I miss the days when 7 would air King of the Hill during school holidays.
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The TV Week Appreciation Page on Facebook has posted a week of programs from Tasmania and Melbourne from this week in 1986. Interesting to see that while Tas TV was largely uniform between North and South, there were instances of different movies being shown at certain times and a lot of series were showing different episodes between the two halves of the state which seemed a bit odd. I was surprised at the number of times they split movies/episodes and pretty much expected them to be in simulcast all day.
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Sydney TV: Monday 17 December 1984
from Sydney Morning Herald
Seven National News expands to a full hour and Karina Kelly joins Ross Symonds at the anchor desk.
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Seems a bit odd to do that a week before Christmas, although maybe that was intentional to get the new format bedded in before the real battle begins in the new year?
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2008 was around the time i gave up watching TV and went to youtube because FTA had really gone down the toilet by this point even at 16 i knew that
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The ABC1 and Nickelodeon listings bring back memoriessss 
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 21 December 1969
from The Age
ATV0
11.30 Building Today
12.00 Boxing: Ken Bradley v. Ray Perez
2.00 Uptight
4.30 Top Dog of the Year '69 (from Hurstbridge)
5.00 Movie “Racing Dog”
6.25 News
6.30/7.00 Wild Kingdom
7.30 Hogan’s Heroes
8.00 Movie “The Big Gamble”
10.00 World of Rembrandt (NBC documentary)
10.30 Sandlot Ballet
11.00 News
11.30 sign-off
ABV2
12.00 World of Lowell Thomas
12.25 House of Treasures
12.30 English by Television
12.40 Sow What
1.00 44 Hours a Day (documentary)
1.40 Science Report
1.55 Movie “Enchanted Island”
3.25 Five Americans
3.55 Maya
4.45 Hall of Kings
5.35 Freewheels
6.00 Hit Scene
6.30 Tracks Around the World
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 The Gnomes of Dulwich
8.00 The FBI
8.48 News in Brief
8.50 The World of Beachcomber
9.20 Angel Voices
9.50 News
10.00 Chequerboard
10.55 sign-off
HSV7
11.45 Sunday Magazine
12.00 World of Sport
2.40 Movie “The World in His Arms”
4.30 Meet the Press
5.00 Brian and the Juniors
5.30 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
6.00 News
6.30 Disneyland Summer Festival
7.30 Little Drummer Boy
8.00 Movie “My Man Godfrey”
9.40 News
9.45 This Week
10.30 Casebook of Sergeant Cork
11.30 News Headlines
11.40 sign-off
GTV9
11.30 Brother Juniper’s Christmas
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Jungle Jim
2.00 Movie “Legions of the Nile”
3.50 Point of View
4.00 Hunter
5.00 The Alaskans
6.00 News (and Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Julia
8.00 Movie “O. Henry’s Full House”
10.05 Kevin Sanders Reports
10.35 The Plane Makers
11.35 Peter Gunn
12.05 Epilogue/sign-off
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Today’s TV: 21.12.1976, Melbourne
Source: The Sunday Observer / Observer TV
Today’s TV: 21.12.1986, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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Competitive mid-evening news scene in Melbourne in 1976.
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They did it every summer as an alternative to the usual early bulletins during daylight saving, but for some reason the networks seemed to go off the idea by the early 1980s.
An interesting arrangement with the screening of WIN News in Toowoomba. I think this was also around the time when the QTV brand was about to be ditched in favour of Ten Queensland.
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I think you’re right, IIRC the change to Ten Queensland was early in 1993.
And the Channel V, Max, VH1, and MTV listings bring back memories too!
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What about Adelaide?
Melbourne TV: Saturday 24 December 1966
from The Age
ATV0
9.00 test pattern/music
12.00 Kilmore Races (live coverage)
5.00 The Buccaneers
5.30 Fractured Flickers
6.00 Pete & Gladys
6.25 News Headlines
6.30 Hazel
7.00 Patty Duke
7.30 Ed Sullivan (Christmas special)
8.28 News Headlines
8.30 Movie “The Runaway Bus”
10.00 Barry Crocker
10.58 News Headlines
11.00 Steve Allen
12.15 sign-off
ABV2
10.30 test pattern/music
12.30 Movie “Brewster’s Millions”
1.45 Penny Whistle Boys
2.00 Hit Parade
2.30 Sportsview (results service)
2.35 Soccer: UK’s Match of the Day highlights
3.20 1966 Australian Squash Championships (men’s singles finals)
4.10 Cricket: Victoria v. NSW (live, from the MCG)
6.00 Hullabaloo
6.30 Sports Review
6.50 This Week in Britain
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (includes Newsreel)
7.15 Bell Telephone Hour
8.05 The Glory of Sail
8.30 Winter Wunderland (German variety show)
9.30 Movie “The Reluctant Saint”
11.10 Christmas Carols for the Eve of Christ’s Nativity
11.40 sign-off
HSV7
2pm Movie “Dancing Co-Ed”
3.20 Science All Stars
3.50 Movie “Three Godfathers”
5.25 Pets’ Corner
5.30 It’s All Happening (Christmas edition of the teen music show)
6.30 News
7.00 Brian and the Juniors (Christmas special)
7.30 Andy Williams
8.25 Royal Palaces of Britain
9.25 Movie “The Bishop’s Wife”
11.15 sign-off
GTV9
8.30 test pattern/music
9.00 Cartoon Corner (for kids; includes Kaper Cops and Rod Rocket)
9.35 Camera Corner
10.00 Channel 9 Turf Guide
11.00 The Littlest Hobo
11.30 The Samurai
12.00 Captain Gallant
12.30 Movie “Blonde Dynamite”
1.30 Movie “Rawhide Rangers”
2.30 Movie “Fuzz Pink Nightgown”
4.00 Saturday Date
5.00 Hollywood A Go-Go
6.00 Sports News (includes racing highlights)
6.30 Bandstand (Christmas special)
7.30 The Baron
8.30 Red Skelton Hour
9.30 Climax Theatre “Emergency”
10.30 Interview
11.30 News and Sports
12.00 Epilogue, followed by sign-off
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