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Tasmania, Monday 25th April 1994
Sourced from The Mercury

ABC (ABT-2 Hobart, ABNT-3 Launceston)
6.00 Open Learning: Astrology [S]
6.30 Australia Television International News [R]
7.00 1st Edition
7.30 Open Learning: Management In Action [S]
8.00 Earth Revealed [R, S]
8.30 Sesame Street [R]
9.25 Ferry Boat Fred
9.30 Play School [R]
10.00 Return To Singapore [R]
10.30 The ANZAC Story: Bullecourt Bloodbath
11.00 ANZAC Day March
12.20 ABC Moments: ANZAC Cove
12.30 The Reading, Writing Roadshow
1.00 The World At Noon
1.30 Quantum [R]
2.00 The RSL’s First 75 Years [R]
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends [R]
4.00 Play School [R, S]
4.30 Johnson And Friends [R]
4.40 Old Bear Stories
4.50 Brum [R]
5.00 The Ferals [G]
5.25 The Ratties [R]
5.30 Loud
6.00 Northwood [G]
6.25 Roger Ramjet [R]
6.30 Return To Singapore
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Mr Bean (Mr Bean In Room 426) [G, R]
8.30 Four Corners [S]
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 This Sporting Life [PG]
10.00 Review
10.30 Lateline
11.05 English Soccer
12.00 Australian Environmental Studies: The Unique Continent [R, S]
12.30 Australia Television International News
1.00 The Boys Who Came Home [R]
2.00 Movie: Sky West And Crooked (1965) [PG]
3.35 I Love Lucy [B&W, R]
4.00 Open Learning [R, S]

SBS (SBS-28 Hobart)
6.30 Worldwatch:
6.31 Vox Populi [R]
7.00 Le Journal
7.30 The Journal
8.00 Chinese News
8.30 Novosti
9.00 Das Journal
9.30 Greek News [R]
10.00 Italia News [R]
10.30 Polish News [R]
11.05 Weatherwatch & Music
11.30 The Big Byte [R]
12.00 English At Work [R]
12.30 Movie: A Farewell To Arms (1932) (US) [G, B&W, R]
1.50 Weatherwatch & Music
2.30 Graduate Education:
2.31 Quality Improvement Systems
3.30 Engineering Data Reduction And Error Analysis
4.00 Australian Multiculturalism
4.30 TV Ed
5.00 The Big Byte [R]
5.30 Soccer On Monday
6.30 World News
7.00 Dateline
7.30 The Talk Show
8.00 Maiden Voyages (UK)
8.30 Masterpiece: Sylvie Guillem (UK) [G]
9.30 Movie: Friends (UK)
11.25 Prostitution (France) [M]
12.20 Close

Tas TV (TVT-6 Hobart)
5.58 Thought For The Day [G]
6.00 ITN World News
6.30 Daybreak News
7.00 Today [G]
9.00 Tasmania Today [G]
9.30 Here’s Humphrey [P, R]
10.00 Wonder World [C]
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s Cooking [G]
11.30 Entertainment Tonight [PG]
12.00 Midday With Derryn Hinch [PG]
1.30 Evening Shade (FINAL) [PG]
2.00 Football: AFL (St Kilda v Richmond)
5.00 Paradise Beach [G]
5.30 The Price Is Right [G]
6.00 Sale Of The Century [G, S]
6.30 Tas TV Evening News
7.00 A Current Affair [G]
7.28 Keno
7.30 Murphy Brown [G]
8.00 Frasier [PG]
8.35 Movie: J.F.K (1991) (Pt 2) [M, v, l]
10.19 Silk Stalkings [PG]
11.15 Nightline [G]
11.45 Special: Journey Home - Bryce Courtenay In South Africa [PG]
12.45 Movie: The Bigamist (1953) [M, B&W]
2.10 Thought For The Day [G, R]
2.12 Close

Southern Cross (TNT-9 Launceston)
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection [G]
9.00 Lamb Chop’s Play-Along [P]
9.30 Aerobics Oz Style [G]
10.00 Blockbusters [C]
10.30 The Bold And The Beautiful [PG]
11.00 11AM [G]
12.00 Movie: The Phantom Of The Opera (Pt 1) (1990) [PG, R]
2.00 Football: AFL (St Kilda v Richmond)
5.00 Wheel Of Fortune [G]
5.30 Neighbours [G, S]
6.00 Home And Away [G, S]
6.30 Southern Cross Network News
7.00 Real Life [G]
7.30 A Country Practice [PG, S]
8.28 Keno
8.30 Movie: The Cosby Mysteries [PG]
10.25 NYPD Blue [M]
11.25 Casualty (PREMIERE) [M]
12.25 Donahue [PG]
1.15 Brothers [M]
1.40 Movie: Chariots Of The Gods? (1971) [G, R]
3.15 Get A Life [G]
3.45 Bonanza [G, R]
4.35 NBC Today [G]

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This would have been the last game of AFL on TasTV wouldn’t it? As aggregation then occurred later that week. Weird seeing it there for both Southern Cross and TasTV.

EDIT: It would have been about that day that I came home from school and Mum showed me that Dad had tuned their bedroom TV into TasTV. They knew that I liked the test patterns and that sort of thing. I can clearly remember seeing it for the first time and being quite excited to finally have more than 2 channels only a few days away!

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872

Yeah it was Tas TV’s last game before aggregation. It does look weird considering both stations had almost entirely changed their schedules to fall into line with their new aggregation partners, with exceptions like the football on Tas TV and the Keno draw on Southern Cross.

It wasn’t uncommon for both stations to telecast live an AFL match or a cricket match for example at the same time for their respective areas until aggregation, particularly when they were both owned by ENT in the 80s and their schedules had pretty much merged with each other during that time.

Unfortunately I was too young to witness aggregation happening, but it would no doubt have been quite an exciting time for lots of viewers here knowing more channels were on the way.

873

It was also the last time Collingwood didn’t play Essendon on ANZAC Day. That game was out at Waverley and didn’t get anywhere near the pomp and ceremony we see today.

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Today’s TV: 3.5.1974, Melbourne

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Source: Listener In-TV

  • Paul Bongiorno is the Melbourne host of Today on 7.
  • Lots of quiz shows to keep you entertained in the daytime: Play Your Hunch, What’s My Line, Temptation, Concentration, Spending Spree, The Price Is Right, Gambit, Blind Date.
  • Instead of The Morning Show, Today Extra and Studio 10, there’s Good Morning Vi (Vi Greenhalf) and The Roy Hampson Show, then The Mike Walsh Show at midday. And if you miss Mike Walsh in the daytime, there’s a repeat at night.
  • Tanya Halesworth hosts Nine’s “all women” current affairs show, No Man’s Land plus Nine has a repeat of the previous night’s A Current Affair
  • In the evening, big drama night for Channel 0 with Matlock Police, Number 96 and The Box, followed by The Mannequin And Photographic Model Of The Year Awards, live from the studios of ATV0, then the special Centrefold Pets!
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875

Interesting to see The Mike Walsh Show on 0 described as “current affairs”. I always saw Walsh as an entertainer and variety host although I’m aware he hosted a version of Today on Seven. I remember it being a big deal that Ray Martin was going to skew Midday a little towards current affairs when he took over the 12pm slot in 1985 and there was some angst about that. I’d always assumed Walsh’s show was mostly variety with some topical issues with regulars like Dr James Wright.

876

He used to include an element of current affairs on his daytime show, interviewing politicians or running panel discussions on social topics but I think you’re right it was probably more a “tonight show” in daytime with celebrity interviews and music acts and so on. Must have been quite a mixed bag I guess to fill 90 minutes a day five days a week.

Seems that very little footage of the 0/10 version of the show has survived. Very little of it gets seen in flashback specials and such. Possibly when they were turfing so much black and white videotape that much of this show went with it.

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877

Do you know if the 0-10 version of Walsh’s show was produced in Sydney or Melbourne? I seem to recall he did Seven’s Today in Melbourne in the early '70s?

878

He hosted GTV9’s Today in the late 1960s which was a Melbourne-only show. Then Nine dumped him when he got replaced with a Sydney-Melbourne joint production of Today. He went to Seven to host a Thursday night variety show, also called The Mike Walsh Show, which AFAIK was only shown in Melbourne. Produced from the Fitzroy Teletheatre, which Seven had converted to a TV studio for variety shows some years earlier.

Then Seven axed that show and he went (back) to Sydney to do The Mike Walsh Show for TEN10 as a production of the Australian branch of Screen Gems. I only learned more recently that his show at Ten was pre-recorded but he wanted to do it live, which was part of the reason that he took the show to Nine in 1977.

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Today’s TV: 8.5.1976, Sydney

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Source: TV Week

  • Sounds Unlimited in the mornings, up against “Rock Show” on Ten. No sign of Hey Hey It’s Saturday for some reason. It had been showing in Sydney years earlier so am not sure why it’s not on now.
  • VFL football in the afternoon while ABC has rugby league, racing and squash
  • Kids shows in the late afternoon with This Week Has Seven Days, It’s Academic and Queensland-based Happy-Go-Round with Jacki MacDonald. I don’t really remember Happy-Go-Round, was it sort of a lesser version of Young Talent Time?
  • Speaking of YTT there it is on Ten at 5.00pm.
  • Then it’s the battle of the pop shows with Bandstand with Daryl Somers up against a Skyhooks special
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880

Mary Tyler Moore was on O in Brisbane for many years in the early evening 7pm (?) - were they repeats?

881

I would say so. It continued it re-runs on Nine in Melbourne well into the 1980s

And I forgot to add this yesterday, too. The regional NSW stations. I think the only one missing is MTN9 Griffith although it may have been incorporated as a relay from CBN8/CWN6 here. (EDIT: According to research, MTN9 commenced its program relay agreement with CBN in 1973)

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882

I wonder why NRN11 and RTN8 are listed seperately as they were now just one station.

883

Not sure. TV Week did that sort of thing a few times over the years

884

Love the fact that although both stations have the same programmes, their descriptions differ.

885

Thanks - I think in Brisbane it was on O at the same time as Happy Days was on Nine.

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886

Melbourne/Gippsland, Saturday 30 May 1981
from TV Week-Victoria edition

ABC
1.00 Football: British Championships, England v Northern Ireland
2.00 Pot Black
2.55 Rugby League Match of the Day
4.35 Tennis: Give It a Go
5.05 Countdown
6.00 VFL Football
7.00 News
7.15 Today’s Sport
7.26 Weather
7.30 James Pegler Show (finale, guest Moira Brody)
8.10 Four Corners
8.55 News/Weather
9.05 Stuart Wagstaff’s World Playhouse “The Children of the Gods” (PGR)
10.20 The Winners (VFL highlights)
11.20 close

HSV7 Melbourne
7.30 Herald Shield Football (juniors action from VFL Park)
9.00 Sounds
noon Sport Grandstand (racing from Moonee Valley, VFL coverage, Amaroo Park Car Races)
5.00 Space: 1999 “Black Sun”
6.00 News
6.30 Big League 1981 (VFL highlights)
8.25 Super 66 Draw
8.30 The Sweeney “The Contact Breaker” (PGR)
9.30 Tattslotto Draw
9.35 Movie “The Wheeler Dealers”
11.40 Big League Soccer Highlights: Southampton-Manchester City, Liverpool-Crystal Palace, Sunderland-Everton
12.55 close

GTV9 Melbourne
6.00 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
6.30 King Leonardo
7.00 Yogi’s Galaxy Goof-Ups
7.30 Laff-a-Lympics
8.00 Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday
11.00 Mighty Mouse
11.30 Ghostbusters
noon Daktari
1.00 Wide World of Sports
3.00 Nature of Things “The Gabra”
4.00 Country Homestead
5.00 Bugs Bunny
5.30 World of Survival
6.00 News
6.30 Fantasy Island “Baby/Marathon”
7.30 Charlie’s Angels “Galaxy” (PGR)
8.30 Vega$ “Heist” (PGR)
9.30 Movie “The Legend of Hell House” (AO)
11.30 Spyforce “The Cripple”
12.30 Movie “One More Train to Rob”
2.20 Movie “The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre” (AO)
3.50 Movie “Poor Devil” (PGR)
5.10 The Seaway (PGR)

ATV10 Melbourne
8.00 Waterline
8.30 Laurel & Hardy
9.00 Cartoon Carnival
10.30 Magic Wok
11.00 Let’s Go Greek
noon Movie “The Bullfighters” (bw)
1.15 Movie “Fort Worth”
2.50 Movie “That Man from Rio”
5.00 Tarzan
6.00 News
6.30 Young Talent Time “Sports Show” (guests Dance Connection)
7.30 Parkinson (guests Barry Humphries (as Les Patterson), Barry Jones, and Jacki Weaver)
9.00 Movie “The Hawaiians” (PGR)
11.30 Movie “Sidekicks” (PGR)
1.00 Movie “Woman of the North Country” (bw/PGR)
2.45 close

GLV8 Gippsland
8.30 Woody Woodpecker
9.00 Yogi’s Galaxy Goof-Ups
9.30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
10.00 Sounds
noon Variety Italian Style
1.00 Movie “Magic Box” (bw)
2.45 Newsreel
3.00 Racing from Moonee Valley (includes VFL reports)
5.00 Here’s Boomer
5.30 Happy Days
6.00 News
6.30 Big League
8.25 Super 66 Draw
8.30 Movie “The Quiller Memorandum” (AO, includes Lotto-Bloc draw)
10.35 Movie “Billy the Kid” (PGR)
12.20 Australian Lotto-Bloc Replay
12.30 close

Network 0/28
3.50 Follow Me/People You Meet
4.30 Captain Socceroo
5.00 Soccer
6.00 Animation (European cartoons)
6.30 Dreams of Travel (Germany)
7.00 Exploring the Mediterranean (Germany)
7.30 Fortunata & Jacinta (Spain)
8.30 Claudine “The Fourth Story” (France, finale)
10.00 Movie “The Home Secretary” (Sweden)
11.00 close

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887

Given the NEN/ECN8 listing says Bandstand '76, then one would assume that MTN9 was primarily broadcasting CBN8/CWN6’s schedule.

Also I note something you don’t see anymore on SDQ4’s schedule. Coverage of The Goondiwindi Show and St George Show highlights - i remember DDQ10/SDQ4 screening these until at least mid to late 80s.

Anyone know when they ceased showing local show highlights? I believe it was pre-WIN ownership days - can anyone confirm whether or not my understanding is correct?

888

MTN9 was relaying CBN/CWN but I’m not sure what that has to do with Bandstand being on NEN/ECN?