Same thing with the VFL coverage, ATN7 management did a ‘divide and conquer’ approach and quietly convinced the other network channels to vote against it, which gave ABC the VFL for a year.
Very rare guides there. Where did you find those #myfriend?
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Territory stories, @myfriend. (http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/bitstream/10070/262472/12/NTnews05may72%2012.pdf)
I want to find more - but when I search about these - these didn’t appear in my search.
And one more thing - where was NTD8 website before it became channel 9, @myfriend ???
ABD6 - 11 September 1971
I don’t think there was one as it’s been owned by Channel 9 since the 1980s
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Was ABD programmed independently of the other ABC stations or did they just take a truncated feed?
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Unsure about the 1970s but by the 1980s it had become a relay of ABQ from Brisbane.
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Do these answer you question, @myfriend???
I think that ABD might be independent during 70s
fun fact: during trip to Australia in 2012 (only dad and people in his company), my dad also went to Darwin too.
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Sobering thought of what would occur in Darwin a few days later.
In the Christmas Eve edition you wouldn’t even know there was a cyclone approaching. Just a tiny cyclone warning buried on page 14. I suppose the cyclone may have changed its course towards Darwin after the news had gone to print. Up until then it was just some rough weather out at sea?!
But looking at the radio listings for 8DN, the evening announcer scheduled to work on Christmas night was Ron Wilson who I am guessing is the former Channel Ten newsreader who we know was evacuated from Darwin after the cyclone went through.
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Melbourne TV listings: Thursday, May 14, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Open Learning: Against All Odds
6.30 Photography
7.00 Lifelong Learning: English Have a Go
7.30 Mixy
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Busy World of Richard Scarry
8.25 Mr. Squiggle
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.20 Finders Keepers
10.40 Geographical Eye Over Europe
11.00 Images of Nature
11.30 Business Concepts
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Doc
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 William’s Wish Wellingtons
5.00 The Animals of Farthing Wood
5.30 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Right of Reply 1998
8.30 Australian Story
9.00 Speaking Personally: Malcolm Turnbull
9.30 The Big Picture “The 50 Years War” (3/6)
10.25 ABC News
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Heartbeat “St. Columbas Treasure”
12.00 Australia Television News
12.30 Parliament Question Time: Senate
1.30 Movie “Hunted”
3.00 Open Learning: Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Against All Odds
4.00 Photography
4.30 Visual Arts
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 Connections
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
8.00 Around the World in Eighty Dreams
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Witness
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “A Question of Guilt”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 My Three Sons
3.30 Power Rangers Zeo
4.00 Time Masters
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Who Dares Wins
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun “Dick on a Roll”
8.28 Powerball
8.30 Outback Adventures with Troy Dann
9.30 Movie “Sketch Artist”
11.25 Seven Nightly News
11.55 LAPD: Life on the Beat
12.25 NBC Today
2.20 Telemall Shopping
3.20 US Customs Classified
4.10 Fly By Night
5.10 Video Power
5.35 Hampton Court
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In the House “Men in the Black”
10.00 Real TV
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Perfect Strangers “Climb Every Billboard”
4.00 Challenger
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Welcome Back, Kotter “Arrivederci Arnold”
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Animal Hospital (final)
8.30 ER “Carter’s Choice”
9.30 The Footy Show: AFL
11.00 Nightline
11.30 Babylon 5 “Rumors, Bargains and Lies”
12.10 The Footy Show: NRL
1.45 Late Show with David Letterman
2.45 Entertainment Tonight
3.15 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.15 Bob Morrison Show “Lalophobia”
4.45 Outer Bounds
5.00 Primetime Live
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney and Friends
7.00 Extreme Dinosaurs
7.30 Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
8.00 Earthworm Jim
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 FCTV: Family Circle TV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00/7.30 Seinfeld “The Wallet”/“The Strike”
8.00 Newsradio “Office Feud”
8.30 NYPD Blue “Twin Petes”
9.30/10.30 Law and Order “Causa Mortis”/“Good Girl”
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sports Tonight
12.30 Breakers
1.00 Ghost Stories
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 European Cup Winners Cup Final (continued)
6.30 Weatherwatch and Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Japanese News
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “The Valladolid Controversy” (France)
2.00 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Front Up
4.30 School Torque
5.00 Stella Stellaris (Germany)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport (highlights of European Cup Winners Cup final)
8.00 Insight
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Little Angel” (Germany)
11.05 Movie “I Don’t Want to Talk About It Now” (Brazil)
12.40 Movie “Marriage of the Blessed” (Iran)
2.00 close
ER and The Footy Show were in their second year on Nine and were already dominating Thursday nights. Seven tried everything (including Outback Adventures and late movie as shown above) to compete against the two shows but failed. It wasn’t until the arrival of Lost in 2005 that the ER/Footy Show stranglehold was finally broken.
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ER first aired on Nine in February 1995 (in the Thursday 8.30pm timeslot too), so 1998 would’ve been the 4th year it was in the schedule.
But you’re right, those two programs (along with This Is Your Life and RPA later in the year) were very popular during the 2nd half of the 1990s and the 1st half of the 2000s.
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Today’s TV: 28.7.1978, Sydney.
Source: TV Week
- Barry Crocker hosts the 1978 Australian Popular Song Festival, including performances by Debbie Byrne, Mary Jane Boyd, Lee Conway, Little Pattie and John St Peeters, and special guest star Julie Anthony
- ABC has a preview of the upcoming Commonwealth Games
- Seven has an afternoon repeat of Chaser, which appears to be a pilot for a series that did not eventuate?
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Just a question - I thought Sale Of The Century screened at 5:30pm until 1991 and Hey Hey Its Saturday aired 6:30pm Saturdys until 1991. I remember in 1990 and 1991 they were airing them on NRTV
That was because Rugby League: State Bank Big Game usually aired at 6pm on NRTV during the preliminary rounds (pre-Nine/ARL/NRL alliance)
Not sure exactly when it happened, but when I moved to Lismore in August 1990, NRTV screened National Nine News at 6:30pm weeknights
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