And a 15-minute highlight package after the soccer.
Today’s TV: 8.7.1992, Tasmania
The Tasmanian edition also included Melbourne channels
Source: TV Week
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Surprised Batman was on the ABC
I can’t see that?
Where in Tasmania can you receive Melbourne channels? King Island or the north tip of Flinders Island maybe?
If they were lucky they could get Melbourne FTA in north east Tasmania, sometimes causing havoc with TNT9 of course. (Likewise, I remember TNT9 clashing with GTV9 down in Aireys Inlet many years ago) But I think the inclusion of Melbourne in the Tasmania edition was more to do with just filling up pages as the Tasmanian listings only really required one page for each day instead of two pages elsewhere. (Similarly, the NT edition in those days used to include the QLD regional channels as well, really just to fill up space, not for any practical reason to viewers)
Even in the 1990s when the listings were reformatted into colour, the Tasmanian edition still included the Melbourne channels 7, 9 and 10 squashed into one column because it had a spare column by Tasmania only having two commercial channels (WIN/SCN) when other cities had three.
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Strange that Southern Cross Tasmania (a joint mainly 7 but with some 10 programmes) aired Ren and Stimpy in 1995 while its Victorian Southern Cross Ten stations did not. SC10 instead screened Chris Conroy’s Leisureworld, which oddly enough aired on WIN in Tasmania.
So much nostalgia for 10 year old me here.
Also nice to see SBS was already re-running Season 6 of South Park even in 2003 that was a go to season for them when I was in my teens later in the decade.
Also weird seeing The Sopranos on the Nine schedule.
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I think the set for Tropical Island was later repurposed a few years later for the Lassiters Complex in Neighbours.
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Yeah, I remember that as well. Pokemon was just so massive when it hit here in 1999 that 10 could actually put episodes on in primetime on Saturday. Also wasn’t aware 10 also had some sort of NBA rights in 1999 either and that the game is just buried in the middle of the night.
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This website has a good history of the Chris Conroy shows. It appears that the show was self-funded by product placement and given to individual channels rather than networks (hence, WIN in Tasmania but SC in Victoria, for instance), but as networking took hold they decided to charge him a fee for airtime, so the show came to an end as the fee could not be sustained against the advertising revenue he collected.
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Will these reporters roll 60 Minutes?
No
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But one of them did end up buying the network 
but what’s with the picture of George Negus and Julieanne Newbould? They literally had nothing to do with the new show. If they wanted a 60 Minutes picture to show as the competition, they would have had any number of photos of the whole reporting team.
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On 16 September 1982, John Laws became host of The Reporters. Here’s an article from Sydney Morning Herald (published a week later) about his arrival to the program. Laws continued as host until the end of the show in early December 1982.
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Today’s TV: 9.7.1979, Melbourne
One of many pages in TV Week for the premiere of Skyways.
Source: TV Week
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Both HSV7 and GTV9 had local late night news… if only they could do that now.
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Tracy Grimshaw mentioned in an interview with Tony Jones on 3AW recently there was a brief time in the early '80 when GTV9 provided news updates overnight. She was one of the readers that would have to do the nightshift every so often. She said it gave her an opportunity to hone her skills and make mistakes when next to nobody was watching.
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It was sometime around 1984. Sue McIntosh used to read those updates, too, as did radio announcer Don Lunn.
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