I notice that the ABC has the regional news listed at 6.55pm, which wouldn’t have been seen in Sydney. I’m guessing a Newcastle/Wollongong edition of TV Week?
Must have been. They did used to do similar in SE Qld around the same time with the Brisbane channels and DDQ-SDQ, WBQ and (IIRC) NRN11-RTN8. But never seen them do it for Newcastle/Wollongong before.
QTQ did their own local news in 1982.
Canberra, Wollongong and Riverina TV listings: Saturday, June 12, 1982
from The Canberra Times
ABC regionals
1.00pm World Sports Acrobatic Display 1981
2.00 National Basketball League series (Coburg v Nunawading)
2.30 Celebrity Guest Interview
2.34 Rugby League Preview
2.42 1981 Series Production Touring Car Trophy (from Oran Park)
2.53 Rugby League Match of the Day
4.35 National Volleyball League Series 1981
4.55 Race and Sporting Roundup
5.05 Rock Arena (Men at Work)
6.00 Top Saturday League
6.55 Weather, News
7.15 Sports Review
7.30 Four Corners
8.00 The Good Old Days
8.45 Late News and Weather
8.55 House on the Hill
9.45 Blake’s Seven
10.35 The Winners (VFL)
11.35 Close
CTC7 Canberra
7.50am Merrie Melodies
8.10 Mission Magic
8.30 New Adventures of Superman
9.00 Sounds (with Donnie Sutherland)
11.00 Boxing: World Heavyweight Championship Larry Holmes v Gerry Cooney live from Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas
1.30pm Grandstand (VFL Match of the Day)
5.00 Community Billboard
5.05 Solid Gold
6.00 Australian Capital News (with Laurie Wilson)
6.40 Nick Erby’s Country Closeup (country music videos)
7.30 Ford Superquiz
7.55 Police 7
8.00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9.00 The Fall Guy
10.40 Upstairs Downstairs
11.35 Local Member
11.40 Movie: Cannon for Cordoba
1.25am Close
RVN2 Wagga Wagga
9.00am 1982 KB Cup (midweek night rugby league series)
10.55 Chemicals in Agriculture (ICI advertorial for their farm chemical products)
11.00 Boxing: World Heavyweight Championship Larry Holmes v Gerry Cooney live from Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas
1.30pm The Road Runner
2.00 VFL Match of the Day
5.10 That’s Incredible
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 Mr Merlin
7.30 The Greatest American Hero
8.30 Movie: Ryan’s Daughter
(no programmes listed afterwards - I presume they closed after the movie which is 3 hours 26 minutes in length, add up the commercials and it will be well over 4 hours in total).
WIN4 Wollongong
8.00am Hey Hey It’s Saturday
10.00 Sounds
12.00pm The Flying Nun
12.30 Movie: Hey Let’s Twist (black and white)
1.55 Movie: Knock on Wood
3.45 The Littlest Hobo
4.10 Young Ramsay
5.05 Solid Gold
6.00 News
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 Battlestar Galactica
8.30 The Love Boat
9.30 Movie: The Seven Ups
11.20 Big League Soccer
12.20am Movie: House of Seven Corpses
1.50am Movie: Shock
3.05 Movie: Lillian Russell
5.10 Movie: Cripple Creek
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Melbourne TV listings: Wednesday, September 22, 1999
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Photography
6.30 Hazards, Disasters & Survival
6.45 Management
7.00 Rugrats
7.25 Bananas in Pajamas
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Babar
8.25 Thomas the Tank Engine
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Miffy
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.15 Le Club
10.30 Acme School of Stuff
10.55 Australians
11.05 Behind the News
11.30 Hallo Aus Berlin
11.45 Artzone
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline (repeat)
1.00 National Press Club (speaker Natasha Stott Despoja)
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Maisy
3.30 Play School
4.00 The Wombles
4.10 Bob the Builder
4.30 Where’s Wally?
4.55 Wildlife
5.00 Angry Beavers
5.25 Little Lulu
5.30 Catdog
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 The Boss
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 A Shared Table
8.30 Young Performers Awards
10.00 Jazz Heroes “Thelonious Monk”
10.25 ABC News-Late Edition
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Movie “Seance on a Wet Afternoon” (B&W)
1.00 Parliament Question Time: Senate
2.00 Brothers and Sisters
3.00 A Sense of Place
3.30 Astronomy
4.00 Australian Studies
4.30 Everybody’s Business
5.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.30 English Have a Go
HSV7
6.00 The Big Breakfast
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A*mazing
9.30 Hey Dad!
10.00 Denise
11.00 Home and Away (early episodes)
12.00 Movie “Straight Talk”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 Cosby
5.00 Bewitched
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 Live and Kicking
10.45 When Good Pets Go Bad
11.45 Seven Nightly News
12.15 Jasper Carrott Trial: Day Five
12.50 Not the Nine O’Clock News
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Telemall Shopping
3.55 Crime Traveller
4.45 Union Square
5.10 The Village (to 6am)
GTV9
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Blue’s Clues
10.00 Martin Short
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 The Price is Right
3.30 My Favorite Martian
4.00 Pig’s Breakfast
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Our House
8.00 Money
8.30 Weighting Game
9.00 Airport
9.30 Doing Time
10.00 Pleasure Island
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Rove
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Viper
2.00 New Adventures of Robin Hood
3.00 Victor Paul
4.00 Turn 'Round Australia
4.30 For Your Love
5.00 20/20
ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 The Tick
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Eek! The Cat
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 7th Heaven
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00/7.30 The Simpsons
8.00 E! News
8.30 Becker
9.00 Just Shoot Me!
9.30 The Panel
10.45 Ten News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 Breakers
12.15 Beauty & the Beast (the CBS show)
1.15 Talk to Me: Religion
2.15 Telemall Shopping
3.15 Danoz Home Shopping
3.45 Video Hits
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “Ivan & Abraham” (France)
2.20 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport (repeat)
4.00 Overseas Legends
4.30 A Fork in the Road
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 History’s Turning Points (UK)
8.00 The Movie Show
8.30 Dateline
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “The Collector” (Finland)
11.40 Movie “Berlin in Berlin” (Turkey)
1.20 Movie “Goodbye South, Goodbye” (Taiwan)
3.15 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
5.30pm Jets Games
6.00 Well Now
6.30 TV Sri Lanka
7.00 Arab TV
8.00 Newsline
8.30 Extreme Gravity
9.00 VAFA Football
9.30 Macedonian Program
10.00 VAFA Football
10.30 Speaker Box
11.00 Champagne Comedy
11.30 Fish Cam
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Today’s TV: 21.9.1969, Sydney
EDIT: Channels ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9 in Melbourne also screened the documentary that evening, with 7 and 9 starting at 6.00pm (bumping the news off both stations that night) and ABC at 7.30pm.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zwYRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1738%2C3730738
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On 21st September 1987, HSV7 were broadcasting the Brownlow Medal despite not having the Rights to that Season’s VFL Telecasts (ABC in Victoria And the long Forgotten Pub And Club Service Sportsplay did) As well as Recovering from the Fairfax Disaster Just Months Later Which Qintex Bought the Station As well As ATN 7 & BTQ 7 and renamed it the Australian Television Network.
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Did the ABC also broadcast the VFL in 1987 into other states as well or was it just Victoria?
I think this came up in another discussion in another thread. IIRC but someone may correct me, that year VFL was carried by Channel 10 in Sydney and Adelaide, Channel 0 in Brisbane and ABC in regional areas outside of Victoria. Not sure what the arrangement was in WA, NT or Tasmania.
EDIT: Looks like it was on Capital 7 in Canberra, not ABC, and RVN2 Wagga.
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This is a good overview of the 1987 VFL rights. SBS had rights for a live Saturday arvo match in Sydney.
I think the national replay programme The Winners continued on Sunday mornings in 1987 as well.
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TVO Brisbane loved the additional adverting it had at Cararra in 1987 although it lost the basketball to to BTQ7 in 1987 which it has in 1986 on TVO.
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So bizarre that neither Ten nor Nine bid for the rights.
Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, September 30, 1978
from The Age
ABV2
1.00pm Country Road (country music videos and live performances, hosted by Johnny Chester)
1.30 Drag Racing from Calder Raceway
2.00 Match of the Day soccer: Crystal Palace v Oldham, Coventry v Leeds United
2.55 Soccer: 1978 Scottish FA Cup Final
4.35 Solo
4.50 1978 International Table Tennis Tournament
5.35 Countdown (repeat of last Sunday’s programme)
6.30 VFL Match of the Day (highlights of the Grand Final)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Quest 78 (ABC talent contest with Peter Regan)
8.30 Four Corners
9.20 News and Weather
9.30 VFL Grand Final (delayed telecast)
11.30 Close
HSV7
6.00am Football Marathon (continued)
8.30 North Melbourne Football Club Breakfast
10.00 1978 Grand Final including
- Under 19s Grand Final - Carlton V Collingwood
- Reserves Grand Final - Hawthorn V North Melbourne
- Seniors Grand Final - Hawthorn V North Melbourne
5.30pm Hardie Ferodo 1000 (preview and top ten shootout)
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 Seven’s Big League - Grand Final highlights
8.30 1000th World Of Sport/Penthouse 78 (special edition of World of Sport - it was on a Saturday Night because Bathurst was on the next day, includes live trotting from Ballarat and Tattslotto at 9.30pm)
11.00 Soccer: Birmingham City V Chelsea
12.10am Close
GTV9
6.00am Thunderbirds
7.00 Wacky Races
7.30 Inch Eye Private Eye
8.00 Scooby Doo, Who Dun It?
8.30 The Groovy Goolies
9.00 HR Puf ‘n’ Stuf
9.30 The Porky Pig Show
10.00 Heckle and Jeckle
10.30 Ark II
11.00 Big John, Little John
11.30 The Ghostbusters
12.00pm World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Daktari
2.00 Movie: Paris When It Sizzles (1964, starring Audrey Hepburn)
4.00 Happy Go Round
5.00 Born Free
6.00 National Nine News (with Arthur Higgins)
6.30 Candid Camera
7.00 Ask the Leylands
7.30 Hawaii Five-O
8.30 Petrocelli
9.30 Movie: The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1969, starring Paul Newman)
11.30 Big Valley
12.30am Movie: Town Tamer (1965 western)
2.00 Movie: Passage West
3.25 Movie: Sam Hill: Who Killed The Mysterious Mr Foster?
5.00 Edgar Wallace (black and white)
ATV0
8.00am All Electric Non Stop Cartoon Carnival
9.30 Job Watch
10.00 Movie: Prince Valiant
12.00pm Thank God It’s Friday at the Zoo (variety programme featuring disco music)
1.00 Grecian Scene
2.00 Movie: Apache
4.00 What In The World
4.30 Junior Jury
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 Eyewitness News (with Malcolm Gray)
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 Emergency
9.30 Movie: When Eight Bells Toll
11.30 Movie: The Roaring Twenties (hosted by Ross D Wylie)
2.00am Close
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Today’s TV: 26.9.1987, Victoria
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Indeed if you have time to sit through 8 hours of footy, here’s the whole ABC marathon from 1987…
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Today’s TV: 27.9.1967, Brisbane
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Source: The Late Show Facebook page. 1992.
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, September 26, 1981 (Grand Final Day)
from The Age
ABV2
12.30pm Pony Show Time
1.00 Jack High (lawn bowls)
2.10 Soccer (highlights of British matches played 19/09/1981)
3.10 Motor Racing (highlights of the Hang Ten 400 from Sandown Raceway, strange that the ABC guide mentions the sponsor of the race, a real no-no these days)
4.10 Yachting (highlights of the 1979 Sydney to Hobart yacht race)
5.05 Countdown
6.00 Football (a roundup of today’s VFL Grand Final)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The Saturday Show
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 News, Weather
9.25 Football (replay of the VFL Grand Final)
11.25 Close
HSV7
6.00am Football Marathon (continues)
8.00 North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast
9.00 Football: VFL U19s Grand Final Melbourne V Geelong
11.45 VFL Statewide Cup (Reserves) Grand Final: Geelong v Essendon
2.00pm VFL Grand Final: Collingwood V Carlton
5.30 Racing (the last 3 races at Moonee Valley)
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 Seven’s Big League: replay of Grand Final
8.25 Super 66 Draw
8.30 Grand Final Roundup
9.30 Tattslotto Draw
9.25 Jack Dyer Roast
10.05 That Was The Season That Was
11.05 Soccer: Ipswich V Liverpool, Crystal Palace V Charlton, Aston Villa V Manchester United
12.20 Close
GTV9
6.00am The Thunderbirds
7.00 Dinky Dog
7.30 The Laff-a-lympics
8.00 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
11.00 Reg Lindsay’s Country Homestead
12.00pm Daktari
1.00 Wide World of Sports
3.00 Movie: Kings Pirate
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 What’ll They Think of Next
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Ask the Leylands
7.30 The Misadventures of Sherriff Lobo
8.30 Starsky and Hutch
9.30 Movie: Cruise Into Terror
11.30 Spyforce
12.30am Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, stars Audrey Hepburn)
2.50 Movie: The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (1975 western)
4.15 Movie: The San Pedro Beach Bums
5.20 The World of Survival
ATV10
7.30am Waterline (fishing show)
8.00 Land of the Lost
8.30 Spiderman
9.00 Launching Pad
9.05 Cartoon Carnival
10.30 The Magic Wok
11.00 Let’s Go Greek
12.00pm Movie: Twelve O’Clock High
2.40 Movie: A Distant Trumpet
5.00 Tarzan
6.00 Eyewitness News
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 Parkinson (special guests June Allyson and John Hargreaves)
9.00 Movie: The Marseilles Contract
10.40 Movie: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962, black and white, stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford)
1.15am Movie: Mission to Morocco
2.50 Close
SBS0/28
5.20pm People You Meet and Follow Me
6.00 Cartoons
6.30 Jack London in the Great North (Italy)
7.30 World Review (with George Donikian)
8.00 Marco Visconti (Italy)
9.00 Movie: It Began at Tiffany’s (Germany)
10.30 Movie: The Future Will Tell (Yugoslavia)
12.15am Close
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