Interesting, clearly shows in 1958 schedule. It seems HSV7 could see the increase in viewership and potential money maker IMT was having by launching the The Late Show with Bert Newton.
The Late Show actually began a week before IMT but never enjoyed the sort of budget or popularity of its rival. It was originally hosted by Noel Ferrier, who left about a year or so later. Bert Newton had just joined HSV7 as part of the announcing staff and was hurriedly put in as Ferrier’s replacement. But he was being paid a fraction of what Graham Kennedy was getting over at IMT.
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Today’s TV:
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Newspapers really should never try to mock TV station logos. They look universally bad. If they can’t use the real deal, then just don’t do it.
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Agree, they’re probably the worst ones I’ve seen.
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The Seven logo looks like similar to the one used in the early 70’s.
Illawarra TV Guide - 7th - 13th April 1982
Lake Times Issue 7/4/1982, scanned at Shellharbour City Museum
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i knew WIN4 was doing very late nights at that time, but was not aware (or had forgotten) that it was going all-night four nights a week.
I’d typed this then answered my own question…
How’d they decide if something was a ‘Late Show’ or a movie
Before googling some of those titles - including the typo of this otherwise weirdly specific height,
Apparently all of those “Late Show” listings were for TV movies, and presumably the same is true for that Wednesday 3:30am “Tonight Show” rather than randomly having the NBC show on air once a week (did Carson ever air here?).
Weird to be uniquely called out like that, but looks like they showed enough of them to be distinct.
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WIN did have its own Tonight show, hosted by John Tingle (Laura’s dad) around that time. It could have been a repeat of that.
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Christ look at those ABC Late news times throughout the week. I’ve been complaining about the current timings nowadays, but it seems the ABC have been doing this for a long time and is just continuing the tradition!
It’s a moveable feast! Seems the 7pm bulletin is the only one they can time to stick at the allotted time.
Today’s TV: Monday, July 14, 2014
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Source: The West Australian, TODAY liftout
Premiere of Family Feud which was the third incarnation of the iconic game show on Australian television on Network 10 and simulcast acrossed Channels Ten, One and Eleven. Over on SBS, it’s the 2014 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina plus replays of classic World Cups finals during the day.
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Keeping in with the ‘On This Day’ theme, here’s a few from my collection
1983 - Newcastle Herald
1986 - Western Mail (regional WA)
1987 - Coffs Harbour Advocate
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Any reason why ABV2 had an hour news bulletin at 6.00pm followed by another at 7.00pm? On a Saturday?
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That description suggests it was mostly AFL related content, perhaps an update with an extended AFL review in it?
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TV Times has the title the same as TV Week and The Age (and TVT did same for subsequent weeks as well, suggesting it’s how it was provided by ABC)
Yes I think this might have been what ABC was getting at, maybe a short news bulletin at the start of the hour then crossing to the football replays/analysis.
Maybe it’s by design, somehow encouraging people to skip the news from the commercial channels and by tuning to ABC at 6pm they get the main news stories and then the football a half an hour before Seven’s football replays begin. 
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WIN Channel 4 Program Guide: 3rd - 9th August 1963
Illawarra Daily Mercury 3/8/1963, scanned at Shellharbour City Museum
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Speaking of WIN, I found this interesting.
When aggregation was launched at 12am on Friday 31 March 1989, it appears that Nine made an episode of MTV specifically for WIN for the launch (so not shown on Nine). Also given that MTV normally only aired Fri/Sat nights.
Wollongong/Canberra guides below (note no MTV on TCN9 for 12am). WIN somehow also got an extra hour of the Academy Awards on the lead in?
And also from the ‘Canberra Times’ (via Trove as above), an article on the ‘gala launches’.
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