Both occurred in 1999, which was around the time The Big Breakfast was launched to replace Cartoon Connection. It was replaced by AMV (All Music Videos) the following year, with The Big Breakfast relaunched as The Big Arvo in 2001.
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The last episode of 11AM aired May 28, 1999. The last two hosts were Melissa Doyle (filling in for Anne Fulwood) and Andrew Daddo.
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So Iâm assuming Sunrise was rested at this time.
When did they launch the 10.30am Morning News bulletin ?
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Sydney Evening TV Guide - Friday 11th April 2003
6.00 pm: VETS IN THE WILD
6.30 pm: GARDENING AUSTRALIA
7.00 pm: ABC NEWS
7.30 pm: STATELINE
8.00 pm: THE FAT
9.25 pm: ABC NEWS
9.30 pm: TAGGART: HARD MAN
10.25 pm: THE GLASS HOUSE
10.50 pm: LATELINE
11.20 pm: TOPP TWINS
11.45 pm: RAGE
6.00 pm: GLOBAL VILLAGE
6.30 pm: WORLD NEWS
7.00 pm: TOYOTA WORLD SPORTS
7.30 pm: THE BUSINESS SHOW
8.00 pm: LIVING BLACK
8.30 pm: ABOUT US: FOREVER LITTLE
9.30 pm: WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
10.00 pm: Movie: INSPECTOR MONTALBANO AND THE SNACK THIEF (IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO - IL LADRONI MERENDINE)
11.50 pm: EAT CARPET
6.00 pm: Arabic-CBR
7.30 pm: DW Journal News
8.00 pm: Sydney Chinese TV
10.00 pm: Access & Equity
11.00 pm: Chaos TV
6.00 pm: SEVEN NEWS
6.30 pm: TODAY TONIGHT
7.00 pm: HOME AND AWAY
7.30 pm: HOUSE CALLS TO THE RESCUE
8.30 pm: Movie: A TOUCH OF FROST - HELD IN TRUST
10.40 pm: SEVEN LATE NEWS
11.10 pm: LOVE CRUISE
6.00 pm: NATIONAL NINE NEWS
6.30 pm: A CURRENT AFFAIR
7.00 pm: FRASIER
7.30 pm: BURKEâS BACKYARD
8.30 pm: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS V BULLDOGS
10.40 pm: NIGHTLINE
11.10 pm: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL LATE: ESSENDON V CARLTON
6.00 pm: THE SIMPSONS
6.30 pm: NEIGHBOURS
7.00 pm: SEINFELD
7.30 pm: THE SIMPSONS HOUR
8.30 pm: Movie: STUART LITTLE
10.25 pm: TEN LATE NIGHT NEWS
10.55 pm: SPORTS TONIGHT
11.25 pm: VIDEO HITS UNCUT
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I have no idea why all three commercial stations in Melbourne had news on at 6.00pm. Was there a demand to see a sports report or something?
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Nine and Seven were at 6.30 weeknights but 6.00 weekends. Ten was 6.00 every night.
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Interesting to see Greg Evans hosting specials on Ten after Together Tonight flopped the year before and two years before the Perfect Match phenomenon.
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Nine had afl shown at 11:10pm in NBN, Channel 9 Sydney and Channel 9 Brisbane. In Channel 9 Melbourne, adelaide and Perth, They had to wait until 11:45pm to see the nrl match. GTV, NWS and STW did not have Nightline being telecasted (IIRC).
Stuart Little used to be on 10 back in 2003 but in 2005, it was shown on Channel 9.
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Quite interesting to see a CTS-31 guide there. Donât think that community channel had guides in as many publications/online sites compared to TVS (which in the later/Digital TV years at least, had coverage in just about all newspaper and online TV guides) during its time on air!
Thatâs nothing compared to the NRL telecast (and presumably, AFL in the Southern states) being delayed by at least an hour due to Burkeâs Backyard though.
Compared to how things were in 2003, NRL/AFL coverage on FTA TV is actually far better in both the majority & minority markets these days.
It was Stuart Little 2 which premiered on Nine in November 2005, canât remember if they gained rerun rights to the original from Ten at that time though.
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It still amazes me to this day, as people seem to be working later or with more flexible hours that TV news shifted earlier from 6.30 to 6.
Iâm guessing thatâs not going to change, because the main TV news bulletins probably skew old.
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In a way though, I think both Seven & Nine have acknowledged that things are changing when their bulletins (aside from Seven Adelaide & Perth, where Today Tonight remains on air) extended to a full hour in 2014.
Iâd be reasonably confident to predict that while the 6pm bulletin wonât be going away in the foreseeable future, both networks will eventually (although whether thatâs in one year, two, five, ten or more from now, itâs hard to say for sure) have to produce news services which cater to the growing commuter market for the 6.30pm or even 7pm timeslot.
Also by this point in time, the 6pm timeslot on both Seven and Nine is so strongly associated with a news bulletin (apart from occasional timeslot shifts for sport or other special events itâll be 30 years of near continuous bulletins at 6pm on Seven & Nine in August, if Iâm not mistaken) that having anything else there just wouldnât feel right.
With all the major changes thereâs been in Australian Television over the past few decades, itâs probably for the best that both networks still have one or two things that their viewers can rely on.
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Melbourne TV listings: Sunday, April 12, 1998
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (contâd)
7.00 Arthur
7.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
7.30 Neverending Story
8.00 Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
8.30 Stickinâ Around
9.00 Round the Twist
9.30 The First World
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.30 Compass (Good Friday special)
12.00 Landline
1.00 Express
1.30 Royal Gardens
2.00 Renaissance: The Dissenter
3.00 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
4.00 NBL: Illawarra Hawks v. Sydney Kings
6.00 Secrets of Lost Empires (final)
6.50 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Ballykissangel (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 Movie âTous Les Matines du Mondeâ
10.20 Compass
11.20 Bryn Terfel
12.10 Ghosts
1.00 Waiting for God
1.30 Movie âDeadlier Than the Maleâ
3.00 Astronomy
3.30 Marketing
4.00 Everybodyâs Business
4.30 Anthropology
5.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.30 Time to Grow
HSV7
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Easter Egg Morninâ
7.00 Easter Sunrise Service
8.00 Sunday Sunrise (includes Face to Face)
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Sportsworld Footy Panel
12.00 AFL Game Day
12.40 AFL: Sydney v. Geelong, followed by Fremantle v. West Coast
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Harryâs Practice
7.00 Soul Man
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 Dharma & Greg
8.30 Movie âGetting Even with Dadâ
10.50 Movie âThe Good Sonâ
12.30 NBC Today
1.30 NBC Meet the Press
2.30 Telemall Shopping
3.30 Movie âChina OâBrien IIâ
5.00 Agatha Christieâs Poirot
GTV9
6.00 Golf: US Masters (round 4)
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sunday Footy Show
12.00 Triathlon: Hawaiian Ironman
2.00 Everest
3.00 One-day Cricket: Australia v. Zimbabwe highlights
4.00 Touched by an Angel
5.00 Banjo Patersonâs Man from Snowy River
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Our World (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie âLittle Giantsâ (Newsbreak at 10.40)
10.45 Inside the Alfred
11.45 NRL: Canberra Raiders v. Manly Sea Eagles
1.50 Formula One: Argentinian Grand Prix (from Buenos Aires)
4.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
5.00 Nonni & Manni
ATV10
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Sword Fish
7.00 Mission Top Secret
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 News Week
8.30 Meet the Press
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Whitbread Round the World update
12.00 Total Sport
12.30 Golf Australia
1.00 Australian Drag Racing Championships
2.00 RPM
3.00 Australian Super Touring Championships
5.00 Ten News
5.30 Breaking the Chains
6.30 The Nanny
7.00 Roseanne
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie âThe Paperâ
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 Movie âAmerican Meâ
1.50 Aboriginal Australia
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 LâAhbarijet
6.30 Chilean News
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Ukrainian News
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 Weatherwatch & Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.00 Apo Tin Ellada
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Italian Soccer highlights
11.30 NHL Powerweek
12.30 Movie âLa Signora di Tuttiâ (Italy)
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Hockey: Four Nation Womenâs Series
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 The Movie Show
6.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Under One Roof
8.00 ICAM
8.30 Beyond the Himalayas (India)
9.30 Masterpiece (France)
10.25 Movie âThe Spirit of the Beehiveâ (Spain)
12.05 Liberators Take Liberties (Germany)
1.50 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
Channel 31
8.00 Buone Notizzie
9.00 Zontas 100
9.30 Word of Life
10.00 Liquid Music
11.00 Inside Britain
5.30 Regards from Greece
6.30 In Good Company
7.00 High on Country Line Dancing
8.00 The Bike Show
8.30 Doutta Gala Health Centre
9.30 Serbian Music Box
10.30 Liquid Music
12.30 close
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The Easter Sunrise Service was a mainstay on Channel 7 for many years on Easter Sunday. I donât think it gets screened anymore to my knowledge.
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You can tell this was from 1998, they wouldnât air either of these games in Melbourne on FTA in this day and age!
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Itâs on Nine.
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Hard to believe there was a time when Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Young Doctors and The Flintstones used to screen at 6pm as a lead in to the flagship bulletins. 6.30pm would be the time Dad took control of the TV and the kids were banished from the lounge room if they couldnât keep quiet during the news
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Dad would take over the TV at 7 to watch Sale Of The Century so me and my brother would go watch Sons & Daughters on the black and white TV in the spare room
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Melbourne TV listings: Sunday, November 12, 1989
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (contâd)
8.00 Rugby: France v. Australia (highlights)
9.00 British Soccer highlights
10.00 Worship Sunday
10.30 Music & the Spoken Word
11.00 Surf Lifesaving: Iron Man Grand Prix (round 3)
12.00 Golf: Australian PGA Championship (final day)
5.00 Soccer: highlights of NSL matches
6.00 ABC News
6.30 All Creatures Great & Small (final)
7.25 Arts Australia
7.30 Strike Me Lucky (final; ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 Geoffrey Robertsonâs Hypothetical
9.30 Star Quality
10.55 Golf: Australian PGA Championship highlights
11.55 Chance in a Million
12.20 close
HSV7
6.00 Inch High, Private Eye
6.30 Cartoon Connection
9.00 Sportsworld
12.00 Movie âThe Palefaceâ
1.55 Memories of Elvis (hosted by Ann-Margret)
5.00 Leyland Brothersâ World
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Magical World of Disney âOne of Our Dinosaurs is Missingâ (part 2)
7.30 Australiaâs Most Wanted
8.30 Movie âTin Menâ
10.55 Falcon Crest
12.00 NBC Today on Sunday
1.30 Meet the Press
2.00 Movie âUrban Cowboyâ
4.20 Studio 5B
5.20 Superior Court
5.50 Science International
GTV9
5.55 Kenneth Copeland
6.25 Turn 'Round Australia
7.20 Point of View
7.30 Christian Television Association
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Wide World of Sports
1.00 Tennis: European Community Championship finals
4.00 Sports Sunday
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Our World
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie âIshtarâ
10.40 News
10.45 Movie âThe Removalistsâ
12.35 Movie âThe Resurrectionâ
2.25 Movie âThe Big Caperâ
4.00 Movie âAll Ashoreâ
5.30 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Brady Kids
6.30 Mass for You at Home
8.00 Video Hits
12.00 Movie âLittle Miss Broadwayâ
1.35 Movie âJust Around the Cornerâ
3.10 Space Ace
3.30 The Muppets
4.00 Double Dare
4.30 Fraggle Rock
5.00 David Johnston Collection âStar Kingdom Dynastyâ
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 It Seems Like Yesterday
7.30 The Comedy Company
8.30 Movie âGhostbustersâ
10.40 Entertainment This Week
11.40 High Mountain Rangers
12.40 Movie âSeven Days in Mayâ
3.00 Emergency!
4.00 Hell Town
5.00 Duet
5.30 Lassie
SBS
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Italian Soccer highlights
11.30 Anneâs International Kitchen
12.00 Greek Variety Show
1.00 Handsome as a Greek (Greece)
2.00 Empress Wu (Hong Kong)
2.45 Little Missy (Brazil)
3.30 Icebreaker: Family Life in the Soviet Union (New Zealand)
4.30 Dateline
5.30 Ireland: A Television History (UK)
6.30 World News
7.00 Vox Populi
7.30 Pillar of Fire (Israel)
8.30 Mussolini and I (series return)
10.30 The Movie Show
11.00 TASS is Authorised to Announce (USSR)
12.00 close
Possibly the last episode of the âoriginalâ Comedy Company before it went on an extended break and came back in July 1990 with mostly an all-new cast.
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