Hello, I wonder if you have any TV listings that if London’s Burning have aired in Australia?
Much prefer ABC1, ABC2 and ABC3 compared to the names now.
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Today’s TV: 21.10.1980, Melbourne
The debut of Seven’s big budget mini-series The Last Outlaw, the story of Ned Kelly.
Source: TV Week
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I feel the same too ABC TV Plus and ABC News are just plain boring and ugly
Todays TV: 22 October 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian
New episodes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? aired at 7PM Mondays, replacing Temptation.
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I guess they gave up on it by this point, In the New Year they would start airing Two and A Half Men in the 7pm slot.
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What year was it?
1984
Today’s TV: 24 October 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Noticed that Nine Perth decided to air Coronation St at 5PM instead of having new episodes of The Price is Right. I was surprised that this show went for one hour. Even in Regional WA, they had new episodes of The Price is Right at 4:30pm on WIN.
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The ad implies the 1 hr episode was just for the “premiere”.
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It would have been two separate episodes rather than a straight 1-hour, In the U.K. there are nights where Corrie airs two episodes with a 30-minute break in between them. Based on that description those episodes were about 2 years old at the time
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The day that Sunraysia tanked Nine News Perth’s ratings forever.
Nine News Perth was very competitive with Seven through 2004 - 2005 right up until Corrie launched.
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Today’s TV: 25 October 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian
As I looked through the TV Guide, I didn’t realise that Medical Investigation aired at midday timeslot on Ten. That year, Channel 10 chopped and changed programs in its midday timeslot.
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Nine Perth would later dump Coronation Street a year later after lower ratings and struggle of National Nine News reflects in Nine Perth affiliate under a different ownership in Adelaide and Perth compared with the PBL ownership in Eastern cities
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A couple of months earlier they had been airing the previous nights episode of Neighbours around that slot.
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IIRC, in 2007 Nine was going to get STW, but then WIN decided to come in and outbid Nine and won ownership off Sunraysia like in Adelaide. WIN bought them at the same time Nine was having a feud with WIN over affiliate costs so WIN did things like remove dotty with the rest on the WIN Network (although STW/NWS had the Nine name) and replace shows in the morning (STW/NWS has less changes than WIN branded stations, but had Susie on etc.)
You would of thought STW would of learnt not to screw up the pre-news program, but in 2007 like the rest of the WIN Network, STW aired the Brady Bunch at 5:30pm leading into the news. It was 40 years old at that stage and was a big mistake. Over time STW/NWS added more Nine elements like adding back Dotty in 2010 before selling the stations to Nine in 2013.
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As much as I watched those re-runs they only aired the first two seasons so I can only assume they pulled it due to poor ratings for Nine News. Also we just had the guides from that period posted recently as well.
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My understanding is that Sunraysia accepted Nine’s bid for STW9 over WIN’s, even though WIN’s offer was higher, apparently highlighting long held differences between Ms Presser (Sunraysia) and Bruce Gordon (WIN). WIN ended up taking legal action and was successful in gaining STW9.
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