One March 1984 episode of HHISN ran so late it ended the next morning.
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I wonder if the later timeslot for HHIS by these stations was in part due to 6.30 generally being used for relay of Seven’s football replays. By 1987, Seven (and, by default, the regionals) had lost the VFL rights to ABC so that potentially for the regionals it freed up 6.30 for HHIS and with the them also changing their national news relay to GTV9 it meant they could relay the news at 6 and go straight into HHIS at 6.30. Just a guess. I have nothing to support that suggestion.
Also here’s an early listing from a few weeks after HHIS launched at 9.30pm. GMV6 seems to be a bit slow on the uptake and hasn’t started running the show yet, but BTV6 and TV8 both relaying it at 9.30pm.
Within a few months, though (by June), GMV6 has joined in the show but the regionals have all bumped it to later in the night as mentioned already (TV8 had the show starting at 12.30am!)
Interesting too that RTS5A is showing it when presumably it was still years away from appearing on Adelaide TV, and it’s only 90 minutes. Did they cut from the show halfway through? In any case, by June it appears they had dropped the show entirely as there was no sign of it then.
Source: TV Week
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Sydney TV listings: Monday 29 May 1972
from Sydney Morning Herald
On that day, ATN7 launched an hour-long bulletin on weekdays at 6pm. It looks like the format wasn’t very successful: on 8 January 1973, the bulletin was moved to 6.30, airing until 7.30 and competing against Nine and the ABC’s well-established bulletins, but also failed. It reverted to a half-hour program almost 1 year later, on 19 March 1973.
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Not sure what their angle was trying to achieve with all these “MORE” topics/issues. Seems to be very negative.
I’m not sure a cartoon of Hitler was the most effective way to reflect “politics” news given that he died 30 years earlier?
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Why did Terry Willesee’s current affairs program have different names for Perth and regional WA, even though it aired at the same time of 7pm?
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it’s called Terry Willesee’s Perth on both STW9 and GWN?
Not to be confused with Willesee At Seven on TVW7, the national show hosted by his brother Mike from Seven over on the East Coast.
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Didnt AMV (All Music Video) get dropped from the schedule in September 2001, the week of the 9/11 attacks in the US?
Yeah I tend to vaguely remember AMV not making it till the end of 2001. I went overseas (not to the US, thankfully) during the week of the 9/11 attacks and when I returned to Australia a month later, that show had disappeared.
Then in 2002 the Sunrise as we know it now was launched.
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It’s remarkable to have two brothers hosting current affairs shows on rival networks.
Willesees were everywhere…
YouTube: Australian TV Fan
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So in Perth, Terry was on Nine and Mike was on Seven.
Cut a few years and Mike was on Nine and Terry was on Seven.
Would have been ratings gold to have both brothers together? 
Seven was a two Willesee station in the mid 1980s when Terry hosted Terry Willesee Tonight and younger brother Don was a reporter for Seven National News and fill in presenter. Don was appointed host of 11AM in 1988 just as Terry was being forced to work out his contract following the announcement at then end of 1987 he’d be defecting to Nine. I don’t know why they kept Terry in the chair for several months into '88 when it had already been decided HSV 7’s Hinch would be seen in Sydney.
Nine became a two Willesee station when Terry joined Mike at Nine in June 1988 to host Live at 5 with Jo Pearson. Mike was still contributing specials and stories to A Current Affair in '88 even though he’d passed the hosting baton to Jana Wendt at the start of the year.
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Doubt it. Remember the Daddos? 
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Who could forget them
Andrew Daddo - doesn’t he do a lifestyle show now
Cameron Daddo - former Perfect Match host after the bungle that saw Greg Evans go to Nine when Perfect Match producers forgot to renew Greg Evans
Lochie Daddo - former Neighbours star
I don’t think they “forgot”. I think he got a better offer when the time came…
