Today’s TV: 29.4.1979, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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ABRN6 Lismore was an interesting arrangement back in the 1960s. Daytime schools programming came from ABN2 as it was NSW content but all other programming came from ABQ2. I do believe that ABRN6 changed to a full relay of ABN2 in the early 1970s.
I read somewhere that NRN11 and RTN8 showed Eyewtiness News from TEN10 in the mid 1970s.
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The vast majority of regional stations in NSW and Victoria took Seven National News in the 1970s. This is the first time I’ve heard of a regional showing TEN10 Eyewitness News apart from a period when WIN4 screened Eyewitness News on the weekends and Seven National News on weeknights.
For the majority of the time in the 1970s, NRN/RTN screened Seven National News from ATN7. Not sure why they switched to TEN10 for those few years. By 1977, they were back to relaying ATN7.
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I do remember BCV8/GLV10 carried National Nine News from GTV9 in the early to mid 1970s. All other regionals took Seven National News from HSV7. By 1977 BCV/GLV changed its news relay to Seven.
any idea what was the reason for WIN4 switching to Ten news on relay on weekends?
No idea. Can’t remember the exact period it was happening. I’m guessing it had something to do with rugby league coverage. TEN10 was airing their Sunday bulletin at 5.30pm and ran the game of the week for 90 minutes from 6pm after they took the rights from Seven in 1983. Seven only aired a one hour highlights package on Sundays at 6.30pm when they had the rights. TEN10 also had a form of the game airing on Saturday nights for a time prior to 1983.
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Just seen on eBay, a 1958 copy of The Herald, and noted that it put the evening’s TV guide on the front page. Seems quite unusual given “old media” newspapers weren’t always that keen on giving “new media” TV a leg up, even though newspaper owners usually also had big stakes in TV stations.
Also noted at the bottom of the front page, an article about a young Melbourne actor Richard Pratt – later to become a billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He auditioned for a role in the upcoming film Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll , having performed in stage productions of the story in London and New York. Looks like he didn’t get the film part, though.
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Yes, WIN took Ten’s Sunday news at 5:30pm when they had the rugby league replay.
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They had the news at 5:30 on Sundays for 1983-1986. There was a brief period in 1987 where the news was at 6pm (think Ann Sanders was the reader in 87). Then due to poor ratings. 10 moved it back to 5:30 where the rugby league saw highest ever ratings.
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The old Sunday Night Movies on all networks.
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The closedowns on all networks. 
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Today’s TV: 4.5.1981, Melbourne (plus the week on SBS)
Source: TV Week
nb: this was one of my original TV Weeks I’ve been hanging on to now for 40 years. So given I was 9 years old at the time, multiple pages have been graffiti’d, bits and pieces cut out and pages missing. Example being some of the ‘mature’ graffiti on these pictures (moustaches on ladies and lipstick/long hair on men in this magazine seems to have been a popular theme for 9yo me) and I’d cut out the letter “N” from the previous page, probably for some school project or something. I have no idea why I circled the TV show Playaway. From what I recall it was a British kids show.
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