Winning combo there. 
Definitely delayed, game was in Palmerston North NZ so it would have been a 5:30 AEST kickoff.
Melbourne TV listings: Sunday, July 12, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Rage (continues)
7.00 Rupert
7.25 Pingu
7.30 Neverending Story
7.55 Funnybones
8.00 Little Lord Fauntleroy
8.30 Couch Potato with Jane Nield
8.35 Orson and Olivia
9.00 Escape from Jupiter
9.30 Commonwealth Bank Trophy: Queensland Firebirds v. Adelaide Ravens
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise
12.00 Landline
1.00 Express
1.30 The 3000 Mile Garden
1.55 Jonathan Millerâs Opera Works âThe Ariaâ
2.40 The House âFoot Faultâ
3.30 Sister Wendyâs Story of Painting âThe Hero Steps Forwardâ
4.00 Rupert Bunny âColor Mood and the Sensesâ
5.00 Basketball-International Menâs: Australia v. Canada
6.00 Land of the Tiger âUnknown Seasâ
6.50 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 SeaChange âThe Accidental Activistâ (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 Underworld (1997 British mini-series)
9.20 Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
10.20 Compass âSeasons of Change: Rite of Returnâ
11.10 Leonard Bernsteinâs New York
12.05 Class Act
12.55 Waiting for God
1.30 Movie âThe Passing of the Third Floor Backâ
3.00 Open Learning: Astronomy
3.30 Open Learning: Global Economy
4.00 Open Learning: Marketing
4.30 Open Learning: Anthropology
5.00 Open Learning: Destinos
5.30 Open Learning: Time to Grow
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Sky Trackers âTo Tell or Not to Tellâ
7.00 Adventures of the Bush Patrol âSOSâ
7.30 A*mazing
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Sportsworld Footy Panel
12.00 AFL: National Under 18s Championship Grand Final
2.00 Movie âChitty Chitty Bang Bangâ
5.00 Hinchinbrook: The Island Time Forgot
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Harryâs Practice
7.00 Soul Man âWho Killed St. Stephen?â
7.30 Home Improvement âThe Write Stuffâ
8.00 Dharma and Greg âThe Catâs Out of the Bagâ
8.30 Movie âMan of the Houseâ
10.35 Movie âSon of the Pink Pantherâ
12.20 NBC Today
1.20 NBC Meet the Press
2.20 Telemall Shopping
3.20 Movie âMemories of Meâ (starring Billy Crystal)
5.10 MacGyver
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 Turn âRound Australia
6.30 World View
7.00 Wonder World!
7.30 The Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sunday Footy Show: AFL
12.00 Sports Sunday
1.30 Dogsâ World âThe Inheritanceâ
2.00 Movie âHarveyâ (starring Leslie Nielsen)
4.00 Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
5.00 Touched by an Angel âAmazing Graceâ (part 2)
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Our World âMysteries of the Pharaohâs Tombâ
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie âFree Willy 2: The Adventure Homeâ
10.30 National Nine News
10.40 Formula One: British Grand Prix (from Silverstone)
1.00 NRL: St. George Dragons v. North Sydney Bears
3.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.00 All Together Now âLetâs Danceâ
4.30 Lost on Earth âGuaranteed Not to Shrinkâ
5.00 Law of the Land
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Sword Fish
7.00 Fudge
7.30 Totally Wid
8.00 News Week
8.30 Meet the Press
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Extreme Games (round 6 from the Gold Coast)
12.30 Total Sport
1.00 Supercross Masters
1.30 The F1 Saga: The Heyday of the Turbo Charger
2.00 RPM
3.00 World Superbike Championships (from South Africa)
5.00 Ten News
5.30 The Addams Family âPortrait of Gomezâ
6.00 Hoganâs Heroes âThe Top Secret, Top Coatâ
6.30 The Nanny âThe Best Manâ
7.00 Roseanne âSomeday My Prince Will Comeâ
7.30 The Simpsons âIn Marge We Trustâ
8.00 The Simpsons âYou Only Move Twiceâ
8.30 Movie âThe River Wildâ (starring Meryl Streep)
10.45 Ten News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 John Fogerty: Premonitions Live in Concert
1.00 Beyond 2000
1.30 A Year to Remember
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6.00 Soccer: World Cup France '98 (third place; continued)
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Ukrainian News
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 Weatherwatch and Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Apo Tin Ellada
10.00 Italian News
10.30 Maltese News
11.00 Chilean News
11.30 Indoor Soccer: Futsal National Challenge
12.30 Hungarian News
1.00 Ukrainian News
1.30 Lethal Metal
2.30 Dateline
3.30 The Nature of Healing (final)
4.00 Volleyball: Australian League
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 Champagne Charie
6.00 Cycling: Tour de France
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Soccer: World Cup France '98 (highlights)
8.00 Space: Beyond the Final Frontier âBright Eyesâ
8.30 The Three Tenors Live in Paris
10.50 Fantasy World Cup
11.20 Soccer: World Cup France '98 (super matches)
1.00 Thirty-Five Aside
1.30 Movie âThe Sexual Life of the Belgiansâ (Belgium)
3.30 Soccer: World Cup France '98 (closing ceremony)
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No wonder they called SBS âSex Before Soccerâ
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What is so special about the bedroom banging of Belgians to warrant a film about it? 
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Perhaps itâs like American Pie only with waffles?
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Hereâs a review about that movie:
Wouldnât it be called Belgian Waffle?
Doesnât sound very erotic. 
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Like their language, itâs very Flemish.
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Todayâs TV: 9.7.1992, Melbourne
Source: The Age Green Guide
- Mike Hammond hosts Good Morning Australia on Ten
- Final of the two-part mini-series The Leaving Of Liverpool on ABC
- Bligh, the sitcom from the creators of Fast Forward, is on Seven, later followed by repeats of Fast Forward
- Sophie Lee hosts Sex on Nine.
- Mike Gibson and Eddie McGuire host a late night weekly show, The Sports Show, on Ten.
- SBS has a half-hour of daily highlights of the Tour de France
EDIT: Just realised I posted a guide for 9 July but today is the 8th. Oh well, itâs a day early 
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Todayâs TV: 9.7.1982, Melbourne
Source: The Australian Womenâs Weekly / TV And Entertainment World
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So NSW Rugby League has been shown live into Melbourne on Saturday afternoons since the 1970s.
Some souvenir from my country:
Ho Chi Minh, VN TV listings: 27 Jan - 29 Jan 1979 (Tet special program)
Äen trắng: BW (full color transmission not commenced until 1986)
MĂ u: color
Todayâs TV: 11.7.1981, Melbourne
- Hey Hey Itâs Saturday includes some guy called âJohn Blockmanâ
- Channel 10 doing itâs bit for âethnicâ television including The Magic Wok and Letâs Go Greek on Saturday (and Greek Variety Show and Variety Italian Style on Sunday)
- Sandy Roberts reads the news at Seven
- Young Talent Time features a guest appearance by one of the showâs original cast members, Vikki Broughton
- Ita Buttrose is one of the guests on Parkinson
- John Deeks and Debbie Phin present Super 66 at 8.25 and then back again for Tattslotto at 9.30. (Tattslotto had reset its draw numbers earlier in the year when it became part of the Australian Lotto Bloc, so even though Tattslotto had been doing for almost 10 years this draw was only #118)
Source: The Australian Womenâs Weekly / TV World
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Todayâs TV: 13.7.1965, Adelaide
Source: TV-Radio Guide
- Bob Moors, formerly of Melbourneâs GTV9, has moved to Adelaide and now hosts a weekly show Moors The Merrier on ADS7
- NWS9âs midday movie features Shirley Temple
- Bobo The Clown says âbe watching SAS Ten for The Bobo Shows coming soonâ⌠but âsoonâ was not as soon as first thought, as SAS10 had announced at the last minute that it was postponing its launch originally set for 12 July to 26 July following a dispute with its eastern state network partners
- Also there are radio listings here although, possibly for space limitations, the ABC stations 5CL and 5AN are only listed from 6pm to close, while the commercial stations are listed for the full day.
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Todayâs TV: 19.7.1968, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- Mike Walsh and Bobo Faulkner host an early version of Today (seen in Victoria only)
- There seemed to be a glut of semi-reality misery in the daytime. Casebook, Marriage Confidential, People In Conflict, Divorce Court and The Unloved were IIRC based on re-enactments of doctors or counselling sessions or court cases, apparently loosely based on real-life cases. I suppose it was cheaper to produce than actual drama⌠although Seven has its daytime soap Motel at midday.
- Stuart Wagstaff was the âbeastâ on Beauty And The Beast
- GTV9 presented VFL Computer Football Forecast? Some sort of computerised footy-tipping contest??
- And years before The Footy Show there was Sports Parade on Seven.
- In Melbourne Tonight appears to now be Monday-Thursday only, and Seven looks like filling the void on Fridays with The Mavis Bramston Show although its days are soon numbered anyway.
- Late nights had the traditional Aweful Movies With Deadly Earnest on ATV0. (I think the misspelling of Aweful in the title was deliberate?)
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I know Iâve asked this before, but Iâm really curious to know how these affiliations worked back in the day, re: decisions on program procurement, paying for programs, and commissioning new national shows.
Networks were not like they are now. In most cases individual stations each had separate owners (or one owner had two stations as was the maximum allowed) so AFAIK the managements of each station would essentially meet as a network âcommitteeâ and vote on giving new shows the go ahead and program acquisitions and I guess each station then contributed financially as per their market size. I donât really know for certain.
This was the sort of thing that got Neighbours dumped by Seven. HSV7 were pushing for it to continue (and its ratings were pretty good in most places except Sydney) but reports go that ATN7 management did a âdivide and conquerâ approach and quietly convinced the other network channels to vote against it, convincing them that the Seven Network were better to continue with Sons & Daughters and A Country Practice (both Sydney-based soaps) and that the network did not have enough money for a third soap.
So the show got axed and we all know what happened then.
Apparently Seven in Sydney and Melbourne did not always have an easy relationship (HSV owned by the Herald and Weekly Times, and ATN owned by Fairfax), and same with the 0-10 channels in the 1970s (ATV0 owned by Reg Ansett and TEN10 owned by United Telecasters).
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