I think the Daily Truth looks to have been a spin-off from the more (in)famous Truth masthead. I wonder if it was an attempt to crack the afternoon market as an alternative to The Herald.
Yes it was a spin-off from the the Murdoch owned Truth, however only lasted four editions, 20/8/75 to 23/8/75 during a newspaper strike where various unions had blockaded the loading docks at The Age, and HWT. Seems it was an opportunity to get a paper out with thee big three affected by the strike.
More info here:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19750820&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
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Very interesting read, I didn’t know any of that, thank you for sharing that here 
Only lasting for 3 days, though. That must be a record of some sort! I might have thought they’d try to keep it going but I guess The Herald had already fought off rival attempts at afternoon papers in the past so maybe Truth thought better of it.
Being published by Southdown Press/News Limited I guess also explains the TV Week template in the Daily Truth’s TV guide.
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The Truth. Most famous for its racing guide, page three girls, Heart Balm and brothel ads.
Today’s TV: 30.1.1984, Adelaide
Source: TV Radio Extra
It is not indicated as a debut but I believe that this was the first episode of Perfect Match, which went on to become a hit for the 5.30pm timeslot, getting high ratings not normally achieved until prime time.
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This would have been the Australia Day public holiday, judging by the cricket match at Adelaide Oval (usually there are 3 WSC games on the Australia Day long weekend) and sport on the ABC instead of either schools programmes or school holiday programming. Back then the public holiday was the Monday on or after January 26.
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Appears in the schedule that they misprinted “ABNS-1” (ABC Service for Port Pirie) as “ABSN-1”. And yes there was an “ABSN” ABC Service during those days but it was transmitting from Brown Mountain near Cooma NSW which is nowhere near SA and was transmitted on Channel 8.
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Today’s TV:
Source: TV Week
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Today’s Guide: Friday 1 February 2013, Perth
Source: THe West Australian, Today
On that day, Nine Perth televised a Live One Day International Between Australia and the West Indies for 2.5 hours. They were able to show the full West Indies innings (in which they were bowled out for just 70 in 23.5 overs). WIN showed the full match, however, Channel 9 Perth showed partial amounts of cricket. I don’t know why Perth didn’t show the full match.
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it was usually the custom that home games were not televised in full
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For the influence Kerry Packer had on cricket. I can’t believe he let this happen for over 20 years.
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He also enforced home market blackouts during World Series Cricket broadcasts on Nine, I suspect he knew the value of a larger attendance at the venue gave to the broadcast.
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From Melbourne that was so frustrating. Leaving the cricket at 4.30pm with 75k tix sold and 2 nights later in Sydney they showed the entire game in NSW for the 40k sellout at the SCG.
From memory, only two ODIs at the MCG got the sellout status.
1992 World Cup Final which they showed the entirety and Aus v England ODI in 1998/99 in which they returned to the cricket at 7pm.
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Is that the match starting at 7pm or 2nd innings starting at 7pm?
Seconds innings after a few overs after A Current Affair.
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I was gonna say starting an ODI at 7pm Melbourne time seems odd.
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Today’s TV: 3.2.1984, Adelaide]
Source: TV Radio Extra
The 26-hour National Olympic Telethon begins on Network Ten and stations across Australia
YouTube: Australian TV Fan
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How well was it ever promoted to viewers which ABC they got? I can’t imagine they all got localised test-patterns by that point?
Do you know if the Regional News was unique for each or some of those repeaters - it’s weird that ABWS7 didn’t get it if it was just a statewide regional SA thing. ABAD7 makes more sense that it wouldn’t have regional news, but does being listed in the SA schedule mean it took the ABS feed not the ABD one - I assume relaying SA to Alice would have been easier than getting a Darwin broadcast across all of the NT.