Classic TV Listings

I expect that they took TV0 out of NNSW once it became Ten

The one thing I remember about that show is how they started each episode with an unflattering close-up of that week’s participant (they seemed to have an obsession with putting all the women in one-piece swimsuits)

It should be “Regional” NSW, not “Northern”

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Funnily enough, I do remember seeing a TV Week whilst on holidays in 1991 in Coffs Harbour and it still had TVQ10 listed but no other Brisbane channels. Strange. I’m trying to track one down on EBay without luck

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TV Week also had a “Southern NSW” edition which also included ABC (Victoria), GMV6 and AMV4 which had large parts of their coverage area in southern parts of NSW.

Sydney TV: Thursday 8 October 1992
from Sydney Morning Herald

ABN2
7.00 Lateline (repeat)
7.30 Statistics
8.00 Astroboy
8.24 Jimbo and the Jet Set
8.30 Sesame Street
9.30 Play School
10.00 Puddle Lane
10.15 Additional Fables
10.30 Gruey
10.55 Henry’s Cat
11.00 You Can’t Do That on Television
11.30 Children of Green Knot
11.55 Bananaman
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum (repeat)
1.00 Couchman
1.55 Come and Get It
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Windfalls
4.00 Play School
4.30 Gumby
4.35 SuperTed
5.00 Big Square Eye
5.30 Press Gang
6.00 Vidiot
6.30 Here’s Lucy
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Home Show
8.30 Frankie’s House (final)
10.20 News
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Money Matters
11.35 Fanny & Alexander
1.00 Parliament Question Time: Senate
2.00 The Bill
2.50 sign-off

ATN7
6.00 The Tomorrow People
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 Tripods
9.30 The Book Place
10.00 Solid Rock
10.30 NBC Nightly News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “The Three Wishes of Billy Grier”
2.00 The Persuaders!
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 Get Smart
4.00 Saved by the Bell
4.30 Blockbusters
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Real Life
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 Family Matters
8.00 Close to Home
8.30 Fast Forward
9.30 Blackadder Goes Forth
10.25 Tonight Live
11.35 The Young Riders
12.35 NBC Today
2.25 Aboriginal Australia
2.30 Rafferty’s Rules
3.20 Origins of the Mafia
4.15 Space: 1999
5.10 Trouble in Mind
5.35 Play Your Cards Right

TCN9
6.00 Sanford & Son
6.30 ITN World News
6.55 Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In Sydney Today
10.30 News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Designing Women
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Supermarket Sweep
4.00 I Dream of Jeannie
4.30 The Girl from Tomorrow
5.00 Cosby Show
5.30 Sydney Extra
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Getaway
8.28 Lotto
8.30 Street Stories
9.30/10.00 Cheers
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
12.00 Golf: World Match Play Tournament (from Wentworth, England)
2.30 American Baseball: Playoffs Series (teams TBA)

TEN10
6.00 News
6.30 Good Morning Australia
8.30 The Morning Show
10.00 Mulligrubs
10.30 Aerobics Oz Style
11.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
12.00 Santa Barbara
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 General Hospital
4.00 Col’n Carpenter
4.30 The Wonder Years
5.00 News
6.00 MAS*H
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Hinch
7.30 E Street
8.30 Hard Copy Extra (interview with the Donahers of Sylvania Waters)
9.00 Cops
9.30 Hard Copy
10.30 News
11.00 Sports Show
11.05 Tennis: Australian Indoor Championships
2.00 Just for the Record
2.30 Amen
3.00 Pozner and Donahue
4.00 Prisoner
5.00 Lucas Tanner (final)

SBS
4pm Novosti
4.30 temporary sign-off
5.00 English at Work
5.30 Den of Wolves (Mexico)
6.00 World Sports
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dateline
7.30 A Traveller’s Guide to the Orient (final)
8.00 Pyjamas for Three (Germany)
8.30 Movie “Hired a Contract Killer” (Finland)
9.50 Eat Carpet
10.50 Movie “Second Generation” (Serbia)
12.20 sign-off

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I remember that show on 7 at 10am Solid Rock. It was a Christian Music show presenter by some bloke at Sonshine FM in Perth. It only aired on Friday mornings

Today’s TV: 10.10.1977, Melbourne

Source: The Sun

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Wonder if this was during a power strike? There were plenty of them in Victoria in the 60s and 70s. Seems odd they all sign on at 3pm and off at 11pm. (apart from ABC during the day).

Yeah this was during an SEC dispute and I think this was one that went on for a while.

Yes, television was only allowed between 3pm and 11pm during that strike, but exceptions were made for the VFL Grand Final so that it can be telecast live by HSV7 for the first time, and for the Bathurst Hardie Ferodo 1000.

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I never knew the strikes to last for that long. The only ones I recall went for only 1 or 2 days. This one must have stretched out for weeks?

Seems that the Sammy Awards didn’t make it to WA (although Nine’s three-hour “to be announced” could have been it)

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That would be the day of the 1972 VFL Grand Final, in which Carlton defeated Richmond in a very high-scoring game.

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What was the History of Electricity Strikes across Victoria???

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The story of the 1977 Victorian power strike which went on for 11 weeks:

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Canberra, Tueaday 10 October 1967
from Canberra Times

ABC3
9.10 For Schools:
9.10 Maths for Second Form
9.40 Science for Form II
10.05 Play School
10.40 For Schools:
10.40 Secondary Science
11.30 Dampierland Walkabout
1.00 People
1.35 For Schools:
1.35 Maths for First Form
2.35 Dampierland Walkabout
2.55 Maths for Third Form
3.30 Donna Reed
3.55 UPA Cartoon
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Film Fare
4.45 Forest Rangers
5.10 Why is It So?
5.25 Lassie
5.50 Hay Landlord!
6.15 My Favorite Martian
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Canberra News
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.25 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Avengers (A)
8.50 News in Brief
8.55 Impact
10.00 Sportsreel
10.15 News
10.25 Jazz 625
10.50 close

CTC7
1pm News Headlines
1.05 Movie Matinee “Bannerline”
2.30 TV Jackpot Quiz
3.00 Tommy Hanlon
3.30 News Headlines
3.35 Casebook
4.00 Beauty & the Beast
4.50 William tell
5.00 Children’s Television Corner
5.30 Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
5.55 Community Billboard
6.00 Flintstones
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 Holden Showcase '67
8.30 Homicide (A)
9.30 News Headlines
9.35 Peyton Place (A)
10.00 Coronation Street
10.35 close

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1980 channel line-up for Southern NSW edition:
ABC NSW/Canberra
WIN4 Wollongong
NBN3 Newcastle
CTC7 Canberra
CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo
Network 28 Canberra (shoehorned in on bottom of first listings page)
RVN2 Wagga Wagga
MTN9 Griffith
AMV4 Albury
GMV6 Shepparton
ABC Victoria

TV Times had some weird editions too…a 1977 Coastal edition I have lists every station in NSW (and ACT), except for RVN2-which was mentioned in TV movie listings!

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Wow, so could you receive all those channels in southern NSW?

Generally, no, in most cases just ABC and the local commercial station. SBS only in regional areas where it was available which from 1983 was really only Canberra, Newcastle and Wollongong.

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Today’s TV: 11.10.1977, Perth & South West WA

Source: TV Week

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Today’s TV: 11.10.1982, “Country” edition

Source: TV Week

The SES8 guide is a little puzzling. The national news (which came from HSV7 at 6.30 in Melbourne) is at 7.05 and The Don Lane Show (9.30 in EST) is shown at 10.00 on SES8. It’s possible SES8 has just tape delayed these shows for local screening but I wonder if there was a chance that SA had already gone into daylight saving ahead of Victoria, meaning that SA could be 30 minutes ahead of Victoria? Meaning that those shows appear 30 minutes “later” in South Australia than in Victoria.

Victoria used to generally start DS around the end of October, not the beginning of October as it does now, so it is possible SA had an earlier start to DS.

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