Today’s TV: 17.1.1988, Melbourne and Regional Victoria / South East SA / Riverland
Source: TV Week (Country edition)
- The 2-hour telemovie pilot of Home And Away is shown on Seven and Prime (AMV4)
- Looking at other days in this magazine it does appear to be early signs of Prime starting to align to Seven’s programming but there is still plenty of programming from Nine and Ten networks still in the schedule, such as cricket as seen on this day. It is unclear if Prime is still relaying National Nine News from Melbourne (as it had been in 1987) or whether it had switched over to Seven.
- Marianne Van Dorslar reads the final edition of Seven National News before it becomes Seven Nightly News the next night. Peter Hitchener (and Peter Mitchell on sport) on National Nine News, and Alister Paterson and Sarah Henderson on Eyewitness News. Sarah Henderson is now the federal member for Corangamite.