Today’s TV: 21.4.1970, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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I’m pretty sure that “ABDN2” is ABC Dorigo New South Wales.
Just researching translator stations
The transmitter site is near there so that might explain the D in the callsign.
whats the site called??
ABDN’s transmitter site was on Mount Moombil.
“The Merv Griffith Show”??
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The Flying Doctors premiered on the night as a 3-part mini-series. Its ratings success led to Nine commissioning Crawford to make an ongoing series in 1986.
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Also if you have a look at the EON radio listing, it says there’s an 8:30 pm simulcast with Channel 7 of the movie The Blues Brothers. The Channel 7 listing for that time slot is The Blue Lagoon. Can’t imagine that would make for great radio listening!
Why would there be a radio simulcast of a movie on tv?
For stereo sound, which was probably more accessible via FM radio rather than the TV station’s own stereo audio signals in 1985.
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The radio simulcast shows The Blue Brothers and TV shows The Blue Lagoon. Probably another typo.
Stereo televisions were a novelty, very expensive and not common. Many lounge rooms in the 1970s-'80s had bulky stereo systems with large speakers, amps, record players and radio tuners the whole household would enjoy. Musical movies like Grease, Saturday Night Fever and The Blues Brothers would often be simulcast by a metro FM radio stations. It was great for enhancing the music but the dialogue through the FM station would sometimes be out of sync with the actors on the screen.
Music listening is a more personal, portable experience these days.
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Star Wars was another movie that was simulcast in the 80s.
Speaking of Star Wars, here is a programme guide for Canberra and Southern NSW from the Canberra Times from Sunday, November 7, 1982, the night Star Wars premiered on RVN2 Wagga Wagga (and AMV4 Albury). I remember the other Victorian regionals delayed screening this movie until mid-1983 for some reason. Also the Australian Grand Prix was telecast on CTC7 and RVN2 live from Calder Raceway in Melbourne, note this was not part of the Formula One season but was a made-for-television exhibition event. The Seven Network was the host broadcaster.
ABC TV
10.00am Playmates
11.00 Divine Service
12.00pm Countrywide
12.40 In Your Garden
1.00 Four Corners
1.30 Golf: Mayne Nickless Australian PGA
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 ABC News and Weekend Magazine
7.40 The Onedin Line
8.30 Bird of Prey
9.25 Late News and Weather
9.35 The Blainey View
10.05 World of Music: The Firebird
10.55 Golf: Mayne Nickless Australian PGA highlights
11.25 Close
CTC7 Canberra
5.30am Test Pattern
6.00 Kenneth Copeland
7.00 Jimmy Swaggart
8.00 It Is Written
8.30 Insight
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Point of View
11.10 Sports Watch (local Canberra sports show)
12.10pm Plastic Man
12.35 All New Popeye Show
1.00 Australian Grand Prix live from Calder Raceway
5.15 Class of '82 (quiz programme)
6.00 Australian Capital News
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney: Hog Wild part 2
7.30 60 Minutes (final episode of the year)
8.30 Movie: Hurricane
10.45 Late Movie: Goodbye Charlie (1964)
12.55am Close
WIN4 Wollongong
6.30am Kenneth Copeland
7.30 Religious
8.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.00 Top Cat
9.25 Variety Italian Style
10.25 The Flintstones
10.55 Sportsworld
1.00pm Men’s Gold Racquet Super Tennis Championships (live from Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, relay from TEN10)
6.00 News
6.30 Little House on the Prairie
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: Horpy
10.30 World Around Us
10.35 Movie: Bad Day at Black Rock
12.00am 60 Minutes
1.00 Close
RVN2 Wagga Wagga
9.15am Test Pattern
9.29 Program Highlights
9.30 Kenneth Copeland
10.30 Jimmy Swaggart
11.30 The World Tomorrow
12.00pm Turn Round Australia
12.30 My Three Sons
1.00 Australian Grand Prix live from Calder Raceway
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 Seven National News
6.25 Weather
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: Star Wars
11.00 Living Today
11.30 Close
Also of note: an advertisement on the same page of the Canberra Times for a business which specialises in TV antennas designed to receive RVN2 Wagga from Canberra.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show was another.
The Last Waltz was also a NYE simulcast between Ten and Fox FM in 1981
Radio listings were not always kept up to date as for many commercial stations the schedule doesn’t change much week to week. This typo for EON might have been a leftover from a previous week
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All four Sydney channels broadcast the bi-centenary reenactment of Captain Cook’s landing at Kurnell in Botany Bay. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne were touring Australia for the celebrations. Ten was the only channel that had the evening fireworks (which I remember seeing from Kirribilli).
Source: SMH
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