Given the timeslot, I’m only guessing that it was a cartoon. Just a guess, I have no further info on it.
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Today’s TV: 30 November 2012, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Breakfast went to air for the final time on Channel 10 due to low ratings. The Breakfast show struggled so badly in the early timeslot, beaten by Sunrise, Today and ABC News Breakfast. Unfortunately the ratings never went beyond 100 000 viewers.
ON that day, newsreader Craig Smart was let go from TEN News Perth after nearly 2 years at the network. After Craig Smart left TEN, TEN News Perth ratings have experienced a small decline.
THis was the final time The Project aired in its 6pm timeslot before reverting back to its 6:30 timeslot.
I noticed that Nine Perth aired the final session of the Test match between Australia and South AFrica from the WACA. Instead, CHannel 9 showed US Programming including Ellen, THe View and Extra.
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10 had 3 anchors like GMA in the States
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Today’s TV: Friday 30 November 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian
- Very interesting to see MAS*H as a Movie in midday timeslot and a repeat episode at 5pm on Channel 7
- The final episode of Temptation went to air for the year. The show was rested in 2008, although Ed Phillips contract has expired.
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Crazy to think Ten was still burning off episodes of The Wedge in November 2007
I think they still had episodes to burn off because about the same time in 2008 they bought Temptation back for the Summer non-ratings.
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Today’s TV: 1 December 2008, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Looking through the television guides, CHannel 7 had unaired episodes of THe Rich List to burn off during the summer non-ratings period. During the summer break, I noticed that CHannel Nine bringing back new episodes of Temptation. Ironically, Ed Phillips was dumped from Channel 9 a few day ago prior to new episodes of Temptation starting.
Over on CHannel 10, they scheduled Judge Judy at 4:30PM straight before the news. THey shunted the Bold and the Beautiful to 6pm timeslot on Channel 10.
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Another one of their attempts to try anything other than The Simpsons in that slot.
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Today’s TV: 1.12.1979, Melbourne
and for no reason in particular, the week on GLV10, Gippsland:
Source: TV Week
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GLV nearing the end of their time on the 10 frequency.
Nine would burn-off unaired episodes of Temptation from 1 December 2008 to 23 January 2009.
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 2 December 1978
from The Age
ATV0
8.00 Do It
8.30 All Electric Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival
10.00 Movie “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
11.30 The Pink Panther
12.00 Grecian Scene (introduced by Barry McQueen)
1.00 Motor Racing (motorcycle and motor car racing from Calder Raceway)
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 News
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 The Waltons
8.30 Movie “The Miracle”
10.55 Movie “Casanova’s Big Time”
12.30 Movie “Sabaka”
2.50 sign-off
ABV2
9.55 test pattern/music
10.05 Drag Racing highlights (recorded at Calder Raceway on 26 November)
10.55 English Soccer’s Match of the Day: Chelsea v. Manchester United and Manchester City v. Ipswich (from 25 November; introduced by Jimmy Hill)
11.55 First Test Cricket: Australia v. England (day 2, from Brisbane)
2.00 Show Jumping: 3-Day Equestrian Event
2.37 First Test Cricket: Australia v. England (cont’d)
7.00 News
7.15 Today’s Sport (includes racing highlights from Moonee Valley)
7.26 Weather
7.30 Ronnie Corbett’s Saturday Special
8.15 Four Corners
9.10 News
9.20 The Best of Parkinson (guests Juliette Greco and Sacha Distel)
10.30 The Glittering Prizes (BBC drama; part 2)
11.50 sign-off
HSV7
7.45 test pattern/music
8.00 Sound Unlimited
11.00 Tennis: Federation Cup (from Kooyong)
6.00 News
6.30 Nancy Drew (starring Pamela Sue Martin)
7.30 Glenview High
8.30 Laughs, Lotto & Longshots (includes Tattslotto drawing at 9.30)
11.00 English Soccer highlights: West Bromwich Albion v. Aston Villa (from 25 November)
12.15 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Gene Autry Hour
7.00 Wacky Races
7.30 Space Kidettes
8.00 Bailey’s Comets
8.30 Groovy Goolies
9.00 H.R. Pufnstuf
9.30 Porky Pig
10.00 Heckle & Jeckle
10.30 Supersonic (pop music program)
11.30 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Daktari
2.00 Movie “The Bulldog Breed”
4.00 Happy-Go-Round
5.00 Untamed World “Tropical Marshes”
5.30 Nine Will Fix It (children’s program)
6.00 News
6.30 Surfabout
7.00 Incredible World of Adventure
7.30 Barnaby Jones
8.30 Marcus Welby, MD
9.30 Movie “Lady in Cement”
11.30 The Baron
12.30 Movie “Botany Bay”
2.00 Movie “Hurricane Smith”
3.30 Movie “Captain China”
5.00 Edgar Wallace
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Hrm. What was “Laughs, Lotto & Longshots” - a combination of British comedy, the Tattslotto draw and harness racing over the summer?
I believe that would be Alfie Atkins. A Swedish cartoon.
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IIRC it was the summer replacement for the Penthouse Club, a clunky (though popular) combination of variety with live crosses to the Saturday night harness races and the weekly Tattslotto draw. I’m guessing over the summer the variety show was rested and just replaced with British comedy re-runs or some such thing while still maintaining the racing coverage and Tattslotto.
A segment about Penthouse Club appeared in this 2008 documentary about comedian Mary Hardy who co-hosted the show for most of its run.
YouTube: kylegalley
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Today’s TV: 2 Dec 2012, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Didn’t realise that 7Two broadcasted replays of AUstralian Open Tennis during overnight.
That time, The Sunday Project has been dumped and the simpsons brought back in its 6pm timeslot. I wonder what the ratings look like when Simpsons was reinstated back in late 2012.
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In the early days of 7TWO they would go through old AFL matches under the “Footy Flashbacks” name (although at the time a Footy Flashbacks program with an interview with participants was shown pre-Sunday 3PM game, this was just the game in entirety with an ad break in each quarter). When it came close to the Australian Open they would play an old match generally a long 3 or 5 setter pending gender from the earlier Melbourne Park days (1988-about 2005) with a couple of Kooyong era finals thrown in.
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I’m sure at some point during that test at the WACA they aired a full days play. That was Ricky Ponting’s final test for Australia and I remember seeing his final innings aired on Nine and it was before the 3:00 pm session.
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Today’s TV: December 3, 2011, Perth
Source: The West Australian
WIN decided not to air the Golf, instead they decided that they will continue with the Cricket. TMK, WIN WA continued to transition to a sole Nine affiliate in December 2011 by reducing the number of TEN programming
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 4 December 1966
from The Age
ATV0
3pm test pattern/music
3.30 Compass
4.00 Leonard Bernstein Youth Concert
5.00 Kommotion Weekend Special
6.00 The Flintstones
6.25 News
6.30 Club Wrestling
7.30 Mona McCluskey (NBC comedy)
8.00 Movie “The Story of Esther Costello”
10.08 News
10.10 World in Focus (NBC documentary)
11.10 Jazz Scene
11.40 sign-off
ABV2
10.20 test pattern
10.30 On the In Side (hosted by Peter Sumner)
11.00 Divine Service (from Willoughby, NSW)
12.00 Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman
12.25 Science Report
12.40 The New Industrial Revolution (premiere)
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.45 Victorian Tennis Championships (live coverage from Kooyong)
4.55 Supercar
5.20 Davey & Goliath
5.35 Look (BBC nature series)
6.00 Quiz Kids
6.30 Charlie Chaplin “A Night in the Show”
6.55 In a Good Cause
7.00 News (includes Weekend Magazine)
7.30 The Man in the Mirror
7.55 Comedy Playhouse “Hudd”
8.20 Maigret
9.08 News in Brief
9.10 Spectrum
9.40 X=God (interviews)
10.10 Late News
followed by sign-off at 10.20
HSV7
11.15 It is Written
11.45 Sunday Magazine
12.00 World of Sport
2.30 Between You, Me & the Hippopotamus
3.00 Movie “Apache Chief”
4.00 Music for the People (classical music)
5.00 Brian & the Juniors
5.30 Meet the Press
6.00 News (includes Camera Seven)
6.30 Disneyland “Our Friend the Atom”
7.30 Get Smart
8.00 Movie “South Sea Sinner”
9.30 Arrest & Trial
11.00 Review (news/weather/CTA feature)
11.10 sign-off
GTV9
11.00 test pattern/music
11.30 How Free Can You Be?
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Roller Derby (roller skating)
1.35 Point of View
1.45 Victorian Tennis Championships
5.00 Leave It to Beaver
5.30 Jack Benny
6.00 News (includes Magazine)
6.30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7.30 Guessing Game
8.00 Movie “Beautiful Stranger”
9.45 Project '66 (documentary series)
10.45 News
11.00 Epilogue/sign-off
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