Today’s TV: 29 April 2008, Perth
Source: THe West Australian
Big Brother aired at 7:30pm on Ten in Perth, while WIN Aired it at 11:30pm. Does anyone know why WIN aired BB so late during the night?
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It would have fit in with their younger skew.
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No room in the prime-time schedule for a five/six day commitment like that. Actually a pretty good timeslot for it IMO.
WIN’s IPL game 16 coverage ran an extra 45 minutes according to that schedule, not sure if that was the run time from the East Coast?
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BB wasn’t rating as well at this point. IIRC WIN WA did run it the year prior, or maybe 2006 at the same time as Ten.
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Yeah, 2008 was the end of the 10 iteration of the show. They bought into Kylie & Jackie O as hosts to try to boost the numbers but it didn’t work. I think the “Turkey Slapping” incident from BB06 was the beginning of the end of the show.
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I remember John Howard called for Ten to axe the program not long after that incident happened.
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Today’s TV: 30 April 2008, Perth.
Source: THe West Australian
Didn’t realise that Bondi Rescue premiered on WIN that day. IN Regional WA, Bondi Rescue aired the first season produced in 2006.
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Today’s TV: 1.5.1986, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
Thursday night might be seen as a graveyard these days but in 1986 it had six Aussie dramas including four up against each other. Although Prime Time was a ratings dud and Return To Eden I don’t think was doing exceptionally well and just played out its first season.
Plus the D Generation on ABC and Beyond 2000. A fairly packed night of shows.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 2 May 1976
from The Age
ATV0
10.00 test pattern/music
10.30 You Say the Word
11.30 Mass for You at Home
12.00 Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 VFA: Geelong West v. Dandenong
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 News
6.30 Almost Anything Goes
7.30 Six Million Dollar Man
8.30 Movie “When Eight Bells Toll”
10.20 Movie “Lives of a Bengal Lancer”
12.20 sign-off
ABV2
10.45 test pattern/music
11.00 Divine Service (from Sydney)
12.00 A Big Country
12.30 Living Tomorrow
12.45 Sow What
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.55 Face to Face “Paul Hogan”
2.20 Movie “Lassie’s Great Adventure”
4.00 Alaskan Pipe Dream
4.50 Basil Brush
5.20 Cattanooga Cats
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 The Pallisers
8.50 David Copperfield
9.10 A Place in History (the University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
9.40 Challenge
10.10 News
10.20 Follow the Rhine
10.45 sign-off
HSV7
8.50 test pattern/music
9.05 It is Written
9.35 Sunday Magazine
9.50 World of Sport Replay
11.55 World of Sport
3.30 FA Cup Final: Manchester United v. Southampton (repeat)
5.00 World Heavyweight Championship Fight
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney “Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter” (part 1 of 3)
7.30 This is Your Life (hosted by Mike Willesee)
8.00 Doctor on the Go
8.30 Movie “Billion Dollar Brain”
10.35 This Week
11.35 Insight
followed by sign-off
GTV9
8.30 test pattern
9.00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
10.00 TV Mass
10.50 Point of View
11.00 Catholic Television Board Feature
11.30 Inner Space
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Robin Hood and the Pirates”
2.30 Movie “Submarine Command”
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
5.30 Skippy
6.00 News (and Sunday Magazine)
6.30 New Faces '76
7.30 Last of the Australians (part 1)
8.30 Movie “The Chairman”
10.30 Face the Nation
11.00 American Professional Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic
12.10 Epilogue/sign-off
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So RTN was a commercial station that aired ABC News at 7pm? Why?
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a few commercial stations did the same in their early days, e.g. AMV4 Albury and STV8 Mildura were others. I imagine (as a guess) that they didn’t have direct relay facilities to the capital cities in those early stages but ABC did for its regional stations, so they just relayed from that?
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 3 May 1997
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Recovery
12.00 Stateline (repeat)
12.30 Water Polo: Tigers v. Dolphins
1.00 Commonwealth Bank Trophy: Adelaide Ravens v. Adelaide Thunderbirds
2.00 VFL: Coburg v. Traralgon (live coverage)
5.00 WNBL: Adelaide v. Perth
6.00 Bush Tucker Man “Top End”
6.30 Australian Story
7.00 News
7.30 Rumpole of the Bailey
8.25 News
8.30 The Bill (2 episodes)
9.20 News
9.30 Roy & HG: Club Buggery
10.30 Clive James
11.10 Movie “That’s Carry On!”
12.45 Rage
Seven
6.00 Cross Country
6.30 Interfooty
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Little Mermaid
9.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
10.00 Iznogoud
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 California Dreams
11.30 Hang Time
12.00 Survival of the Fittest
1.00 Rugby Union: Super 12s highlights
2.00 Movie “Toy Tiger”
4.00 Interfooty
4.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
5.00 Around the Grounds
5.30 News
6.00 AFL Winners
7.30 Darling Buds of May
8.28 Tattslotto
8.30 AFL: Hawthorn v. North Melbourne
11.30 Movie “Flying High”
1.20 Telemall
1.50 Movie “To Kill a Mockingbird”
4.15 Barrymore
5.00 The Main Event
Nine
6.00 Gillette World Sport Special
6.30 The Three Stooges
7.00 Wonder World!
7.30 Wishbone
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Glad Rags
9.30 Plucka’s Place
10.30 Crocadoo
11.00 Lawn Bowls: Mazda Jack High Tournament
12.00 Mysterious Island
1.00 Wide World of Sports
4.00 McKenna
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat; includes Keno)
6.00 News
6.30 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
8.30 The Pretender
9.30/10.30 Star Trek: Voyager
11.30 Pointman
12.30 Late Show with David Letterman
1.30 Lonesome Dove: The Series
2.30 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.30 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
5.00 Kenneth Copeland
Ten
6.00 Dog City
6.30 Incredible Hulk
7.00 Hot Shots
7.30 Bobby’s World
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Muppet Show
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 NBA Action
11.30 Air Time (basketball news)
12.30 Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
2.00 Road to Avonlea
3.00 Motor Racing: Indy PPG Cart World Series (repeat)
5.00 News
5.30 Bewitched
6.00 Addams Family
6.30/7.00 Goosebumps
7.30 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
8.30 Unsolved Mysteries
9.30 Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Inspector Wexford
11.30 News
12.00 Sports Tonight
12.30 Video Review (hosted by Brigitte Duclos)
12.32 NBL: Adelaide v. North Melbourne
2.30 Telemall
4.00 Hillsongs Australia: Life is for Living
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 WeatherWatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.30 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Vremya
10.15 Spanish News
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “Brief Encounters” (Russia)
2.00 Coppelia (an off-beat version of this 19th century ballet)
3.10 The Last Machine (the early years of the silver screen)
4.00 Best of… What’s Left Of… Not Only… But Also
4.30 World Soccer
5.30 European Champions League highlights
6.30 World News
7.00 Gourmet Ireland
7.30 Dateline
8.30 The Fast Show (UK)
9.00 The Newsroom (Canada)
9.30 Movie “Monster in a Box” (US; with Spalding Gray)
11.00 Eat Carpet
12.00 Movie “Marriage of Blood” (India)
2.30 sign-off
Channel 31
1pm Tamil Television
2.30 It’s Country Today
3.30 Musical Portraits
4.30 The Silk Road
5.30 Love from Cyprus
6.30 Saturday Night at the Trots (from Moonee Valley)
11.15 sign-off
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The night Home and Away’s Summer Bay Stalker was finally revealed.
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GWN/Prime really didn’t care about viewers prioritising home shopping timeslots. Too bad if you were a fan of Passions, Rob Nelson Show or The Village.