Even in the late 1990s, early 2000s, it was normal for SBS to have a siesta of 30 or 60 minutes.
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Wow. Both HSV 7 and GTV 9 had ballets. (7:30 shows)
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a generation before the Tony Bartuccio Dancers 
Today’s TV: 14.7.1968, Melbourne
14.7.1988, Tasmania
Source: TV Week
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Two legends head to head at 5pm.
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Channel 9 didn’t start broadcasting until 11.00am.
And The Young And The Restless was on 10 in Adeladie where Channel 9 broadcasted it in other cities. Wonder Reason why?
Nine in Adelaide might have knocked it back, and at the time Channel 10 Adelaide was owned by Channel 7 in Perth and so it’s possible they bought TY&TR for both their Adelaide and Perth stations.
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Does Not get more complex as this with Eastern Cities easily owned by their own stations airing same programmes on the same networks, but Adelaide and Perth their programme rights does not always be on the same licensing deal with under different ownership with their Network programming like The Young And The Restless and other stuff
in those days there were also differences between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, especially on the Seven and 0/10 stations. The Nines were a little more uniform, largely due to the Packers owning Nine in both Sydney and Melbourne, but there were rare differences even between those two stations sometimes. TV stations were a lot more autonomous in making programming decisions on those days and network structures were not as rigid as they are now. If a certain network station didn’t want to buy a program it ran the risk of being picked up by a competitor even if it differed to network partners in other cities.
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Melbourne TV: Monday 17 July 1995
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Out of Empire
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 First Edition
7.30 Astronomy
8.00 A Time to Grow
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Anytime Tales
9.30 Play School
10.00 Alias the Jester
10.10 Mr. Squiggle
10.15 EC Plays Lift Off
10.40 Gumby
11.00 Art Attack
11.15 Watt on Earth
11.30 Troublemakers
11.55 Mr. Fix It
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Northwood
1.00 The Investigators
1.30 Hot Chips
2.00 Landline (repeat)
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Noddy
4.40 Budgie the Little Helicopter
4.50 Truckers
5.00 Captain Planet
5.25 Bangers and Mash
5.30 Vidiot
6.00 Degrassi Junior High
6.30 Yes, Prime Minister
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Vicar of Dibley (final)
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 McFeast
10.00 Review (arts)
10.30 News
10.35 The Bottom Line
11.00 The Wild West
12.00 Australia Television News
12.30 Side by Side
1.00 Movie “Dirty Work”
2.10 Movie “Climbing High”
3.30 Visual Arts
4.00 Australian Studies
4.30 Management in Action
5.00 Accounting II
5.30 Discovering Psychology
Seven
6.00 Sons & Daughters
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 Lamb Chop’s Play-Along
9.30 A Country Practice
10.30 News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Sweet Bird of Youth”
2.00 Acropolis Now
2.30 Hey Dad!
3.00 Golden Girls
3.30 Empty Nest
4.00 Tale Spin
4.30 A*mazing
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Lois & Clark
8.30 Movie “Our Sons”
10.30 Talking Footy
11.30 Dark Justice
12.30 Shopping Guide
1.30 NBC Today
3.30 TBA
4.15 Cop Shop
5.10 The Comedy Sale
Nine
6.00 ITN World News
6.30 Daybreak
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Ernie & Denise
10.30 News
11.00 Coronation Street
11.30 What’s Cooking?
12.00 Midday (premiere; Tracy Grimshaw and David Reyne host this new installment of the program (that only runs for 1 hour): it remained on the air for just 4 months, ending on 29 November 1995)
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 The Odd Couple
4.00 Living Single
4.30 Glad Rags
5.00 Cosby Show
5.30 The Price is Right
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Cybill
8.00 Murphy Brown
8.30 Intruders (1992 mini-series starring Richard Crenna)
11.45 News
12.15 IndyCar World Series (from Toronto)
2.15 Entertainment Tonight (repeat)
2.45 Movie “Half a Sixpence”
5.30 The Sullivans
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV: Garfield & Friends/Teknoman/Exosquad
8.30 Mulligrubs
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 News
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Bewitched
4.00 Open House
4.30 Ocean Girl
5.00 News
6.00 Echo Point
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie “Gorillas in the Mist”
11.05 News
11.35 Sports Tonight
12.05 Prisoner
1.05 An Evening with Placido Domingo (from Wembley)
2.00 Infomercials
4.00 Streets of San Francisco
5.00 General Hospital
SBS
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale
7.45 WeatherWatch & Music
8.00 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Voskreseniye
10.30 Oto Polska
11.00 The Journal
11.30 WeatherWatch & Music
12.00 English at Work (in Italian)
12.30 Movie “Bridge of Resurrection” (Japan)
2.05 WeatherWatch & Music
2.30 Legal Studies for Professionals
3.00 Financial Management for Health Services
3.30 Epidemiology
4.00 Management Innovation
4.30 TV Ed
5.00 USA/USSR: The Master Game
6.00 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Defenders of the Wild (UK; premiere)
8.30 Masterpiece (the career of Spanish artist Joan Miro)
9.30 Movie “The Postmistress” (Canada)
11.05 Fine Cut “7 Songs for Malcolm X”
12.00 Circle of Fire (Syria)
12.55 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
1.25 sign-off
Channel 31
7pm TAFE TV
8.00 Access News
8.30 Twinging Hammies
9.00 Bent O Rama
9.30 In Between the Sprockets
10.00 Classically Bent
10.30 VSF Soccer
11.30 Love Parade Special
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9.00 Lamb Chop’s Play-Along Blockquote
Lamb Chop was my favourite back then
The final episode of The Nanny. Thank god.
Today’s TV: 19.7.1970, Melbourne
Coverage of the Commonwealth Games commenced several days after the games started.
Today’s TV: 19.7.1980, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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We could watch the moon landing live in 1969 but in 1970 we couldn’t get direct coverage of the Commonwealth Games from Edinburgh.
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I thought other Tv Networks like ABC and Nine thought to have exclusive rights in channel in different Olympic game year