I can’t see if ABC re-scheduled those shows for Victoria. Maybe they just got skipped for that week.
@SydneyCityTV I hope you don’t mind me asking but where did you find that listing for NSW for 1996?
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As I’ve mentioned before, Newspapers.com has a good chunk of editions for The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age through until the early 2000s.
Full editions of the papers themselves are behind a paywall (which I probably would get one day for digitalised papers unavailable elsewhere online), although one can freely do a search of things and get tiny previews like this! 
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I see Better Homes and Gardens in the 7:30 Tuesday slot where it stayed for many years when it first started but only half an hour compared to now and then the Tuesday night staple of Blue Heelers.
I see 7:30 Report with Kerry O’Brien, was this the National one or still the state based shows? I’m trying to find when the state versions got axed - sorry, reduced to Friday nights before becoming Stateline. I think I remember Judy Tierney presenting the Tasmanian version until the late 90’s.
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Oh wow, didn’t realise it was that far back! Thanks for that.
According to TV Week it was at the end of 1995, same time as The Investigators got the axe:
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also:
- Seven showing classic movies from the 1960s in its midday movie timeslot, these days the movies are telemovies from the US Lifetime channel.
- The original Star Trek late at night on Seven
- Front Up, where Andrew L Urban does street vox pops, on SBS. No doubt the inspiration for “Street Talk” on the AFL footy show. I also recall Live and Sweaty on the ABC in the early 1990s used to have Peter “Crackers” Keenan doing a street talk segment.
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Get a State Library of NSW membership (available here - http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/forms/signup-for-a-library-card) and you can access the SMH Archives for free (via this link - Log in to eresources with your library card | State Library of NSW)
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I’m already aware of and indeed, have used those archives in the past to see TV guides and other Sydney broadcast media-related stories/advertisements from old editions (particularly from the 1990-February 1995 timeframe and others that Google News Archive doesn’t have) of the SMH. 
The reason I pointed out the Fairfax archives on Newspapers.com for the benefit of others on Media Spy is because even though those are behind a paywall, there’s papers there from as recently as the Early 2000s. The SMH Archives one can access with a SLNSW membership and that link don’t have any papers after February 1995.
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Today’s TV: 25.11.2007, Melbourne
Free-To-Air
Pay TV
Source: TV Week
The last Sunday night of the 2007 ratings season, so there’s lots of season finals including The Einstein Factor, National Bingo Night, 60 Minutes, Australian Idol
ABC’s The Choir Of Hard Knocks presents a special sell-out performance at the Sydney Opera House… presumably pre-recorded as Australian Idol’s finale was live from the Opera House on the same night
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Ahh, National Bingo Night. Didn’t ACA run reports back then accusing the show of competition rigging and Seven not paying contestants for unaired episodes? Also notable for featuring Tanveeer Ahmed as the “Nooooo Bingo!” guy who was lampooned by The Chaser back in the day. I think his most recent role in the media was being a Fairfax columnist, before Media Watch caught him out for plagiarism.
It’s funny to think that “Da Kath & Kim Code” (and Kath & Kim in general) has now aired or been replayed on three networks with Nine repeating the telemovie recently.
Oh how times change. These days, the FTA networks tend to slowly fade into “Summer programing mode” not long after the football seasons wrap up for the year!
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Yes, a quality ACA beat-up there.
I wrote this on my blog in 2007:
Another format bought from the US (Australian networks seem to have a lack of being able to devise original game show formats?), National Bingo Night got off to an over-hyped start, and a strong rating result but the novelty wore off quickly. The show’s popularity was not helped by a smear campaign by Nine’s A Current Affair which made plenty about “uncovering” the game show as a supposed scam – although perhaps A Current Affair might like to divert their attention to a program on their own network, the late-night phone-in quiz The Mint, whose cryptic puzzles with seemingly illogical (or ill-explained) answers and charging viewers the right to compete seems to be a government investigation just waiting to happen.
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ABC2 & C31 listings for the day, from The Age Green Guide
ABC2
6.00 Genesis
7.00 Rage
9.00 Digital Soapbox Unearthed
10.00 jtv Live (AWOL)
11.00 Jeff Lang
noon London Live
12.30 Planet Rock Profiles
1.00 Breaking the Ice
1.30 ABC Kids
4.00 WNBL: Dandenong v Townsville
6.00 Noelin
6.30 Red Dwarf
7.00 Little Angels
7.30 Peking to Paris
8.30 The Chaser’s War on Everything
9.30 Ideal
10.00 Monkey Dust
10.30 Teens Hooked on Porn
11.30 Movie "The 39 Steps"
1.00 close
C31
7.30 Priority One
8.00 Nusantara
9.00 Macedonian Program
9.30 Zontas 100%
10.00 Sri Lanka Morning Show
11.00 Entre Todos
11.30 Aaj Kal
noon Somali TV
12.30 Sputnik
1.00 Al Hadara
1.30 Italian Connection
2.00 Tom Padula TV
3.00 Sri Lankan News
3.30 Vietnamese TV
4.00 Serbian TV
4.30 Hungarian TV
5.00 Croatian Program
5.30 Good Evening Melbourne
6.00 Pinoy TV
6.30 Pinoy Music
7.00 Asian Television
7.30 Viva Melbourne
8.30 Latin Dance Alive
9.00 TV Hellas Movie
10.00 Baccalas
10.30 Late Night Programs
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Today’s TV: 8.12.1977, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
- Seven’s summer of tennis is already underway, with the South Australian Men’s Classic live from Adelaide
- Daryl & Ossie hosting afternoon cartoons on Nine.
- Even though the ratings would be well over by this point in the year, some regular shows are still on the air, including The Mike Walsh Show, Celebrity Squares, Willesee At Seven, A Current Affair and Blankety Blanks.
- ATV0 has the 1977 Rock Music Awards. Not sure what these are exactly. The TV Week King Of Pop was held a couple of months earlier.
- GTV9 has a summer mid-evening news bulletin, 9.30pm.
- Number 96 is drawing to a close, down to one hour (2 episodes) a week and its final episode just a few weeks away
- Issi Dye hosts GTV9’s all night movies.
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If i’m right 1977 was the last year for Cartoon Corner?
Daryl and Ossie were off to Channel 0 in 1978, so it might have meant the end of Cartoon Corner in 1977
Was there any reason why they left Channel 9 in 1978? was it money?
I guess. It’s usually money that drives most things. And the opportunity for a prime time national show although the end result didn’t work out (and i don’t think even made prime time in Sydney) so they were back at 9 a year later.
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Today’s TV: 11.12.1990, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
- Non-Ratings season is well upon us. Home And Away and Neighbours have been replaced by Wheel Of Fortune and The Wonder Years.
- GP is in re-runs on ABC
- Tonight Live has been replaced by Late News
- Ten is just new into its revised half-hour evening news… as this was just a few weeks after the network’s massive cost cutting saw half the bulletin axed among other things.
- Prisoner is in late night re-runs on Ten
- Ten is relaying CNN overnight, with hosting by John Gatfield.
And you can buy a “Cat Igloo” for $49.95
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I noted the cricket match on Nine at the MCG, where the host city only got to see around a third of the match on TV unless it was a sellout. Thank god those days are over!
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