Because TDT was not yet available across the entire state, Southern Cross made some exceptions to continue to broadcast some Ten programming. Same as when the Commonwealth Games in Delhi happened and Ten was the Australian broadcaster, Southern Cross relayed Ten’s coverage.
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TDT was digital only, so maybe they kept a deal with SC so they had an analogue presence.
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Sydney TV: Saturday 7 April 2001
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
11.30 Heartbreak High
12.00 Stateline
12.30 Movie “Boys in Brown”
1.50 Rugby Union: NSW Rugby Club
3.30 NBL: Mitsubishi Challenge quarter-final
5.00 ATP Tennis Show
5.30 FIFA TV
6.00 Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals
6.30 Landline
7.00 News
7.30 Something in the Air
8.25 News Update
8.30 The Bill
9.25 News Update
9.30 Parkinson
10.30 Love Hurts
11.20 Order in the House
12.20 Rage (Nick Cave special)
Seven
6.00 Powerpuff Girls
6.30 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Li’l Horrors
9.30 Junior
10.30 Jungle Cubs
11.00 Timon & Pumbaa
11.30 Disney’s Pepper Ann
12.00 World Sport
12.30 Travel Fantasy
1.30 Just AFL
2.00 AFL: Carlton v. Hawthorn
5.00 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
5.30 Sydney Weekender
6.00 News
6.30 The World Around Us “Travel to the Lost City” (Mike Leyland and his wife Margie travel across the Gulf of Carpentaria)
7.30 Movie “Cool Runnings”
9.35 Movie “The Silence of the Lambs”
12.00 Davis Cup: Brazil v. Australia (doubles, from Florianopolis)
3.00 Telemall
4.00 Victor Paul Shopping
5.00 Tom & Jerry
5.10 National Enquirer TV
5.35 Thanks
Nine
6.00 Golf: US Masters (from Augusta, GA)
8.30 Today on Saturday
9.30 Goodsports
10.00 The Cool Room: Top 20
12.00 Horse Racing: Golden Slipper Day
5.00 The King of Queens
5.30 Escape with ET
6.00 News
6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
7.00 Cash Bonanza
7.30 Movie “Richie Rich” (Lotto at 8.28pm)
9.30 Movie “Nell”
11.49 News
11.50 Walker, Texas Ranger
12.50 Pensacola: Wings of Gold
1.45 Late Show with David Letterman
2.40 Mad TV
3.40 Sessions at West 54th (Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello)
4.40 Australian Sports Magazine
5.00 Jesse Duplantis
5.30 Golf: US Masters (coverage of day 4)
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 Magic School Bus
7.30 Fast Tracks
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Ocean Girl
12.00 Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
1.00 Motor Racing: Clipsal 500 (from Adelaide)
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 Blockbuster Entertainment
6.30 7th Heaven
7.30 Bette
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
8.30 Movie “Thunderball”
11.10 News
11.40 Sports Tonight
12.10 Movie “Witness Against Hitler”
1.55 Video Hits
2.00 Danoz
3.00 Victor Paul Shopping
4.00 Randy Morrison
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
6.05 Cantonese News
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 The Peony Pavilion (UK; final)
1.25 The Takacs Quartet: Haydn (part 3; final)
2.00 The War Symphonies “Shostakovich Against Stalin” (Canada)
3.20 Classical Interpretations “Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers” (UK; premiere)
3.30 European Champions League highlights
4.30 World Soccer
5.30 Premier League highlights
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 As it Happened “Images of a Dictatorship” (report on Augusto Pinochet’s reign of terror in Chile; Canada)
8.30 Unknown Images: The Vietnam War (part 3 of “The Secret of Men”; final)
9.30 Movie “Wild Target” (France)
11.00 Eat Carpet
12.05 Movie “The Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirlwind of Sex and Politics” (Italy)
1.50 sign-off
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Was it live in Sydney back then on 7? How many games were on 7 and C7 back in 2000-01?
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Another thing that I’m curious about is that, the following day (April 8, 2001), there was a match between West Coast and Sydney that was played at 2:40pm (4:40pm Sydney time). If it was shown live on Seven, then this would’ve meant Seven News being telecast at half-time or after the match.
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As far as I can tell, that match wasn’t shown on Channel Seven in Sydney. Probably a C7 Sports exclusive.
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It looks like The Man from UNCLE was a late addition.
I remember the J O’K mini-series but I suspect I saw it on a re-run a year or so later.
Also I liked The Golden Years Of Television but Mondays being a school night meant I rarely got to see it except maybe during school holidays.
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The match between West Coast and Sydney from Subiaco was actually played at 2:10pm Sydney time, not local time. It was televised live in full on Channel 7 in Sydney from 2pm through to 5pm, according to the SMH weekend guide.
The C7 Sport exclusive according to the guide was the St Kilda v Geelong match from Colonial Stadium as it was known on the same day.
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Seven took over the rights to Ricki Lake in 1997
Well in that case, I stand corrected! 
Today’s TV: 8.4.1981, Melbourne
Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly TV World
Have to say the ABC must have had more money to spend in those days. The weekly winner of The Inventors collected $3000, in 1981 dollars.
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The days before government cutbacks.
HSV7 showed a modified version of Taxi Driver against the repeat of The Sound of Music on GTV9. What was Taxi Driver modified for?
Time.
I would say it would be more for extreme content rather than just chopping time
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