Today’s TV: 27.3.1998, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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Never knew ABC used to televise the ATP tennis Masters events back in the day.
Also who could forget Cash Bonanza, which IIRC was hosted by Larry Emdur?
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Fixed that one for you - it should be obvious by the title of the paper which city the SMH primarily focuses its coverage on!
Anyway, that 4pm program on Channel Ten…hello there, paid programming! 
Yes, you’re correct with that presumption.
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I thought Something in the Air was 5x30 mins a week?
That’s Bright Ideas 12-2pm.
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initially it was. Then it got bumped to Saturday nights.
I didn’t mind the show. Sad.
Today on Saturday.
I think this edition went for a year or so. Didn’t last long from memory.
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I think it was a victim of internal politics as it was during the era of a change of management under new Managing Director Jonathan Shier who seemed to take a dislike to everything and so the show got bumped around a bit before being quietly axed.
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Think that was tied for a while with an Instant Scratch-It, and filmed at Movie World.
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Hosted by him before the 2nd run of The Price is Right
GP! There’s a memory. Such a great show, well ahead of it’s time in terms of the subjects it covered, including AIDS, which is referenced in the synopsis in the guide above.
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Today’s TV: 4.4.1969, Melbourne
The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal is on HSV7. Including international guest, actor Ty Hardin, in Australia as star of the Seven Network series Riptide
Source: TV Week
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Nothing like a pandemic to impel you to go through a lifetime of accumulated junk.
Came across a December 1981 edition of the Illawarra Mercury I’d kept because it contains some of my award winning schoolboy poetry and was reminded how irritated that newspaper’s TV listings used to make me. No doubt ATN7 got the first column because the Mercury was owned by Fairfax, but it didn’t make sense to me at the time that the channels weren’t listed in numerical order or the Sydney stations, at least, weren’t grouped together.
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Perth, Friday 5 April 1963
from TV Times
ABW2
noon test card/music
2.00 Life of Riley “Big Sacrifice” (G)
2.30 For Schools: For the Juniors
2.50 test card/music
3.00 For Schools: The First Australians
3.20 test card/music
4.45 Kindergarten Playtime
5.00 Friday Children’s Hour
6.00 Junior Sports Magazine
6.30 Town & Country
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.25 Weather
7.30 Dickie Henderson “The Fur Coat” (G)
7.55 Sports Spotlight
8.00 Twilight Zone “The Fugitive” (A)
8.30 The Lively Arts: The Glory That was Greece (G)
9.00 O. Henry Playhouse “After Twenty Years” (A)
9.30 West Coast '63
10.00 Stage Seven “Cold Harbor” (AO)
10.30 Newsreel
10.40 close
TVW7
12.15pm test pattern/msuci
1.00 It Could Be You
1.30 Woolworths Say When
2.00 test pattern/music
2.30 Concentration
3.15 test pattern/music
4.45 Children’s Channel 7
6.00 Man & the Challenge
6.25 Cartoons
6.35 News/Weather
7.00 Adventure Theatre
7.30 Father Knows Best “Turn the Other Cheek”
8.00 Gunsmoke “Big Man” (A)
8.30 77 Sunset Strip “Bullets for Santa” (A)
9.30 Witness
10.30 Racing Stable
10.40 Night Owl Theatre “The Fountainhead” (A)
12.05 Epilogue
12.10 close
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The 1958 federal election was the first federal election covered on television. The polling booths closed at 8:00pm, which is why the full coverage on ABN and ATN in Sydney started at 8:30pm. SMH television guide, Saturday 22 November 1958.
On radio there was extensive coverage by 2FC, 2GB and 2UW.
Robert Menzies’ Liberal government won the election, again.
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Apologies for the unbelievably late reply but that Powerpuff Girls episode was Hot Air Buffoon not Hot Air Balloon.
