Depends when she left school too. More opportunities to drop out of school and still launch a successful career back then compared to today where Year 12 retention is so much more. Even 20 years ago it was still possible to leave school after Year 10 for an apprenticeship or similar whereas now I don’t think there’s many opportunities for that at all.
I didn’t know she’d started her career as a weather girl… err… weather presenter!
Oh you can leave after year 10 - IF you have full time work to go to. IIRC at the schools I was at we would fob off kids that would be pains in the arse to employers before expelling them.
Year 12 retention is only up because they have to. Not because some want to, believe me. Some kids are better off learning a trade. But that’s a topic for another thread.
technically, she’d earlier had a role in Marion which was a short-run series on ABC in 1974.
All presenters were young back then. Jennifer Keyte was reading Melbourne’s ATV10 News (filling in) at the age of 22 back in early 80s. That just wouldn’t be seen or done now.
I’m sure it was common in a lot of states.
That is crazy that Tasmania only have 2 commerical channels compared to 3 in Melbourne
Only 1 back then - TVT6 was Hobart only and TNT9 northern Tas only. Completely different schedules there too until I think the 80’s when TasTV started and they had more common schedules but still differences I believe before 1989 when Southern Cross Network came and the northern programming changed again before affiliation in April 1994 when finally there were 2 commercial services for choice across all of Tas and ABC and SBS statewide too (only ABC had been prior).
TVT6 continued to service the south as TasTV until October '94 when its parent company ENT was bought out by WIN.
A large portion of regional Australia only had 1 commercial station along with the ABC back than. Most areas didn’t see a second commercial channel until the very early 90s.
Melbourne TV: Sunday 23 May 1999
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.00 Adventures of Blinky Bill
7.30 Art Attack
7.45 Budgie the Little Helicopter
7.55 Oscar and Friends
8.00 Dog Tracer
8.25 The Trap Door
8.30 Cro
9.00 Genie from Down Under
9.30 Netball: Sydney Sandpipers v. Perth Orioles
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise “Chester”
11.35 Testament
12.00 Landline
1.00 Sunday Afternoon with Andrea Stretton (includes Gustav Mahler: 1860-1911, 2.00 A Death in Venice, 2.55 American Ballet Theatre, 3.00 Paul Auster, 3.55 Anne Sophie Mutter: A Life with Beethoven)
5.00 NSL Preliminary Finals: Sydney United v. Perth Glory
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Living Edens “South Georgia Island: Paradise of Ice”
8.25 News
8.30 The Scarlet Pimpernel (final)
10.00 Compass
10.35 Michael Crawford in Concert
11.35 Call Red (final)
12.25 Movie “A Tale of 2 Cities”
2.20 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
3.00 Alles Gute
3.15 Open Learning: Study Skills
3.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
4.00 Visual Arts
4.30 Aboriginal Studes
5.00 Time to Grow
5.30 Landscape and You
Seven
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Something More
7.00 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
7.30 Time Masters
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Sportsworld Footy Panel
12.00 AFL Game Day
12.40 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. Geelong
3.20 AFL: Sydney v. West Coast
6.00 News
6.30 Harry’s Practice
7.00 Learners
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
8.30 Movie “Dating the Enemy”
10.45 Movie “Too Hot to Handle”
1.00 Lost in Space
2.00 NBC Today
3.00 NBC Meet the Press
4.00 Telemall Shopping
5.00 Amazing Tails
5.25 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 World View
7.00 Pick Your Face
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sunday Footy Show
12.00 Tales of the Serengeti
1.00 Movie “Captiva Island”
3.00 Movie “The Stooge”
5.00 Touched by an Angel
6.00 News
6.30 60 Minutes
7.29 Keno
7.30 Cricket World Cup: Australia v. Pakistan
11.15 Newsbreak
11.20 Wings
11.50 Cricket World Cup: Australia v. Pakistan (cont’d)
3.30 NRL: Cronulla Sharks v. North Sydney Bears
5.30 Zorro (animated)
Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Stand TV
7.00 The Big Cheez: Casper, Jumanji and Godzilla
8.30 Video Hits
11.00 Extreme Games
11.30 Meet the Press
12.00 NBA Action
12.30 Triathlon Australia (round 4; from Moololaba, Queensland)
1.30 FIA World Rally (round 5, from Catalunya)
2.00 RPM
3.00 Trackside
5.00 News
5.30 The Songs of Dawson’s Creek (includes interviews with musicians Shawn Mullins and Heather Nova)
6.00 MAS*H
6.30 The Nanny
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Good News Week
8.30 Movie “The American President”
10.45 News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 Motorcycle Racing: French 500cc Grand Prix
1.45 Video Hits
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 L’Ahbarijiet
6.30 Pangunahing Balita
7.00 Heti Magyar Hirado
7.30 Visnyk Ukrainy
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 WeatherWatch & Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Esta Semana
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Italian Soccer highlights
11.30 Indoor Volleyball: AVL highlights
12.30 FA Cup Final replay: Newcastle v. Manchester United
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Water Polo: National League
4.00 Asia Sports Show
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.00 Movie Show
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 From the Tropics to the Snow
8.00 ICAM: Indigenous Cultural Affairs Magazine
8.30 Groovy Days (Denmark)
9.30 America in Rome (Italian documentary on the golden years of spaghetti westerns)
10.50 Movie “The Price of Power” (Italian western)
12.35 The Red Brigades: Broken Dreams (Italian documentary)
1.30 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
6.30 Word of Life
7.00 Zontas 100%
7.30 Buone Notizie
8.00 Power for Living
8.30 David Boske
9.00 Footscray District Football
10.30 Eastern Junior Footy Show
10.30 Diamond Valley Junior League
1.30 Fish Cam
5.30 VAFA highlights
6.00 Good Evening Melbourne
7.00 Plant Native
7.30 Pathways
8.00 The Bike Show
8.30 Asian Community TV
9.00 Musical Planet
10.30 Black Two Sugars
11.00 UK Today
11.30 Fish Cam
I remember that show. It starred future All Saints cast member Wendy Strehlow.
I remember watching For The Term Of His Natural Life. I think I had to write about it for a Grade 6 assignment!
Interesting guest stars in Cop Shop. Peter Sumner, who I gather playing a different role to the one he had in the show’s opening episodes a few years earlier, where he played a gay-bashing cop, and Elaine Lee, a.k.a. Vera Collins from Number 96.
Interesting that Seven is also showing Cop Shop in double episodes, was this a move towards the end of its run maybe to hope for a ratings boost?
Most of it time it fails, little fractions are successful that is happening all the time nowadays.
I beg your pardon?
That is unusual that ABC used to run films on Tuesday night.
Today’s TV: 26.5.1994, Bendigo
Source: The Bendigo Advertiser
What would end up being the last bulletin of SCN news at 6.00. It appears by this stage the news had become a statewide regional bulletin (like what Nine Local does now, and WIN is to adopt from July), amalgamating the former bulletins based in Bendigo and Gippsland.
From the next day, SCN would become Ten Victoria and The Simpsons replaced the 6.00 bulletin.
YouTube: Regional TV Australia Web Project
Four and a half hours of comedy in primetime on Prime/Seven - wouldn’t work today!
Shame it was lost… 30 years later and we’re seeing history repeat it self with WIN News.
