For comparison, Melbourne listing for the same day.
Source: TV Week
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I’m surprised that the Sydney Rugby League even made it onto TV screens in Melbourne back then.
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Might be a bit off topic, but are there any digital TV guides that you can go back and look at immediately previous days listings? Thanks
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I think the state based competitions were keen to share the ABC coverage alongside a commercial network as it gave them national coverage. Like the VFL at the time they would have been using this to gain interest outside of the state for the eventual transition to a national competition.
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Had no idea Greg Pearce was at the ABC well before his ill-fated HSV7 stint.
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I think yourtv.com.au allows you to look up the previous day
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but does anyone know what year the film Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin was shown on Channel 7? My parents tape recorded it off HSV around Christmastime one year in the early 2000s-just can’t remember exactly when in the early 2000s though! (And no, I can’t check the tape as I no longer have it)
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Hi MorticiaAddams,
I looked on Trove on old newspaper listings and found a Victorian regional listing for Prime (Channel 7 affiliate) airing the premiere of “Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin” on Saturday December 1 2001 at 6.30pm. I presume Prime VIC closely followed 7 Melbourne’s schedule.
Looking at the Sydney guide on Newspapers.com they didn’t air the movie that night. “Sydney Weekender Summer Special” was scheduled instead. However it mentions Brisbane was airing “Pooh’s Grand Adventure”. I couldn’t find a premiere date for Channel 7 Sydney.
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oh thank you so much 
yes that will be it, Prime does air exactly the same stuff as Seven here in VIC 
an eleven-year mystery finally solved!!
Look at all of that new content on Seven and Nine - as it should be - schedules these days look so cheap.
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4:30 news was about the Iraq War but after the initial conflict it continued as a national bulletin
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in those days viewers could be expected to stay tuned in until 9.30… 10.30… 11.00. So they had to be catered for. These days as far as networks are concerned anything fresh after 9.00 is a bonus.
I guess too, back then, each network only had one channel to worry about, now they’ve got multiple channels to fill for a shrinking audience and a whole lot more external competition
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Even more impressive when you consider that April 22 was during the Easter non-ratings period of 2003!
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That’s the issue though - the networks now impliedly tell viewers to switch-off after 9pm by not offering ‘compelling’ programming
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That was when Aristos was the flavour of the month on 7 with Surprise Chef. Also remember Meet My Folks.
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