Today’s TV: 16.11.1998, Melbourne:
Source: TV Week
- Because Channel 7 was having success with Better Homes And Gardens, Channel Ten decided to get on the cross-media bandwagon and joined up with Family Circle magazine for a daytime show, FCTV, hosted by Penny Cook. IIRC it was produced live to air but did not last long.
- The final episode for the year of In Melbourne Tonight with Frankie J Holden and Julia Morris. I don’t think it returned in 1999.
- Network Ten soap Breakers screened at 11.30pm with a repeat of the previous episode earlier at 3.30pm.
- Curiously, TV Week lists an British series The Hello Girls (ABC) as a highlight even though it’s “Coming Soon”. I know they used to do that sort of thing because sometimes state-based schedules varied even though the highlights pages were national, but I can’t imagine ABC having too many local variations on this occasion! Strange that TV Week could not have found something else to fill that section.
and the Pay TV listings for the same day:
Odd that Foxtel has Nickelodeon on Channel 1, but TV1 on Channel 15?