Some souvenir from my country:
Ho Chi Minh, VN TV listings: 27 Jan - 29 Jan 1979 (Tet special program)
Đen trắng: BW (full color transmission not commenced until 1986)
Màu: color
Today’s TV: 11.7.1981, Melbourne
- Hey Hey It’s Saturday includes some guy called “John Blockman”
- Channel 10 doing it’s bit for “ethnic” television including The Magic Wok and Let’s Go Greek on Saturday (and Greek Variety Show and Variety Italian Style on Sunday)
- Sandy Roberts reads the news at Seven
- Young Talent Time features a guest appearance by one of the show’s original cast members, Vikki Broughton
- Ita Buttrose is one of the guests on Parkinson
- John Deeks and Debbie Phin present Super 66 at 8.25 and then back again for Tattslotto at 9.30. (Tattslotto had reset its draw numbers earlier in the year when it became part of the Australian Lotto Bloc, so even though Tattslotto had been doing for almost 10 years this draw was only #118)
Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly / TV World
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Today’s TV: 13.7.1965, Adelaide
Source: TV-Radio Guide
- Bob Moors, formerly of Melbourne’s GTV9, has moved to Adelaide and now hosts a weekly show Moors The Merrier on ADS7
- NWS9’s midday movie features Shirley Temple
- Bobo The Clown says “be watching SAS Ten for The Bobo Shows coming soon”… but “soon” was not as soon as first thought, as SAS10 had announced at the last minute that it was postponing its launch originally set for 12 July to 26 July following a dispute with its eastern state network partners
- Also there are radio listings here although, possibly for space limitations, the ABC stations 5CL and 5AN are only listed from 6pm to close, while the commercial stations are listed for the full day.
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Today’s TV: 19.7.1968, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- Mike Walsh and Bobo Faulkner host an early version of Today (seen in Victoria only)
- There seemed to be a glut of semi-reality misery in the daytime. Casebook, Marriage Confidential, People In Conflict, Divorce Court and The Unloved were IIRC based on re-enactments of doctors or counselling sessions or court cases, apparently loosely based on real-life cases. I suppose it was cheaper to produce than actual drama… although Seven has its daytime soap Motel at midday.
- Stuart Wagstaff was the “beast” on Beauty And The Beast
- GTV9 presented VFL Computer Football Forecast? Some sort of computerised footy-tipping contest??
- And years before The Footy Show there was Sports Parade on Seven.
- In Melbourne Tonight appears to now be Monday-Thursday only, and Seven looks like filling the void on Fridays with The Mavis Bramston Show although its days are soon numbered anyway.
- Late nights had the traditional Aweful Movies With Deadly Earnest on ATV0. (I think the misspelling of Aweful in the title was deliberate?)
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I know I’ve asked this before, but I’m really curious to know how these affiliations worked back in the day, re: decisions on program procurement, paying for programs, and commissioning new national shows.
Networks were not like they are now. In most cases individual stations each had separate owners (or one owner had two stations as was the maximum allowed) so AFAIK the managements of each station would essentially meet as a network “committee” and vote on giving new shows the go ahead and program acquisitions and I guess each station then contributed financially as per their market size. I don’t really know for certain.
This was the sort of thing that got Neighbours dumped by Seven. HSV7 were pushing for it to continue (and its ratings were pretty good in most places except Sydney) but reports go that ATN7 management did a ‘divide and conquer’ approach and quietly convinced the other network channels to vote against it, convincing them that the Seven Network were better to continue with Sons & Daughters and A Country Practice (both Sydney-based soaps) and that the network did not have enough money for a third soap.
So the show got axed and we all know what happened then.
Apparently Seven in Sydney and Melbourne did not always have an easy relationship (HSV owned by the Herald and Weekly Times, and ATN owned by Fairfax), and same with the 0-10 channels in the 1970s (ATV0 owned by Reg Ansett and TEN10 owned by United Telecasters).
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Same thing with the VFL coverage, ATN7 management did a ‘divide and conquer’ approach and quietly convinced the other network channels to vote against it, which gave ABC the VFL for a year.
Very rare guides there. Where did you find those #myfriend?
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Territory stories, @myfriend. (http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/262472/12/NTnews05may72%2012.pdf)
I want to find more - but when I search about these - these didn’t appear in my search.
And one more thing - where was NTD8 website before it became channel 9, @myfriend ???
ABD6 - 11 September 1971
I don’t think there was one as it’s been owned by Channel 9 since the 1980s
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Was ABD programmed independently of the other ABC stations or did they just take a truncated feed?
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Unsure about the 1970s but by the 1980s it had become a relay of ABQ from Brisbane.
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Do these answer you question, @myfriend???
I think that ABD might be independent during 70s
fun fact: during trip to Australia in 2012 (only dad and people in his company), my dad also went to Darwin too.
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Sobering thought of what would occur in Darwin a few days later.
In the Christmas Eve edition you wouldn’t even know there was a cyclone approaching. Just a tiny cyclone warning buried on page 14. I suppose the cyclone may have changed its course towards Darwin after the news had gone to print. Up until then it was just some rough weather out at sea?!
But looking at the radio listings for 8DN, the evening announcer scheduled to work on Christmas night was Ron Wilson who I am guessing is the former Channel Ten newsreader who we know was evacuated from Darwin after the cyclone went through.
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Melbourne TV listings: Thursday, May 14, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Open Learning: Against All Odds
6.30 Photography
7.00 Lifelong Learning: English Have a Go
7.30 Mixy
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Busy World of Richard Scarry
8.25 Mr. Squiggle
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.20 Finders Keepers
10.40 Geographical Eye Over Europe
11.00 Images of Nature
11.30 Business Concepts
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Doc
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 William’s Wish Wellingtons
5.00 The Animals of Farthing Wood
5.30 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Right of Reply 1998
8.30 Australian Story
9.00 Speaking Personally: Malcolm Turnbull
9.30 The Big Picture “The 50 Years War” (3/6)
10.25 ABC News
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Heartbeat “St. Columbas Treasure”
12.00 Australia Television News
12.30 Parliament Question Time: Senate
1.30 Movie “Hunted”
3.00 Open Learning: Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Against All Odds
4.00 Photography
4.30 Visual Arts
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 Connections
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
8.00 Around the World in Eighty Dreams
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Witness
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “A Question of Guilt”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 My Three Sons
3.30 Power Rangers Zeo
4.00 Time Masters
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Who Dares Wins
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun “Dick on a Roll”
8.28 Powerball
8.30 Outback Adventures with Troy Dann
9.30 Movie “Sketch Artist”
11.25 Seven Nightly News
11.55 LAPD: Life on the Beat
12.25 NBC Today
2.20 Telemall Shopping
3.20 US Customs Classified
4.10 Fly By Night
5.10 Video Power
5.35 Hampton Court
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In the House “Men in the Black”
10.00 Real TV
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Perfect Strangers “Climb Every Billboard”
4.00 Challenger
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Welcome Back, Kotter “Arrivederci Arnold”
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Animal Hospital (final)
8.30 ER “Carter’s Choice”
9.30 The Footy Show: AFL
11.00 Nightline
11.30 Babylon 5 “Rumors, Bargains and Lies”
12.10 The Footy Show: NRL
1.45 Late Show with David Letterman
2.45 Entertainment Tonight
3.15 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.15 Bob Morrison Show “Lalophobia”
4.45 Outer Bounds
5.00 Primetime Live
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney and Friends
7.00 Extreme Dinosaurs
7.30 Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
8.00 Earthworm Jim
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 FCTV: Family Circle TV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00/7.30 Seinfeld “The Wallet”/“The Strike”
8.00 Newsradio “Office Feud”
8.30 NYPD Blue “Twin Petes”
9.30/10.30 Law and Order “Causa Mortis”/“Good Girl”
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sports Tonight
12.30 Breakers
1.00 Ghost Stories
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6.00 European Cup Winners Cup Final (continued)
6.30 Weatherwatch and Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Japanese News
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “The Valladolid Controversy” (France)
2.00 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Front Up
4.30 School Torque
5.00 Stella Stellaris (Germany)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport (highlights of European Cup Winners Cup final)
8.00 Insight
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Little Angel” (Germany)
11.05 Movie “I Don’t Want to Talk About It Now” (Brazil)
12.40 Movie “Marriage of the Blessed” (Iran)
2.00 close