Very odd. No idea why that was.
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Odd how Nine wasted a 30 minute timeslot with 2x fillers in Nine Presents.
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It is graveyard shift and it was likely paid for by Sony since they were usually the focus of those Nine Presents spots. If it wasn’t a Nine Presents it just would have been used for Home Shopping.
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Also, the description for The OC is wrong as that episode takes place several months after Marissa’s death and not the morning after. Also, that season was fast-tracked here so we were getting it really only about a day or so after it aired in the US. This was around the time the networks “attempted” to “fast track” shows to Australia most likely done to combat the rise of piracy though Bit-Torrent.
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Today’s TV: 7 NOvember 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Over on Nine, Bargain Hunt replaced repeats of The Brady Bunch in its 5pm timeslot.
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That had already happened a few weeks earlier.
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Today’s TV: 8 NOvember 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Seven broadcasted the Oaks Day Horse Racing Live. They have three presenters (Richard Freeman, Peter Donegan and Simon Marshall) in the mounting yard. International TV presenter Carson Kreesley even attended the Oaks Day in Melbourne.
The summer of cricket began with the First Test between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Gabba. Sri Lanka played two tests in November. They had separate hosts doing cricket coverage - Mark NIcholas (live coverage), while Simon O’Donnell did the Cricket Show.
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Strange summer format this year with a Chappell Hadlee series in Australia and a one off 20 over game in Perth vs NZ squeezed between 2 tests vs Sri Lanka and 4 tests vs India prior to a February 50 over Tri-Series.
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Today’s TV: 9 NOvember 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Channel 7 broadcasted the Melbourne Oaks Day. Even Sonia Kruger, Jennifer Hawkins and Matthew White joined the Oaks Day carnival. AFter the Melbourne CUp Oaks Day ended, Perth had Pre-school programming Raggs at 3:30pm. over on the east coast, the pre-school programming began straight after Sunrise.
I noticed that they had a Lucky $5 note competiiton on Temptation.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 17 November 1985
from The Age
SBS
2.30pm The Workshop
3.00 Cartoons
4.00 International Sports Magazine
5.00 Reggae Sunsplash (UK; part 1 of 3)
6.00 Great Cities of the World “London”
7.00 News
7.30 Dance in America (tribute to coreographer and dancer Katherine Durnham)
8.30 Movie “A Touch of Zen” (Hong Kong drama; in Mandarin)
10.20 Soccer: TBA (repeat)
11.20 sign-off
ABV2
7.25 ABC of Satellite Entertainment
7.40 English Club Championship highlights: Southampton v. Tottenham Hotspur
8.35 Sow What (gardening magazine)
8.50 Playmates
9.45 Kimba the White Lion
10.10 Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
10.30 Divine Service (from Indooroopilly, Brisbane)
11.30 Countrywide
12.00 Four Corners (a report on the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam Government)
1.30 Golf: Australian Open final rounds
6.00 Countdown
7.00 Weekend National
7.30 Rush
8.30 Australian Telemovies “Crime of the Decade”
9.55 World of Music “La Belle Isobel” (profile of Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan)
10.50 Golf: Australian Open highlights
11.50 Hockey: Champion Trophy Tournament highlights (from Perth)
12.50 ABC of Satellite Entertainment
1.05 sign-off
HSV7
7.30 Secret Agent Boy
8.30 It is Written
9.00 Sunday Magazine
9.30 Aerobicise
10.00 World of Sport Replay
11.00 World of Sport
2.00 Tennis: Women’s Classic finals (from Brisbane)
6.00 News
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney “Diamonds on Wheels” (part 1 of 2)
7.30 Thoroughly Modern Nannies (a special on the Nortland College in Bath (Somerset, England) where the world’s most famous nannies have been trained for several decades)
8.30 Movie “Raise the Titanic”
10.35 Movie “A Tale of Two Cities”
12.45 Insight
followed by sign-off
GTV9
5.25 Kenneth Copeland
6.25 Sounds of Sunday
6.55 Turn 'Round Australia
7.25 Here’s Humphrey
8.20 Point of View
8.30 Footprints
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sports Sunday
1.00 Movie “The Night My Number Came Up”
3.00 Movie “Prince Valiant”
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 News
6.30 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
7.30 Television “The Race for Television” (the early years of TV; part 2 of 13)
8.30 Movie “Chapter Two”
11.00 The Avengers
12.05 Movie “Pickup Alley”
1.50 Movie “The Gene Krupa Story”
3.35 Movie “Mickey One”
5.10 Bonanza
ATV10
6.00 World Tomorrow
6.30 You Say the Word
7.30 Hour of Power
8.30 Mass for You at Home
9.00 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
9.30 Abbott & Costello (animated)
10.00 Muppet Babies
10.30 Yogi’s Gang
11.00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11.30 Bugs Bunny
12.00 Movie “Anything Goes”
2.00 Movie “Hunters of the Wild”
4.00 Big Top Variety
5.00 Solid Gold
6.00 News
6.30 Star Search (1985 grand final)
7.30 It’s a Knockout
8.30 Movie “Burnt Offerings”
10.40 Entertainment This Week
11.40 Unknown Chaplin “The Great Director” (part 1 of 2)
12.40 Parkinson (guests Billy Connolly, Angie Dickinson and The Baron Knights)
1.40 Wyatt Earp
2.10 sign-off
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Today’s TV: 16 November 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian
On SBS, I noticed that they had the SBS World News shown at an earlier time at 3:30PM in Perth. This was due to the FIFA World Cup Intercontinental Qualifier between Socceroos and Uruguay from Telstra Stadium, Sydney. Back then, Australia was in the Oceanic Football Confederation.
Over on ABC, they had coverage of the ATP Masters Cup with Fred Stolle as the caller. I’m not sure which city hosted the ATP Masters Cup, but they at least had full coverage of the tennis match.
On Channel 9 Perth, new episodes of The Price is Right was broadcasted at 5PM. I was a bit annoyed when Nine Perth pushed TPIR earlier. They went up against MAS*H repeat (Seven) and TEN News and children’s show Rollercoaster on the ABC. TMK, The quiz show languished in 4th spot during its 5pm timeslot.
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Wonderful World of Disney on Ten, while other Disney shows such as Home Improvement, Saturday Disney, the movie The Piano, the Golden Girls etc. remained on Seven. Why didn’t Ten chase these shows as well?
Today’s TV: 19 NOvember 2004, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Nine/WIN broadcasted the First Test between Australia and NZ at the Gabba, Brisbane. THe summer of cricket 2004-05 began with two Tests and 3 ODIs against New Zealand, Three Test matches against Pakistan (WACA, MCG, SCG) and an ODI Tri-Series with the West Indies and Pakistan. To my knowledge, Mark Nicholas first joined the Nine’s Cricket Coverage as host, though Simon O’Donnell still hosted the cricket show.
In WIN Territory, I noticed that they broadcasted Ten’s pre-school program, In the Box instead of new episodes of HI5. Remarkably, it was quite a full TEN lineup during the 3PM-7pm block.
Over on TEN, they stopped broadcasting midday movies and instead showed other dramas instead.
ABC showed new eps of Strictly Dancing while Seven showed Strictly Ballroom, which was quite interesting.
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Yep, This would have been his first summer as host of Cricket coverage for 9 a position he would hold until Nine lost the rights at the end of the 2016/2017 summer.
I’m not sure exactly when Simon O’Donnel left the Cricket coverage I think it may have been at some point in the early 2010s
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Ten showed Top Gun film when they had the rights to Paramount Pictures films
