My understanding is Hitch and Hendo shared newsreading duties for national and world news and there were windows for state/city specific news. I’ve only ever seen brief clips. Wish there was a full bulletin in existence somewhere. I’d love to see how it was structured.
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I remember watching it. My memory is as you said. Sport was local with Ron Casey reading the sport on TCN iirc, and I also seem to recall that the weather was local too.
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Thought that would have to be the case. Thanks for confirming. I was barely out of nappies at the time and my parents always watched channel four news followed by Roger on relay from Seven.
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@NewsWeary You mean Roger Climpson?
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Yes. Always loved Roger and his signature little wink at the end of the news. He was a grandfatherly figure to me when I was a kid and the sad thing about that is he was younger than what I am now at the time I was idolising him.
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He was a true gentleman, and no doubt still is.
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The ABC had British soccer highlights in mid-evening. I always thought those shows aired in late nights.
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Mike Walsh on Seven was only one hour? I wonder why it was edited down from 90 mins, which was the duration on Ten in Sydney.
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Not sure. ADS7 must have just decided to cut it down to fit the hour.
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Got to give it to 10 back then. Having 2 local dramas playing back to back together was rare. Part from News and the odd variety show, local content wasn’t high on the agenda.
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it was three dramas, Matlock Police as well 
But that was a weekly show. Number 96 and The Box were on Monday-Thursday
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It was clear though, that this was a break through for the 0/10 network at the time.
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Never realised The Young and the Restless ever screened on Ten - thought it had been on Nine its entire time here in Oz.
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I think the young & the restless was also on TVW7 Perth at one point.
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I believe it was on Nine in Sydney and Melbourne but other cities it varied due to different ownerships. As did a lot of shows.
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Neighbours i believe continued on TVW7 even after the Seven Network gave it the axe.
Seven had a full local news bulletin at 10.30pm.
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