December 1, 2008 to January 19, 2009 as a summer experiment to see if would succeed in a prime time soapie bloc with Neighbours at 6.30pm. The shit hit the fan when it happened. Fans of both Bold and The Simpsons were outraged and there was a Facebook campaign to have The Simpsons returned to the 6pm slot.
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I like that the Bold fans were annoyed as well. Simpsons fans donât surprise me as there was always an outrage when 10 would put something else in the 6pm slot to see if it would work. I think only a few months earlier in 2008 they put Friends on in the 6pm slot for a period.
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Bold was rating very well at the time and it definitely seemed to be an experiment to see if the audience would follow over to 6pm as a lazy way to be more competitive in the timeslot, IIRC the ratings actually declined a fair bit.
Melbourne TV: Saturday 6 January 2001
from The Sunday Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (contâd)
12.00 WNBL: Adelaide v. Bulleen
1.00 Tennis: Hopman Cup (final day)
7.00 News
7.30 An Independent Man
8.25 News Update
8.30 The Bill
9.25 News Update
9.30 Life Support (return)
10.20 Love Hurts
11.10 Tracey Takes onâŚ
11.40 Rage
Seven
6.00 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Crash Zone
9.30 Gloriaâs House
10.00 The Wiggles
10.30 Boy Meets World
11.00 The Flintstones
11.30 S Club 7 in L.A.
12.00 Battle of the Forces (final)
12.30 Tennis: Australian Womenâs Hardcourt Championship finals
2.00 Tennis: AAPT Championship semi-finals (from Adelaide)
6.00 News
6.30 World Around Us âRuaha: Hell or High Waterâ
7.30 Movie âWeâre Back! A Dinosaurâs Storyâ (Tattslotto at 8.28pm)
9.00 Movie âDiamonds Are Foreverâ
11.30 Movie âHandgunâ
1.15 Movie âI Married a Centerfoldâ
3.10 Telemall
5.10 Getting Personal
5.35 Animal Show with Stinky & Jake
Nine
6.00 Superman (animated)
6.30 Keynotes
7.00 Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown
7.30 Ship to Shore III
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Crocadoo II
9.30 Challenger
10.00 European Hot Airship Championships
10.30 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (5th test; from the SCG)
1.00 The Cricket Show
1.30 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (contâd)
6.00 News (includes Keno)
6.30 Gonged But Not Forgotten
7.00 Odd Man Out
7.30 Anatomy of a Disaster
8.30 The Pretender
9.30 Farscape
10.30 Newsbreak
10.31 Movie âAbductionâ
12.25 Late Show with David Letterman
1.25 Mortal Kombat: Conquest
2.20 Mad TV
3.20 Spyforce
4.20 Maggie Winters
4.50 Nine Lives
5.00 Jesse Duplantis
5.30 Creflo A. Dollar, Jr.
Ten
6.00 Digswell Dog
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 Bobbyâs World
7.30 Ketchup & the Toothbrush Family
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Silver Brumby
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Fudge
12.00 Golf: Matchplay (day 4; from Melbourneâs Metropolitan Golf Club)
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 Inside Sport
6.30 The Simpsons
7.00 Unreal TV
7.30 Guinness World Records: Primetime
8.30 Movie âClose Encounters of the Third Kindâ
11.25 News/Sports Tonight
11.55 Cold: Live at the Chapel
12.25 Movie âIt Came from Outer Space IIâ (1996)
2.00 Movie âThe Andromeda Strainâ
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Vanessa Mae: Storm On World Tour (UK)
1.50 Alan Stivell (France)
2.40 Ruben Blades: Tiempos (US)
3.30 European Champions League highlights
4.30 World Soccer
5.30 English Premier League highlights
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 The Olympics in Antiquity (Greece; part 3)
7.30 As it Happened âThe Pillâ (Canada)
8.30 Jazz Memories: New York City
9.30 Movie âVampyros Lesbosâ (Germany)
10.55 Eat Carpet
12.00 Movie âCorisco and Dadaâ (Brazil)
1.55 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
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During the summer of 1993/94, âThe Price Is Rightâ was brought back by the Nine Network; it screened at 7pm while âSale of the Centuryâ was off air. When âSaleâ returned it moved to 5.30pm as a lead-in to the news.
The precursor to Weekend Today
Yes and no. Was axed because the kids shows on other channels were rating higher.
Nine only bought it back as âWeekend Todayâ a few years later.
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Todayâs TV: 6.1.1986, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
The first day for SBS after switching off its Channel 0 signal the night before in Sydney and Melbourne. I imagine there were quite a lot of viewers turning to Channel 0 on this day and being met with static.
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Which did allow for TVQ0 to be received in Melbourne when atmospheric conditions were right (usually around this time of year). Also One from New Zealand.
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Were u able to get TVQ0?
It didnât happen a lot but usually in December or January it could be received for maybe 30 mins to an hour at a time. I remember seeing the News a couple of times which due to the time difference was 7pm in Melbourne. Picture could be quite unstable with lots of ghosting, wobbles and mostly in black & white. But would go into colour if the signal got strong enough. You could lose sound and retain the picture or have an unwatchable picture with clear sound at times.
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I had pretty much the identical sort of experience. I remember seeing promos for Neighbours âcoming soon to TV0â which would have been in January 1986 just after SBS switched off.
I also saw TV One from New Zealand come in on Channel 0 but that was probably only once or twice.
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That is E-Skip for you. Reading these replies had made me upset that I was born too late to DX Band 1 TV. Plus I think that after 1988, you might had also DXed Toowoomba on that Frequency. Had I lived during that time period at my current location, I would spend all day trying to DX channels 0 and 1. Maybe check for tropo on Band 3 and for possible FM from NZ and a few of the ABC FM stations that were on air at the time.
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It was fun to try and watch something from such a long distance away. Donât recall ever receiving 0 from Toowoomba.
I have these low quality caps of the havoc it used to cause on ABV2 -
I canât be confident exactly which channel was causing the interference in the screenshot, and while I donât have any screenshots, I certainly did get reception of RTQ0 to a watchable level at times, I recall taking a photo of it happening on my TV, but I never got that roll developed.
I certainly admire all the people who have managed to actually preserve some of this stuff, especially the regional stuff, as those networks all fade away into metro relays.
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ABV used to always get fuzz all over it when someone would use their power sander next door.
This is co-channel of TVQ 0 Brisbane with 0-28 Melbourne - received in Brisbane south with antenna directed towards south away from Brisbane.
Prior to the introduction of UHF translators, it was a problem for TVQ on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast during summer months.
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So that must have happened too in Brisbane in the days of ATV0? I donât recall ever getting that sort of interference from Brisbane down to Melbourne on either ATV0 or SBS0 but I suppose it must have happened.
I do recall that SBS, which was broadcasting test patterns from early in the morning until programming started late in the afternoon, eventually agreed to cut back its test pattern hours to avoid clashing with SBS0 in Sydney and/or TV0 in Brisbane.
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So itâs essentially TVQ0-28?
For most viewers there was very little indication of the interference. You really had to look for it and adjust the antenna.
Tuning in to channel 1 was the best indicator. It would sometimes be packed with multiple overlapping signals fading in and out across an opening.
The following are some caps off 1 for one opening recorded within a few minutes of each other. Note ABC TV had difference test patterns in various states.
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