Today’s TV: 27.12.1968, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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Today’s TV: 28 December 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian
The Nine Network broadcasted the Test Cricket match between Australia and South Africa at the MCG. James Brayshaw didn’t call the match, instead Mark Taylor, Mark Nicholas and Michael Slater (IIRC) were at the venue, calling the Test Match. In WIN Territory, they ran unaired new episodes of The Price is Right at 4:30PM.
Channel 7 had new episodes of Headland over the summer break at 7PM.
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Today’s TV: 29 December 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian
After the Fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne was wrapped up (with AUstralia winning the match), Channel 9 and WIN Television altered its schedules.
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I presume that was just a Nine Perth thing, airing a 90-minute “replay” of the cricket from 4.30pm. I also presume it was a longer highlights package of the whole days’ play rather than directly repeating say the last 90 minutes of coverage?
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Today’s TV: 31 December 2004, Perth
Source: The West Australian
I noticed that WIN had the New Year’s Eve 2004 while Nine Perth didn’t screen. Instead, CHannel Nine opted to screen Midsomer Murders, Robbie Williams Concert from Knebworth.
I also noticed that Channel 10 broadcasted the Video Hits Countdown – broadcasting a chockful of music videos. It still had the MA15+ rating.
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Today’s TV listing: Friday, 31 December 1999
Source: Herald Sun
Last TV guide of the 21st century. Also last day of 7’s circle 7 logo before the first variant of the current logo and the 5 colour bar would be integrated into the presentation which launched at 12:15am.
ABC and Nine aired Millennium coverage with Nine airing “Millennium Live” for Australian audiences after the international broadcast collapsed. ABC aired “2000 Today” as part of the global broadcast consortium to welcome in the new millennium.
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Ah the night of the Millennium Match, best known as the night Brendan Fevola scoffed Maccas pre-match then went out and kicked 12 goals rather than being the opener to the 2000 Ansett Cup.
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And digital TV starting at midnight, good news for the 6 people that had set top boxes 
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At 0:07 Richard Wilkins mentions the words “digital television” on TV during the broadcast of that year’s Sydney NYE fireworks
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Happy New Year everybody! I hope all of you have a great 2023!
Here’s what aired on Sydney TV on New Year’s Day 1982:
from TV & Entertainment World (Australian Women’s Weekly)
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Capital the only one still closing down overnight in NSW. Can also see NRN and Capital with home shopping in the morning, for NRN viewers, they lost the first half-hour of Video Hits.
I forgot about Cheez TV running at one stage on Sundays as The Big Cheez.
The series finale of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman on New Year’s Eve around 19 months after the US on the last day of the 20th century. I remember ABC going around the world across the night. Ten with its youth skewing broadcast including Sami Lukus who would join Nine’s Today show a few years later.
Imagine: John Lennon airing on Nine on NYE for a few years, don’t know how long that was happening for.
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That WIN episode of Heartbeat was from an ABC US medical drama series which aired for two seasons around 1988-90.
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