Would this be the same broadcast, just delayed? I can’t imagine the Premier giving two Christmas addresses within 30 minutes.
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I imagine it was the same message probably given to all channels.
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Same with the Queen’s Christmas Message.
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Sport definitely front and center across all the stations in the summer of 86/87.
more so in 1968, with the Davis Cup on 3 channels at the same time, and the races on ATV0.
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Pretty sure NRTV soon after this became Ten.
Were NBN playing catch up to Nine with Days and YATR?
sort of, it happened AFAIK in August 1994 as the Commonwealth Games started,
Weird, I’m not sure what that’s about. NBN would have been taking both shows on direct relay from Nine by default so I am not sure what they’d be catching up to. Unless it was just to account for a day of cricket coverage or something which might have put NBN out of sync with Nine. But would be interested to know.
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Looks like it. WIN has to do something similar here with a triple Days.
31 December 1993
Source: SMH
No tennis on Prime for some reason
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As we reach the end of another year, here’s what aired on Melbourne TV 46 years ago today (taken from The Age)
Saturday 31 December 1977
ATV0
8.00 Cartoon Carnival
10.00 Journey
10.30 Animal World
11.00 Run Joe Run
11.30 Westwind
12.00 Empire
1.00 Grecian Scene
2.00 The Cowboys
2.30 Movie “Shocking Miss Pilgrim”
4.00 What in the World
4.30 Junior Jury
5.00 Shadows
5.30 The Cop and the Kid
6.00 News
6.30 Magic Circus
7.30 Harry O
8.30 Movie “Magic Carpet”
10.15 Movie “I Love You Alice B. Toklas”
12.00 Movie “Footlight Parade”
2.30 sign-off
ABV2
3.30pm test pattern/music
3.40 Cricket: Australia v. India (second day of the 3rd test, live from the MCG)
6.00 Britannia Awards
7.00 News
7.15 Weather
7.18 Today’s Sport (includes racing from Sandown, plus results and scores)
7.30 The People’s Command Performance
9.00 Eric Sykes Shows a Few of Our Favorite Things
9.50 News
10.00 Sammy Davis Jr. in Concert
10.50 The Two Ronnies
11.20 It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve
12.15 Rod Stewart in Concert
1.15 Cricket: highlights of Australia v. India
1.45 sign-off
HSV7
7.45 test pattern/music
8.00 Adventures of Rupert Bear
8.10 Huckleberry Hound
8.35 Rocket Robin Hood
9.00 Sound Unlimited
11.00 Tennis: Australian Open
6.00 News
6.30 Space: 1999
7.30 Bluey
8.30 Laughs, Lotto and Longshots (includes British comedy acts, live trotting from Moonee Valley throughout the program and a drawing of Tattslotto)
11.00 Night Moves
12.00 New Year’s Eve Greetings to Viewers
1.00 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Gene Autry Hour
7.00 Thunderbirds
8.00 National Velvet
8.30 Korg 70.000 BC
9.00 King Kong
9.30 Rocky & Bullwinkle
10.00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
10.30 Sigmund the Sea Monster
10.50 World Series Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (day 1 from Adelaide)
6.00 News
6.30 Fly Now Play Later
7.00 Ask the Leyland Brothers
7.30 Hawaii Five-O
8.30 Baretta
9.30 Chopper One
10.00 World Series Cricket highlights
10.30 Movie “The Night They Raided Minsky’s”
12.30 Movie “Take the Money and Run”
2.00 Movie “Evil Ray Slade”
3.30 Movie “You’re a Big Boy Now”
5.00 Movie “The Man Who Was Nobody”
I wanna wish to all of you a very Happy New Year! 
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Seven filling up their afternoon slot with the movie Cleopatra.
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What an odd thing to air on a Sunday afternoon, It’s the type of thing 9Gem would air on a Sunday afternoon now.
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That was also Tracey Spicer’s Final 5PM Bulletin On Ten News Weekend Edition. As She Said ‘New Year Brings New Memories’.
Natarsha Belling Replaced Tracey Spicer as the National Weekend Presenter of Ten News Weekend Edition at the Beginning of 2007.
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A couple of other things from this 2006 guide
Nine seemingly still had new episodes of [Hot] Source to burn given The Shack had debuted that year as its new 4pm “edutainment” show and they were pretty similiar concepts/shows.
I used to really like those Year In Review shows Nine and Ten would air in the mid-2000s
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Prime did not take the Hopman Cup as it wasn’t as important as the Australian Open. This was Seven’s last year of taking this tournament before moving to the ABC (and Premier Sports/Fox Sports taking night sessions with the ABC’s commentators) the following year.
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10’s first NYE. The Big Night In was panned by audiences. NYE Then was hosted by Big Brother’s Gretel Kileen and actor Daniel MacPherson who jumped ship to 7 the following year.
It was Bill Woods actually who replaced Spicer @Brayden_Courtney.
Today’s TV: 31 December 2013
Source: The West Australian’s Today liftout
Sydney New Year’s Eve went from longtime broadcaster Nine to national broadcaster ABC for the first time hosted by Lawrence Mooney and Stephanie Brantz.
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