Interesting that WIN had a 45 minute news block, and NBN’s was 35 minutes.
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From what I understand, NBN3 even then produced a composite bulletin of local and national news, while WIN4 supplemented a news relay from Sydney with a 15-minute local news
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I guess Newcastle was and is still the largest regional market, so being within broadcasting range of Sydney would’ve made it easier to get footage, I presume.
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From the info I can gather, NBN was the first station in Australia to produce an hour long news bulletin in April 1972!
Although it wouldn’t overly surprise me if NBN were producing a composite bulletin of local, state, national & international news from the very beginning (or close to it) given the size of the Newcastle market and its relatively close proximity to Sydney.
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BTQ7 Brisbane was a month earlier… 20 March 1972
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Well in that case, I stand corrected! 
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So in 1989, Home and Away was at 6 and Neighbours at 7. Does anyone know what year both shows moved to (their now current slots, 7pm and 6.30)? And did they ever go head to head at 7? Thanks in advance for any replies
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Home And Away started at 5.30 (Adelaide), 6.00 (Melbourne, Sydney,Brisbane) and 7.00 (Perth) in 1988. (It later moved to 6.30 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane when Seven decided to move the news to 6.00)
(Neighbours was also at 7.00 when Channel Ten started in Perth in 1988 but for a time was on at 6.30 in double episodes to catch up to the eastern states. But Home And Away was huge in Perth, often the city’s #1 program in those days, and Neighbours never had the same popularity in Perth as it did in the eastern states due to somewhat sporadic scheduling by Seven in the pre-Ten days)
In January 1992, Seven took the gamble and put Home And Away on at 7 nationally up against Neighbours. By March, Ten had relented and moved Neighbours to 6.30.
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Correct it on wikipedia please #myfriend
Melbourne TV listings: Monday, October 3, 1988
from The Age
ABV2
7.00 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
7.30 Belle & Sebastian
7.52 Today’s Special
8.20 Sesame Street
9.20 PGR
9.30 Play School
10.00 Words & Pictures
10.15 20th Century History
10.35 Shakespeare in Perspective
11.00 Upper Primary Arts & Crafts
11.20 Storytelling
11.40 Flip, Slide, Turn
12.00 Howards’ Way
1.00 PGR
1.10 Paths of Development
1.40 Minimaths
2.00 David Copperfield
2.30 QED Robots
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
5.00 Monkey
5.45 Danger Mouse
6.00 World at Six
6.30 The Oz Game
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Brush Strokes (ABC News at 8.32)
8.35 Open All Hours
9.05 Four Corners “Dead Seas”
9.50 Rubbery Figures
10.00 English Soccer highlights
11.00 The World Tonight
11.30 Don’t Miss a Wax
12.10 close
HSV7
6.00 TV-AM
7.30 Cartoon Connection
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends
10.00 Falcon Crest
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Far from the Madding Crowd”
3.30 Gidget
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Lassie
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 Press Your Luck
6.00 Home and Away
6.30 Seven Nightly News
7.00 Hinch at Seven
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Beauty & the Beast
9.30 The Equalizer
10.30 Newsworld
11.30 The New Statesman
12.00 NBC Today
2.00 Thriller
3.30 Hallelujah!
4.00 The Onedin Line
5.00 Newsworld (repeat)
GTV9
6.00 National Nine Early Morning News
6.30 Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Diff’rent Strokes
10.30 General Hospital
11.30 National Nine Morning News
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Maude
4.00 C’mon Kids
5.00 Live at Five
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.28)
7.30/8.00 Cosby Show
8.29 Crimestoppers
8.30 Movie “Quicksilver”
10.40 Graham Kennedy’s News Show
11.40 Soap
12.10 Movie “Rattle of a Simple Man”
2.05 Movie “Out of the Dog”
3.45 Movie “And Millions Will Die”
5.30 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 USA Today
6.30 Ten News
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 Good Morning Melbourne
9.30 Mulligrubs
10.30 Ten News
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 Bold and the Beautiful
1:30 House Calls
2:00 Hotel
3:00 Charlie’s Angels
4:00 Ridgey Didge
4:30 Flipper
5:00 The Munsters
5:30 Perfect Match
6:00 Ten News
7:00 Neighbours
7:30 Tour of Duty
8:30 Movie “Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom”
10:45 Starman
11:45 AfterMASH
12:15 A Cook’s Tour
1:15 Night Shift
5:00 Space Angel
5:30 Maya the Bee
SBS
3pm TV Ed
4.00 Vox Populi
4.30 Kaleidoscope
5.00 Dance with Me (Brazil)
5.30 Rin (Japan)
6.00 The Noise
6.30 World Report
7.00 Sport Report
7.30 The Japan Project (conclusion)
8.30 Derrick (Germany)
9.30 Tonight with Paul Murphy
10.00 Writers
11.30 Lindenstrasse (Germany)
12.00 close
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Today’s TV: 1.4.1983, Melbourne, Country Victoria, South East SA (exc. SBS)
Source: TV Week
The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal dominates the day for HSV7 and is relayed across Victoria.
And don’t forget those telephone numbers… 960 2211 in Melbourne, 21 9303 in Shepparton, 21 6700…
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I like how they listed the VHF channels for the regionals.
Though does anyone know which towns they are for?
I know GMV was 6 in Shepparton, and 10 in Deniliquin, but not sure about 3 or 8.
And AMV was 4 in Albury, but not sure about 9 or 10.
And BTV was 6 in Ballarat and 9 in Warrnambool, but not sure about 7 or 11?
Did Neighbours air in Perth on TVW7 before Ten began transmission in the city in 1988?
GMV3 Eildon
GMV6 Shepparton
GMV8 Jerilderie NSW
GMV10 Deniliquin NSW
GMV11 Alexandra (formerly GMV10)
AMV4 Albury
AMV7 Khancoban NSW (not listed)
AMV9 Myrtleford
AMV10 Corryong
AMV11 Bright (not listed but this might not have been active in 1983)
BTV6 Ballarat
BTV7 Nhill
BTV9 Warrnambool
BTV10 Western Victoria / Mt Dundas (possibly not on-air in 1983)
BTV11 Portland
BCV8 Bendigo
BCV11 Swan Hill
STV8 Mildura
GLV6 Toora/Foster
GLV7 Orbost
GLV8 Gippsland
GLV11 Lakes Entrance
(GLV was listed in the Melbourne edition but had a common schedule with BCV/STV)
It did but TVW I seem to recall bumped it around a bit. Initially it was only showing one night a week, in a double episode on Sunday nights at 6.30. They later shifted it to 7.00 weeknights but I don’t know when TVW dropped the show ahead of Channel Ten starting. They knew Home And Away was coming and Channel Ten was coming so they would not have been too keen to keep Neighbours going too much longer. Hence NEW10 inherited a considerable backlog of episodes when it started.
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I would say that TVW definitely aired Neighbours before Ten Perth came onto the scene if this promo (YouTube video credit - @Bergoine) is anything to go by:
If my memory of the original post on the old Media Spy forums is correct, this one aired in November 1987 and was likely to be months behind the other states (probably even a storyline before Kylie & Jason’s wedding? That one aired in July 1987 on the East Coast & even Adelaide if I’m not mistaken).
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Anyone know what Live at Five was?
news/magazine show hosted by Terry Willesee and Jo Pearson. Loosely based on the US program Eye On LA, and eventually Live At Five was cut down to a half-hour program at 5.30 and became Eye On Australia.
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Did the show last long?
It started mid-1988. It continued into 1989 but I don’t think it saw the year out.
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What did Jo Pearson do at nine after that?