I’ve never been able to see a country Victoria guide in any of the 1980s copies of The Age that are online. Was this country edition that you got it from?
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Don’t know which edition to be honest, it must have been. Most of the ones I’ve seen online only seem to have the Melbourne channels, I ended up doing a text search using callsigns or a phrase like “Country TV” to find one, and that was one that can came up.
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Newspapers.com (a subscription site, although it offers a free 7-day trial) has both Sydney Morning Herald and The Age archives. I’ve found the easiest way to find regional listings is just to punch in a station’s calls (and restrict the area to Australia) and let the search do the rest! Google News Archive also has some from both papers but their controls are shot, and Google no longer maintains it technically…
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Sydney/Canberra/Regional NSW, Monday 3 November 1980
from Sydney Morning Herald
Network 0-28
6.28pm News Headlines
6.30 The Hot Wind (Serbian)
7.30 Numero Un (French)
8.27 News Headlines
8.30 Bel Ami (French)
9.30 Worldwide News
10.00 Maria Callas on Vissi d’Arte
ABN2 Sydney, ABC3 Canberra, ABCN1 Orange, ABHN5A Newcastle, ABMN0 Wagga Wagga, ABRN6 Lismore, ABTN1 Taree, ABWN5A Wollongong
8.00 Sesame Street
9.00 Musical Triangles
9.30 Play School
10.00 Educational Programs
12.35 Weekend Magazine
1.00 News/Weather
1.11 Educational Programs
4.00 Alexander’s Afternoon
5.00 Hunting Tower
5.35 All the Green Year
6.00 Laff-a-Bits
6.05 David Nixon Movie Show
6.30 My Favorite Martian
6.55 Regional News/Weather (Videodisc airs in Sydney)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Home Sweet Home
8.00 Man About the House
8.30 The World on Monday
9.30 News/Weather
9.35 Nationwide
10.00 Sight & Sound in Concert
10.35 Miss Jones & Son
AMV4 Albury, RVN2 Wagga Wagga
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 At Home with (channel number; separate editions ran in each market)
2.40 General Hospital
3.00 My Three Sons
3.30 Family Feud
4.00 For Young Viewers
5.20 Hogan’s Heroes
5.50 Sale of the Century
6.15 News/Weather
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Sullivans
8.30 Paper Chase
9.25 NSW Lotto Results
9.30 Don Lane Show
11.00 News/Weather
NBN3 Newcastle
7.00 Good Morning News/NBN Breakfast Club
8.30 Here’s Humphrey
9.20 Romper Room
10.00 Movie “The Belles of St. Trinian’s”
11.30 Family Feud
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Community Notice Board
2.30 Young & the Restless
2.55 Coronation Street
3.25 Greenacres
3.55 Cartoons for Youngsters
4.05 Rolf On Saturday OK
4.30 Greenhill
5.00 Hogan’s Heroes
5.30 Sale of the Century
6.00 News/Weather Report
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 House Calls
8.00 Kingswood Country
8.30 Cop Shop
9.25 Lotto Draw
9.30 News
9.35 Miniseries “The Contender” (pt 1)
11.00 The Professionals
WIN4 Wollongong
10.30 Flapper’s Factory
11.00 Ed Allen
11.30 Bernard King
11.55 News/Weather
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young & the Restless
3.00 Coronation Street
3.30 General Hospital
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 Shirl’s Neighborhood
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Sale of the Century
6.00 News/Weather
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Rockford Files
9.28 Go Lotto
9.30 Don Lane Show
11.00 Morecambe & Wise
mid. Evening Epilogue
ATN7 Sydney
8.00 Magazine 7
9.00 Many Wives of Patrick
9.30 Celebrity Tattletales
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 Eleven AM
noon Movie “Zigzag”
2.00 Movie “My Man Godfrey”
4.00 Shirl’s Neighborhood
4.30 Wombat
5.00 Good Times
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 Seven Sydney News
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Battlestar Galactica
8.30 Movie “Mother, Jugs and Speed”
10.30 Newsnight
11.30 Madigan
CTC7 Canberra
9.15 Here’s Humphrey
10.10 Cartoon Program
10.15 Movie “Carry On Follow That Camel”
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.22 Young & the Restless
2.45 Dinah!
3.45 For Younger Viewers
4.30 Bailey’s Birds (premiere)
5.05 Mary Tyler Moore
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News/Weather
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Sullivans
8.30 Cop Shop
9.30 Dick Emery
10.00 News/Weather
10.10 Melbourne Cup Preview
10.40 WKRP in Cincinnati
12.15 Movie “South of St. Louis”
CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo/MTN9 Griffith
9.00-10.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.50 Around the Schools
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 News
1.40 Dick Van Dyke
2.05 Days of Our Lives
2.55 General Hospital
3.20 Young & the Restless
3.45 Cartoons
4.00 Shirl’s Neighborhood
4.30 Wonder World
5.00 Black Arrow
5.30 Brady Bunch
6.00 Sale of the Century
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 This is Your Life
8.00 Local News/Weather
8.15 Centennial (premiere)
9.35 Lotto Results
9.40 Centennial cont’d
11.00 Barney Miller
11.30 Local News
11.45 Epilogue
TCN9 Sydney
5.10 Big Valley
6.00 Cartoons (Go Health airs at 6.55)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Ed Allen
10.30 Another World
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young & the Restless
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Search for Tomorrow
4.00 Swiss Family Robinson
5.00 Here’s Lucy
5.30 Family Feud
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 News/Weather Report
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Sullivans
8.30 Charlie’s Angels
9.25 Go Lotto!
9.30 Don Lane Show
11.00 Taxi
11.30 13 Queens Boulecard
mid. Movie “Please Call It Murder”
1.30 Movie “Hoodlum Priest”
3.30 Movie “Down Argentine Way”
NEN9 Tamworth, ECN8 Taree
11.25 Thought for the Day
11.30 Fat Cat & Friends
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Young & the Restless
2.00 Days of Our Lives
2.50 General Hospital
3.15 Notice Board/Rainbow
3.35 Flintstones
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 Ballet Shoes
4.55 New Archie & Sabrina Show
5.20 Cartoons
5.30 Variety Roundabout
5.35 Sale of the Century
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 National News/Weather
7.00 Sullivans
7.30 Love Boat
8.25 Stock Market Report
8.30 Cop Shop
9.25 Go Lotto!
9.30 Don Lane Show
11.00 News/Sport/Rural Billboard
11.25 Thought for the Day
TEN10 Sydney
9.00 Building a People
9.05 Batman with Robin
9.30 Rainbow
10.00 Fat Cat & Friends
10.30 Bernard King
11.00 Good Morning Sydney
noon Movie “I’ll Never Forget What’s-His-Name”
2:00 Movie “Delancy Street”
3.30 That Girl
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
4.30 Studio Ten
5.00 Gilligan’s Island
5.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6.00 News/Weather Report
7.00 M.A.S.H.
7.30 John Laws’ World
8.30 Prisoner
9.30 This is America
10.30 John Singleon
mid. Number 96
NRN11 Coffs Harbour, RTN8 Lismore
11.30 Fat Cat & Friends
noon Mike Walsh
1.35 Social Calendar
1.40 Young & the Restless
2.00 Fun Cooking
2.10 Days of Our Lives
2.55 General Hospital
3.20 For Young Viewers
5.40 Sale of the Century
6.10 News/Weather
7.02 Sullivans
7.30 Love Boat
8.30 Cop Shop
9.25 Lotto Draw
9.30 Don Lane
11.10 11-8 News Replay
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I get mine via the NSW State Library E-Resources, which is free if you are a library member, which is also free. Also has a vast archive of SMH and The Age papers.
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I have free access to the NSW state library archives for the SMH and The Age.
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It’s a great resource, isn’t it.. I’m looking up stuff on it almost every day.
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Proquest has an Australian collection, pretty much just The Age and SMH up until 2000.
It’s not a paid service but you need to have a membership to a participating library (e.g. State Library of Victoria) to access it.
That’s the one that the NSW State Library archives use as well.
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It was interesting to see Sale Of The Century not in the 7pm timeslot on NSW regionals back in the days of 1980. Also wasn’t screening on CTC7 at all
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I think Canberra picked it up from early 1981 after it withdrew from relaying Willesee At Seven.
It was likely rare back then to list out pay-TV channels as part of the newspaper EPG.
And weird channel allocation went way back then, like for example the cricket could have led to A-League.
No one lists it this way nowadays. You have to get hold of the original guide and try to locate it.
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That was the first year it was on air.. so I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that not every regional station was screening it then as not everyone would have thought it would be the success that it was.
CTC-7 was screening it by 1981 however (at 7pm). Though by then in regional VIC and surrounds, only BTV-6, GMV-6 and SES-8 were screening Sale (BCV-8, GLV-8 and AMV-4 weren’t).
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According to the above tv guides RVN-2/AMV-4 were screening Sale Of The Century in November 1980
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Oh ok, didn’t see that.. The one I was looking at in ‘The Age’ (for 13 November 81 - only a couple of weeks later didn’t have it).
The TV guide is was referring to was from Monday 3 November 1980, not 1981. I daesay it might have went off early fir Christmas or might have been a typographical error.
I have seen NRTV Gold Coast TV guides without Sale Of The Century listed in 1989 and 1991, but NRTV Lismore screened Sale Of The Century until July 1991 where it cut National Nine News, Sale Of The Century and Happy Days from the schedule and replaced by Blind Date and Ten Eyewitness News hour (which displaced Neighbours for around 3 months before NRTV News started presenting a composite bulletin and return Happy Days for a further 2 months.
I was actually a bit confused at the time by NRTV opting of Happy Days and Sale Of The Century instead Lets Make A Deal and Blind Date - especially since the latter aired on NRTV Gold Coast - I was told yhe programming difference was because NRTV was seen as a direct competitor of Nine and similarly seen as a competitor by 10 even though NRTV was an affiliate partner. This was supposed to be the logic for A Country Practice and most Channel 7 programs being dropped at end of August 1991, except Beyond 2000 and a handful of children’s programs. By December 1 1991, with exception of the World Series Cup Cricket, all programming came from Channel 10
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Yes, I think I got my wires crossed re 80 vs 81 there.
And yes, no ‘Sale’ on the Mid North Coast in the latter half of 1991 on either Prime or NRTV, I guess not surprisingly with stations starting to align themselves more closely with their feeder networks just months out from aggregation.
This from the ‘Port Macquarie News’ 2-3 October 1991
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The rugby there was ENG vs NZ, not sure why that wasn’t shown.
The beginning of the end for ABC’s RWC coverage.
What do you mean?
Was on ABC on 3rd Oct at 11pm as above.
The match wasn’t namechecked “ENG vs NZ” in the EPG is what I meant.
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