What was tv am on 7?
It was a news/business program hosted by John Barton and Kay McGrath.
Best of both worlds: live coverage of NSWRL from Sydney and then full match from the VFL on a 2.5 hour delay.
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1941 television listings for what is now WNBC New York, which was known as experimental station W2XBS until 30 June 1941 then commercial station WNBT from 1 July 1941.
As W2XBS:
Monday 30 June 1941
8:00-9:00PM – Test Pattern
9:00-11:30PM – Amateur Boxing Bouts at Jamaica Arena
As WNBT:
Tuesday 1 July 1941
1:30-2:30PM – Test Pattern
2:30PM – Baseball: Dodgers vs. Phillies, at Ebbets Field
6:45PM – Lowell Thomas
8:00-9:00PM – Test Pattern
9:00PM – USO Program: Thomas E. Dewey; Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich.
9:30PM – Uncle Jim’s Question Bee
10:00PM – Bottlenecks of 1941
10:30PM – Truth or Consequences
Lowell Thomas was a news broadcast.
From an excellent website:
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Kay moved to BTQ7 in January '89. Anybody recall who replaced her as newsreader on TV-AM?
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Sounds like a Mock Schedule for Channel 10 circa 2015
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It was probably highlights or a selected quarter of all (or some) VFL matches played that afternoon, like what Seven used to do.
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I’m assuming this was the seven networks first attempt at a national morning breakfast show?
Are there any caps?
It was very news focused IIRC with an emphasis on business news.
I think Gina Boon replaced her (I think she left tv after doing something a bit naughty on a news chopper stand at Willoughby)
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Thursday, March 20, 2003
from La Nación
Notes:
*The late sign-on time extends to 4 of the 5 stations: Canal 9, Telefe and Canal 13 started transmission at 11.30am, and América at noon. Canal 7 is on from 7am.
Was there subscription TV at that time?
But yet Network 10/0 had the first morning television/news show
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Thankfully, there was!
No it didn’t. There were numerous breakfast/news shows, mostly called Today in various formats, on various channels dating back to the 1950s
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, November 11, 1989
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 close
11.30 Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness
12.00 Golf: Australian PGA Championship (day 3)
5.00 Red Dwarf
5.30 Festivals of the World “Trinidad Carnival”
6.00 ABC News
6.30 Horizons “A Planet for the Taking”
7.25 Come & Get It
7.30 Hollywood Legends “Gary Cooper” (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 The Money or the Gun
9.30 Inside Running
10.20 Movie “Raspberry Ripple” (from the BBC)
11.50 Golf: Australian PGA Championship highlights
12.50 Rugby: France v. Australia
2.35 Rage (to 8am)
HSV7
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Heyyy, It’s the King!
6.30 Hong Kong Phooey
7.00 Super Saturday Show
9.00 Saturday Morning Live
12.00 Movie “Charge of the Lancers”
1.40 Movie “Campbell’s Kingdom”
3.55 King Solomon’s Mines (animated)
5.00 Great Mysteries of the World
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 The World Around Us “Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1989”
7.30 Unsolved Mysteries (Tattslotto at 8.28)
8.30 Movie “Doctor Zhivago”
12.35 Knots Landing
1.35 Science International
1.45 Movie “American Hot Wax”
3.25 Movie “The Norseman”
5.05 The Persuaders
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoon Company
12.00 The Dukes of Hazzard
1.00 Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday
8.30 21 Jump Street (Keno at 9.29)
9.30 Mission: Impossible
10.30 News
10.35 MTV: Music Television
1.35 Movie “Hair”
3.50 Movie “The Swordsman”
5.25 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Bricks & Mortar
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Bionic Six
7.30 Superfriends
8.00 Double Dare
8.30 Fraggle Rock
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Horse Racing: VRC Spring Racing Carnival (from Flemington Racecourse)
5.00 Six Million Dollar Man
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 The Great TV Game Show
7.30 The Fragile Planet
8.30 Movie “Dark Passage”
10.40 Movie “High Sierra”
12.45 Movie “Romeo & Juliet”
3.30 Movie “Top Gun” (1955)
5.00 Throb
5.30 House Calls
SBS
1.30pm Rubber Tarzan (Denmark)
3.00 Spanish News
3.30 Latin America in Vogue
4.00 The Maltese
4.30 Indoor Soccer: 1989 NISL Season
5.30 World Soccer: highlights of Austria v. Turkey
6.30 World News
7.00 The Taste of Health (UK; return)
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Movie “El” (Mexico)
10.05 Movie “Man of Iron” (Poland)
12.40 Movie “Words and Music” (France)
2.25 Movie “Flights of Fantasy” (USSR)
3.55 Movie “Temporary Divorce” (Yugoslavia)
5.30 close
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That was the City vs Country game played at Parramatta
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Today’s TV: 28.3.1971, Adelaide
Source: TV Week
All 4 channels simulcast a press conference with Prince Philip, in Australia for the 50th anniversary of the Royal Australian Air Force
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Today’s TV: 29.3.1969, Sydney
Source: TV Week
EDIT: Just for something extra, here’s the week of NBN3 and WIN4 programs at the back of the guide. Friday is Good Friday so that would account for the shorter broadcast hours on that day
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Two iconic TCN-9 Saturday shows there - Clarence the Clocker and Joe the Gadget Man. Rex Mossop’s The Club Show on ATN-7 was always good for a laugh, and it included trotting races from Harold Park.
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