That was hardly uncommon, especially during summers when the West Indies would tour here which they did in 2005/06
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Today’s TV: 17 October 2009, Perth
Source: The West Australian
WIN skipped the Caufield Cup Horse racing as there was not enough timeslots available in the schedule. Even that, WIN showed the Brazilian F1 GP earlier than TEN Perth.
ABC had quite a heavy sports lineup with Wheelchair Basketball, the WNBL, the W-League soccer and the Lawn Bowls.
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The Super Series being an ICC thing had a mixture of 9 and world commentators, Ravi Shastri also I believe was part of the team.
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Real 90’s Sunday television there.
Just randomly Nine had the World Series rights for 1993 (Toronto Blue Jays won BTW)
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Todays TV: 18 Oct 2004, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Noticed that Seven and TEN both run midday movies in the same timeslot.
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That had been going on for about 6 weeks at this point. Ten began airing midday movies when Seven was broadcasting the 2004 Athens Olympics I could only assume they wanted to fill the void for people who enjoyed the Seven midday movie. It is interesting they kept airing them post-Athens but I guess they thought they could take a chunk out of the Seven audience
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Also worth noting that around this time, Ten shifted its “News @ Noon” bulletin back to the 11:30am timeslot, presumably due to poor ratings.
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I remember Around Australia with Malcolm Douglas, my Dad preferred Baywatch as it was more exciting.
I also remember Sofie Formica doing Now You See It, only did it for a couple of years(alternating with Blockbusters in 12 week blocks). Blockbusters was hosted by Michael Pope.
I believe they only had them during the CBS era of baseball (1990-1993) and even then it wasn’t until 1991 or 1992 that they started showing a late night game of the week. Of course due to a player strike there was no 1994 WS (the rights were split between American ABC and NBC in a “baseball network” arrangement), then 10 showed 1997 (an NBC series, between 96-2000 they and Fox alternated WS) and SBS (via an international feed) showed 2002 but I can’t recall any other World Series being on FTA TV. These would sometimes be buried on Tuesday Mornings if there was an IndyCar race that weekend which would be early Monday Morning.
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Today’s TV: 19 October 2006, Perth
Source: The West australian
Big Questions premiered on Nine during that night.
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Today’s TV: Monday 20 October 1986
from The Sydney Morning Herald (The Guide)
ABN-2
8.00am Mr Squiggle and Friends
8.30 Sesame Street
9.30 Play School
10.00 Hunter
10.19 Magic Bag
10.20 Detective
10.40 Brazil
11.00 Read On
11.40 Maths Break
Noon A New World (For Sure)
12.30 The Explorers
1.00 News
1.05 A Vous La France
1.30 Music Time
1.50 Watch
2.06 Magic Bag
2.10 Six Centuries of Verse (Rpt)
2.36 Plastinots
2.40 Communication
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 Play School
4.30 The Sooty Show
4.55 Croc-Note Show
5.00 Inspector Gadget (Rpt)
5.25 Bananaman
5.30 Going Bananas
5.55 Come and Get It
6.00 Edge of the Wedge
6.30 Danger Mouse
6.35 Dr Who
7.00 News
7.30 All at No 20 (PGR)
7.55 Mother and Son
8.25 Four Corners
9.15 Late News
9.25 The Pack of Women
10.30 Football (Rpt)
1986 Big League
11.30 Closedown
ATN-7
6.00am The Tomorrow People (Rpt)
6.30 Leave It to Beaver (B&W) (Rpt)
7.00 Cartoon Connection
Includes The Road Runner Show, Young Samson, She-Ra: Princess of Power and The Smurfs
9.00 Romper Room
10.00 Falcon Crest (Rpt, PGR)
11.00 Eleven AM
Noon Midday at the Movies: Brief Encounters (1974) (Rpt, PGR)
2.30 The New Price Is Right (Rpt)
3.00 Fame (Rpt)
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Lassie (Rpt)
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 Punky Brewster (Rpt)
6.00 Seven National News
6.45 Sport Today
7.00 Terry Willesee Tonight
7.30 Sons and Daughters
8.30 Mini-Series: Sword of Honour (Starting tonight, part 1) (PGR)
10.30 America’s Cup Report
10.40 Newsworld
11.30 Hallelujah (Rpt, PGR)
12.00am News Overnight (Continues to 6am)
TCN-9
6.00am National Nine Early News
6.30 Today
Includes Business Today at 6.40am
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (Rpt)
10.00 The Young Doctors (Rpt)
10.30 General Hospital (PGR)
11.30 National Nine Morning News
Noon The Midday Show with Ray Martin (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 The Young and the Restless (PGR)
3.30 The Sullivans (Rpt)
4.00 C’mon Kids
5.00 MASK
5.30 Small Wonder
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Flying Doctors (PGR)
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Superman III (1983) (Rpt, PGR)
11.05 Nightline (News update)
11.10 Baseball - World Series
2.10am The Late Late Movie: The Stranger (1974) (AO)
3.30 The Late Late Late Movie: Danger Within (1959) (B&W) (PGR)
5.10 Bonanza (PGR) (Continues to 6am)
TEN-10
6.00am Daybreak (News)
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 Good Morning Sydney (PGR)
10.00 Fat Cat and Friends
10.30 Another World (PGR)
11.30 Daywatch (News)
Noon Midday Movie: Night People (1954) (PGR)
2.00 Marcus Welby MD (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
3.30 Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks (Rpt)
4.00 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World!
5.00 The Brady Bunch (Rpt)
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Eyewitness News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 The Benny Hill Show (Rpt, PGR)
8.30 Monday Night Movie: An American Werewolf in London (1981) (Rpt, AO)
10.25 Eyewitness News Nightcast / America’s Cup Report
10.35 Scarecrow and Mrs King (PGR)
11.35 Are You Being Served? (Rpt, PGR)
12.05am Now Look Here (PGR)
12.35 All My Children (PGR)
1.35 Religious Programme (Rpt)
1.40 Closedown
SBS
4.25pm Swami Sarasvati (Rpt)
4.30 Kaleidoscope
5.00 The Adventures of Niko (UK)
5.30 The Electric Company (USA)
6.00 Football
National League - weekend preview
6.55 Cycling
Commonwealth Bank Classic
7.00 World News
7.30 War (Canada)
8.30 Thirty-Six Steps (Italy)
9.45 Movie: Roads to the South (Les Routes Du Sud) (1978) (Rpt) (France)
11.25 Vox Populi (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown
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When did Seven started News Overnight?
From Wikipedia:
The Seven Network in Australia had a similar program with the same name (minus the “NBC”) airing overnights on weeknights between 1985 and 1989. Clips from NBC News programs would often be shown within the broadcast.
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28 January 1985 in Sydney and 4 March 1985 in Melbourne.
Credit: Australian Tv Fan/TV Cynic.
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1986 was a great time to be four years old, 4 year old me just loved the ABC childrens lineup combination of Mr Squiggle, Sesame Street, Play School, Hunter and Sooty.
The ABC showed Sooty until the early 90’s.
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Today’s TV: 21 October 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Nine Perth broadcasted an International Rules match between Australia and Ireland at 8:30pm (on delayed telecast). I didn’t realise that Brian Taylor called an International Rules match. After that, Nine broadcasted an International Rugby League Test match between Australia and New Zealand from Ericsson Stadium (aka Mt Smart Stadium) in Auckland.
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