Had a nice old time at the Newcastle library today scouring the ‘Newcastle Herald’ archives on microfilm.
Here is a TV Guide listing from Sat 4 / Sun 5 July 1987.
10 Likes
What channel was on 45?
2 Likes
SBS.
5 Likes
Another Newcastle Herald TV Guide, this one from the day before aggregation began (30 Dec 1991). They only moved to this new format in that week (compared to the one I posted just above).
Interesting that they were already listing the regional/metro variations even though aggregation hadn’t started yet!
7 Likes
Did the NBN schedule revert to the Nine daytime schedule or vice versa given the test match Australia v India ended on Sunday 29 December 1991?
2 Likes
No, as above, even on the evening of 30 Dec, NBN were still running their own schedule. They only really aligned to the Nine schedule from 31st.
But even in 1992, there were more variations between metro and regional schedules compared to now due to things like the ratings periods being different, news being 1 hour vs 30 mins etc.
2 Likes
I wasn’t sure if NBN would have dropped the second movie in favour of the daytime serials airing on the main channel at the time as I know when I was living near Canberra that where the test cricket finished early WIN reverted to normal daytime schedule.
Also I am aware of the regional variations because at the time the aggregation started in northern NSW I was. Living in Lismore. Back then, for the most part, the biggest schedule variations were weekdays between 9am and midday with NBN screening their own morning show, Romper Room/Big Dog, The Sullivans and infomercials with only Nine program in that block of programming though screening an hour later in the morning than metro was Here’s Humphrey
3 Likes
Plus NBN didn’t start televising test cricket played in Australia until aggregation kicked in. Before that we still got the ABC coverage and NBN only showed the one dayers.
Also once aggregation kicked it they no longer closed down during the overnight hours. They took a direct feed from Channel 9 in Sydney. Sydney ads and all.
3 Likes
I’m aware of the fact that ABC took the test cricket pre aggregation, I was just wondering if NBN started broadcasting the daytime US soaps a day early driven the test match ending on 29 December instead of 30 December (with Australia beating India). NBN took most of Nines afternoon feed once aggregation started with mainly the 3:30pm program and the 5pm til 7:30pm timeslots having regional variations
3 Likes
was Nine even showing the daytime soaps at that time? They used to get a break over Christmas given the erratic scheduling across different states brought on by cricket coverage over the summer. Which frustrated fans of the show as such breaks would take Australia further behind the US in airing episodes.
4 Likes
Yes Nine were.
Here is the Melbourne schedule from 31 December 3024
2 Likes
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! lol
7 Likes
It should be 1991.
3 Likes
Surely NBN would have had to run their own programming lineup until the final minute, just as they would have done in the same situation previously.
2 Likes
Being an unexpected programming change for Nine given the affiliation agreement anything could have been possible, especially since the other two coming competitors had already dropped all non affiliate programming albeit the finals week of the Australian Open Tennis in the NRTV viewing area given Prime didn’t commence programming until April 1992
2 Likes
same happened in Victoria. VIC TV and Southern Cross dropped all non-affiliate programming (which took up a lot of their respective programming back then, they continued to cherrypick right to the end) on December 31, 1991. Southern Cross took the 1992 Australian Open womens and mens singles final and the last 2 days of the Australian Masters Golf, both Seven events.
4 Likes
that was only because Prime wasn’t available across the aggregated market, outside of the Albury licence area, until March.
5 Likes
Today’s TV: 2 November 2013
Melbourne, Victoria
Source: The Age
Melbourne Cup carnival live and exclusive to 7 with Derby Day
6 Likes
Today’s TV: 2 November 2010
Melbourne, Victoria
Source: The Sunday Age
The 150th running of the Melbourne Cup was on 7. Packed to the Rafers was the hit primetime show of the evening capping off a huge Cup Day for 7.
7 Likes
Hang on, I didn’t think the 1 hour bulletins on 7 and 9 had been going for 11 years or more. I thought it was more like 8 years. Wow, amazing how time flys. Hey does anyone have a television guide showing the first night of the change?
2 Likes