Today’s TV: 29.5.2002, Wollongong
Source: The Illawarra Mercury TV Magazine
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I grew up in Bundaberg (WBQ territory) from 1974 to the 80s and there was no local news on WBQ (or later SEQ) until the mid 1980s.
Loved “TeleClub”… daily kids show with cartoons and kids shows, and segments in between.
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I wonder how Seven covered the French Open back then; I suspect it was either not live, or they joined in late as it would’ve been 3:35pm Paris time. This would’ve been similar to the arrangement between 2018-20 when SBS started its coverage at around 10:30pm AEST, more than three hours after play has started for the day.
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IIRC yes that’s right. Fox Sports had live all-day coverage using the Seven commentators.
Meanwhile over at WIN , their viewers missed out on late-night movie Leonora that aired on Nine.
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Sydney TV: Friday 30 May 1969
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
9.10 Schools programming
10.10 Play School
10.40 Schools programming
1.00 News
1.35 Schools programming
3.20 The Kiwi Country
3.55 Andy Pandy
4.00 Play School
4.30 Adventure Island
5.00 Squiggle
5.15 Gentle Ben
5.40 Lassie
6.05 Banana Splits
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 The Avengers
8.50 News
8.52 World of Beachcomber
9.23 Dr. Finlay’s Casebook
10.15 News
10.25 Ed Sullivan (guests include Dionne Warwick and Morecambe & Wise)
11.05 sign-off
ATN7
6.30 News
6.31 Cartoons
7.00 Sydney Today
9.00 Romper Room
9.30 Popeye
10.00 Time for Terry
10.30 Leave It to Beaver
11.00 Danny Thomas
11.25 Motel
12.00 Movie “The Rising of the Moon”
1.27 Just a Minnit
1.30 Maggie
2.00 Beauty & the Beast
3.00 People in Conflict
3.30 Rescue 8
4.00 Superman
4.30 Sea Hunt
5.00 The Three Stooges
5.30 Bugs Bunny
6.00 Beverly Hillbillies
6.30 News
7.00 The Flying Nun
7.30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8.00 Movie “Riders of Vengeance”
9.35 Movie “Beyond the Time Barrier”
11.05 News
11.15 Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
11.40 Silent Service
12.00 sign-off
TCN9
6.25 Name to Remember
6.30 Nature Walkabout
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 The Littlest Hobo
10.30 Marine Boy
11.00 Bachelor Father
11.25 Relaxing with Roma
11.30 Everybody’s Talking
12.00 Movie “Tampico”
1.30 It Could Be You
2.00 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Coronation Street
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Hawaiian Eye
4.30 The Samurai
4.55 Let’s Draw
5.00 Broken Arrow
5.30 Ozzie & Harriet
6.00 I Love Lucy
6.30 News
7.00 Family Affair
7.30 Julia
8.00 Sound of Music
9.00 Movie “The Key”
11.10 Movie “Cloak and Dagger”
12.55 Viewpoint
1.00 sign-off
TEN10
6.00 test pattern/music
6.30 Magic Circle Club
7.00 Good Morning!
9.00 Kindy
9.30 Owly’s School
10.02 Swami Sarasvati
10.25 Dialling for Dollars
10.30 Kentucky Jones
10.55 Movie “Hot Cars” (DfD)
11.55 Let Me Illustrate
12.00 Girl Talk
12.25 Dialling for Dollars
12.30 Marriage Game
1.00 Gwennie and Noel
1.25 Dialling for Dollars
1.30 Movie “Someone to Remember” (DfD)
3.00 Paycards
3.27 News
3.30 Rocky & Bullwinkle
4.00 The Flintstones
4.30 Turning On
5.00 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 News
6.30 Paycards
6.32 Gilligan’s Island
7.00 Generation Gap
7.30 Sound of Music
8.30 Mission: Impossible
9.30 In Town Tonight
11.00 Movie “Angel and the Badman”
12.50 sign-off
(DfD) includes Dialling for Dollars
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It may have aired at a later date.
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Today’s TV: Monday 30 May 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Temptation (aka Sale of the New Century) premiered on Channel Nine at 7PM (while in WIN Territory, they aired it at an earlier time at 4:30pm which is quite unusual given that Channel 10 want to prioritise the news. TEN News mostly dominates over Nine News in the west since 1999).
THe Price is Right was truncated down to 30 minute episode. They might have dropped the mega showcase and changed to monster showcase of $100 000. To make matters worse, Nine Perth moved to an earlier time at 5pm, which was a fatal decision for STW. And sadly, WIN viewers didn’t have the chance to see The Price is Right, which sadly backfired.
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what does this mean?
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Fair enough. I thought WIN might have had second thoughts in showing what is basically a softcore porn movie.
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Today’s TV: Wednesday 30 May 2007, Perth
Source: THe West AUstralian.
During that week, this was the beginning of the end for Bert’s Family Feud. Unfortunately, Bert’s Family Feud struggled in the 5:30pm timeslot and was beaten by Deal or No Deal and Ten News at Five.
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Today’s TV: 31 May 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian.
CHannel Nine showed a US sitcom, Listen Up!, which aired at 3pm. Despite the good ratings, the show was short lived.
That year was the start of the decline for morning program on Ten, with the 9am with David and Kim. The ratings were very soft. Does anyone know how many viewers watched the 9am show?
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Going forward can you please provide a source for this type of commentary, if you don’t have one please leave it absent from your posts in this thread.
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I recall it airing at 11.30am on the east coast.
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Listen Up (TV series) - Wikipedia mentions that “Despite decent-to-good ratings, the show was canceled by CBS on May 18, 2005; “rising production costs” was the major reason officially given for the cancellation.”
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…except of course NBN3 Newcastle which did its own hour-long local/national/international bulletin with national and international stories sourced from Nine
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More than what Studio 10 gets.
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I did, i alternated between that and Mornings with KAK when i was home on school holidays (or wagging ;))
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 1 June 1974
from The Age
ATV0
8.00 Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival
9.30 Crusader Rabbit
10.30 Candid Camera (repeat)
11.00 On Safari
11.30 Rovers
12.00 Barrier Reef
12.30 Topper
1.00 Movie “Here Me Good”
2.20 Movie “Duke Wore Jeans”
4.00 What in the World
4.30 Junior Jury
5.00 Skyhawks (repeat)
5.30 News
6.00 Brady Kids
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 Movie “Follow This Dream”
9.40 Movie “Tender is the Night”
12.30 sign-off
ABV2
9.00 test pattern/music
12.40 Chess: Challenge to Fischer, No. 8
1.00 Sportsview
1.05 Super Snooker
1.53 Motor Racing: South Pacific Touring Car Race (round 2; from 1973)
2.05 Ten Pin Bowling: 1970 South Pacific Classic
2.40 Warwick Rodeo
3.00 Rugby International: Australia v. New Zealand (2nd test; live coverage from Brisbane)
4.30 Squash: 1970 Australian Championships
5.15 Wonderful World of Sport
5.35 Hammy Hamster’s Adventures on the River Bank
5.50 Mr. Benn
6.05 Fly Into Danger
6.30 Today’s Football (review of VFL matches)
6.55 Weather
7.00 News, followed by League Replay (highlights of Richmond v. Collingwood, Hawthorn v. St. Kilda and North Melbourne v. Essendon)
8.15 Four Corners (a profile of King Falsal of Saudi Arabia)
9.00 Special Branch
9.50 Sport (racing highlights from Moonee Valley, plus results and scores from other events)
10.05 Movie “Forever Amber”
11.50 Certain Women
12.35 sign-off
HSV7
7.45 test pattern/music
8.00 Do It on Saturday (includes Basil Brush, Jambo, the movie “Hot Rod Gang” and Adventures of Black Beauty)
12.00 A Day Out West (movies: “Return of Wild Bill” and “Allegheny Uprising”; includes progress reports on VFL: Richmond v. Collingwood at 1.55, 2.25, 3.05, 3.55 and 4.25)
4.30 This Week Has Seven Days
5.30 Jeopardy
6.00 News
6.30 Football Inquest
7.00 Football Replay (highlights of Richmond v. Collingwood, Hawthorn v. St. Kilda and North Melbourne v. Essendon)
8.25 Penthouse Club (includes trotting from the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, plus Tattslotto at 9.30)
11.15 News
11.30 International Soccer: Wales v. Scotland
12.45 sign-off
GTV9
7.15 test pattern/music
7.30 Playroom
8.00 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
11.00 Gene Autry
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Tales of Wells Fargo
1.30 Movie “The Extra Day”
3.00 Soccer: Melbourne v. Maribyrnong Polonia
5.00 World of Adventure (flora and fauna of the Arctic)
6.00 News
6.30 Rawhide
7.30 Ironside
8.30 Movie “Man’s Favorite Sport”
10.40 Movie “The Ruthless Four”
12.25 News
12.30 Movie “Male Companion”
2.45 Epilogue/sign-off
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Yeah, I preferred 9am over KAK back then as well. Same when The Circle replaced 9am the following year.
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