still good to let people know what was on so they could go to said pubs to watch it. TV Week used to list Sky Channel too for a while.
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Sky Channel wasnât made available to homes until 1998 when it was rebranded as Sky Racing.
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The beginning of the end for live NSW feeds into the Gold Coast during Daylight Savings, with the 7.30pm Sunday night screening of âPulp Fictionâ sparking a furore, as I was living up here at the time. Wasnât able to find the articles I recall reading in the weeks following. The end result being that NSW stations were required to delay such programs by 1 hour to meet classification standards
(Gold Coast Bulletin - 22 & 23 November 1997)
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Todayâs and tomorrowâs TV: 24 & 25 December 2009, Perth, WA
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
A double-spread for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2009. Nine had Shrek The Halls at 7:30pm before a delayed telecast of Carols by Candlelight repeated the next day.
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two ABCâs due to daylight saving ABC 2 is obvoiusly NSW time and ABC 6 is queensland time
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10 scheduled 10 (I think all of them Christmas themed) movies back then.
Fast forward 16 years on and the number is 3, all Nickelodeon.
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Interesting they scheduled Apollo 13 on Christmas Eve back then
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NBN began doing the hour delay into the Gold Coast in 1996, 12 months before the others.
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They did, at the request of Channel Nine, who were concerned about the impact the earlier screenings on NBN were having on its ratings, ignoring the fact 7 and 10 were equally affected as well.
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Boxing Day Ashes Test Day 1 86/87 series
How Melbourne did (or more accurately didnât) see the Test on 9 with the blackout provisions that were in place back then.
Sydney also below for comparison
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I never understood NBNâs decision to run GMA and insert local news and weather and then try (most often very badly) to timeout to the end of Tenâs updates.
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Because theyâve never liked airing any sort of metro branded news.. which continued pretty much right up until Nine bought them, and then some. Even used to cover up some WWOS openers with their own too.
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For me it was like - why run Tenâs breakfast show but you run Nine Newsâ reports locally. It just never made sense to me
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Many regionals aired GMA and aired National Nine News in NSW in 1986. From memory, I think CTC7, NBN3 and CBN6/CWN8/MTN9 took Today whilst the other 4 in NSW took GMA.
Similarly in QLD, I think only TNQ7/FNQ10 and ITQ8 took Today and the others took GMA.
The evening news arrangements varied but by late 1987, most took Nine News (or content sourced news content from Nine)
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For most regional stations, it likely came down to which metropolitan network was cheapest to source content from at the time.
Network Ten may have offered Good Morning Australia at a lower rate than what Nine was charging for Today, while Nine may have been more cost-effective for the 6:00â6:30pm slot compared to Tenâs bulletin pricing.
If Good Morning Australia cross-promoted a report that later aired within Tenâs news bulletins, but a station instead carried National Nine News, would the station ever alert viewers to that discrepancy?
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thatâs the joy of regional TV being able to cherry pick from all three networks. Viewers could get one of either Today or GMA in the morning, would most likely get Nineâs 11.30am news, but then have Seven or Nineâs evening news.
In Victoria in the 1980s, TV8 carried Today but BTV/GMV6 and AMV4 had Good Morning Australia, but all had Seven National News in the evening (up until 1987 when they all switched to National Nine News on relay).
I doubt it, but also I guess they would not have had a lot of that sort of cross-promotion knowing full well that a lot of their viewing areas would not have Tenâs evening news.
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Todayâs TV: 26.12.1962, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
Todayâs TV: 26.12.1978, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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With 26 years to the day since the turn of the millennium fast approaching and with ABC and Nine having coverage of New Millennium Celebrations, I now present to you Seven and 10 Evening Schedules (Local Time) for December 31 of 1999:
Seven
NRL States (NSW, ACT and QLD)
6:30 PM Today Tonight
7:00 PM Special Clive James - A Night of 1000 Years.
9:00 PM The Turn of the Century Rock the Millennium - A Celebration of Song
VIC, SA and WA
6:30 PM Today Tonight
7:00 PM Home Improvement
7:30 PM AFL: Millennium Match - Carlton vs Collingwood
10:00 PM The Turn of the Century Rock the Millennium - A Celebration of Song
10
National
7:00 PM Mad About You
7:30 PM Seventh Heaven
8:30 PM Movie: There is a Girl in my Soup (1970)
10:30 PM Video Hits: Funk The Millennium
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Wow. Live Davis Cup tennis coverage on three out of four channels.
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