast
4.00 Children’s 7
4.05 Perils of Penelope Pitstop “Cross Country Double Cross”
4.40 Tarzan “End of the River”
5.45 New Dick Van Dyke “The Replacement”
6.20 TV Bingo
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 $25,000 Great Temptation
7.30 News Headlines
7.35 Benny Hill
8.40 News Headlines
8.45 Number 96
9.20 Movie “The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” (AO)
mid. close
STW9 Perth
10.30 Marvelous Munchkin
11.00 Junior World
11.30 Magic Circle Club
noon General Hospital (A)
12.30 Movie “Because of You” (A)
2.15 Peyton Place (A)
2.45 Three on a Match
3.15 Password
3.45 Cartoon Club
4.30 Man from UNCLE “The Foxes and Hounds Affair”
5.30 Get Smart “The Mass of Adrian Listenger”
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Gilligan’s Island “Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk”
7.00 New Moneymakers
7.30 News Headlines
7.35 Matlock Police “A Double Life”/“Hogan’s Week”
9.35 Movie “Lonely are the Brave”
11.30 Year to Remember
mid. close
BTW3 Bunbury/GSW9 Albany
1pm Jane Wyman “My Sister Susan” (AO)
1.30 Tea & Biscuits
3.00 Wyatt Earp “Frontier Journalism” (A)
3.30 This Week Has 7 Days
4.25 Birthday Calls
4.30 Flyers’ Club
4.35 This Week Has 7 Days
5.30 Wotsaname Show
5.35 Carnaby’s Cave
6.00 Family Affair “The Return of Maudie”
6.25 News
6.35 Partridge Family “Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?”
6.59 Weather
7.00 $25,000 Great Temptation
7.30 It Takes a Thief “Situation Red” (A)
8.30 Number 96
9.00 Movie “This Sporting Life” (AO)
11.00 News/close
VEW8 Kalgoorlie
5.30pm Flyers’ Club
5.40 Casey Jones “Run to Deadwood”
6.05 Wild Kingdom “Challenge of the Cheetah” (pt 2)
6.30 News/Weather
6.40 Dick Van Dyke “My Neighbor’s Husband’s Other Life”
7.05 Partridge Family “Forty-Year Itch”
7.30 The Detectives “Saturday’s Edition” (A)
8.30 Movie “Tea and Sympathy” (A)
10.30 Fights of the Century
10.40 Wide World
10.55 Program Summary
11.00 close
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Seven Perth aired Number 96 while it aired on the 0-10 Network through the Rest of Australia back then.
Melbourne/Victoria TV listings, Thursday May 15, 1980
from The Age
ABV2 and ABC TV regionals
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 For the Juniors
9.25 Bookworm
9.30 Play School
10.00 Smedley’s Weekly
10.20 Flip Slide Turn
10.40 The Survivors
11.00 For the School Leaver
11.25 Getting Fit
11.45 Les Indiens D’ Amerique
1.00pm ABC News
1.10 Weather
1.11 Wild Wild World of Animals
1.30 Cartoons
3.20 Lassie
3.45 Bagpuss
4.00 Alexander’s Afternoon
4.30 Sesame Street
5.00 Vision On
5.35 The Canal Children
5.58 News Headlines
6.00 The Goodies
6.30 Dr Who
6.55 Today’s Sport (regionals: Regional News)
7.00 ABC News
7.26 Weather
7.30 Pot Black
8.10 Wildlife Safari to Thailand
8.35 Armchair Thriller (episode 2 of “Fear of God”)
9.20 ABC News and Weather
9.30 Nationwide
10.10 ANZAAS Congress 1980
10.20 Encounters
11.00 Close
Melbourne:
HSV7
10.00am Romper Room
11.00 Dinah and Friends
12.00pm Movie: North West Mounted Police (hosted by Ivan Hutchinson)
2.25 Olympic Minutes
2.30 Movie: He’s a Cockeyed Wonder (B&W)
4.00 Flipper
4.30 Shirl’s Neighbourhood
5.00 Tom and Jerry
5.30 Bewitched
6.00 Get Smart
6.30 Seven National News (with Mal Walden)
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 The Incredible Hulk
8.30 Cop Shop
9.30 Skyways
10.30 Dog and Cat (the Age describes this as “Forgettable American police drama series”)
11.30 League Teams (with Lou Richards, Jack Dyer and Bob Davis)
12.00am Movie: Tonight is Ours (B&W)
1.30 Close
GTV9
6.00am The Thunderbirds
6.55 Go Health
7.00 Cartoons
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 The Ed Allen Show
10.30 Another World
11.55 News
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 The Young and the Restless
2.55 News
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Search for Tomorrow
4.00 Heidi
5.00 Here’s Lucy
5.30 Family Feud
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 National Nine News (with Brian Naylor)
7.00 The Sullivans
7.30 Little House on the Prairie
8.30 Charlie’s Angels
9.30 The Don Lane Show
11.00 Baretta
12.00am Movie: Moon of the Wolf
1.30 Movie: The Stranger
3.30 Movie: September Affair (B&W)
5.15 The Big Valley
ATV10
7.00am The Early Bird Show
9.00 Fat Cat and Friends
9.30 Rainbow
10.00 Couples
10.30 The Bernard King Show
11.00 Everyday
12.00pm Movie: Four Guns to the Border (hosted by Bruce Mansfield)
1.30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
2.00 The Waltons
3.00 Matlock Police
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.00 Gilligan’s Island
5.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6.00 Eyewitness News (with David Johnson and Jana Wendt)
7.00 MAS*H
7.30 Barassi’s World (Ron Barassi hosts “The Garden Jungle”)
8.30 Movie: Fraulein Doktor (hosted by Bill Collins)
10.30 Special Branch
11.30 Movie: Heart of the North (B&W)
1.05am Close
Regionals:
BTV6 Ballarat
11.00am Here’s Humphrey
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.20 The Young and the Restless
3.10 The Bernard King Show
3.35 Dr Kildare
4.00 Marine Boy
4.30 Tomorrow People
4.55 Get Smart
5.20 I Dream of Jeannie
5.45 Family Feud
6.10 Forum
6.15 Six News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 The Sullivans
8.00 MAS*H
8.30 Prisoner
9.30 Six Tonight (with Fred Fargher)
11.00 Angie
11.30 Six News
11.45 Epilogue and Close
AMV4 Albury/RVN2 Wagga Wagga
11.00am Here’s Humphrey
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 General Hospital
2.55 The Bob Newhart Show
3.20 Family Feud
3.50 Cartoons
4.00 Archie’s TV Funnies
4.20 Graham’s Gang
4.50 (RVN) Contest Corner/(AMV) Buddies’ Club News
4.55 Tarzan Lord of the Jungle
5.20 The Flintstones
5.50 Happy Days
6.15 District News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 MAS*H
8.00 Kingswood Country
8.30 Trapper John MD
9.30 The Don Lane Show
11.00 News
11.20 Close
BCV8 Bendigo/GLV8 Traralgon/STV8 Mildura
8.30am Thought for the Day
8.35 Rocky and Friends
9.00 Tennessee Tuxedo
9.35 Movie: Stay Away Joe (stars Elvis Presley)
11.00 Fat Cat and Friends
11.30 Community Billboard
11.33 Bernard King Show
11.57 News
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 The Young and the Restless
2.50 Family Feud
3.15 The Brian Keith Show
3.40 Rainbow
3.55 Daily Fables
4.00 The Nature of Things
4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.55 Cartoons
5.10 My Three Sons
5.35 Gilligan’s Island
6.00 Local News/(STV) Sunraysia at Six
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 The Sullivans
8.00 Benson
8.30 Dallas
9.30 Skyways
10.30 Quincy M.E.
11.30 One Day at a Time
11.55 Thought for Tomorrow
11.58 Close
GMV6 Shepparton
10.55am Morning Meditation
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.55 News
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Cash and Company
3.00 The Dick Van Dyke Show
3.30 Cartoons
4.00 Batman
4.30 What’s Doing (local children’s show hosted by Kevin Loomes and Sam the Puppet)
4.55 Gomer Pyle USMC
5.25 Hogan’s Heroes
5.45 F Troop
6.10 Regional News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 The Sullivans
7.30 The Love Boat
8.30 MAS*H
9.00 Outlook (local current affairs)
9.30 The Don Lane Show
11.00 Associates
11.30 News and Weather
12.00am Close
SES8 Mount Gambier (times listed are in EST, 30 mins earlier for CST)
4.00pm Fat Cat and Friends
4.30 Elephant Boy
5.00 Kids Only
5.30 Tom and Jerry
6.00 Family Feud
6.30 Celebrity Tattletales
7.00 Seven National News (from HSV7)
7.30 Willesee at Seven
8.00 The Restless Years
9.00 Lillie
10.00 The Don Lane Show
11.15 Taxi
11.45 Point of View
11.55 Epilogue and Close
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Never knew ABC used to televise the ATP tennis Masters events back in the day.
Also who could forget Cash Bonanza, which IIRC was hosted by Larry Emdur?
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Fixed that one for you - it should be obvious by the title of the paper which city the SMH primarily focuses its coverage on!
Anyway, that 4pm program on Channel Ten…hello there, paid programming! 
Yes, you’re correct with that presumption.
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I thought Something in the Air was 5x30 mins a week?
That’s Bright Ideas 12-2pm.
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initially it was. Then it got bumped to Saturday nights.
I didn’t mind the show. Sad.
Today on Saturday.
I think this edition went for a year or so. Didn’t last long from memory.
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I think it was a victim of internal politics as it was during the era of a change of management under new Managing Director Jonathan Shier who seemed to take a dislike to everything and so the show got bumped around a bit before being quietly axed.
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Think that was tied for a while with an Instant Scratch-It, and filmed at Movie World.
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Hosted by him before the 2nd run of The Price is Right
GP! There’s a memory. Such a great show, well ahead of it’s time in terms of the subjects it covered, including AIDS, which is referenced in the synopsis in the guide above.
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