I was reading coverage of that bicentenary in an April 1970 edition of The Daily Mirror my mother had kept. It was very much framed as a celebration of Cook’s “discovery” with no consideration given to the ultimate impact the landing would have on the indigenous people of the land.
Fast Forward 50 years and the tone of the reporting on media sites about the 250th anniversary is very low key with the event being covered overwhelmingly from the perspective of indigenous Australians.
Sydney TV listings: Sunday, April 30, 2000
from Sydney Morning Herald
From the SMH editorial on 29 April 1970. Most of it is a homage to Cook and (seemingly White?) Australia, but towards the end there is an almost blink and you miss acknowledgement that what the British did to the Australian Aboriginals was shameful.
Later that year there was extensive television coverage on all channels of the visit of Pope Paul VI which included a Bi-centenary Mass on the evening of Tuesday 1 December. I missed the Youth Mass at Randwick Racecourse during the day on Wednesday 2 December as I was sick, though I watched it on television. I remember it was a very big year for Sydney.
From the April 30, 2000 TV listings:
Love that early 2000’s guide look. So clear and concise.
Logies 8.30-11 (I’m sure it went over) but not as much of a slog as these days, not live either.
Is this the Logies where Andrew Denton sat on Jamie Packer’s lap and pretended to be a ventriloquist’s dummy?
For the V8’s, only a handful of rounds in 2000 were actually shown “live” (from memory it was Adelaide, Canberra and the Endurance Races plus the non-championship races on the Gold Coast supporting the ChampCars, and I’m sure there were elements that were delayed and some markets would have all but Bathurst on time zone delay, Bathurst that year being held for the last time in November). The first round at Phillip Island that yaer actually had only one Sunday race even though the format had 2 races.
Correct on the Game Day difference. It was like an NFL style panel show pre-game, at half time and a short post match, hosted by John Longmire, Todd Viney and Tony Shaw. Horse’s hosting skills made him an ideal coach! This day there were 3 games played with Melbourne and Adelaide likely getting Port Adelaide vs Melbourne Live, and the other game was a C7 game possibly replayed into Melbourne (Geelong vs Richmond). For the record Carlton won on the back of Kouta getting 39 touches and Fitzy (yes that Fitzy) stinking the Sydney forward line up.
Would make sense that Melbourne would get Port Adelaide vs Melbourne Live, the other matches were in Victoria. Maybe Prime showed the Carlton vs Sydney match live in Regional Victoria?
On this day:
Canberra/Southern NSW TV listings: Thursday, May 2, 1985
from the Canberra Times
ABC TV
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 The Banana Splits
9.25 Crystal Tipps and Alistair
9.30 Play School
10.00 Talkabout
10.20 The Magic Bag
10.40 Middle East
11.00 The Promise
11.20 Lower Primary Science
11.40 Behind the Screen
12.00pm The Computer Programme
12.30 Countrywide
1.00 Words Fail Me
1.25 Appuntamento in Italia
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Paddington
4.00 Play School
4.30 Mr Squiggle and Friends
5.00 Antenna
5.25 Roger Ramjet
5.30 Ulysses 31
5.55 Come and Get It with Peter Russell Clarke
6.05 Inspector Gadget
6.30 ABC National (its ill-fated revamped national news bulletin)
7.30 The Heart of the Dragon
8.25 Pressure Point
8.55 The Fast Lane
9.45 The Body in Question
10.40 The Fourth Arm
11.30 Close
SBS28 Canberra
11.00am Cartoons
11.10 People You Meet (English lessons)
11.30 Verdi (Italy)
12.30pm Midweek
1.00 Made by Hand (Holland)
1.15 The Inheritors (Greece)
2.00 Test Pattern
5.30 Zora and Her Gang (Germany)
6.00 Magazine
7.00 SBS World News
7.30 Rosa De Lejos (Argentina)
8.30 Movie: The Bed (France)
9.50 Words and Blood (Italy)
11.00 Close
CTC7 Canberra
7.00am Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.55 Cartoon
10.00 Happy Days
10.30 Coronation Street
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.22 News
2.28 The Restless Years
3.30 He Man and the Masters of the Universe
3.56 Paddington Bear
4.00 The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (strange CTC screening this as they did not take Hey Hey It’s Saturday, Canberrans had to wait until aggregation in 1989 before they were able to see Hey Hey on WIN)
4.30 My Friend Flicka
4.58 Bewitched
5.25 Community Billboard
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Australian Capital News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 News
8.34 Dallas
9.30 The Mike Walsh Show
11.00 News
11.03 National Press Club Special
11.35 Movie: The Survival of Dana
WIN4 Wollongong
6.30am Reflections
6.35 Clutch Cargo
7.00 Today
9.00 Fat Cat and Friends
9.35 Jazzercise
10.00 The Young Doctors
10.30 Donahue
11.30 National Nine News
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 The Young and the Restless
3.30 Ace (local kids show)
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 The Ossie Ostrich Video Show
5.00 The New Price is Right
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 WIN Local News
6.30 National News (not sure which network WIN took their news from)
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The A Team
8.30 Brothers
9.00 Dynasty
10.00 Special Squad
11.00 My Brother’s Keeper
11.30 News
12.00am Movie: The Longest Day
2.25 Reflections
2.30 Close
RVN2 Wagga Wagga
7.00am Good Morning Australia
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 High School Education Project (a production of the Victorian Department of Education - as RVN/AMV was a border station they took it)
10.20 Eight is Enough
11.15 At Home
11.30 National Nine News
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Sons and Daughters
3.00 The Bob Newhart Show
3.30 Batman
3.55 Cartoon Corner
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 The Yearling
4.55 Cartoons
5.05 Flintstone Frolics
5.30 Videobreak (music video filler)
5.40 Perfect Match
6.10 District News
6.30 National News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The A Team
8.30 Dynasty
9.30 The Mike Walsh Show
11.00 Brothers
11.30 News
12.15 Close
I think WIN4 relayed National Nine News by that time. Prior to late 1984/early 1985, they relayed Seven National News before its Sydney bulletin went to a 1-hour format at that time.
I’d imagine a lot of Regional NSW TV stations relayed Seven National News until late 1984/early 1985 before switching to National Nine News.
Interesting. Am I correct in saying WIN & NBN have direct microwave links to the Sydney commercials in order to get new/sport programmes lives? In Qld, only DDQ Toowoomba had that luxury being so close to the Brisbane. The rest of the regionals (SEQ8 and north of Wide Bay)) had to all agree on a “relay” as in the true meaning of the word. Of course Aussat changed all that in 1986 and the regionals could then pick and choose which networks they tooks programems from live or on delay.
Most regionals took Wonder World or Wombat (or both) by 1985 between 4 & 5pm. Can’t believe they still had to air 20 year programmes such as Bewitched at 5pm when there were other new programmes they could have aired having the choice of 3 commercial networks.
RVN2 would have either (1) took its news from HSV7 (being close to the Victorian border) (2) took a cut-down or just the second half of the ATN7 bulletin or (3) took its news from TCN9. Any old school Wagga-ites know? I know RVN’s sister relay station AMV4 continued taking the half-hour national bulletin from HSV7 at that time (AMV was listed in the country stations carrying that bulletin at the end).
it would have been cheaper to buy 20-year old re-runs of Bewitched to pad out the schedule rather than buy first-run content from the networks. And with no effective commercial competition, they could pretty do much what they wanted.
The year of the failed primetime The Mike Walsh Show. The daytime show was getting the equivalent of primetime ratings, iirc, which is probably what helped encourage Walsh to move, but it was a disaster.
I wonder if they saw the success of Hey Hey It’s Saturday moving to prime time the year before and thought they could repeat it with Mike Walsh in having to fill the gap left by the axing of Tonight With Bert Newton. In reality i suspect many of Walsh’s fans would be well and truly asleep by 9.30pm. But IIRC, Walsh’s company continued to produce Midday for Nine.
midday movies were a bit darker in those days!
My parents lived in an area that could receive decent Sydney and Taree stations. When watching The Midday Show there was less than one second between TCN and NBN but around 30 seconds delay on ECN. I assume that was because the signal had to go to NEN first and then sent back down the link to ECN.
Anyone know what Daywatch was at 6am?
