Quick get Stuart Littlemore on the case. 
Obviously the Mirror didnāt give a shit about the far flung parts of the stateā¦
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And now āDaily Telegraphā Sunday 6 September 1987.
Interesting that, like the Daily Mirror, the order is 10, 9, 7, ABC, SBS
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Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper? It looks like Sydney channels were only listed from midday. The Herald in Melbourne used to do similar with its listings, starting from midday. Although you could buy an early edition of The Herald from about 10 or 11am. Maybe that was the edition that got dispatched out to regions?
Commercial media often preferred American spelling for words like harbour and colour. I think Neighbours would send them in a tiz because theyād want to keep spelling it āNeighborsā.
Daily Mirror was a News Ltd title, and Ten was part of the News Ltd group up until 1987, so Ten got preference as a legacy of that ownership. The SMH used to do the same to list ATN7 first, given Fairfax owned both outlets.
I donāt think the Herald and Weekly Times papers had the same pettiness in Melbourne when it owned HSV7, tending to stick mostly to numerical order for its listings.
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Mirror was a 3pm paper.
And not a good one at that.
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I think most regionals started at either 6am or 7am by that stage. NRN and NEN started with GMA at 7am, CBN started with Today at 7am, I believe CTC aired Today from 7am
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Yes indeed. The test wicket was replaced specially.
The G had drop-ins since 1996, but I guess they did not have time to replace the whole block.
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Would have been some ODIs in January.
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Oh yes good point. Ind, Pak CUB series.
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A couple from the Illawarra Mercuryā¦
1 March 1989
And 1st day of aggregation with Prime/Capital in a new format.
The 9 looks more curvy than Ive ever seen it!
Must be a home made logo?
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all those logos are horrendous recreationsā¦ send their graphic editor back to school!!
Did you happen to also get the day before, 30 March, the last day before aggregation launched at midnight?
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The Seven logo looks like something from the early seventies.
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Thanks, that would make sense, as this TV Guide from August 1994 for āThe Daily Telegraph Miirorā has the channels in a more logical order.
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Here it is, but looks exactly the same as earlier dates, Prime and Capital not listed at all.
The Newcastle Herald was similar, they didnt include Prime/NRTV until 31st despite NRTV starting 12am.
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I noticed Seven had its news at 6:30pm - I think this was because they knew they were never going to beat Nine News at 6:00pm as apparently the latter was ātoo strong in the ratingsā.
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Seven, at least in Sydney, would move their news to 6pm in August 1989.
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Notably all the regional networks chose different movies for that night than the metro counterparts - Star Wars would be a pretty big draw on Capital. I wonder if Canberra got that or just the new regions?
Those logos are hideous - itās almost like someone just described the logos over the phone to someoneā¦
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Different movies were often shown in the first few years of aggregation as regional markets had different and shorter ratings periods (only 4 x 4 weeks).
It wasnāt until 1993 i think that this was more or less brought into line with metros and holding back movies/specials became a thing of the past.
That was why NBN viewers for instance didnāt get to see Doug Mulrays Naughtiest Home Video special!
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Canberra did get Star Wars - Return of The Jedi that night.
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I cant remember what aired on that night instead, BUT a few years later there was a charity all stars cricket game featuring Warnie and Alfie Langer that aired on NBN instead of Sydney. programming- it ended early and NBN screened Diagnosis Murder
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Your memory is better than mine! I donāt remember that at all.
The only reason I can think of is that it might have been played in Sydney and was thus subject to blackout provisions in the host city that existed back then?
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