I’m assuming this would have been the last local mid morning production to air out of the 5 metro cities. Amazing it lasted until 2003.
That was the year Seven trialled twilight football to compete against Hey Hey It’s Saturday. IIRC, initially a few matches were played at 3.30pm AEST (such as Melbourne v Geelong shown in the listing) but shown on TV on a one-hour delay, with news at half time. However the 3.30pm matches were unpopular and were later scrapped. These days twilight matches are a norm.
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Today’s TV: 15.6.1981, Sydney
Source: TV Week
SBS was not included in the main guide, it was still published at the back page of the listings
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Almost certainly so.
Although not within the 5 city metro, NBN continued to produce Today Extra in Newcastle through to 2007.
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, June 17, 1989
from The Age
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Didn’t Seven do this once with a game in Perth in 99(with a longer half time for the news?)
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The guide clearly says Saturday though?
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I’ve fixed it! Sorry.
Brother Beyond were busy with Club 10 and Hey Hey although every chance Hey Hey was taped on Friday night.
As for Club 10, I don’t recall it, but appears to be a retitled Early Bird Show.
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It was. And didn’t last long.
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Today’s TV: 16.6.1978, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
This was from the first “classic” TV magazine that I had got hold off. I rescued it in the early 1980s, maybe about 1982 or 83, from a stack of Women’s Weekly/Woman’s Day/New Idea magazines that mum was about to throw out.
EDIT: And from a much more recent acquisition, the same day for TV in Brisbane
Source: TV Week
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I’m more interested in the Quik - is that pineapple flavour? 
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yep 
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No twilight games were held on a Saturday in 1999 (all games started 2:10 EST).
The matches were (venue MCG unless stated)
R1: Collingwood vs Hawthorn (Not a true twilight game though with Daylight Saving still in effect)
R2: Melbourne vs North Melbourne
R3: Richmond vs Hawthorn
R4: Hawthorn vs St.Kilda (Waverley)
R5: Collingwood vs Essendon (ANZAC Day)
R6: Carlton vs Collingwood
R9: Melbourne vs Essendon
R10: Hawthorn vs Essendon (Waverley)
R11: Geelong vs Carlton
The Melbourne vs Geelong game in the guide was actually a 2:10 start with delayed coverage.
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Melbourne TV listings: Monday, June 20, 1994
from The Age
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Seven didn’t have a late night news bulletin in 1994.
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and none of the metro commercial networks carried infomercials at the time. Prime started airing infomercials around 1994.
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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, June 23, 1987
from The Age
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Today’s TV: 22.6.1972, Melbourne
David Johnston and Lucy Kiraly host the first Tattslotto draw
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