one way to knock down your opposition… pinch the host. A well-used trick by Nine over the years.
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What’s Up Downunder, that aired on Seven in 2011, is that on Ten now?
And good to see Funniest Home Videos on air still in 2011. For some reason, i thought it left earlier. The guide proved me wrong. lol.
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ABC was the first Australian broadcaster of The Graham Norton Show before 10 snatched the rights.
Melbourne TV: Saturday 7 June 1997
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Recovery
12.00 Stateline
12.30 Water Polo: National League
1.00 International Netball: Australia v. South Africa
2.00 VFL: North Ballarat v. Williamstown
5.00 WNBL: Sydney v. Brisbane
6.00 Bush Tucker Men: Stories of Survival
6.30 Australian Story: Natasha Stott Despoja
7.00 News
7.30 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
8.25 News
8.30 The Bill (2 episodes)
9.20 News
9.30 Roy & HG: Club Buggery
10.30 Dancing in the Street: A Rock ‘n’ Roll History
11.30 Order in the House
12.30 Rage
Seven
6.00 Cross Country
6.30 Interfooty
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Little Mermaid
9.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
10.00 Iznogoud
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 Sweet Valley High
11.30 Hang Time
12.00 Survival of the Fittest
1.00 Rugby Union: Super 12s Grand Final (highlights of Auckland v. ACT)
2.00 Movie “Munster, Go Home!”
4.00 Interfooty
4.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
5.00 Around the Grounds
5.30 News
6.00 AFL Winners
7.30 World’s Deadliest Volcanoes
8.28 Tattslotto
8.30 AFL: Port Adelaide v. Sydney
11.30 Rugby Union: State of the Union
1.30 Telemall
2.00 Movie “The Girl in a Swing”
4.05 Movie “Young Toscanini”
Nine
6.00 Tennis: French Open (cont’d)
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Glad Rags
9.30 Plucka’s Place
10.30 Wishbone
11.00 Lawn Bowls: Mazda Jack Tournament
12.00 Wackiest Ship in the Army
1.00 Wide World of Sports
4.00 McKenna
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat)
6.00 News
6.30 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
8.30 The Pretender
9.30 World’s Funniest Commercials
10.30 News
10.35 Cricket: England v. Australia (3rd test)
3.30 Tennis: French Open
Ten
6.00 Dog City
6.30 Care Bears
7.00 Owl TV
7.30 Mission Top Secret
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 The Muppet Show (guest Dyan Cannon)
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Air Time (basketball news)
12.30 Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
2.00 Road to Avonlea
3.00 Motorcycle Racing: 500cc World Championship (replay of the Austrian Grand Prix)
5.00 News
5.30 Bewitched
6.00 Addams Family
6.30 Flipper
7.30 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
8.30 Unsolved Mysteries
9.30 Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Inspector Wexford
11.45 News
12.15 Sports Tonight
12.45 NBL: Perth Wildcats v. Illawarra Hawks
2.45 NBA finals: Chicago Bulls v. Utah Jazz (game 3)
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.35 WeatherWatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Vremya
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 New Innovations of Classical Music
2.00 David Mamet (an interview with the playwright)
3.00 A Gypsy in Africa (documentary on the life of Bunny Allen)
4.00 Great Wonders of the World (UK)
4.30 What Makes You Say That? (part 2)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Gourmet Ireland
7.30 Dateline
8.30 The Fast Show (UK)
9.00 The Newsroom (Canadian comedy)
9.30 Movie “Porco Rosso” (Japanese anime)
11.05 Eat Carpet
12.05 Movie “No Skin” (Italy)
1.35 sign-off
Channel 31
1pm UK Today
1.30 Word of Life
2.00 Vietnamese Program
2.30 It’s Country Today
3.30 Musical Portraits
4.30 ATVAA Fundraising Night
5.30 Love from Cyprus
6.30 Saturday Night at the Trots
11.15 sign-off
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Back in 1997 the French Open only aired in the early hours of the morning with the Ashes shown from the 2nd session.
Today’s TV: 7.6.1977, Sydney
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee procession is live from London on ABC
Source: TV Week
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Was the Jubilee was exclusive to ABC sound the time? Commercial networks just stuck to American programming.
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It appears it was. Looking at The Guardian television guide it was also exclusive to BBC television, with the ITV stations instead showing a film of the Royal Wedding from 1947, a different church service and an afternoon of sport.
Today’s TV: Tuesday 8 June 1976
from The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH Guide to Television)
ABN-2
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 Schools
9.30 Play School (B&W)
10.00 Schools
1.00pm News
1.10 Horizon 5
1.30 Schools
3.15 Andy Pandy
3.30 Play School (B&W)
4.00 Sesame Street
5.00 Adventure Island (Rpt) (B&W)
5.25 Kimba the White Lion (Rpt)
5.50 Catweazle (Rpt)
6.15 The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Rpt)
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Take Kerr
7.00 News
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Torque
8.25 Warship (A)
9.20 The Wackers (AO)
9.45 News
9.55 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (A)
10.25 Funky Road
10.55 Closedown
ATN-7
10.00am Romper Room
10.53 Wotsa-Name Show
10.58 The Community Noticeboard
11.00 Eleven AM
Noon Movie: Family Secret (1951) (B&W) (Rpt, A)
2.00 Ben Casey (B&W) (Rpt, A)
3.00 It Takes a Thief (Rpt, A)
4.00 Superman (B&W) (Rpt)
4.30 Land of the Lost
5.00 My Three Sons (Rpt)
5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show (Rpt)
6.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt)
7.30 Welcome Back Kotter (A)
8.00 Barney Miller (A)
8.30 Movie: Frankenstein, The True Story (1974) (AO)
10.30 Bill Collins’ Showbiz Chat
11.00 The Untouchables (B&W) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
TCN-9
7.00am The Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Celebrity Squares (Rpt)
10.30 Dinah!
11.30 Search for Tomorrow (A)
Noon General Hospital (A)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (A)
2.00 The Young and the Restless (A)
2.30 Another World (A)
3.30 The Lucy Show (Rpt)
4.00 Cartoon Corner
5.00 The Monkees (Rpt)
5.30 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
6.00 Celebrity Squares
6.30 News Centre Nine
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Petrocelli (A)
8.30 Joe Forrester (A)
9.30 The Don Lane Show
11.00 The NFL Cup
Carlton v South Fremantle, direct from Adelaide
1.00am Closedown
TEN-10
7.00am Wilma the Witch’s Club
8.30 Movie: Canon City (1948) (B&W) (Rpt, A)
9.55 Religious
10.00 Switched on Living
10.15 Swami Sarasvati (Yoga)
10.30 The Real McCoys
11.00 Family Circle
Noon The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Pot of Gold
2.30 Casino 10
3.00 Matlock Police (B&W) (Rpt)
4.00 It’s About Time (Rpt)
4.30 Daniel Boone (Rpt)
5.30 The Brady Bunch (Rpt)
6.00 Eyewitness News Hour
7.00 The Celebrity Game
7.30 Chase (A)
8.30 Number 96
9.30 The Box
10.30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (AO)
11.30 Movie: Mother of the Bride (A)
1.00am Religious
1.05 Closedown
FYI: In terms of television, “Station Close” or “Close” is the sequence of operations involved when an Australian television station closes transmission for the night. Because Australia is a Commonwealth country, I use the term “Closedown” as it is commonly known in New Zealand and the UK.
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This schedule is from 8 June 1976.
My bad!
TCN-9 must have been close to 24/7 transmission at that point.
Becasue 24/7 did not commence till 1983.
TCN9 and GTV9 commenced 24/7 in 1976 coinciding with the Olympic Games
QTQ9 commenced 24/7 on New Year’s Day 1980
NWS9 and STW9 during the 1980s
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Didn’t New Zealand TV did trail it in the 1980s which is not successful for return to nightly closedown, then in the 1990s after deregulation 24/7 did reintroduce it on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) in 1994.
Sadly, only 8 episodes remain from HHIS’s 1979 season.
(That’s what I’ve found on the heyhey.tv website).
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