Today’s TV: 28.12.1972, Melbourne
Tasmania
Source: TV Week
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I don’t think they were re-runs because I remember there were complaints at the time that Seven were skipping episodes whenever the Australian Open ran overtime.
I thought that was not until the 2013/14 season?
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I remember the 06/07 WACA test is being aired in full and not just the final session as had been the standard for WACA tests.
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Good chance being an Ashes series it was a sellout which would lift the blackout into the home market.
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Canberra TV: Saturday 31 December 1994
from Canberra Times
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Management in Action
9.30 Global Economy
10.00 Visual Arts
10.30 Australian Environmental Studies
11.00 Discovering Psychology
11.30 Gardening Australia
12.00 Movie “Don’t Take It to Heart”
1.30 Barrels of Crude and Wallaroos
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Sport (2.05 Benaud to Border, 3.00 Football: American NFL (with Don Lane), 4.30 Golf: World Cup, 5.45 Sports News)
6.00 Round the Twist
6.30 Escape from Jupiter
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Side by Side
8.00 Surgical Spirit
8.25 News
8.30 The Bill (2 episodes)
9.20 News
9.30 Movie “Singin’ in the Rain”
11.15 Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
1.10 Australia Television News
1.40 Rage
Capital
6.00 It’s a Knockout!
7.00 Bobby’s World
7.30 Doug
8.00 X-Men
8.30 Ren & Stimpy
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 Saturday Basketball
12.30 Coach
1.00 Level 23 (repeat)
2.00 Movie “Lassie: Peace is Our Profession”
4.00 Eight is Enough
5.00 The Power of Water
6.00 Capital Eyewitness News
6.30 George & Mildred
7.00 Brush Strokes
7.30 Unsolved Mysteries
8.30 Murder, She Wrote
9.30 McCloud
11.00 Ten News
11.30 TV Guide’s 40th Anniversary
1.25 sign-off
WIN
6.00 Gillette World Sports Special
6.30 Karate Kid
7.00 The Emperor’s New Clothes
8.00 The Zone
8.30 Bush Beat
9.00 What’s Up Doc?
11.00 The Black Tulip
12.00 Drag Racing
1.00 Surfing: Surf League Titles
4.00 Wrestling: World Championship
5.00 AWE Documentary Specials “African Wild Dogs”
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Movie “Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie”
8.30 Movie “Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment”
10.20 Newsbreak
10.25 Movie “The Long Line”
12.00 Happy New Year from WIN
12.05 Late Show with David Letterman
1.05 Movie “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”
2.50 Movie “Loving”
4.30 Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
5.00 Kenneth Copeland
Prime
6.00 Reach Out for Christ
6.30 Punky Brewster
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9.30 Saved by the Bell
10.00 Movie “Don’t Give Up the Ship”
11.55 Pancho and Rancho
12.00 Prime Travelcade
12.30 Family Ties
1.00 Five Mile Creek
2.00 Beverly Hillbillies
2.30 Movie “One Night in the Tropics”
4.00 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1991
5.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Australia
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 1994: The Big Picture (review of the year)
7.30 Babylon 5
8.30 Cobra
9.30 21st Annual American Music Awards (from Los Angeles)
11.55 2DayFM Coca-Cola Skyshow (from Sydney Harbor)
12.30 Movie “Special Delivery”
2.30 Movie “Virginity”
4.00 Movie “The Elephant Man”
5.45 Aboriginal Australia
SBS
6.30 WeatherWatch & Music
7.45 Cantonese News
8.00 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Novosti
10.10 WeatherWatch & Music
11.00 The Journal
11.30 (Nightly) Business Report
12.00 English at Work
12.30 Movie “Taxi Girl” (France)
2.00 I, Tin Tin (Belgium)
3.00 The Satellite Sky (US documentary)
3.55 Coral Reefs “Rain Forests of the Sea” (Canada)
4.55 Cowboys in the South Pacific (British documentary)
5.30 Speed Week
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dinner for One (Germany)
7.30 Montparnasse Revisited (UK)
8.30 KYTV (UK; premiere, part 1 of 6)
9.00 World of Hammer Films (UK)
9.30 Movie “Rockers” (US)
11.15 Eat Carpet
12.15 Movie “Tampopo” (Japan)
2.10 sign-off
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Anyone know what this contained?
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a new year’s greeting from Bruce Gordon lounging back in the Bermuda sun 
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Very odd to see Help! on TV
Disapointing not see “Can’t Stop The Music” not on 9 at midnight
it was on in Melbourne that night at midnight
Good, Not sure why we didn’t get it in Perth though.
Ten had the NYE fireworks that year after the City of Sydney awarded a 3 year contract over Nine
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This would have been when they were under WIN ownership which may have had something to do with it (WIN-Nine relations were in a pretty bad state at that time).
Also, localised programming variations were possibly still a factor. Nine back then might not have had rights to the movie in Perth so it may have had to slot in an alternative movie.
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Interesting things like this were still going on as late as 2007
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I don’t know of any specific examples but I wouldn’t rule it out even if just a rare occurrence
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