When your sport consists of mobile billboards …
Courtesy of Super100mph on YouTube.
The whole ABC TV not referring to sponsors names only became a thing towards the 2000s and has loosened up a bit as evidenced in their current day golf broadcasts.
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exactly. In the 80s they never objected to broadcasting things like Esso Night At The Opera or the National Panasonic Open Golf
Go back further and they used to broadcast the TV Week Logie Awards
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Melbourne TV listings: Monday, October 2, 2000
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 English Have a Go
6.30 Frontline Management
6.45 Fire on the Rim
7.00 Rugrats
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Little Bear
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.15 Our Animals
10.20 Here’s the Beat (final)
10.40 Geographical Eye
11.00 Japan 2000
11.20 Place & People
11.40 Living Landscape
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 Landline
2.00 Damnation of Harvey McHugh
3.00 Bear in the Big Blue House
3.25 Petals
3.30 Play School
4.00 Kipper
4.10 Bob the Builder
4.20 Little Grey Rabbit
4.30 George & Martha
4.50 Little Lulu
5.00 Round the Twist
5.25 Fly Tales
5.30 Rocko’s Modern Life
5.55 The Trap Door
6.00 Flashback
6.30 Something in the Air
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Wallace & Gromit
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 BackBerner
10.00 The Fat
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Wildside
11.50 Operation Coathanger
12.40 Movie “The Planter’s Wife” (B&W)
2.20 Blackout: Malangi
3.00 Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Australian Studies
4.00 Reading Writing Roadshow
4.30 Dragon’s Tongue
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 New Horizons
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.30 All-Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Morning Shift
11.00 Denise
12.00 2000 Olympics (repeat of closing ceremony)
3.00 Newlyweds
3.30 The Book Place
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00 Get Smart
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Australian Olympic Team Celebration: An Inspiration
8.30 Movie “Air Force One”
11.15 Seven News
11.20 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12.20 L.A. Heat
1.20 NBC Today
3.20 Infobreak International
4.20 Victor Paul Home Shopping
5.35 Hang Time
GTV9
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Blue’s Clues
10.00 Cybill
10.30 Fresh
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 Mini-Series “The Odyssey” (part 1)
4.00 Bush Beat (return)
4.30 The Cool Room
5.00 Brady Bunch
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30/8.00 Friends
8.30 Movie “54”
10.35 Nightline
11.05 Murder Call
12.05 WCW Monday Nitro
1.05 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Martin Short
2.25 Mad TV
3.25 Victor Paul Home Shopping
4.25 In the House
4.55 Outer Bounds
5.00 48 Hours
ATV10
6.00 Ocean Girl
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Action Man
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Dragon Ball Z
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Xena: Warrior Princess
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours (early episodes)
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Guinness World Records: Primetime
8.30 Movie “The Fifth Element”
11.05 Ten News
11.35 Sports Tonight
12.05 CART World Series (from Houston)
2.00 Shop America
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
3.30 Infobreak International
4.00 Life in the World
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Itogi
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie “April Story” (Japan)
1.40 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
4.30 Tales from a Suitcase
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
5.50 Hotline
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 English Premier League highlights
8.30 Fetching Shorts “Pretty Penny Remains”/“Cheerio”/“Jess’ Homecoming”
9.00 Stella Street (UK)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Kika” (Spain)
11.50 Movie “Nine Millimetre” (Sweden)
1.50 close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
1.30pm RMIT General Pathology Lecture
3.30 Fish Cam
6.00 Australian Hungarian Magazine
6.30 Vietnamese Program
7.00 Serbian TV Presents
8.00 Access News
8.30 UK Today
9.00 Bent TV
11.30 Fish Cam
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It’s been noticeable on ABC radio in the last few years that the internal guidelines have been relaxed somewhat, for a while it was very BBC-esque where they did everything possible to not mention sponsors or brands.
One has to wonder if they were battling a serial complainant(s).
Radio still seems pretty tight when mentioning sponsorships, but television sport has loosened up a bit
what does ABC call Marvel Stadium these days. They used to refer to it as the “Phone Dome” when it was called Telstra Dome. Do they just call it Docklands Stadium?
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Yep, still just Docklands.
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However ABC Radio calls AAMI Park when it is broadcasting an NRL or A-League match from the venue, rather than Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (the unofficial generic name).
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Melbourne/Gippsland, Saturday 4 October 1986
from TV Week
ABC
8.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
9.00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
9.30 Wonders in Letterland
9.50 SuperTed
10.00 The Meldrum Tapes
11.00 Beatbox
1.00 Rock Arena
2.00 World Cup Superbikes
2.50 SANFL Grand Final (from Football Park, West Lakes)
5.30 Local Heroes
6.00 Countdown
7.00 ABC News
7.30 State of the Arts
8.00 Australian Project “R.A.N. 75 Years”
9.30 The Irish RM “The Aussolas Martin Cat” finale
10.20 ABC News
10.30 Rock Arena (guests include Frankie Goes to Hollywood, John Fogerty, and Severed Heads)
11.30 close
HSV7
6.00 Take Two
7:00 She-Ra: Princess of Power
7.30 Wuzzles
8.00 Adventures of the Gummi Bears
8.30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
9.00 Sounds
noon Cartoons (Smurfs/New Flintstones Show/Quick Draw McGraw)
1.30 Davis Cup Tennis: Australia v US (from Milton Courts, Brisbane)
4.30 Football: Battle of the Premiers-VFL v WA (from the WACA; includes Seven National News and Tatts 2 draw)
7.30 Sport Aid: Ice Skating Spectacular (from NEC, Birmingham, UK)
8.30 Super 66
8.32 Quincy “The Hero Syndrome” PGR
9.30 Tattslotto
9.32 Cagney & Lacey “Who Said It’s Fair?” (pt 1) PGR
10.30 Knots Landing “The Key to a Woman’s Heart” PGR
11.30 Motor Racing: Hardie’s Heroes (the James Hardie 1000 race aired the next day on HSV and GLV)
mid. Van Der Valk “Diane” PGR
1.00 close
GLV8 (GLV only went 24 hours on Saturdays)
7.00 Adventures of Black Beauty C
7.30 Ossie Ostrich Video Show C
7.50 Cartoons
8.00 Surprise! Surprise! (includes He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, Superfriends, Transformers, and Huckleberry Hound)
10.00 Sounds
noon 1986 European Figure Skating Championships
1.00 Honeymooners
1.30 Davis Cup Tennis: Australia v US
4.30 Football: Battle of the Premiers-VFL v WA
6.00 Seven National News
6.20 Football cont’d
7.30 Movie “Herbie Rides Again” (includes Super 66 draw)
9.10 Movie “Agatha Christie’s 13 at Dinner” PGR
11.00 Motor Racing: Hardie’s Heroes
11.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
1.25 Movie “The Outlaw Josie Wales” AO
3.45 Movie “Gladiators of Rome”
5.10 High Chaparral
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 The Cartoon Company (includes Scooby Doo Who Dunnit, Hero High, Yogi’s Galaxy Goof-Ups, Archie & Sabrina, Zorro, Laverne & Shirley, MASK, and the Lone Ranger)
noon Bonanza “The Arrival of Eddie”
1.00 Wide World of Sports
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
8.30 Movie “To Catch a King” PGR
10.30 World Match Play Golf (from Wentworth Club, Surrey, UK; GLV only carried the Sunday night golf)
2.05 Movie “Satan’s School for Girls” AO
3.30 Movie “The Disappearance of Flight 412” PGR
4.55 Movie “River of Gold” PGR
ATV10
6.00 Music Video cont’d (started at 1.05am Fri)
6.30 New Three Stooges
7.00 Early Bird Show
noon Horse Racing: Edward Manifold Stakes Day (from Flemington Race Course)
5.00 Bugs Bunny
5.20 Jack Absolom’s Outback Travel
6.00 Eyewitness News
6.30 Young Talent Time “Still Partying On”
7.30 Magnum “Blind Justice” PGR
8.30 Movie “Laura” (bw) PGR
10.15 Movie “Nightmare Alley” (bw) PGR
12.45 Music Video AO
5.00 close
SBS
1.40pm A Marriage of Convenience
2.45 The Noise
4.15 Hello Australia
4.30 Movie “A Man and Amanda” (Sweden)
6.00 World Soccer
7.00 World News
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Right or Wrong My Country (Germany) finale
10.10 Movie “Love” (Yugoslavia)
11.45 Movie “Nothing But Love” (Italy)
1.30 Movie “Mysteries” (Netherlands)
3.15 close
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It’s rare that SANFL Grand Final was shown live interstate.
I believe Battle of the Premiers was an exhibition game between VFL Premiers Hawthorn and WAFL Premiers Subiaco, which the Hawks won narrowly. There are not many videos on YouTube but I did find one.
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I wish more broadcasters would do this. As a casual follower of league and AFL, it does my head in trying to keep track of the changing names of stadiums.
I had to look up what GMHBA Stadium was a while back because in my mind I kept reading it as GBH Stadium.
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[quote=“JohnsonTV, post:2253, topic:511”]
It’s rare that SANFL Grand Final was shown live interstate.
It happened a bit during the 90s, always good to get one last footy fix for the season since the sanfl always ran a week longer.
Nice find with the battle of the premiers, not sure the jumper clash solution was overly effective! Also that listing has that match at the WACA Ground, but it actually Subiaco.
Here’s another clip withuch better sound,
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Curious why they closed at 5.00am as they’d be back on air at 6.
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Maybe they didn’t consider leading in from Music Videos to Religious content appropriate?
They could have run some cartoons or some other show for an hour instead of just shutting down though?
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I recall the 1993 SANFL GF going into Queensland on ABC (probably to fill a programming void or something), but usually the game was shown basically to Central Australia only for a long time.
Some new TV listings added to the site:
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Strange question for @TelevisionAU - beyond the major events, how do you pick which guides to include?
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Sometimes just dates picked at random.
Sometimes I might get a magazine and flick through the listings and see if there is anything that might be noteworthy or obscure (i.e. Be Our Guest, which doesn’t even get a mention on imdb)
When I find an “on this day” listing for our Classic TV Guides thread or for Twitter that I might think it’s worth documenting.
Very rarely, and haven’t done this for years, I might use a contribution from a third party. I tend to keep those very limited.
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On a personal note, just wanted to thank you for all the time and effort you put into publishing classic TV guides. Think I speak for most people here in saying this but I always find it fascinating going through them and seeing not just how TV scheduling has evolved over time but the types of programs which the networks used to air
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