The lack of FTA coverage of the IPL is probably why it’s never felt all that massive here. That first one in 2008 was a big deal when it happened also it probably helped Warne was playing in it and his team ended up winning the 1st tournament. But other than that it has never felt all that important.
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The last season of The Shield, almost 2 years late and airing at 12:30am… this was during the peak of torrenting, so no doubt anyone who was actually a fan had actually watched this season back in 2008.
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Melbourne TV: Monday 27 May 1996
from The Age
ABC
6.00 The Unique Continent
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 First Edition
7.30 A World of Difference
8.00 French in Action
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.15 Zardip’s Search for Healthy Wellness
10.30 Eastern Tales
10.45 Picture This
11.00 Mechanical Universe
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Northwood
1.00 Landline (repeat)
2.00 Parliament Question Time: Senate
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Madeline
4.55 Lizzie’s Library
5.00 Round the Twist
5.25 Bananaman
5.30 Victor and Hugo
6.00 Rugrats
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Thin Blue Line
8.28 News
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.28 News
9.30 Glen Glynn Nicholas
10.00 Review: Popular Arts
10.30 News
10.35 The Camomile Lawn
11.30 Australia TV News
12.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
1.00 Movie “Please Sir!”
3.00 Open Learning: Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Astronomy
4.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
4.30 Time to Grow
5.00 Accounting: Principles of Accounting
5.30 Visual Arts
Seven
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Blossom
10.30 News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Friendly Persuasion”
3.00 Hey Dad!
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Time Masters
4.30 My Three Sons
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 JAG
8.30 Talking Footy
9.30 AFL: Collingwood v. Geelong
12.15 Nowhere Man
1.15 Telemall
2.15 NBC Today
4.15 Cop Shop (repeat)
5.10 Family Passions
Nine
6.00 ITN World News
6.30 Daybreak (and Business Today)
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Mark Walberg (premiere)
10.30 News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Pacific Drive
4.00 Ship to Shore II
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Cheers
5.30 Price is Right
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Water Rats
8.30 Movie “Rambling Rose”
10.45 Nightline
11.15 Pacific Drive
12.15 John Larroquette
12.45 Amazing Games
1.00 Tennis: ATP Tournament
2.00 Entertainment Tonight
2.30 Movie “About Face”
4.15 Sanford & Son
4.45 Amazing Games
5.00 Diff’rent Strokes
5.30 Maude
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV: Doug/Tales from the Cryptkeeper/Teknoman
8.30 Mulligrubs
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 News
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 Donahue
2.00 Oprah Winfrey
3.00 Monday to Friday
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie “Unnatural Causes”
10.45 News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 IndyCar World Series highlights
1.45 Aboriginal Australia
2.00 Telemall
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 General Hospital
SBS
6.00 PAGE: Professional and Graduate Education
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale
7.30 WeatherWatch & Music
8.00 Olympic qualifier soccer: Canada v. Australia
10.30 WorldWatch: Oto Polska
11.00 The Journal
11.30 PAGE
12.00 English at Work
12.30 Imperfect Journey (British documentary)
2.00 WeatherWatch & Music
2.30 TV Ed
3.00 PAGE: Professional and Graduate Education
4.30 The Global Family (Canada)
5.00 Roots Schmoots: A Journey by Howard Jacobson
6.00 Happiness (Brazilian soap)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Web of Life “Exploring Biodiversity” (US; part 1)
8.30 Masterpiece “The Land of My Childhood, is No More” (Finland)
9.30 Movie “No Skin” (Italy)
11.00 Nature of Things “Trading Futures” (Canada)
12.30 Red Dyed Hair (Greece)
1.20 sign-off
Channel 31
6pm VCE Program: Completion of Psychology CAT2 and Chemistry CAT1
6.30 Macedonian Program
7.00 Russian Panorama
8.00 Access News
8.30 Melbourne Musos
9.00 Richmond 3121-OH
9.30 The Big Screen
10.00 Bent TV: Shorting Out
10.30 TOE
11.00 sign-off
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Today’s TV: 27 May 2005, Perth
Source: THe West Australian.
- Channels Seven and Nine showed the Schappelle Corby Verdict, in which Schapelle was poised to be sentenced to jail in Kerobakan Prison.
- I do get the feeling that in 2005, The Price is Right ratings have already struggled to fire in ratings and was beaten easily by Deal or No Deal and Ten News at Five. Even in Perth, TPIR must have languished in 4th spot in its 5pm timeslot. As well, WIN viewers missed out watching TPIR, which simply had a huge effect on the ratings.
- There was an AFL match being played at Telstra Dome when Melbourne took on the Richmond Tigers. It was very strange why Melbourne hosted a game at Telstra Dome instead of the MCG.
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Why couldn’t Southern Cross keep the SCN name despite axing the local news?, it looks like when they decided to axe the local 6pm news, they decided to fully go down the cheap road & rename the station Ten Victoria.
you just answered your own question 
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Melbourne playing a home game at Docklands rather than the MCG. Today this fixture is on Anzac Eve
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Is this the show with Islam tales from Yorkshire Television?
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What was the go with Pacific Drive?
Was it created for day time viewing and overseas sales? Or was it just a failed format that was pushed out of primetime?
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Today’s TV: 28 May 2008, Perth
Source: THe West AUstralian.
Million DOllar Wheel of FOrtune was shown on CHannel Nine with Tim Campbell as host. Sadly, the ratings failed to fire and was smashed by Deal or no Deal and Ten News.
It was interetsing that CHannel 10 showed The Oprah Winfrey Show at primetime. I don’t know why Channel 10 showed a primetime Oprah.
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The thing I remember most about Pacific Drive (when Nine repeated it in a morning slot over summer in the 2000s) was that the opening credits seemed to go on forever… as long as the Game of Thrones title sequence.
The minimalistic and idiosyncratic theme music didn’t help.
Ten did this a few times in the 2000s if the guest was Australian (Nicole Kidman), or particularly newsworthy at the time (couch-jumping Tom Cruise) or both (Bindi Irwin)
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I remember the launch of “Titanic” was televised in primetime.
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Maybe also the ones when she would give away a bunch of stuff to her audience.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 29 May 1988
from The Age
ABV2
7.00 Today’s Special
7.30 Kontakte
7.55 Come and Get It
8.00 Lawn Bowls: Australia v. New Zealand highlights
9.00 Rugby League 1988 (highlights)
10.00 Sow What
10.15 PGR
11.00 Worship Sunday (from Sydney)
12.00 Compass
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.45 Sunday Afternoon (includes the play The Flood)
2.10 Masaccio: A View of Mankind
2.55 Profile of John Mortimer
3.45 Tanglewood: A Place to Make Music
4.35 America’s Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story
6.00 News
6.30 I Can Jump Puddles (part 4 of 9)
7.20 Backchat
7.30 Nature of Australia “Making of the Bush” (part 3)
8.25 News
8.30 Movie “The Imagemaker”
10.10 Rugby: Australia v. England (highlights)
11.10 Music Gallery
12.00 sign-off
HSV7
6.00 All-New Popeye
6.30 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
7.00 Cartoon Connection
9.00 Sportsworld
12.00 NBL: Brisbane Bullets v. Melbourne Tigers
2.00 VFL: West Coast Eagles v. Carlton
5.00 Leyland Brothers’ World
6.00 News
6.30 Disney’s TV Monster Hits
7.30 ALF
8.00 Valerie’s Family
8.30 Movie “2010” (1984 science fiction flick)
10.50 Australian Touring Car Championships highlights
12.00 NBC Today on Sunday
1.30 NBC Meet the Press
2.00 CNN News
GTV9
5.55 Kenneth Copeland
6.55 Turn 'Round Australia
7.20 Point of View
7.30 Religious Feature
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Wide World of Sports
1.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat)
2.00 Movie “A Challenge for Robin Hood”
4.00 Sports Sunday
6.00 News
6.30 Yellow River (documentary; part 1 of 10)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie “A Passage to India”
11.45 Movie “The Night the World Exploded”
1.00 Indianapolis 500 (live coverage)
5.30 Bill Cosby
ATV10
6.00 This Week at Expo '88
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Rubik, the Amazing Cube
7.30 Robert Schuller
8.30 Mass for You at Home
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 Business Week
12.00 Movie “A Family Affair”
1.30 Movie “You Never Can Tell”
3.00 Solid Gold
4.00 One by One
5.00 It’s a Knockout!
6.00 News
6.30 Jack Thompson Down Under
7.30 Comedy Company
8.30 Movie “Tai-Pan”
11.00 Entertainment This Week
12.00 Rugby League’s Match of the Day
1.30 Night Shift
5.00 Winners (1985 series)
SBS
12pm Going Strong
12.30 Anne’s International Kitchen
1.00 Greek Variety Show
2.00 Fiery Skies (Greek historical drama)
2.45 Truckies (German drama)
3.35 Turning 40 (Poland)
4.30 Dateline
5.30 Soccer: West End National League highlights
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Vox Populi
7.30 Movie “Spiral” (Poland)
9.00 Motorcycle Racing: World 500cc Championships
10.45 France Gall at the Zenith
11.45 sign-off
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Quite a Ten heavy schedule from WIN there.
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It would appear that WBQ8 doesnt have any local news going by that schedule unless it was inserted in a commercial break during the national news. Also I can confirm that Eyewitness News on RTN8 (and NRN11) was on relay from TEN10. As far as I know it was the only regional station in NSW to relay Ten’s Sydney News as everyone else relayed ATN7.
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Queensland TV Newsreading Icon Bruce Paige read WBQ News in the late 60s/1970 before heading to the ABC so presumedly there was some resemblance of news in 1975.
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