Didn’t realise that Nine was 24 hours a day in Melbourne and Brisbane even in 1980.
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Rolf and the Kids at 4pm on Ten. Would that be sex pest Rolf Harris I wonder?
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I’m sure that anything with Rolf Harris in the Ten (and all other networks) archives would now be marked “Not for broadcast”.
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It doesn’t appear on the Ten Sydney guides under that name, however it appears that it was branded as Studio Ten in Sydney. SMH 19 November 1980:
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Also applicable to anything featuring Robert Hughes (from Hey Dad) and Don Burke.
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QTQ9 had only just started broadcasting 24/7 on 1 January 1980. GTV9 (and TCN9) started back in 1976
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I was a regular Wonder World watcher in those days but don’t recall a kids show called Studio Ten at all. The only Rolf Harris kid’s show I remember is a Saturday morning British offering. Don’t recall the name but vaguely remember the theme with the words: “Rolf’s here what do ya say, ready to go OK!”
EDIT: Found it. Rolf on Saturday OK.
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Interesting Schildberger and Hanrahan were still presenting ATV News well into February. I had always thought DJ and Jana began at the start of 1980 … do you know when the change was?
I suspect that might be a typo. From what I understand, David Johnston and Jana Wendt took over reading Eyewitness News from 11 February 1980, a few weeks earlier. TV Week might not have caught up with the change yet. I think the appointment of the new newsreaders was done at the last minute (The Age reported that Michael Schildberger and Peter Hanrahan were dumped as newsreaders on 8 February), also as the listing also shows David Johnston still as host of Statewide on ABC. I suspect that was also obsolete with his move to Ten.
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Melbourne TV: Tuesday 24 February 1998 (All Saints premieres on Seven)
from The Sunday Age
ABC
6.00 NatureWatch Digest
6.15 Alles Gute
6.30 Discovering Psychology
7.00 Time to Grow
7.30 Mixy
7.32 Teletubbies
8.00 Little Bear
8.25 Kitu & Woofl
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors: Buildings
10.15 Seahouse
10.20 Rigolecole
10.30 Take a Look
10.40 Maths Program
11.00 Australians
11.05 Australian Experience
11.30 Behind the News
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 English Have a Go
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Media Watch
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine
4.00 Play School
4.30 World of Eric Carle
4.40 Noddy
4.50 Swinging
5.00 Billy the Cat
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Rugrats
5.55 Gogs
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Inside Story “Where Angels Fear to Tread”
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
10.25 News
10.35 Lateline
11.10 The Ascent of Man (final)
12.00 Australia TV News
12.35 Hearts of Hate “Battle for Young Minds”
1.15 Movie “Broken Journey”
3.00 Destinos: Introduction to Spanish
3.30 Australian Studies
4.00 Accounting
4.30 French in Action
5.00 Australian Environmental Studies
5.30 Growing Awareness
Seven
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Dateline NBC
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “In Defense of a Married Man”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Maybe This Time
3.30 Darkwing Duck
4.00 Time Masters
4.30 Bewitched
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 Better Homes & Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors
8.28 Oz Lotto
8.30 Blue Heelers (return; the second part of this episode aired the following night on the same timeslot)
9.30 All Saints (premiere)
10.30 Backup (British drama series)
11.30 News
12.00 NBC Today
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 The Wanderer
3.50 Fire Co. 132 (L.A. Firefighters)
4.35 The Preston Episodes
5.00 Conquest
Nine
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In the House
10.00 Real TV
10.30 News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Perfect Strangers
4.00 Spellbinder
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Growing Pains
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8.00 Drew Carey
8.30 Suddenly Susan
9.00 Spin City
9.30 Movie “The Last Boy Scout”
11.45 Nightline
12.15 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1.15 Late Show with David Letterman
2.15 Entertainment Tonight
2.45 Celebrity Home Shopping
3.45 Police Story
4.45 Carson’s Comedy Classics
5.00 Good Times
5.30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Extreme Dinosaurs
7.30 Beetleborgs
8.00 The Tick
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 FCTV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Judge Judy
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Breakers
5.00 News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Mad About You
8.00 E! News
8.30 Beverly Hills, 90210
9.30 Melrose Place
10.30 News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 Savannah (return)
1.00 Sunset Beach
2.50 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 WeatherWatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 WeatherWatch & Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Choices of the Heart (Italian miniseries; part 1)
2.05 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports
4.00 Tutti!
4.30 Delia Smith’s Winter Collection (UK)
5.00 Happiness (Brazil)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Front Up
8.00 The Cutting Edge “A Dying Shame”
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Requiem for Dominic” (Austria)
11.00 Hotline (viewers’ response)
11.10 Derrick (Germany)
12.10 Movie “Last Call” (The Netherlands)
1.55 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
Channel 31
5.30pm Mansfield’s Melbourne
6.00 Living Word
6.30 Melbourne Calling Zagreb
7.00 Entre Todos
7.30 Turkish Program
8.00 Eastern Newsbeat
8.25 Fashion Talks
8.30 Vivace
9.00 C’est la Vie
9.30 Inside Britain
10.00 Black 2 Sugars
10.30 Liquid Music
11.30 sign-off
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Today’s TV: 23.2.1981, Melbourne
Source: The Age Green Guide
Incorrect TV Week version that does not have GMA starting that day (the 2/3/1981 listing in TV Week had it as a debut)
Source: TV Week
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John Farnham hosted the first Good Morning Australia in late 1971? I have no recollection of this show.
Source: The Age 16 Dec and SMH 22 Dec 1971.
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It was a school holiday show called Good Morning Melbourne, by HSV7, hosted by John(ny) Farnham. It was intended as a one-off series for the May 1970 school holidays in Victoria but Farnham was such a hit they renewed it for the next school holidays, and also for an extra week in October to coincide with the first anniversary of the “7 Revolution” campaign (with HSV7 broadcasting 24/7 for that week)
Looks like the show went “national” as Good Morning Australia in 1971 to include being shown on ATN7.
I’m curious to see Good Morning Melbourne/Australia reprised late in 1971, as the Sevens (ATN and HSV) had linked up to do Seven Today in the breakfast slot starting in March 1971, but maybe that show took time off over summer.
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I’d hope the 3:00 close on BTW/GSW is AM not PM.
Also, I wonder what the problem was that required a 5 minute program for the answer? 
Judging by the shows Answer to Your Problem is sandwich between I’m guessing the answer is God.
The religious programming on TV in the 1980s was insufferable and it was kind of a relief when the televangelist scandals of the late '80s- Jimmy Swaggert and Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker- took place and people saw these shows for what they were leading to most of them being taken off air.
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I’d tell you what the answer to most problems is but it’d be deleted. 
probably PM
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And they couldn’t find anything for that spare hour? Aside from a clock or test pattern?