I don’t think its that crazy for them to air Power Rangers on a Saturday at 6:30, Seven tended to favor family themed programming at 6:30 on Saturday nights and Power Rangers was a massive cultural thing from that time period. I mean Ten would do something similar in 2000 when Pokemon was at the height of its popularity by airing episodes at the same time slot on Saturdays.
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I think Channel 7 also aired the first five episodes of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon in August of 1990 to promote the live action film adaptation which was coming out at the time too.
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Fair to say Channel 7 needed a family filler to tide over in the summer months and there’s only so many Disney movies to rotate through
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Today’s TV: 25.1.1985, Melbourne
Source: TV Scene
And the same day, including regional Victoria:
Source: TV Star
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IIRC, this was the last time Friends was shown on Channel 7 since they only had the rights to air season 1 when it (belatedly) premiered in August of 1996 and in December of the same year, Season 2-onwards aired on Nine. Right?
Yep - some discussion here.
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I just remember vaguely (as a kid) when it premiered on Ch7.
My understanding, Seven pushed out Season 1 to delay Season 2 launching on Nine. I could be wrong but I think Nine replayed Season 1 over the summer 96/97 prior to launching Season 2.
Nine also obtained Lois & Clark with the new deal. I believe that was Season 4.
I also noticed that the Prime regionals didn’t take part in this for some reason, opting to air movies instead
The caps I posted are from Prime - you can just make out the watermark.
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I remember seeing the Coca-Cola Interactive night on Prime in Victoria, first up they had the final episode of Friends S1 (The One With the Birth) followed by the pilot episode of Home and Away.
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26 January 2004, 20 years ago yesterday, Perth
Source: Our Guide
For Perth viewers, the 2004 Australian Open coverage stopped at 3pm then resumed at 7.30pm on Australia Day before being interrupted for a Special Presentation at 10:30pm for approximately 30 mins then resuming again at 11.00pm.
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I remember the Hewitt vs Federer match was played on the evening of Australia Day that year so for Perth viewers it would’ve been delayed by three hours.
Yep. Night sessions were delayed then. It wasn’t until 2012 we had live coverage of night sessions and 2022 when we could view the tennis ad-free
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If I remember correctly, Seven News Perth aired almost immediately after that epic Djokovic vs Nadal match? It would’ve finished just after 10:30pm Perth time (1:30am Melb time).
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Yep. We had a break at 10:30pm that night with the conclusion of the match after the Lotterywest Skyworks special presentation went to air that night
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Today’s TV: 29 Jan 2012, Perth
Source: The West Australian
I remembered when my sister and I watched that epic Australian Open Final between Djokovic-Nadal match on CHannel 7 (which ran for nearly six hours). Originally, 7 News Perth was scheduled to have the news at 7:30pm but was pushed back to 11pm. (I still remembered that time after the post-match presentations ended, the host Hamish McLachlan (IIRC) told WA viewers that they go straight to the news).
I wondered what happened to the remaining scheduled programs during the night in Perth?
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