Yep. Well, Nine must have been going on a purge. It had decided not to renew The Young & The Restless from Sony Pictures at around the same time it dropped its output deal with CBS. So Dr Phil would have soon been on its way to Ten, to be replaced on Nine by repeats of McLeod’s Daughters.
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It was a bit of interesting time from 2007 in regards to daytime television. So many changes took place compared to today’s current line up that has been listed for almost a decade, with very little change.
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I’d say there’s been a few major changes to the afternoon lineups on at least Seven & Nine in recent years. Both The Daily Edition + Nine News Now coming and going instantly comes to mind, so too The Chase/Tipping Point UK airing at 3pm…
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what was ‘the con’ hosted by Andrew G (as he was at the time).
I don’t remember that at all - was it a game show?
It was The Con Test
I’m assuming most station (part from HSV7) didn’t start transmitting until midday or the afternoon on Good Friday?
Interesting annual (?) special.
Maybe Peter Overton could do a similar special for Easter and Christmas.
Good Friday and Christmas Day often had vastly reduced hours for programming.
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Had Possession always been on Fridays or had it already been dumped there to get it out of the way? 
Interesting that Nine also buried the telemovie Skin Deep on the Friday night as well. Was it a dud series pilot?
It was originally Monday & Thursday. At this point it was Thursday & Friday. But it would soon be in a late night slot.
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Yep - according to Mercado’s Super Aussie Soaps it was a mooted series but never got up. I didn’t realise it was ever aired.
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All programs had classifications until probably late-2000s when news/sport became exempt under a revision to the Code of Practice.
Today’s TV: 13.4.1976, Melbourne
and the following year
Today’s TV: 13.4.1977, Melbourne
Source: The Sun
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Even now, TV guides still use NTH and STH to refer to Northern NSW and Southern NSW respectively for the Ten affiliate services.
Particularly as WIN News only aired in its southern markets until mid-2019.
There’s a segment of it on YouTube:
YouTube: DPWW1
Those old Sun listings take me back, I remember browsing those every morning before school
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The regional editions of the Sun had the country channel listings in the spot where the TV review article was in the metro editions.
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I think that was a later development. Earlier the country TV listings would be in a random section anywhere else in the paper.
The Age used to do a similar thing around the 1970s where the country guides would be on Page 2 but the Melbourne guide was further in the paper. By sometime around 1980 or 81, The Age eventually moved the TV listing to Page 2 for Melbourne and allowed room on the page to modify for country editions.
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Here’s a later version of The Sun’s TV guide, with country TV listings but the Melbourne edition of the paper usually had a Channel Ten advert in that spot, with TV reviews/commentary on the opposite page
Today’s TV: 13.4.1987, Victoria
Source: The Sun
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