Seven had no morning news at all. I think this lasted for about 9 months until Sunrise and The Morning News were reinstated.
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The Wonderful World of Disney on Ten while Saturday Disney was on Seven. Why didn’t Ten buy the entire Disney output deal around 1994? They could have also got Home Improvement.
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Too expensive? And Seven might have locked the rest down to stop it getting snapped up by a rival?
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Interesting to note Channel 9 had Barney and Friends in 1996, that was when it seemed quite popular as I remember a lot of kids at school were singing the "I love you, you love me " song, I think it went to Ten for a while in the later 1990’s before Nine got it back to replace Here’s Humphrey one summer (around 2000), funny replacing a bear with a dinosaur.
Also noticed in the March 2000 listing, Seven showed a two hour screening of A Country Practice, showing the two part episode blocks as one. The episode mentioned “Inner Circle” was close to the end of the Channel 7 series. Must of noticed they were close to the end and wanted to burn them off, then towards the end of 2001, they began to repeat ACP from the start in that slot, until they took it off in late 2003.
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For a few years Seven used to air old episodes of H&A under the title Home and Away: The Early Years.
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Barney and Humphrey were popular on 9 when it aired
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Today’s TV: 3.3.1975, Melbourne.
The return of The Graham Kennedy Show sparks a “show cause” letter from the Broadcasting Control Board when he utters a “crow call” made to sound like an expletive
Source: TV Times / The Age
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I remember it well. Kennedy was banned from live television and then quit Nine in April when his pre-recorded criticism of then media minister Senator Doug McClelland was censored by Nine. It was around that era that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were also banned from live television in Australia, iirc. Edit: Memory jog - Dave Allen also got banned, I’m fairly sure.
Kennedy later made peace with the ABCB and promised to be a good boy. He was back on the airwaves on the ABC’s 3LO in June.
Source: The Age, 17 June 1975.
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Sydney TV: Monday 5 March 1990
from The Sun-Herald
ABN2
7.00 Astroboy
7.30 World of David the Gnome
7.55 Belle & Sebastian
8.20 Sesame Street
9.20 PGR
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors: Wheels
10.20 Infinity Limited
10.40 Storytelling
11.00 Into Music: Water
11.20 Talking Animals
11.40 Flip, Slide, Turn
12.00 Facing Writers
12.30 Kontakte
1.00 A Planet for the Taking
2.00 Words Fail Me
2.40 Understanding Television
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 Play School
4.30 T-Bag Strikes Again
4.50 Superted
5.00 Afternoon Show: Count Duckula
5.30 Grange Hill
6.00 Countdown Revolution
6.30 EastEnders
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Liberal Party Policy Speech
8.30 Four Corners “Trick or Treaty: The Waitangi Treaty”
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 Howard
10.00 English Soccer: highlights of Nottingham Forest v. Manchester City
10.55 News
11.05 Review: The Arts
11.35 Tales of the Unexpected
12.00 sign-off
ATN7
6.00 Holiday World
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 The Flying Nun
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends
10.00 Knots Landing
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Divorce American Style”
2.30 Perry Mason
3.30 Gidget
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (return)
6.00 News
6.30 Home & Away
7.00 Hinch
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Liberal Party Policy Speech
9.00 Movie “Love is Never Silent”
11.00 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard
12.00 News Overnight: NBC Today
2.00 The Borgias
3.00 Porterhouse Blue
3.55 Night Heat
4.50 Science International
5.00 Bergerac
TCN9
6.00 M.A.S.K.
6.30 ITN World News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Petticoat Junction
10.00 Good Times
10.30 McHale’s Navy
11.00 General Hospital
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Benson
4.00 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
4.30 KTV
5.00 Hogan’s Heroes
5.30 Happy Days
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Cosby Show
8.00 Murphy Brown
8.28 Go Lotto
8.30 Liberal Party Policy Speech
9.00 Movie “Cobra”
10.45 Coast to Coast
11.45 St. Elsewhere
12.45 Movie “The Omega Man”
2.35 Movie “Outcast of the Islands”
4.30 Buck James
5.30 The Young Doctors
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6.00 Teddy Ruxpin
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 'Til Ten
10.00 Mulligrubs
10.30 News
11.00 Another World
12.00 Santa Barbara
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 The Rockford Files
3.30 House Calls
4.00 Neighbours (early episodes)
4.30 Double Dare
5.00 The Munsters
5.30 Charles in Charge
6.00 News
6.30 Sydney with Mike Gibson
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 The Wonder Years
8.00 Doogie Howser, MD
8.30 Liberal Party Policy Speech
9.00 Movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
11.10 Movie “Curse of the Swamp Creature” (this movie was aired as part of Elvira’s Thriller Theatre)
12.50 Movie “Clive of India”
2.35 Movie “Tumbleweed” (1953 movie)
4.00 Holiday Island
5.00 Dallas
SBS
3pm TV Ed
4.00 Kaleidoscope
4.30 Soccer
5.30 Rin (Japanese serial)
6.00 Vox Populi
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 The Animal Contract (the relationship between man and the rest of the animal kingdom; UK, final)
8.00 Tonight
8.30 Doctor Faustus (UK mini-series; final)
9.50 Movie “Storms of August” (Wales)
11.10 Days of Fire (part 2; Turkey)
12.10 sign-off
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Liberal Party Policy Speech on the 3 commercial stations at the same time (and half hour earlier on the ABC?) 
quite commonplace before elections in those days. ALP would get the same the next night or thereabouts. The minor parties I don’t think got a look in.
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I think the modern equivalent is about five minutes before the news on the ABC now? Not sure if the commercial networks still broadcast policy speeches?
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Moomba used to get a lot of TV coverage in those days, with concerts, Birdman Rally (and its predecessor the Bath Tub Regatta), there used to be water skiing as well on Labour Day, I think? And the Parade used to get coverage on multiple channels IIRC.
These days only the parade gets coverage now, and probably only on one channel?
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It has been a while since all the commercial channels covered the parade. But they did used to share the same vision and have their own commentators.
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March seems to be a late start to return out of the Christmas/New Year period.
Yeah, it was strange about Wheel of Fortune returning in March, when usually to my recollection they resumed new episodes in late Jan/early Feb(around when school went back).
I remember over Christmas/New Year they would rerun old episodes, and they were old, I recall over the 1995/96 summer for instance they would show episodes from 1989 or thereabouts as the Holden cars they were giving away were well and truly superseded by then.
I also remember the televised Moomba parade, I went to the parade as a kid, when I was 4-5 in around 1987, and remember waving to the cameras.
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Tim Webster hosted a variety show on Ten? I only remembered him as a newsreader and host of many of Ten’s sporting events.
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