Could be wrong but I thought it was also Ernie and Denise who did In Sydney Today.
Tony Gordon and Fiona MacDonald hosted In Brisbane Today.
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that’s my recollection too. I suspect they used to tape the week of Melbourne shows over a day or two and then flew up to Sydney to tape a batch of shows up there.
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Or the just taped both from the one studio in Melbourne?
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Potentially, yes, though if they had Sydney-based guests appearing on In Sydney Today it would have been quite a lot of have to fly them down to Melbourne and back to Sydney for what could be a 5 or 10-minute segment. Would have been more efficient to just shift the two hosts up for a few days and not have to ferry a week’s worth of guests between cities.
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Melbourne/regional Victoria TV listings: Friday, May 1st, 1998
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Perspective
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Magic Adventures of Mumfie
8.10 Noddy
8.20 Magic Mountain
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 Rat-a-Tat-Tat
10.30 Nature Watch Digest
10.40 Scientific Eye
11.00 Mechanical Universe
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Foreign Correspondent
2.00 Embassy
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 Thomas the Tank Engine
5.00 Animals of Farthing Wood
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Soul Music
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Stateline
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Good News Week
8.30 Movie “The Hawk”
10.00 What’s on ABC?
10.10 Tracey Takes on…
10.35 ABC News
10.45 Netball: Sydney Swifts v. Perth Orioles
12.00 Australia Television News
12.25 Rage (to 9am)
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Beast Wars
7.30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
8.00 Berenstain Bears
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Dateline NBC
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Sudie & Simpson”
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 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. Richmond
10.30 Home Improvement
11.00 Frontline
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Movie “The Mechanic”
2.05 NBC Today
4.05 Telemall Shopping
5.10 Name Your Adventure
5.35 Buddies
GTV9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In the House
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
4.00 Challengers
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Step by Step
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “A Mother’s Gift”
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Swimming: Commonwealth Games trials
12.10 NRL: Newcastle Knights v. Brisbane Broncos
2.15 Late Show with David Letterman
3.15 Entertainment Tonight
3.40 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.40 Outer Bounds
5.00 Anna-Ballerina
ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney & Friends
7.00 Jumanji
7.30 Men in Black: The Series
8.00 Princess Tenko
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 FCTV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Judge Judy
4.00 Silver Brumby
4.30 Breakers
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Sliders
8.30 Movie “Death Becomes Her”
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
12.10 Breakers
12.40 NBA Game of the Week
1.40 Campus Cops
2.05 Infomercials
4.00 High Tide
5.00 This is Your Day
5.30 JTV: Jesus Television
SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale Italiano
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Weatherwatch & Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “Salt of the Earth” (US)
2.05 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports
4.00 Insight
5.00 Say Aah (Netherlands)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 More Great Vegetarian Dishes of the World
8.00 World Cup Countdown
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Love in the Afternoon” (France)
11.05 Hotline
11.15 The Head (US)
11.40 Movie “The Sign of the Coyote” (Italy)
1.20 close
Channel 31
5.30pm Mansfield’s Melbourne
6.00 Teaching Arabic
6.30 Romanian Program
7.00 Rumanian Jurnal
7.30 Croatian Television Vukovar
8.30 Guardians of the Otways
9.30 Egyptian Program
10.30 Cabaret at the Ivy
11.00 The Comic Box
11.30 Girl Talk
12.00 BPM Australia
1.00 Queerzone
1.30 Fish Cam
Regional Victoria
Prime
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Beast Wars
7.30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
8.00 Berenstain Bears
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Infobreak International
10.30 Wheel of Fortune
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Sudie & Simpson”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 The Big Weekend
3.30 Power Rangers Zeo
4.00 Time Masters
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak (Wheel of Fortune in Albury)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (Local News in Albury)
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. Richmond
10.30 Home Improvement
11.00 Frontline
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Movie “The Mechanic”
2.00 Television Shopping Network
WIN Television
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 WIN Today
9.30 Telemall Shopping
10.00 Here’s Humphrey
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
4.00 Challengers
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Catch Phrase
5.30 Sale of the Century
6.00 WIN News
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 A Current Affair (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “A Mother’s Gift” (NRL: Newcastle v. Brisbane in Albury)
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Swimming: Commonwealth Games trials
12.10 NRL: Newcastle Knights v. Brisbane Broncos (A Mother’s Gift in Albury)
2.15 Late Show with David Letterman
3.15 Entertainment Tonight
3.40 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.40 Outer Bounds
5.00 Anna-Ballerina
Today’s TV: 1.5.1986, Melbourne
Australian drama at 7.30 across four channels, including SBS.
It was a different time…
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I still seek out drama to watch in the early evening because of the habit formed watching it growing up in the '80s. Just not getting it on free to air these days.
@TelevisionAU Do you remember at what point HSV7 went to a one hour bulletin in the '80s? Mal Walden’s ratings must’ve been suffering with a 6.30pm start and both ATV and GTV starting at 6pm. ATN had been running one hour news for about eighteen months at this point.
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April 1987 after Fairfax takeover and Mal Walden replaced by Greg Pearce.
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Seven Today… wasn’t this HSV7s first attempt at news breakfast show?
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Seven had tried Today shows as far back as 1958. But this version in the 70s was probably the first “national” (i.e. Syd-Melb) one.
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Any additional information on this format?
Not much. Paul Bongiorno was apparently a presenter on the show at one stage but I don’t know in what capacity, I should get on Twitter and ask him 
There is this article from 1971, when Seven extended Sydney Today to include Melbourne, after Nine had axed its Today:
Source: Listener In-TV
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Seven had extensive coverage of the Grand Annual Steeplechase from Warrnambool in the 70s (nowadays it’s relegated to Sky Racing and racing.com).
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That’s a good read. It actually went for a few years.
There seemed to be a need (back then) for a national breakfast program, but the stations just weren’t as committed in the long run or didn’t know how to turn a profit with them. Soon as cutbacks were needed, the breakfast shows were often first to go.
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Argentina were the same too…
I remember watched Canal 13’s closedown in 1987 on YouTube and (at that time) they listed the entire schedule, and there was a program called Desayunos (Breakfast) at 7am at that time. The channel at that time opened at a bit later than 6:30am.
When major cutbacks were made to the Buenos Aires’ stations not long after (due to energy crisis), all (didn’t know if ATC was an exception) Buenos Aires’ stations cut the entire morning transmision timeslot and only began transmission from noon (or in some cases, 1PM).
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Possibly something for @TelevisionAU, but I’ve seen Ballarat and Horsham races televised by BTV6 in guides and YouTube, but did they ever venture down to Warnambool for the May carnival?
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