The article mentioned that Skyways was the first Australian drama to use Chroma-key. It must be quite expensive to use such as a technique at the time. Before the proliferation of CGI in the 1990s, was Chroma-key commonly used in local drama production?
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Number 96 tried it in the 1970s a few times when trying to emulate outdoor street scenes set outside the apartment building that were really filmed in the studio. It looked really rough by today’s standards but was probably groundbreaking back then.
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It looked shit on Arrested Development just a few years ago, it only works well with scenic shots like when 24 shot in LA for D.C. or when they key different skies into shots.
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10 last had the Bond rights in 2002-2004, Though they only had Dr.No through License to Kill as 7 had the rights to the first 3 Brosnan films. 10 aired the Bond films on Saturdays during the Summer from late-2002 into 2003. I still remember taping some of them.
Was before Nine picked up the rights after that?
7 got the rights to all of them about 10 years ago minus the Craig films which were acquired by 9. 7 had them for a couple of years before 9 got them around 2013/2014 who have had them since. 9 typically tends to run them all on Gem at least once a year though the Craig films get aired on regular 9 since they would likely drae a larger audience than the older ones.
What’s with the upside down olympic rings?
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No idea.
Someone stuffed up or avoiding a copyright infringement? 
Or, given it was for the Winter Olympics, did it used to use that as its logo?
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I suspect they weren’t allowed to use the rings, so hence why it’s upside down.
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Today’s TV: 11.7.1965, Adelaide
Source: TV Radio Guide
Today’s TV: 11.7.1974, Adelaide
Source: TV Week
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German soccer on 0, this league is now known as the Bundesliga and is shown here on beIN Sports.
Also nine hours of Winter Olympics on Nine, it actually ran on February 4-15, 1976.
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Wise move by SAS10 not to screen the new current affairs show ‘24 Hours’.
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A one-hour drama that ran for 19 episodes.
Today’s TV: 12.7.1988, Northern Territory. Plus the full week’s programs on Imparja, and as mentioned around here not long ago, the NT edition also used to include the regional QLD channels.
Basically, the Darwin/ABC guide was 7 pages, then Imparja’s 1 page, then 7 pages of the QLD regionals. Most other editions would have 2 pages per day plus 1 end page for regionals like GLV, NBN, WIN, GWN, etc.
Source: TV Week
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Nice pic of Ray Meagher from not Home and Away.
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Melbourne TV: Friday 13 July 1990
from The Age
ABV2
7.00 Square One Television
7.30 Secret Valley
7.57 Wonderful Wizard of Oz
8.20 Sesame Street
9.20 PGR
9.30 Play School
10.00 Noddy (final)
10.15 Puddle Lane (final)
10.30 Happy Hatchday to Plasmo
11.00 Bang Goes the Budgie (final)
11.30 Pals (final)
12.30 Buddy (final)
1.00 PGR
1.50 Australian Eye
2.00 Quantum
2.30 Badger on the Barge
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 Jimbo and the Jet-Set
5.00 The Eye of the Dragon (final)
5.30 Doctor Who
6.00 Countdown Revolution
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Countrywide
8.28 News
8.30 Movie “Number 27”
9.40 News
10.00 NBA: Chicago v. Philadelphia
11.30 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Mama’s Family
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 Still the Beaver
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends
10.00 Beverly Hillbillies
10.30 People’s Court
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Killers of Kilimanjaro”
2.00 Perry Mason
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Bewitched
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Home & Away
7.00 Hinch
7.30 Golden Girls
8.00 Open All Hours
8.30 AFL: West Coast Eagles v. St. Kilda
11.30 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard
12.35 NBC Today
1.35 Ascent of Man
2.30 Rituals
2.55 Generations
3.20 Movie “Song of the Succubus”
4.35 Superior Court
5.00 Science International
5.05 Family Medical Centre
5.30 Group One Medical
GTV9
6.00 Biskitts
6.30 ITN World News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In Melbourne Today
10.30 General Hospital
11.30 Barney Miller
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Diff’rent Strokes
4.00 M.A.S.K.
4.30 KTV
5.00 Bugs Bunny
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.28 Keno
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “Do Not Disturb”
10.40 Robbo’s World Tonight
11.40 MTV
2.00 Movie “The Spirit of St. Louis”
4.30 The Charmings
5.00 It’s a Living
5.30 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Centurians
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Good Morning Australia
8.55 Ten’s Billboard
9.00 'Til Ten
10.00 Mulligrubs
10.30 News
11.00 Another World
12.00 Santa Barbara
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Carson’s Law
3.30 Gimme a Break!
4.00 That Girl
4.30 Double Dare
5.00 Munsters
5.30 Charles in Charge
6.00 News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 Baywatch
8.30 Movie “The Incredible Hulk Returns”
10.30 News
10.35 Movie “The Conspirators”
12.50 Secret World
1.20 Movie “The Capture of Bigfoot”
3.05 Movie “Love’s Dark Side”
5.00 Bellamy
SBS
12pm Vremya
12.40 temporary sign-off
4.00 Kaleidoscope
4.30 The Electric Company
5.00 Speaking for Myself
5.35 International Cookbook
5.45 Little Missy (Brazil)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Asia Report
7.30 Funny Fillers (animated short films)
8.00 Tonight
8.30 Great Performances “Von Karajan in Salzburg”
10.00 Eat Carpet (includes The Sagas and Target Audience)
10.25 The Noise
11.25 Space Patrol (US)
11.50 sign-off
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lol, wonder why SBS close down during the day that time?