Today’s TV: 31.12.1990, Victoria “Country”
Source: TV Week
For some reason, Ten decided to bring back Neighbours for 1991 before 1990 had even ended! It must have been a fairly rushed decision - soon enough to get in the TV guide but there are no daily synopses and there was no mention of the show returning that week anywhere else in the magazine.
I am not sure why they’d bring it back so early. I wonder if it was somehow linked coincide with aggregation launching in Queensland that day?
Prime keeping a Seven schedule on its Albury station apart from Kids Inc, Press Your Luck, and the mini-series “George Washington” shown in place of the first two hours of the Hopman Cup, joining in after 10.40pm. Must be because they were then the only local commercial station in town and they didn’t want to lose viewers in prime time with a warmup tennis tournament. VIC TV and Southern Cross still cherry picked programmes from Seven, Nine and Ten and continued to do so until 31/12/1991.
Speaking of tennis, I remember the Australian Open in 1991 when Seven interrupted it with Gulf War coverage. I watched it on VIC TV and when this happened they took the Seven feed for about an hour, and when it looked like Seven wouldn’t go back to the tennis VIC TV switched to Nine’s (their eventual affiliation partner, they took National Nine News) coverage.
Bruce Gordon Dancing?
Same thing happen in Adelaide New Year eve 2011 When Nws 9 was own by Win tv the eastern states had aria charts show with hits of the year in Adelaide they played a movie win would do things like this from time to time there when they own it
Police Ten 7 - that got quite the run on Get This back in the day.
I think this falls into the era when Nine and the affiliates would premiere their big budget season launch promos at midnight on NYE and promote the new and returning shows that would be seen on the network in the coming year.
the most exciting time of the year, though I’d usually be in pre-aggregation regional TV land early in January so I usually didn’t see them until later in the month.
Melbourne TV: Sunday 2 January 1977
from The Age
ATV0
10.30 An Hour of Power
11.30 Mass for You at Home
12.00 Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.30 Motor Racing: from Philip Island
4.00 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan (2nd test; from the MCG)
6.00 News
6.30 Wonderful Winged World (documentary)
7.30 3 for the Road
8.30 Movie “Cool Million”
10.25 Movie “In Which We Serve”
12.20 sign-off
ABV2
9.45 test pattern/music
10.00 Divine Service (from Gawler, SA)
10.50 Curiosity
11.00 test pattern
12.00 Mr. Benn
12.15 Magic Roundabout
12.20 Vision On
12.45 Science Report
1.00 The Ape Man That Never Was
1.55 Torque
2.20 Movie “Law and Disorder”
3.40 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan
6.00 Countdown Top 100
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.40 David Copperfield
8.30 Ascent of Man
9.20 News
9.30 Candide
11.00 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan highlights
11.30 sign-off
HSV7
8.50 test pattern/music
9.05 It is Written
9.35 Sunday Magazine
9.50 World of Sport Replay
11.00 Tennis: Australian Open (day 1)
12.00 World of Sport
1.00 Tennis: Australian Open (cont’d)
6.00 News (and Camera Seven)
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney “Sancho the Homing Steer” (part 1)
7.30 This is Your Life (hosted by Digby Wolfe)
8.00 Reg Varney
8.30 Movie “One of Our Spies is Missing”
10.15 UFO
11.15 Insight
followed by sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Gene Autry
7.00 Here Come the Doubledeckers
7.30 Day of Discovery
8.00 Look, Listen, Laugh and Learn
9.00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
10.00 TV Mass
11.00 Religious Feature
11.30 Untamed World
11.50 Point of View
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Operation Snatch”
2.30 Movie “The Uncle”
4.00 Sunday Curiosity Show
5.00 My Friend Flicka
5.30 Ask the Leyland Brothers
6.00 News
6.30 Jim Stafford
7.30 Star Trek
8.30 Movie “Do Not Disturb”
10.30 Movie “Duel in the Sun”
11.30 English Rugby League highlights
12.30 Movie “Thin Air”
2.00 Movie “The Naked and the Dead”
4.15 Movie “The Bush Body”
I’d always have the VCR scheduled to record from midnight to catch Nine’s latest effort and fill the rest of the tape with a few hours of Seven to see if they’d come up with anything. I highly anticipated Nines promos in the late '80s and early '90s. Before that I’d been a fan of the “Seven family” oriented promos. The original “Lucky Seven” ads were genius and I remember sitting in front of the TV for ages waiting for “Mah Na Mah Na” to come on in the days before the VCR.
Lucky Seven ‘Cricket’ ID
YouTube: IvySteinberg.
Today’s TV: 3.1.1981, Melbourne, including the week on SBS
And the week in Country TV:
Source: TV Scene
Used to hate the first week of January back then when ABC would air the Hopman Cup which would mean they would end their extended kid’s coverage 2 hours earlier than normal.
The West Wing would obviously have been an 11.00 start time, rather than 11.30pm.
I think this is when 10 got the rights to the OC, originally broadcast on Nine from memory. Nine offloaded it to 10.
They had already started airing The OC in 2004 not sure when though but I remember seeing them airing it a couple months previous to this guide.
You’re right.
From memory Nine broadcast only about 4 or 6 episodes of the first season in the summer of 2003. (Before Christmas)
Nine then offloaded it to 10 in the 2nd half of 2004, I believe.
Didn’t realize the gap was that big. I don’t know if 10 aired the episodes that 9 had aired in 03. But its crazy to think they were just airing the first season here when S2 was well underway in the US. But I guess that was the nature of the beast back then given how delayed they were with airing shows on FTA back then. Couldn’t really get away with it now.
