Northern - as in Ten Northern NSW/Northern Rivers Television/NRTV.
just saying that it seems like an odd way to put it like why not NRN?
because nobody knew it as NRN. It was known as Ten Northern (NSW)
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What was CCTV on 10?
Also never knew Insiders was only 30 minutes long, and what was Coast to Coast after it, was that another talk show?
It was a Who Dares Wins type of show- people on the street offered cash to do something stupid. Only a handful of episodes aired before it was axed.
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Aussie show?
Yes but donât ask me who hosted it.
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Why then not put âNRTVâ on the page? Surely a lot of people new it as that.
Probably because the NRTV brand died around 1994?
While not perfect by any means, âNTHNâ was probably a reasonable enough abbreviation for Ten Northern NSW. Ideally the full station name wouldâve be in the guide, but of course space limitations in newspapers didnât really allow for that.
Anyway, a TV guide question of my own: With the inclusion of Brisbane schedule variants, was/is it common for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald to be distributed in Brisbane? I know the Sydney papers were being sold on the Gold Coast when I was up there in January 2006 (presumably a thing done for tourists who donât want to read The Courier Mail), but at the same time donât remember The Daily/Sunday Telegraph ever catering for viewers North of the Border in their TV listings.
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OT but I do remember a push by Fairfax for the Sun-Herald to provide some competition to The Sunday Mail in Brisbane/Gold Coast after the demise of the Sunday Sun newspaper.
I donât remember if the newspaper was Sydney news heavy at the time but Queenslanders didnât take to it (perhaps a note to Ten in current times). This was around the early to mid 90s if my memory serves me right.
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That was in April 1992 and Fairfax did attempt to inject Queensland news stories into the front pages of the newspaper when it was launched in that state. They hoped to pick up advertisers who were annoyed that the Sunday Mail had hiked advertising rates ofter the closure of he Sunday Sun.
Copies of the NSW country edition of the Sun-Herald, freighted in from Sydney, were already being sold in Brisbane before that but Fairfax did a deal with Rural Press, a subsidiary of Fairfax, to have the newspaper printed in Brisbane so as to extend deadlines and increase distribution. Initially it was only sold in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast but they hoped to expand.
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Iâd be surprised if any footage remains of Cartoon Corner or if GTV9 wiped it all.
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Happy Days was one of the shows that got repeated ad nauseam back then. Mustâve seen every episode at least a couple of times. Was trying to work out why John Denver wouldâve guest starred in a show set in the 1950s and early 1960s when he didnât really become popular until the 1970s. I certainly donât remember him appearing in it. Spotted the error. TV Week printed the cast from the show that followed as guest stars in Happy Days.
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It was the Number 1 show in Australia in 1976 so no doubt Nine made sure to run it as much as they could 
This was also during that brief period where Nine ran news at 6 and ACA at 6.30. By the end of October, news was returned to 6.30 and ACA to 7.00.
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The Closing Ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics is on Nine in Perth and TV0 in Brisbane
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Todayâs TV: 15.8.1978, Melbourne
Source: Scene
Includes Nineâs local TV premiere of the 1972 film The Godfather, being broadcast over two nights.
And with Blankety Blanks now moved out of prime time to midday (after Kennedyâs spat with Channel 0), the channel has been a bit creative filling the 7.00pm timeslot, now showing The Six Million Dollar Man in split half-hour episodes.
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I didnât realise Laurie Wilson was already a political correspondent for Seven in 1978. He worked for Seven then Nine in the 1990s.
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