Today’s TV: 22.6.1982, Southern NSW, ACT, including GMV6, AMV4 and ABC from Victoria:
Source: TV Week
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Those WIN listings remind me of something that I’d long forgotten. You’d get a sample of all the metro network’s news services throughout the day. Ten’s Good Morning Australia, Nine’s late morning bulletin and Seven National News after the local news at 6pm. I don’t remember at what point WIN dropped GMA in favour of Today but I do recall WIN dropping Seven’s news when they started a one hour bulletin in late 1984 and opting for Nine’s half hour bulletin.
One of the concerns Seven had with going to one hour in Sydney was that they’d lose viewers in regional areas that took their bulletin. Apparently they convinced many of these regional stations to take the one hour news. Obviously WIN was not one of those and I recall seeing Nine’s bulletin on regional stations in Coffs Harbour and Mudgee when I visited those areas in the mid 1980s.
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which is what happened in Victoria in 1987, when HSV7 switched to a one-hour news. All the Victorian regional stations switched to relaying National Nine News, but ran it on a delay at 6.30pm so that they could all still run local news at 6.00. Prime (AMV4) switched back to relaying HSV7 news when it reverted back to half an hour in 1988, and Southern Cross (BCV8/GLV8) switched to relaying Ten Eyewitness News during 1991 in the lead up to aggregation.
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I used to enjoy reading the list of regional stations Seven’s bulletin was on relay to at the end of the news. Gosh I must’ve been an odd kid.
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I must have been, too.
Although I first recall Seven in Melbourne used to list the regional stations at the start of the bulletin
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TCN 9 was rumoured to be moving to a one hour format in 1984 before the decision was made to move Willesee from the mid evening slot to 6.30pm. Perhaps those regional stations had given Seven an undertaking to continue taking Seven’s news before Nine’s plans had been firmly put into place.
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I don’t know why CBN/CWN and MTN were given separate columns at that stage - given MTN was essentially a near-complete relay of CBN/CWN at that time although separately owned.
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I suspect just to make up space, similarly with RVN2 and AMV4 listed separately but essentially they were the same schedule with some opt outs for weekend sport (e.g. RVN2 showed live VFL on Saturday afternoon, but AMV4 had to run movies. On Sunday, AMV4 had live VFL from Sydney, but RVN2 had movies)
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Wouldn’t it be more frugal (space saving wise) to have the opt-out programs in italics like they do now? E.g.
Sunday
2:00pm (RVN) Rugby League, (AMV) Australian Rules Football
5:00pm Sports Review
OK, not really in italics but you see my point 
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Possibly, but like I say it was probably to fill out the page.
I noticed too, flicking through the pages, that there are some variations between CBN/CWN and MTN9, particularly in the mornings/weekends
On Saturday, CBN8/CWN6 begins at 2pm with Greek Variety Show then has kids shows in the afternoon, while MTN9 begins at 12.55pm with Jimmy Swaggart, then live VFL from 2pm. They re-join schedules at 5.05pm with Solid Gold.
On Sunday morning, CBN/CWN begins at 5.30am with US Open golf, then close at 9.30am and then religious programs from 11.30am. MTN9 doesn’t begin until 11.15am with Variety Italian Style, then religion at 12.10pm. They then run similar programming in the afternoon with 5 minutes difference for some reason, before re-joining at 4.30pm.
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Melbourne TV listings: Thursday, June 24, 1988
from The Age
SES 8 Mt Gambier taking Seven News Melbourne, I wonder what year they switched to Adelaide news.
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Someone has answered that before in the past. I don’t recall the answer but possibly sometime in the early 90s?
Not long after the Mal Walden sacking in 1987.
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Nine Brisbane news opener used to include “relaying to channel 10, 4 and 5 Darling Downs”. Then they added 8, 1, 5 and 10 Wide Bay and then later it got even longer with 7, 3 and 10 Rockhampton (I might have those numbers wrong!).
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I recently brought a new condition copy of Hi-5’s first album, nearly 20 years after it was released.
The last two pages list their favourite things at the time. Favourite TV shows of the Hi-5 members are listed. (In order of listing) Kellie loves Pokemon and GNW Nite Lite, Nathan loves The Simpsons, Kathleen loves Friends and GNW Nite Lite, Charli adores Channel 9’s monday-night programming and Tim loves The Adventures of Lano and Woodley.
I need a bit of help with Charli’s favourite: What were Nine’s programs on Monday nights during 1999? That line may be relevant to this topic…
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TEN Sydney primetime schedule for the week commencing Sunday 9th February 1969. I notice they had the terrible Hollywood version of the classic Australian play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll on the Wednesday night.
Source: SMH archives
Seven Sydney primetime schedule for the week commencing 7th and 14th November 1971. I note the movie Mutiny on the Bounty being split over two nights.
Source: SMH archives
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