On this day in 1989, Southern NSW
Source: TV Week
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Prime Orange, Wagga and Dubbo (as well as MTN9 Griffith which was part of the Prime Network but not O&O) close down at midnight while Prime Wollongong and Canberra were 24 hour transmission. Note that WIN and Capital didn’t transmit to Orange, Wagga and Dubbo until January 1 1990.
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Homicide airing on a 3 1/2 year delay in Kalgoorlie on VEW8.
Whereas over on GTW, Prisoner was delayed only about 8 months behind the metro networks.
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and was ahead of Perth, which didn’t begin airing Prisoner (on Nine) until 1980.
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Have you got any of the listings from 21 May 2009?
maybe
you tease
The longer answer is, I might, but I don’t know for sure. Would need to go looking…
Melbourne TV: Sunday 15 November 1959
from The Age
ABV2
11.00 Divine Service (from Sydney)
12.15 sign-off
2.30 Screenplay “Nevada”
3.30 At Home with Eric Baume
4.00 Sunday Concert
4.45 Buried Treasure (the history of the ancient Greeks in the Indus Valley)
5.15 Young Sunday
5.30 The Silver Sword
6.00 Lassie
6.30 The Critics
7.00 News/Weekend Magazine
7.30 Portraits of Power
8.00 Dancing: Kolo-Yugoslav State Company
8.45 Speaking Personally
9.30 Science Fiction Theatre “Human Circuit”
10.00 Toward Church Unity
10.30 sign-off
HSV7
12.30pm World of Sport
1.30 Faith for Today
2.00 Young Ambassadors
2.30 test pattern
4.00 Don’t Argue (chat show)
4.30 Our Miss Brooks
5.00 Small World (moderated by Edward R. Murrow)
5.30 Casey Jones
6.00 Adventures of Robin Hood
6.30 Disneyland “How To Relax”
7.26 News
7.30 The Texan
8.00 Movie “Double Dynamite”
9.30 Meet the Press
10.00 Noughts and Crosses
10.30 News (and News Review)
10.45 Sunday Magazine
11.00 sign-off
GTV9
2.45pm How Christian Science Heals
3.00 Pride of the Family
3.30 West Point
4.00 Burns & Allen
4.30 Ray Milland Show
5.00 Waterfront
5.30 Rex Allen Western
6.20 Professor Browne’s Study
6.30 Fury
7.00 Silent Service
7.30 Leave It to Beaver
8.00 Movie “The Mating of Millie”
9.30 Alfred Hitchcock
10.00 Medic
10.30 Late News
10.45 Epilogue/sign-off
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Today’s TV: 16.11.1980, Sydney
And the week on SBS0/28
Today’s TV: 16.11.1998, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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The 1980 Australian Grand Prix on TCN9 was a made-for-television exhibition event. It was not part of the F1 Grand Prix tour. This event was held every year in mid-November until 1984 when Adelaide got the rights to host an official Australian Grand Prix as part of the F1 championships.
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who’s Julia Zaetta who’s on FCTV? is she related to Tania from Who Dares Wins?
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Julia Zaetta was the editor of Family Circle magazine, from which FCTV was derived. I don’t know if she is related to Tania.
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In the Adelaide Sunday Mail dated 1 February 1998, there is a quote from Julia about Tania, coincidentally in an article about FCTV, saying they are cousins. I have link to Newsbank but you may need a local library membership like I did to access it. Info program gets go-ahead
Today’s TV: 19.11.1996, Melbourne. ABC celebrates the 40th anniversary of ABV2, Melbourne, with the special 40 Years In The Making.
Source: TV Week
YouTube: aussiebeachut0
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