Today’s TV: 26.12.1979, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
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A reminder Peter Mitchell worked at Nine once.
But Max Walker there too? Perhaps to give Cricket scores or a cross to the MCG?
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Nine didn’t have late night cricket highlights for Melbourne viewers in 1986, so fans who didn’t go to the game would have to watch every news bulletin to get as much vision as they could.
I also noticed in 1979, ABC and Nine both showed the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race live. How?
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Seven too. Talk about diluting the audience when there were only 4 channels to watch in 1979.
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The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race had no exclusive telecast arrangement for years. It was not unusual for at least 3 of the networks to be covering it.
I think it was the same too for the America’s Cup when that took place in Fremantle in 1986/87, it was covered by multiple networks.
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There’s the iconic red Seven Sport blazer in shot three the hosts of Holey Moley should’ve been wearing.
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This was before 10 had a Perth Station.
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From a fading memory I can recall a double header weekend sport for a time. Usually two segments after a short news segment. Don’t recall if it continued after Mitchell moved to HSV.
Max Walker was with National Nine News for a few years reading sport at GTV amongst his network commitments.
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Melbourne TV listings: Friday 29 December 2006
from citysearch.com.au (with additional information taken from ABC and SBS’ websites) via web.archive.org
ABC
6.00 Planet Sketch
6.10 Radio Free Roscoe
6.35 Fairly Odd Parents
7.00 The Gnoufs
7.10 Wild Thornberrys
7.35 The Fairytaler
8.15 Franny’s Feet
8.30 It’s a Big Big World
8.45 Charlie & Lola
9.00 Little Robots
9.10 Peppa Pig
9.15 Brum
9.25 Bananas in Pajamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 The Wiggles
10.10 Play with Me Sesame
10.35 Creature Feature
11.00 Active Kidz
11.05 I Dream
11.30 Time Cracks
11.35 Out There
12.00 Midday Report
12.30 Classic Parkinson
1.30 Pride & Prejudice
2.25 News
2.30 Dusty: Little by Little
3.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
3.05 Rubbadubbers
3.15 Postman Pat
3.30 Play School
4.00 Wide Eye
4.10 Miss EG
4.20 Sitting Ducks
4.35 Patrick’s Planet
4.55 Bernard
5.00 Angela Anaconda
5.20 Corneil & Bernie
5.35 Parallax
6.00 Victory in the Pacific
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Surfing the Menu
8.30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
10.05 Bedtime
10.35 News
10.45/11.10 Kath & Kim
11.40 Rage
Seven
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Raggs
9.30 Erky Perky
10.30 News
11.00 Less Than Perfect
11.30 Hope & Faith
12.00 Movie “Danny Deckchair”
2.00 The Mole
3.00 Australia’s Guinness World Records
4.00 Go Go Stop
4.30 News
5.00 MAS*H
5.30 Deal or No Deal
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 That '70s Show
7.30 Better Homes & Gardens
8.30 Legend of Earthsea
11.45 Movie “Rollerball”
2.15 Hang Time
2.40 USA High
3.05 Guthy-Renker Australia
4.00 NBC Today
Nine
6.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 The Shak
10.00 Wildlife Adventures with David Ireland
11.00 Friends (citysearch.com.au listed that an Ashes cricket match would air here, but those matches were played from 26 to 28 December at the MCG)
11.30 Listen Up!
12.00 Dr. Phil
1.00 Movie “Geordie”
3.00 Entertainment Tonight
3.30 Malcolm in the Middle
4.00 Hot Source
4.30 Frasier
5.00 Antiques Roadshow
5.30 Bert’s Family Feud
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 The King of Queens
7.30 Airline
8.00 Airport
8.30 Movie “Entrapment”
10.50 Shopping for Love
11.20 Nightline
11.50 Movie “Finding Graceland”
1.40 Late Show with David Letterman
2.35 The Baron
3.30 Bernie Mac
4.00 Creflo A. Dollar, Jr.
4.30 Good Morning America
Ten
6.00 Ellen DeGeneres
7.00 Toasted TV
8.30 Puzzle Play
9.00 9am Summertime
11.00 News
11.30 Rock School
12.00 7th Heaven
1.00/1.30 Video Hits Presents
2.00 Ready Steady Cook
3.00 Judge Judy
3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
4.00 H2O: Just Add Water
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
6.30 Laguna Beach
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Smallville
8.30 Movie “Top Gun”
10.45 Veronica Mars
11.45 News
12.15 Sports Tonight
12.45 Law & Order: Trial by Jury
1.45 Video Hits Up-Late
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Jake 2.0
5.00 This is Your Day
5.30 Christian City TV
SBS
6.00 Hong Kong News
6.20 Chinese News
6.50 Filipino News
7.25 Italian News (Telegiornale)
8.00 German News
8.30 Spanish News (Telediario)
9.20 French News (Le Journal)
9.55 Russian News
10.30 Greek News
11.30 Arabic News
12.05 Indonesian News
12.30 (Nightly) Business Report
1.00 Michelangelo Superstar (German documentary)
2.00 Opera Therapy (documentary)
3.00 A Fork in Africa
3.30 Simply Ming
4.00 Australia by Numbers
4.30 The Journal
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 World News Australia
7.00 TV Around the World (a look at Turkish television)
7.30 Corner Gas (Canadian comedy)
8.00 The Art of War “Cold Wars and Conflagrations”
8.30 As it Happened “Mao: A Life” (French documentary)
9.40 World News Australia
10.10 Lovesick (visiting Zumanity, Cirque du Soleil’s cabaret show)
11.55 Movie “Hardcore” (Greek drama)
1.35 Dali: Master of Dreams (Spain)
2.35 WeatherWatch Overnight
5.25 Japanese News
C31
6.30 Pinoy TV’s Music Lounge
7.00 Chakras
7.30 Yoga in Daily Life
8.30 Move It or Lose It
9.00 Dream On
9.30 Ken Harris’ Masterclass in Oils
10.00 Movie “Madigan’s Millions”
11.30 Geelong Newsbeat
12.00 Sweet & Sour
12.30/1.00 One World
1.30 Daniel Boone
2.30 Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
3.00 4WD TV
3.30 Rodder’s Life
4.00 Two Wheel Torque
4.30 Fishin’ Trip
5.00 Lawn Bowls
5.30 Class TV
6.00 Melbourne Musos
6.30 Visions
7.00 Words of Peace
7.30 Vasili’s Garden Show
8.00 TV Hellas
9.30 Bite Size
10.00 Pool TV
11.00 The Comic Box
11.30 Noise TV
1.00 Ma Cherie
1.30 Studio Q
2.00 Russ Kellett’s Melbourne
3.00 The Bazura Project
3.30 Fishcam
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re: Can’t Stop The Music
I could not see it aired on New Year’s Eve 1993 going to 1994, or 1994-95.
For 1995-96, it aired at 1.45am on 1 January 1996. (it was preceded at 12.02am by the David Bowie film Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars)
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Wow, Simply Irresistible. I always used to look forward to seeing what crappy game shows they would dish up over the summer while the usual shows were on hiatus.
I don’t remember this one at all. What was it about?
Simply Irresistible was a dating game show that ran on Nine in 1995 and hosted by Paul Holmes.
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Not to be confused with New Zealand’s own (Sir) Paul Holmes, who died on 1 February 2013. He was one of the award-winning current affairs broadcasters in New Zealand.
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Aired live from Fremantle
I’m assuming these were the days when Nine couldn’t cover the test match cricket (live) into the local market it was being played in?