short-lived magazine/lifestyle show with Greg Evans and Kerry Armstrong
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Sydney 22 August 1987.
Source: SMH.
Notable for the premiere on the ABC of The Mike Walsh Show, which was two years after Nine axed his primetime show in 1985.
According to the SMH, in late 1985 Channel 7 Sydney general manager Ted Thomas and Channel 10 Sydney general manager George Brown both offered Walsh up to $60,000 per week to host a midday talk show opposite Ray Martin on Nine, but Walsh declined both offers. Seven turned down Walsh’s proposal that he produce a nightly current affairs program hosted by Mike Carlton, and Ten knocked back Walsh’s proposals for a quiz show and a children’s painting show.
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Rather disagreeable the lot of 'em! Interesting to see him propose current affairs and children’s shows, though.
Somehow Ten managed to get him to host a quiz show a few years later, a re-hash of Superquiz.
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Strange how different the ABC line up was in the two cities.
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they had to be programmed independently of each other in those days, no direct link between them or to Brisbane?
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I think ABRQ3 and ABTQ3 were stations in their own right back then. The ABC had actual studios in Rockhampton and Townsville.
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They did? What did they use them for?
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One use was a nightly full 30 min news bulletin, iirc.
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Cheers, good read.
needs a bit of a fact check…
TNQ 7 was the last ABC television station to broadcast in black and white and the last to go colour.
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Lol, since when was TNQ a member of the ABC?
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I have read that Punishment was shown weeknights in the Prisoner slot, hence the latter returned later than usual in 1982. Perhaps that was in the Sydney market?
TEN10 in Sydney buried it on Friday nights, starting 20 February 1981. 26 episodes were made but I can’t imagine it even completed screening before being bumped off and then played out at the next non-ratings period.
KTLA, the Los Angeles station that helped launched Prisoner in the US, originally expressed interest in doing the same with Punishment, but it’s unknown if they screened any episodes.
A young Mel Gibson appeared in the first two episodes.
In Melbourne Punishment was airing at 8.30pm on Tuesdays over the summer of 81-82 up until 2 Feb 1982. A week later Prisoner returned but was in the 7.30pm slot and Punishment moved to 9.30pm. Don’t see it listed in the weeks after that.
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Sydney, Tuesday 17 February 1959. All three Sydney channels had a live telecast of the opening of the 23rd Parliament from the Senate Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. It was the first television broadcast of a federal parliamentary session. Four cameras were used The Canberra Times reported. Sir William Slim was the governor general, and Robert Menzies was prime minister.
Melbourne viewers got to see it the next night on the ABC. Wednesday 18 February 1959:
Source: SMH and The Age.
The reverse happened with the fifth Cricket test, with Melbourne viewers seeing the session after the tea break live, and Sydney viewers seeing it the next day.
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Great to see 1950s guides. I noticed ATN7 didn’t have a newsreel or bulletin during the evening. Most stations seemed to show varies newsreels between 6.30 and 7.00, followed by a late update before each station closed.
GTV9 and ATN7 are sharing programs at different times of the day. Also, HSV7 had The Late-show with Bert Newton at 11.00pm and ATV7 were experimenting with a Today show format from 7.00am.
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