No you can’t. You have more issues than a newsagency. 
So many “Close” programs on GWN…wouldn’t they just run the test pattern and call it that?
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Could you imagine NBN doing that.. Big Dog getting in and out bed all the time… would make him very grumpy I think.
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Or Kev or Wal having to make all those wonderful announcements.
I’d send a cranky Big Dog to bite you in the bum.
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It’d have to be a suck… he ain’t got no teeth.. but no thanks anyway.
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Since my hometown of Newcastle (where I am right now) is gonna party like it’s 1999 (or 1997) if the local team can pull off an upset for the ages tonight against the star studded Roosters, today’s guide is the Grand Final weekend of… 1999!
Sat/Sun 25-26 Sep 1999… A time when both the AFL/NRL Grand Finals were day games and on the same weekend… aaah! This is how SYD (plus regional NSW and BNE) and further below, Melbourne saw the weekend from the (not so big back then) screens.
Syd (BNE/reg NSW) - from the SMH
Melbourne - from ‘The Age’.
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Today’s TV: Melbourne 4/10/1981 - from The Age Green Guide
- ESPN’s coverage of the Davis Cup between the USA and Australia continues on Seven, followed by the 1981 James Hardie 1000 live from Bathurst
- On the Way to '82 continues on ABC
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Today’s TV: Sunday October 4 2009
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Source: The West Australian Seven Days liftout
2009 NRL Grand Final on Nine between the Melbourne Storm and Paramatta Eels with the 2009 NRL premiership voided and null. Over on Seven it was Telethon weekend and Jeff Newman’s last Telethon before retirement. Not shown was MotoGP and F1 from Japan and Portugal on ONE HD live and replayed on the main channel late-night
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Today’s TV: 4.10.1978, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
4.10.1990, Melbourne
Source: The Herald Gold TV Guide
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Today’s TV: 5.10.1986, Northern NSW (includes WIN and Capital 7)
Source: TV Week
James Hardie 1000 dominates the day on most regional stations. CBN/CWN excluded probably because it’s being held in its coverage area?
Wondering that when TV0 became 10, did it still get listed in NNSW given it probably didn’t have the same reach into the area as 0 would have?
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They weren’t listing TVQ-10 in the Lismore ‘Northern Star’ newspaper in December 1991 (prior to aggregation), not sure about in between, but did list TVQ-0 before September 88. I’ll have to check that out next time I’m at the State Library, and see how it was listed when DST was in effect as well.
I don’t think technically there would have been any issue with VHF 10 being received, as it’s in the same band as the local Channel 6 and 8 and for viewers in the Lismore area and not an adjacent channel, also the Mt Nardi TX is roughly in the same direction as Brisbane and on the same polarity (horizontal).
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Yep, as Midstate TV had a relay on VHF Channel 11 in Bathurst. It was blacked out in order to encourage Race attendance.
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I vaguely recall TVQ10 being in the Northern NSW edition in 1991. I’ve been trying to track a copy of a Northern NSW TV Week from that era for a while now to confirm it.
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Today (6 October)
1988 (a Thursday) - Sydney (from the ‘Daily Mirror’)
Adelaide - 6 & 7 October 1990 - a footy lovers dream with Grand Finals on both days (from the ‘Adelaide Advertiser’).
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Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width? Sounds like porn to me!
I know it’s a Britcom, but still…
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That was because the AFL Grand Final had to be postponed by a week, as one finals match ended in a draw and had to be replayed.
It was also (as alluded to in Simon Yeaman’s blurb) the last SANFL Grand Final where the SANFL was the highest league with a permanent presence in Adelaide, as the Crows debuted the following season.
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You would probably have been watching ‘Double X’ on SBS just before it then! 
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Not in 1988! SBS wasn’t up my way then and I was only three and well and truly in bed.
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The TV guide from October 1986 lists the James Hardie 1000, which was marred with controversy, most notably the death of driver, Mike Bergman’s, along with Alan Moffatt damaging Peter Brock’s car.
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Discovered completely by accident whilst looking up something else, that there was a very brief period where the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ included ALL NSW regionals (except BKN) in it’s 7 day TV guide…
Sadly it only lasted for about a month around April 1988. It replaced the Sydney commercial/community radio listings (which they reverted back to afterwards). A shame they couldn’t have found a way to list both, particularly given a lot of the radio listings for Mon-Fri were usually the same each day.
As below for Friday 22 April 1988.
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Up until the late 90s, SMH The Guide had two editions: One for Metro (which doesn’t include the regional channels, and has radio listings for every commercial station in Sydney, including 2KA), and another for Regional (as seen above). I would imagine the State Library of NSW would store the metro editions of SMH The Guide rather than the regional editions.
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