25 years for Seven and Nine that year as seen in the advert for Seven - Nine’s anniversary a few days later.
QTQ9 had a 5-hour 25th anniversary special the following day, going from 12pm to 4.55pm. They then followed this up with a 1-hour prime time special on Thursday at 7.30pm, the actual day of its anniversary.
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A couple of idents from Nine - the second probably recycled from TCN’s silver anniversary.
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…or maybe they just got Bert Newton to record an Ident for QTQ before/after the show one night?
some of the footage in that 2nd clip looks to be from Tonight With Bert Newton which only ran in 1984. So I’d say it wasn’t recycled from TCN.
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Today’s TV: 14.8.1980, Sydney / Newcastle / Wollongong
Source: TV Times
- Profitable night for Crawford Productions with 3 dramas in the schedule
- Channel 7 has a local 6pm “Sydney News” before Seven National News at 6.30
- Seven also has the only late night news in Sydney with Newsnight
- TEN10 has The John Singleton Show four nights a week followed by re-runs of Number 96
- And Eyewitness News with Katrina Lee and Ron Wilson
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Today’s TV: 17.8.1976, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- Federal Budget night is covered by all channels to some extent
- Nine has the Grand Final of the National Football League, live from Adelaide though the two teams to get to the final were Victorian.
- Graham Kennedy, Denise Drysdale, Stuart Wagstaff are among the panellists on Celebrity Squares
- National Nine News is also having a brief stint at 6.00pm. I think this might have been in part triggered by the Olympic Games in July (which Nine, Seven and ABC were covering) so Nine had its news first at 6.00 while Seven was at 6.30. And also to provide a point of difference to the much more popular Seven bulletin. (Channel 0 had its news at 6.00 but it was well behind the other two commercial channels). It wasn’t long before Nine news was back at 6.30 so the 6.00 experiment must not have paid off.
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Interesting order for the channel listings 9 - 7 - 0 the 2 
Interesting to see Brian Bury presenting weather on GTV’s 6pm bulletin. I thought he had always been Sydney based. I certainly remember him doing TCN weekend weather in the years before Today started.
Home Edition News is an interesting title for Nine’s news breaks. Haven’t heard that before.
Surprised to learn Seven’s bulletin was the most popular considering both Nine and Ten’s news started earlier. The presenting team would’ve been their strength and the widespread culture of heavy drinking after work in the days before random breath testing started might also have been a factor.
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Why would number 96 and the box be 1 hr and 5 mins…?
I think because of Budget reports during the night
He did radio in Melbourne as well. I think 3MP?
TV Week was connected to Channel 9 so they got first place 
But TV Week reorganised the columns later in 1976 to be 2, 7, 9, 0/10
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Interesting. I wonder how they would’ve filled the half hour. I’m guessing there’d be longer form stories, more in a magazine style.
Also, I don’t ever remember seeing this in 80s, so I guess it was a short-lived experiment.
Seems quite a bit chunk of The Sullivans was shown as 60-minute episodes. It was originally a 30-minute show - not sure how long that lasted. I’m sure this would have varied between markets.
Today’s TV: 25.8.1972, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
- Documentary What Have You Done With My Country? apparently gives a stark review of what the arrival of white man and the mining boom has done for the indigenous population. You’d never see anything like that on a commercial channel in 2018!
- Friday night Homicide is presumably a re-run as the episode Two Down One To Go dates back to 1970
- Footy preview shows on ABC, Seven and Nine
- Don Lane is “the beast” on Beauty And The Beast
- John Bailey reads National Nine News while his wife Tanya Halesworth reads the afternoon news. Both were formerly of TEN10 in Sydney. Bailey later went to Channel 0 in Melbourne before returning to TEN10.
- Moneymakers (produced at TVQ0, Brisbane) with Philip Brady is Australia’s first five-nights-a-week prime time game show (Seven had the 7.00pm $25,000 Great Temptation but it was still only airing one night a week at this time. The success of Moneymakers eventually saw Temptation stripped five nights a week)
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Love the Channel O afternoon line-up Mike Walsh, Pot o Gold, 2 classic US comedies then Lost in Space.
Pity about 7.30 prime-time though; a repeat on Nine, a forgettable drama on O; Snooker on 2; I suppose Welcome Back Kotter would have been the pick.
late August also used to be school holidays (also evidenced by no schools programs on ABC during the day) so it’s possible the channels might have taken the foot off the accelerator a tad and maybe thrown in some repeats 
Happy Days was apparently the top rating show for 1976 so even repeats at 7.00 were probably doing very well for Nine
Sydney TV listings: Tuesday, August 28, 2001
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6.00 Marketing, Theory and Practice
6.30 Dragon’s Tongue
7.00 Arthur
7.25 Thomas the Tank Engine
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Miffy
8.05 Fireman Sam
8.15 Preston Pig
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pajamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Count Us In
10.15 Our Animals
10.20 Stuff
10.40 Handmade
10.45 Real Life Design
11.00 The Text Files
11.15 Inside Out
11.30 Behind the News
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Australian Story
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Backchat
2.00 Parliament Question Time
3.00 Tweenies
3.20 Petals
3.25 Maisy
3.30 Play School
4.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.05 Kipper
4.15 Titch
4.30 Stickin’ Around
5.00 CatDog
5.25 Lisa
5.30 Angela Anaconda
6.00 Something in the Air
6.30 Health Dimensions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Selling Australia “Tourist Town”
8.30 The Bill
9.30 Lock, Stock
10.25 Lateline
10.55 Movie “Only the Brave”
11.55 Parliament Question Time: Senate
12.55 Movie “Sapphire”
2.25 Movie “Vice Versa”
4.00 Tracey Takes On… Road Rage
4.30 The Global Economy
5.00 Out of Empire
5.30 French in Action
7 ATN Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise News
7.30 All Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Denise
10.00 Concentration
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Ricki Lake
12.00 Movie “Dangerous Intentions”
2.00 Heartbeat
3.10 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Home and Away: The Early Years
5.00 Bewitched
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Better Homes and Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors
8.28 Oz Lotto
8.30 All Saints
9.30 The Vice
11.40 Seven News
12.10 Talking Footy
1.10 NBC Today
3.10 Victor Paul Shopping
4.10 Danoz Direct
5.10 National Enquirer
5.35 Stark Raving Mad
9 TCN Nine Network
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Cushion Kids
9.35 Barney and Friends
10.00 Pacific Drive
10.30 Fresh
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 The Pretender
3.00 Touched by an Angel
4.00 Pick Your Face
4.30 The Cool Room
5.00 Wings
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Location, Location
8.00 Money
8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
9.30 Stingers
10.30 The West Wing
11.30 Nightline
12.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1.00 Tennis: US Open Championship
10 TEN Network Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cardcaptors
7.30 Pókemon
8.00 Spider-Man Unlimited
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Jerry Springer
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Becker
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
8.30 Jimeoin’s Just for Laughs 2
9.30 Rove Live
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Big Sky
1.30 Married… with Children
2.00 Victor Paul Shopping
3.00 Suzanne Paul Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “Le Feu Follet” (France)
2.15 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Global Village
4.00 Soccer: Futbol Mundial
4.30 World Sport
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Front Up (series return)
8.00 Wine Lovers’ Guide to Australia
8.30 The Cutting Edge “See No Evil”
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter” (Denmark)
12.05 The Storm Rages Twice (Lebanon)
1.00 Movie “Will It Snow for Christmas?” (France)
2.30 close
5.00 Weatherwatch and Music
5.30 Japanese News
On a serious note, that guide would’ve been from exactly two weeks before news coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States disrupted the schedules of TV networks around the world for rolling coverage, including here in Australia sometime after 10.30pm AEST when Sandra Sully was the first to break the story on Ten Late News. For those who haven’t already seen it, @TelevisionAU has the Melbourne guide for 11/9/2001 on his website.
Aside from that…
*Would I be right by presuming that “Backchat” (ABC-TV, 1.45pm after the Four Corners repeat) was a 2001 replacement for Media Watch?
*In something that’s a bit characteristic of the time period, both Seven & Nine are competing against each other with lifestyle programs (allbeit with different takes on the genre) during the 7.30pm and 8pm timeslots.
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You’d be half-right about that. The first 2001 replacement for Media Watch was “Littlemore”, hosted by former MW presenter Stuart Littlemore, and was similar to MW.
Here’s an example, thanks to ‘KevinIntensity’ on YouTube.
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