Which regional network aired Video Hits first?
Just wondering was 10Capital the first regional network to pick up Video Hits or did DDQ/RTQ beat it? or did some other channel elsewhere beat those i have listed?
yeah but I think they wanted it to fail. Conspiracy theory: ATN had two dramas in production (Sons And Daughters and A Country Practice) and I reckon it dreaded the thought of a soap from Melbourne potentially knocking one of them off, as to have three soaps was potentially not sustainable, so they knocked it down before it had a chance and convinced the Sevens in Brisbane and Adelaide to vote it out as well.
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I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons network execs gave the go ahead to Neighbours, besides desperately needing something competitive for the 6pm slot, was because all that studio space in Melbourne was going to waste after the demise of Cop Shop saw the end of drama production at HSV.
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ATN-7 could not let us have nice things.
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Today’s TV: 14.9.1983, Sydney.
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Looks like the first day or so of the 1983 America’s Cup campaign.
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Melbourne, Victoria and Riverina TV listings: Friday, August 26, 1983
from The Age
ABV2 and ABC TV regionals
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 Around the World in 80 Days
9.20 Chorlton and the Wheelies
9.30 Play School
10.00 Test Pattern and Music (no programmes were listed in the Age)
1.00pm ABC News and Weather
1.11 Break in the Sun
1.35 The Original Laurel and Hardy
1.55 Gentle Ben
2.20 Tales of Magic
2.30 Adventure Films for the Very Young
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 Play School
4.30 The Amazing Adventures of Morph
4.35 Andy Robson
5.00 Buzz
5.05 Watch This Space
5.30 Star Blazers
5.45 Come and Get It with Peter Russell-Clarke
5.58 News Headlines
6.00 Laff a Bits
6.05 The Kenny Everett Video Show
6.30 Dr Who
6.55 Take Five (regionals: Regional News)
7.00 ABC News (with Geoff Raymond)
7.30 The Two Ronnies
8.15 Nationwide (with Peter Couchman)
8.45 For One Night Only: Marlene Dietrich in concert in London
9.40 Sow What (ABC Victorian garden show, each state had its own similar programme)
9.55 News and Weather
10.05 Watch This Space
10.35 The Footy Show
11.05 Australian Ice Hockey: Adelaide Flyers v Sydney Icemen
11.35 Close
HSV7
7.00am Bewitched
7.30 Space Ghost and Dino Boy
7.55 Crusader Rabbit
8.00 Family Affair
8.30 The Flying Nun
9.00 Beauty and the Beast
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie: The Red Shoes (1948 musical drama)
2.30pm Movie: Pinocchio ©
4.00 Shirl’s Neighbourhood ©
4.30 The Littlest Hobo
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 I Dream of Jeannie
6.00 The New Price Is Right
6.30 Seven National News (with Mal Walden)
7.00 Doctor On The Go
7.30 Fame
8.30 Movie: Cromwell (1970 historical drama)
11.05 America’s Cup Report
11.10 Seven National News
11.40 Ivan’s Late Night Nostalgia
12.25 Movie: The Last Survivors
1.45 Close
GTV9
6.00am Rocky and His Friends
6.25 Go Health
6.30 Wacky Races
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Another World
11.00 Here’s Lucy
11.30 National Nine News
12.00pm The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 News
2.35 The Young and the Restless
3.30 General Hospital
4.00 The Curiosity Show ©
4.30 Skippy
5.00 Puppet Pudding
5.30 Family Feud
6.00 Diff’rent Strokes
6.30 National Nine News (with Brian Naylor)
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Happy Days
8.00 Laverne and Shirley
8.30 Movie: The Wiz (1977 musical starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson)
11.30 Tales of the Unexpected
12.00am Movie: Steptoe and Son Ride Again
1.50 Movie: The Long, The Short and the Tall
3.40 Movie: The Syndicate
5.10 The Best of Jackie Gleason (black and white)
ATV10
6.00am Cartoons
6.15 The Three Stooges (black and white)
6.30 The Adventures of Superman
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 The Restless Years
10.00 Take Hart
10.30 Fat Cat and Friends
11.00 Good Morning Melbourne
12.00 Movie: Gay Pur-ee (1962 animated musical)
2.00pm Clive Robertson’s Beauty and the Beast
3.00 The Waltons
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5.00 Gilligan’s Island
5.30 The Brady Bunch
6.00 Eyewitness News (with David Johnston and Jo Pearson)
7.00 MAS*H
7.30 Bret Maverick
8.30 Movie: Showdown (1973 western)
10.25 Movie: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970 western)
12.45am Movie: Johnny Trouble (1957)
2.15 Close
SBS0/28
4.55pm The Ottavia Brajka Group (Yugoslavia)
5.25 The Countryside Around a Farm (Sweden)
5.57 News Headlines
6.00 A Whole World of Children
6.30 Games People Play
7.00 International Sports Magazine
7.30 SBS World News (with George Donikian)
8.00 International Cabaret
8.30 Death of a Student (Germany)
9.30 Movie: The Little Mermaid (France)
11.15 SBS World News (replay of evening bulletin)
11.45 Rock Around the World
1.15 Close
and regionals:
BTV6 Ballarat
8.30am Cartoons
9.00 Black Arrow
10.00 HR Pufnstuf
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 The Morning Show
12.00 The Mike Walsh Show
1.30pm Days of Our Lives
2.20 Young and the Restless
3.15 Here’s Lucy
3.45 Cartoon Corner
4.00 Shirl’s Neighbourhood ©
4.30 The Littlest Hobo
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 The New Price is Right
5.55 Stock Market Report
6.00 Six News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Battlestar Galactica
8.30 Simon and Simon
9.30 Prisoner
10.30 America’s Cup Report
10.35 Movie: Burn
12.30am News
1.00 Close
BCV8 Bendigo/STV8 Mildura/GLV8 Traralgon
9.30am Thought for the Day
9.35 Cartoons
10.00 Rookie of the Year
11.00 Fat Cat and Friends
11.30 Ed Allen
12.00 The Mike Walsh Show
1.30pm Community Billboard
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 The Young and the Restless
3.30 Here’s Lucy
4.00 Wombat ©
4.30 The Littlest Hobo
4.55 Cartoons
5.00 Gilligan’s Island
5.30 The New Price Is Right
5.55 Stock Market Report
6.00 Local News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Greatest American Hero
8.30 Movie: Huckleberry Finn
10.40 Breezin (adult contemporary music videos hosted by Glenn Ridge)
11.40 Tales of the Unexpected
12.05am Thought for Tomorrow
12.35 Close
SES8 Mount Gambier (times listed are in EST, subtract 30 minutes for CST)
11.30am Fat Cat and Friends
12.00 The Mike Walsh Show
1.30pm Days of Our Lives
2.20 The Gentle Touch
3.15 The Richard Simmons Show
3.40 The Young and the Restless
4.30 Children’s Hour ©
5.30 Get Smart
5.55 The New Price Is Right
6.25 Stock Market Report
6.30 State Affair (relay from ADS7)
6.55 Local News
7.05 Seven National News (relay from HSV7)
7.35 Sale of the Century
8.00 Sons and Daughters
8.30 Fame
9.30 Callan
10.30 On The Ball (local football show)
10.55 Movie: The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
12.40am News
1.05 Close
GMV6 Shepparton
8.00am Morning Meditation
8.05 Superfriends
8.30 The Bridge of Adam Rush
9.30 Daniel Boone
10.25 Cartoon Corner
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.25 Falcon Island
11.55 News
12.00 The Mike Walsh Show
1.30pm Days of Our Lives
2.30 Swami Sarasvati
2.35 The Restless Years
3.30 The Merrie Melodies Show
4.00 Children’s Hour ©
5.00 The Flintstones
5.30 The New Price Is Right
5.55 Stock Report
6.00 Six News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Little House on the Prairie
8.30 Simon and Simon
9.30 Prisoner
10.30 America’s Cup Report
10.35 Movie: Do Not Disturb
12.20am News
1.25 Close
RVN2/AMV4 Wagga Wagga/Albury
9.30 Here’s Humphrey
10.30 Popeye
11.00 Salty
11.30 National Nine News
12.00 The Mike Walsh Show
1.30pm Days of Our Lives
2.30 General Hospital
3.20 At Home
3.30 Family Feud
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 Matchmates
4.55 Contest Corner
5.00 Cartoons
5.10 The Flintstones
5.35 Videobreak (music video filler)
5.40 John Denver
6.10 Local News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 New Faces
8.30 The Love Boat
9.30 Movie: Champions a Love Story
11.20 America’s Cup Report
11.25 Close
- School holidays, therefore lots of children’s programmes during the day and regional stations extended their programming by starting earlier to accommodate.
- Bret Maverick a western series starring James Garner, in its one and only season on ATV10, it was western night on Ten with two films in that genre following.
- Seven would have had the Columbia/Screen Gems (now Sony) output deal then with Bewitched, the Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie and the movie “Cromwell” (a Columbia picture). Nine had Universal (the Wiz) and Ten had Warner Bros and United Artists (now part of MGM).
- America’s Cup updates on both metro and regional stations
- Stock Market Report was a common programme amongst regionals.
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Today’s TV: 16.9.1996, Melbourne.
The Nine Network celebrates 40 years of television, although Seven had jumped the gun by having its own 40th anniversary special some months earlier, hosted by Garry McDonald and Magda Szubanski. And even Channel 10 had its own special, 40 Fun Years, even though Ten itself was far from 40 years old!
YouTube: Jason Kelly
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Imagine an alternate universe where Neighbours somehow survived and succeeded on Seven. Would we even have Home & Away today?
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Would Neighbours have had the same kind of success had Seven not axed it?
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Melbourne TV listings: Thursday, September 18, 1997
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Discovering Psychology
6.30 Visual Arts
7.00 Aboriginal Studies
7.30 Growing Awareness
8.00 Babar
8.25 Bananas in Pajamas
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.15 Consumer Power
10.30 Nature Watch Digest
11.00 World of Chemistry
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Tiger Crisis
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Fireman Sam
4.40 Budgie the Little Helicopter
4.50 Swinging
5.00 The Ferals
5.30 Rocko’s Modern Life
5.55 Feral TV
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Quantum
8.30 Milerum
9.00 Murder Most Horrid
9.30 The Dynasty: Nehru-Gandhi Story (part 3)
10.25 ABC News-Late Edition
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Cracking the Code
11.55 Australia Television News
12.20 Movie “The Rake’s Progress” (B&W)
2.30 Highway with Harry Secombe (from Dornoch, Scotland)
3.00 French in Action
3.30 Out of Empire
4.00 Time to Grow
4.30 Against All Odds
5.00 Connections
5.30 Race to Save the Planet
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise [News]
7.00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Golden Girls
9.30 A Country Practice
10.30 NBC Nightly News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Mini-Series “Brotherhood of the Rose” (part 1 of 2)
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Beast Wars
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Bewitched (B&W)
5.00 Concentration
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Mr. Bean
8.00 It’s a Man’s World
8.28 Powerball
8.30 Movie “Sleeping with the Enemy”
10.35 Designs on Yourself: Spring Collection
11.30 Seven Nightly News
11.35 League Teams
12.35 Sightings
1.30 NBC Today
3.30 Telemall Shopping
4.30 Out of Control
5.05 Beyond 2000
GTV9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 Daybreak/Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Hunter
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 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4.00 Challenger
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Catch Phrase
5.30 The Price is Right
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Getaway
8.30 This is Your Life
9.00 RPA
9.30 The Footy Show (AFL)
11.00 Nightline
11.15 The Footy Show (NRL)
12.30 Late Show with David Letterman
1.30 Entertainment Tonight
2.00 Movie “The Place at the Coast”
4.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
5.00 UFO Diaries (alien abductions)
5.30 Vanessa
ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Casper
7.00 Teknoman
7.30 Eagle Riders
8.00 Inspector Gadget
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Little House on the Prairie
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Oprah Winfrey
2.30 Monday to Friday
3.30 Brady Bunch
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 MAS*H
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Seinfeld
8.00 Newsradio
8.30 State Coroner
9.30 Moloney
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 The Watcher
12.30 Movie “Jaws: The Revenge”
2.10 Telemall Shopping
3.40 Aboriginal Australia
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Vremya
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “Shanghai Fever” (Hong Kong)
2.05 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 English at Work (in Arabic)
4.00 World Sports (repeat)
4.30 School Torque
5.00 Happiness (Brazil)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Insight
8.30 UEFA Champions League highlights
9.30 Movie “An Unforgettable Summer” (France)
10.55 Movie “The Milky Way” (France)
12.35 Movie “Desperation” (China)
2.10 close
Channel 31
6pm Polmel
6.30 Italian Reels
7.00 lerri Oggi Domanl
7.30 Hashavua
8.00 Newsline
8.25 Smartline
8.45 Women in Focus
9.00 It’s All Greek to Me
10.00 Noise TV
10.30 Core (close at 11.30pm)
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I remember the 1985 episodes of Neighbours included a caption at the end stating “Produced in the studios of Flinders Productions”. Who or what were Flinders Productions - were they linked to Grundys or HSV? From 1986 the show was of course produced at the ATV10 studios at Nunawading, now Global Studios, and expanded within the complex due to the demise of Prisoner.
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HSV 7 and Flinders Productions were both operated by Herald-Sun TV Pty Ltd.
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Today’s TV: 17.9.1988, Melbourne.
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The Seoul Olympics were unusual with the opening ceremony held in mid morning to suit American TV viewers, following by competition in the afternoon and at night. It’s also the first (and only) time the Olympics clash with the VFL/AFL Grand Final.
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I remember reading an interview with Ken Sutcliffe a few years back where he recalled co-hosting an edition of Wide World of Sports which aired against both the Olympics and the Grand Final (apparently, one of their main features that day was the World Log Rolling Championships or something like that)
Of course, if something like this were to happen now, Nine would scrap WWOS for the day and air a C-grade movie in its place.
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Today’s TV: 19.9.1961, Perth
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Never seen this layout before
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Would I be right in saying, Nine’s first national morning news service was launched at this time? 1982?
Part from 11AM, I haven’t seen any morning news bulletins listed prior to 1982.
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I couldn’t say with 100% certainty but you could be right