Over on WIN, I noticed that they had the news at 7:30pm. I wondered whether it was Nine News or Ten News at that time. I even noticed on WIN that they screened an episode of Download during the afternoon. (I believe that was an unscreened 2003 episode then.) I also noticed that WIN didn’t screen the NRL match between the Broncos and Eels during late night and instead opted to broadcast the V8 Supercars and MotoGP.
Today’s TV: 8 April 2010, WA
Source: The West Australian
I remembered that time when Channel 7 commissioned a new footy talk show, The Bounce with Peter Helliar and Matthew Richardson. I also noticed that Channel 7 got the rights to Thank God You’re Here.
The Bounce sadly only lasted only five episodes.
Today’s TV: Adelaide, 10 April 1988
Source: Victor Harbour Times.
ABS 2:
6:00 Rage (cont)
7:00 Todays Special: Record
7:30 Kontakte
8:00 Sports Arena’s World of Bowls
9:00 Rugby League 1988
10:00 Homegrown
10:15 PGR
11:00 Worship Sunday
12:00 Compass
1:00 Special (Unknown)
1:45 Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross and Ninian Stephen
4:00 Sunday Sports Arena
6:00 News
6:30 Touch The Sun: Top Enders
8:05 News
8:10 Sunday Stereo Special: Carmen (Filmed on Location in Spain)
10:40 Brennan: Access
11:10 Sunday Night Rugby
12:10 Station Close
SAS7:
6:00 Leave it to Beaver
6:30 Sing Me a Rainbow
7:00 Hour of Power
8:00 Tom and Jerry
8:30 Sportsworld (Shown Live from Sydney)
11:30 NBL Basketball
1:30 VFL Football (Sydney Swans vs St. Kilda from the SCG)
4:30 Motor Racing
5:30 Trax
6:00 Seven Nightly News
6:30 Disney Movie: Tale of 2 Critters
7:30 ALF
8:00 Valerie
8:30 Movie: Red Dawn (Starring Patrick Swayze)
10:45 Davis Cup Tennis: Australia vs France (Played on Indoor Clay In Clermont-Ferrand)
2:00 Station Close
NWS9:
5:30 1988 US Masters Gold Tournament
8:00 Business Sunday
9:00 Sunday
11:00 Wide World of Sports (Produced from Melbourne with Max Walker and Lou Richards)
1:00 Dukes of Hazzard
2:00 Movie: Huckleberry Finn
3:30 Sports Sunday
3:59 Cricket (Possibly Played at the Adelaide Oval)
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 Our World: Cosmos
7:30 60 Minutes
8:30 Movie: Gremlins (Starring Zach Gallican and Phoebe Cates)
10:45 News
10:50 Cricket Highlights
11:50 Movie: Can’t Stop The Music
2:25 Movie: Mayerling
4:35 Bonanza
ADS10:
6:00 Tarzan
7:00That Girl
7:30 Chris Conroy’s World of Boats
8:00 Clipz (Locally Produced Music Show)
11:00 Business Week
12:00 Movie: Calamity Jane
2:00 Movie: Sitting Bull
4:00 Wackiest Ship in the Army
5:00 Keith Martyn’s World
6:00 Ten News
6:30 Sportz Crazy
7:30 The Comedy Company
8:30 Mini-Series: Dirtwater Dynasty (Starring Hugo Weaving and Victoria Langley)
11:30 Hotel
12:30 Station Close
SBS28:
10:20 International Classic Bowls
11:30 Going Strong
12:00 Anne’s International Kitchen
12:30 The Greek Variety Shows
1:30 Mrs Doremi (Greece)
2:20 The Awakening
3:95 Turning Forty
4:00 Dateline
5:00 West End National Soccer League
6:00 World News
6:30 Vox Populi
7:00 Irish Love Stories: The Eagles and The Trumpets
8:00 Movie: The Tin Drum (Germany)
10:25 Movie: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Germany)
11:15 The Movie Show
11:45 Showbiz
12:20 Station Close
Very Strange to see All 5 News Bulletins airing at Once at 6.
That brief period when ABC had its weekend news at 6.00, and SBS was in EST to Adelaide, so programs appeared 30 minutes “earlier” than the eastern states.
I wonder how our cappers would have coped back in 1988.
Buying 5 VCRs would have been very expensive! 
One thing you don’t see on commercial TV these days: music video shows. Especially Adelaide-produced music shows, in 1988 there was Trax, Top 40 Video and Clipz (the successor to Music Express). By the end of the decade the Sydney-based shows took over. MTV (9) ended in 1993, Video Smash Hits (7) ended in 1994 while Video Hits (10) continued until 2011. There were various short lived music shows on 7 and 9 in the 2000s but they were there to sell mobile phone ringtones (remember them?).
YouTube has killed them (sadly).
and Vevo
Ten did have The Loop which ran from 2012 to 2020.
Though “Sounds” with Donnie Sutherland and “Countdown” with Molly were the ultimate music shows for me.
“Saturday Morning Live” with Jono and Dano was pretty good too.
Nine had one branded after So Fresh compilation series in the 2000s
Seven also had one in 2008 that aired on Saturdays but I don’t remember what it was called.
That was it, Didn’t know it moved to GO!
YouTube: thephenomenon20
I don’t think that matches the timeline. Music shows were on their way out before YouTube rose up, indeed most analysis is that YouTube saved and reignited the concept of music videos, which had more or less vanished for a while there.
You basically have a time between MTV ending their focus on music videos as their main programming, and YouTube’s first break out music videos when broadband streaming was strong enough. There was basically a gap of nearly a decade between the mid-2000s and about 2012 where music videos were low budget after thoughts, and not the way singles launched.
Because discovery moved to online downloads, but before connection speeds caught up for video, song launches were basically entirely those mp3s dropping. It’s probably something like Gangnam Style before you got the true resurgence of video as a medium, and the importance of a music video to the success of a song.
I think the TV shows that remained in that time suffered because music video quality fell - so the success of the shows largely came down to music selection - and to some extent started shifting away from trying to play just the charts each week.
YouTube finally killing them is probably more just like how YouTube killed the “Funniest Home Videos” genre.
And that kind of killed itself too because it was the same thing over and over and pretty much stopped becoming funny.
10 April 2000, Sydney
Source SMH
No love for this episode of Friends, which probably still rated 3m. While Seven and Ten run completely dead.
No love for Law and Order SVU either.
