Can’t help but notice the song they used as bumper music going into the breaks (and over the closing credits), That’s Entertainment by The Jam… did anyone actually pay attention to the lyrics?
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Similar story with NRN/RTN, NEN/ECN AND DDQ/SDQ in QLD for the brief period of time they operated under Great Eastland Television with NRN/RTN airing mostly the same programs as slightly different times during the afternoon and mid evening through to close.
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Some Border / North East Victoria listings from 1990/91
15th January 1990
29th January 1991
10th September 1991
A newspaper article from 29th January 1991:
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Interesting that Prime (AMV) with a Seven schedule and AFL coverage opted not to show the Brownlow Medal (from Seven) on the Monday night, while VIC TV (GMV) which was shaping up as a Nine affiliate leading into aggregation, did screen it, or at least a shortened version by the looks of it.
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Prime also aired Days of Our Lives and the Midday Show, as well as Winfield Cup rugby league, the only non-Seven programmes in their schedules. Lots of Seven and Ten shows on VIC TV too.
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An unusual listing this time, from 8.8.88!
This is from The Australian Listener, a short-lived publication in a joint venture between ABC and Australian Consolidated Press. It was focused largely on ABC with some SBS thrown in, and incorporated elements of the former 24 Hours magazine, which was the magazine for ABC FM.
I suppose it was trying to emulate the Radio Times model in the UK, which at that time was purely devoted to covering only BBC radio and television. (ITV and Channel 4 was covered by TV Times)
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Wow, I have absolutely no memory of that publication. While we’re on the subject of defunct TV magazines, does anyone remember “What’s On Weekly”? It was launched in 2002 by Pacific Publications after their former masthead TV week was bought by PBL. It didn’t last long, about 18 months from memory. I have the first edition of it somewhere.
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I remember there was a tug-of-war between TV Week and WOW over ownership of the Logies.
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Today’s TV: 8.8.1964, Melbourne & Gippsland
Source: TV Week
The end of ATV0’s first full week of transmission, including new football show Goal To Goal and variety show The Ray Taylor Show.
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First edition was actually this week in 2002. I didn’t buy it every week but the latest issue I have was from December 2002, so I suspect it went out of print soon after.
I think once it lost the Logies battle its existence became futile. Although it did appear to have a re-brand and new-look masthead around November - only a few months after launch.
To keep this on-topic, here’s Thursday’s free-to-air listing from the first edition, pretty much using the same listing template as TV Week which is not surprising given it was the same team at Pacific Magazines that basically just went from publishing TV Week to doing What’s On Weekly.
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“General Steele mistakes Klinger for his wife.”
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Adelaide TV listings: Monday, May 19, 1986
from The Victor Harbor Times (via Trove)
Note: SBS and some ABC listings from The Age (no SBS listing in the Victor Harbor Times), both had common schedules between states. SBS programmes were half an hour earlier in Adelaide back then.
ABS2
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 The Voyages of Dr Doolittle
9.25 Mr Men
9.30 Play School
10.00 Hunter
10.18 Gumpy Animations
10.20 Science Topics
10.40 Japan
11.00 Writing
11.20 Lower Primary Science
11.40 Northern Australian Documentaries
12.00pm A New World for Sure
12.30 Understanding Toddlers
1.00 ABC News
1.05 Buongiorno Italia
1.30 Music Time
1.50 For the Juniors
2.05 The World at War
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Alexander Bunyip’s Billabong
4.00 Play School
4.30 Mr Squiggle and Friends
5.00 Astroboy
5.25 Roger Ramjet
5.30 Metal Mickey
5.55 Come and Get It with Peter Russell Clarke
6.00 Edge of the Wedge
6.30 Bananaman
6.35 Dr Who
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Open All Hours
8.00 Full House (UK sitcom, not the US one featuring John Stamos and the Olsen Twins)
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 ABC News
9.20 Pot Black
9.45 The Book Programme
10.15 Scottish FA Cup Soccer
11.15 Station Close
ADS7
7.00am Childrens Programmes
9.00 Romper Room
10.00 The Lionel Williams Show
11.00 Eleven AM
11.58 Newsbreak
12.00pm Seven Sport - Seven’s Big League (SANFL) (this was a public holiday in SA for the Adelaide Cup, SANFL matches were played that day)
2.30 Seven Sport - 1986 Adelaide Cup
3.00 The New Price is Right
4.00 Wombat
4.30 The Littlest Hobo
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 Seven Sport - Seven’s Big League (SANFL)
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 State Affair
7.30 Sons and Daughters
8.28 Newsbreak
8.30 Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10.30 Seven Sport - Seven’s Big League (SANFL)
11.30 NBC Today
1.30 Station Close
NWS9
6.00am Today
8.30 Children’s Programmes
9.30 The Love Boat
10.30 Adelaide Today
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 The Sullivans
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Coronation Street
3.30 The Young Doctors
4.00 Children’s Programmes
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Happy Days
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Growing Pains
8.00 Who’s The Boss
8.30 Murder She Wrote
9.30 Prime Time
10.30 World Vision Special “The Children of Life”
11.30 Movie: J.W. Coop
1.45am Movie: The Riot
3.40 Movie: Bingo Long’s Travelling All Stars
SAS10
6.00am Hans Christian Andersen
6.30 Good Morning Australia
8.30 Hazel
9.00 Jazzercise
9.30am Fat Cat and Friends
10.00 Another World
11.00 Wooldridge View (Parade, Parade)
12.00pm The Young and the Restless
1.00 Movie “Red Garters”
2.45 Are You Being Served
3.15 F Troop
4.00 Children’s Programmes
5.00 The Brady Bunch
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 The A Team
8.30 Movie: Die Laughing
10.30 Nightcourt
11.00 NBL Basketball
12.30am Hotel
1.30 Station Close
SBS28
10.30am Cartoons
10.45 The Morning Star (Greece)
11.30 Movie: Remember Me (Egypt)
1.20pm Temporary Close (Test Pattern)
5.00 The Electric Company
5.30 Soccer: National Soccer League
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 The Way of the Warrior
7.40 Sneak Preview
8.00 Longing to Fly (Italy)
9.00 Movie: The Dam (Germany)
10.40 Station Close
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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, August 11, 1987
from The Age
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The Belinda Russell who presented “Totally Footy” on Ten (and if I’m not mistaken, was also a reporter on Ten News around the same time period) is most likely the same one who’s now on Nine?
body+soul would’ve been a tie-in with the News Limited Sunday papers liftout, didn’t last long IIRC.
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The Carlton v Port game was actually a delayed telecast. What’s on Weekly said it was live. WRONG!!!
That was the year the NRL and Nine/Fox did a deal where all Melbourne Storm games were played on Saturdays at 3pm so Nine could broadcast all of them live into Melbourne (via Fox Sports).
I think that particular game in Townsville caused a bit of outrage from the Townsville locals as the Cowboys always used to play their home games at night due to the heat.
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for their punishment they shall be sentenced to a lifetime of re-writing and correcting wikipedia articles 
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Sydney TV listings: Wednesday, August 12, 1998
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
6.00 Anthropology
6.30 French in Action
7.00 Preserving the Legacy
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 What-a-Mess (final)
8.10 Johnson & Friends
8.20 Oakie Doke
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Petals
9.30 Play School
10.00 Shape, Shape, Shape
10.15 Stage One: Science & Technology
10.30 The Text Files
10.45 Living Landscape
11.05 BTN
11.30 Perspective
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 National Press Club (speaker Natasha Stott Despoja)
2.00 Correlli
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Adventures of Spot
4.00 Play School
4.30 Little Bear
4.55 Oscar & Friends
5.00 Genie from Down Under
5.25 Little Lulu
5.30 Rocko’s Modern Life
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Executive Stress
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 A River Somewhere “Cobungra River”
8.30 Wildside
9.20 Take 5 with Betty Churchen
9.30 Uncensored (Jana Wendt interviews Katharine Graham)
10.00 Express
10.25 ABC News-Late Edition
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Movie “Carry On Again Doctor”
12.35 Australia Television News
1.05 The 50 Years War: Israel & the Arabs
2.05 The Edge of Instinct (IVF procedures)
3.00 Australian Studies
3.30 Race to Save the Planet
4.30 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.00 Astronomy
5.30 Visual Arts
ATN7
6.00 Sunrise [News]
7.00 Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Celebrity “Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace”
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Little Man Tate”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Hey Dad!
3.30 Goof Troop
4.00 A*mazing
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 JAG
8.30 Blue Heelers
9.30 Reckless
10.30 Millennium
11.30 Seven Nightly News
11.35 Live and Kicking
12.40 NBC Today
2.40 Telemall Shopping
3.40 US Customs Classified
4.30 Video Power
5.10 MacGyver
TCN9
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 A Different World
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 Can’t Hurry Love
4.00 Crocadoo II
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 The Price is Right
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Our House
8.00 Money (Lotto at 8.28)
8.30 Movie “The Bodyguard”
11.10 Nightline
11.40 Movie “Sex, Lies & Videotape”
1.40 Late Show with David Letterman
2.40 Entertainment Tonight
3.10 Celebrity Shopping
4.10 Turn 'Round Australia
4.40 Amazing Games
5.00 Primetime Live
TEN10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 Action Man
7.30 Eek!stravaganza
8.00 Biker Mice from Mars
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 FCTV: Family Circle Television
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 Seinfeld
7.30 The Simpsons
8.00 Just Shoot Me!
8.30 True Hollywood Stories
9.30 The Panel
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 EZ Streets
1.00 Talk to Me
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
SBS
6.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “The Pain of Love” (Egypt)
2.20 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 TV Frames (from Lisbon)
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Off the Beaten Path
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 The Movie Show
8.00 About Us “A Trip Through Hell” (Germany)
8.45 Hotline
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “The Mortal Coil” (Slovak Republic)
10.45 Movie “The Trip” (Poland)
12.40 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
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