Today’s TV: 24.6.2009, Melbourne FTA
A pretty solid lineup on Thank God You’re Here: Julia Zemiro, Adam Hills, Anh Do, Colin Lane
Source: TV Week
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This might’ve been the night that The Chaser’s War on Everything aired their infamous “Make a Realistic Wish” skit? Or was it on the two week break the show took after that debacle?
What I definitely sure about though, is that Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett passed away shortly after with those two celebrity deaths (especially the former) resulting in extended news coverage on the Friday + some modified programming on the weekend.
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I remember that a decade ago. The show was off air for 2 weeks before returning for a series finale in late July.
The death of Michael Jackson dominated news headlines in Australia and the world.
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It was their 1st episode back after their 2 week suspension.
On a side note, the 3rd season of the War on Everything wasn’t as good as the first 2 seasons.
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Ahh, thanks for refreshing that memory!
I agree that aside from the infamous skit, the 3rd season of The Chaser’s War on Everything just wasn’t as good as the 1st and 2nd seasons particularly since segments such as “What We’ve Learnt From Current Affairs This Week?” and “The Ad Road Test” (probably their two most popular) didn’t return.
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Just before the digital channels where they were able to slot in shows like friends on the main channel At 4pm. The schedules were so much better then
It was probably also that politicians (which were a good target for them) and their security were even more wary after they pulled that stunt in Sydney for that big conference when Chas dressed as Osama Bin Laden was somehow smuggled into what was supposed to be a highly secured area in a fake motorcade.
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Melbourne, Thursday 23 June 2011
from The Age Green Guide
(1/12) ONE
6.00 Baseball: Los Angeles-Detroit cont’d
8.00 This Week in Baseball
8.30 Extreme Dreams
9.00 Acropolis Rally of Greece, day 1
9.30 MotoGP British Grand Prix
11.30 RPM
12.30 Triathlon
3.00 ATP Uncovered
3.30 Omnisport
4.00 Extreme Dreams
4.30 Airline
5.00 Dr. Danger
5.30 iFish Catch of the Day
6.00 Bondi Rescue: Bali
6.30 Extreme Dreams
7.00 Airline
7.30 Cops
8.30 The Game Plan: AFL
9.30 Ultimate Fighter
10.30 Sports Tonight
11.00 The Game Plan: NRL
mid. Drag Racing
1.00 Omnisport
4.00 Netball: first test, Silver Ferns-Australian Diamonds
(2) ABC1
6.00 ABC News Breakfast
9.00 News
9.30 Business Today
10.00 Real Chinese
10.15 Being French
10.50 Me Voila!
11.00 Ancient Megstructures
noon Midday Report
12.30 Little Dorrit
1.25 Lead Balloon
1.55 News
2.00 Question Time
3.05 ABC Kids
6.00 Time Team
6.30 Miniscule
7.00 News
7.30 7.30
8.00 Catalyst
8.30 On Trial: Doomed from the Start, Part 2 (pt 4)
9.30 Baker Boys: Inside the Surge (pt 3)
10.25 Lateline
11.00 Lateline Business
11.25 Live from Abbey Road
12.15 Question Time
1.15 Movie “Things to Come”
2.50 What the Future Sounded Like
3.20 Arctic Exposure
4.00 The Bill
5.00 Can We Help?
5.30 New Inventors
(3) SBS One
6.00 WorldWatch
8.05 Filipino News
8.40 Spanish News
9.30 Greek News
10.20 French News
11.00 Hindi News
1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia
1.30 Don Matteo (Italian)
2.30 Lateline
3.30 Letters & Numbers
4.00 The Journal
4.30 PBS NewsHour
5.30 Global Village “Sacred Fishing in Europe” (English)
6.00 Letters & Numbers
6.30 World News Australia
7.30 French Food Safari (premiere)
8.00 Lyndey & Blair’s Taste of Greece
8.30 Go Back to Where You Came From (finale)
9.30 World News Australia
10.05 Movie “Blood Brothers” (Mandarin)
11.50 Movie “The Edukators” (German)
2.05 WeatherWatch
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.05 Korean News
5.45 Soccer: FIFA U17 World Cup: Australia-Brazil
(7) Seven
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Morning Show
11.30 News
noon Pandemic (pt 1)
2.00 Dr. Oz
3.00 Medical Emergency
3.30 Toybox
4.00 It’s Academic
4.30 News at 4.30
5.30 Deal or No Deal
6.00 News (Prime7 Albury airs local news here, airing Seven News at 6.30; Prime7 in the rest of the state simulcasted Seven)
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 How I Met Your Mother (2 episodes)
8.30 Grey’s Anatomy
9.30 Desperate Housewives
10.30 Private Practice
11.30 Wimbledon, day 4
4.00 NBC Today (Prime7 airs home shopping)
5.00 Sunrise Extra
5.30 Early News
(9) Nine
6.00 Today
9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
11.00 News (WIN jumps out at 11.30 to air Alive & Cooking)
noon Ellen
1.00 The View
2.00 Days of Our Lives
3.00 Entertainment Tonight
3.30 Hi-5
4.00 Kitchen Whiz
4.30 News
5.30 Hot Seat
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair (WIN airs WIN News, with A Current Affair punted to 7pm)
7.00 The Block (WIN aired it at 7.30)
8.00 Hot Property
8.30 Inside the Human Body (premiere)
9.30 AFL Footy Show
11.15 NRL Footy Show (WIN airs Off the Block, followed by WIN News at 11.45, and the NRL Footy Show at 12.15)
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Skippy
2.00 Guthy-Renker (WIN airs 20/20)
2.30 Danoz
3.30 GMA
5.00 News
5.30 Today
(10) Ten
6.00 Early News
7.00 Elephant Princess
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 Scope
8.30 Wurrawhy
9.00 News
10.00 The Circle
noon Dr. Phil
1.00 Oprah Winfrey
2.00 Ready Steady Cook
3.00 Judge Judy
3.30 Two Guys & a Girl (SC10 airs infomercials)
4.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
4.30 Bold & the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.30 6.30 with George Negus (Weeknights airs on SC10 Shepparton)
7.00 7PM Project
7.30 MasterChef Australia
8.30/9.30 Law & Order: SVU
10.30 6.30 with George Negus
11.00 News/Sports Tonight
11.30 Late Show with David Letterman
12.25 The Starter Wife
1.25 Video Hits Up Late (SC10 airs infomercials)
1.30 Home Shopping
3.30 Religion
4.25 Video Hits Up-Late
4.30 CBS Early Show (SC10 airs pray-TV)
(11) Eleven
6.00 JAG
7.00 MacGyver
8.00 Brady Bunch
8.30 Neighbours
9.00 Touched by an Angel
10.00 7th Heaven
11.00 Love Boat
noon Diagnosis Murder
1.00 JAG
2.00 MacGyver
3.00 Cheers
3.30 Roseanne
4.00 Family Ties
4.30 Mork & Mindy
5.00 Happy Days
5.30 Brady Bunch
6.00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
7.30/8.00 Simpsons
8.30 SGU Stargate Universe
9.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation
10.30 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
11.30 Cheers
mid. Roseanne
12.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
1.00 Mork & Mindy
1.30 Happy Days
2.00 Love Boat
3.00 Diagnosis Murder
4.00 Touched by an Angel
5.00 7th Heaven
(22) ABC2
6.00 Waybuloo
6.20 Pingu
6.25 Inuk
6.40 Fireman Sam
6.50 Little Princess
7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba!
7.25 Pingu
7.30 Bookaboo
7.45 Florrie’s Dragons
8.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
8.15 dirtgirlworld (ABC co-produced this series with Canada’s CBC, with CBeebies also involved)
8.30 Sesame Street
9.00 ABC Kids
5.00 Pingu
5.05 Peppa Pig
5.15 Octonauts
5.25 The Hive
5.30 Bert & Ernie’s Great Adventures
5.40 Wibbly Pig
5.50 Timmy Time
6.05 Miffy & Friends
6.10 Penelope
6.15 Rupert Bear: Follow the Magic
6.30 In the Night Garden
7.00 Sparks & Specks
7.30 Marngrook Footy Show
8.30 Arrested Development
9.00 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable
9.30 Graham Norton Show
10.15 Warehouse Comedy Festival
10.45 Later…with Jools Holland
11.50 Marngrook Footy Show
12.50 Beautiful Noise
1.45 close
(23) ABC3
6.00 ABC Kids
10.55 Escape from Scorpion Island
11.25 Go Lingo!
11.50 Backyard Science
12.05 BTN Extra
12.20 Survive This
12.45 A World of Wonders
1.00 Erky Perky
1.20 Spliced!
1.45 Jibber Jabber
2.10 Legend of Dick & Dom
2.40 Latest Buzz
3.00 Stormworld
3.25 Connor Undercover
3.50 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab
4.20 News on 3 Update
4.25 Young Dracula
4.55 Sally Bollywood
5.05 Jungle Book
5.20 Almost Naked Animals
5.30 Deltora Quest
5.55 Monk
6.00 Total Drama World Tour
6.25 Horrible Histories
6.55 News on 3
7.10 Star Trek: Clone Wars
7.35 Avengers
8.30 Degrassi
9.00 close
(24) ABC24
6.00 ABC News Breakfast
9.00 News
9.30 Business Today
10.00 News
noon Midday Report
12.30 Newsline
1.00 News
2.00 Question Time: House of Representatives
3.30 Afternoon Live
5.30 Capital Hill
5.45 Quarters
6.00 The Drum
6.45 Quarters
7.00 News
7.30 7.30
8.00 News
8.30 Lateline Business
9.00 The World
10.00 The Drum
10.45 Quarters
11.00 News
11.30 Newsline
mid. News
12.25 Lateline
1.00 BBC World News
1.30 Lateline Business
2.00 Late News
(32) SBS Two
6.00 WorldWatch
11.20 Hong Kong News
11.40 Chinese News
12.10 Portuguese News
12.40 Italian News
1.10 German News
1.40 Spanish News
2.30 Filipino News
3.05 Greek News
4.00 Polish News
4.25 Turkish News
4.55 Arabic News
5.30 Hindi News
6.00 Global Village (English)
6.30 Come Dine with Me: Greece (Greek/English)
7.30 America: The Story of the US
8.30 Welcome to Lagos
9.30 Go Back to Where You Came From
10.30 Movie “The Wolf” (Spanish)
12.40 WeatherWatch Overnight
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
(44) C31
6.00 SMFC
6.30 Restos
7.00 That’s Fishing
7.30 Small Biz Central
8.00 Euromaxx
8.30 Move It or Lose It
9.00 Masterclass in Oils
9.30 Art Studio
10.00 Movie “The Light of the Western Stars”
11.30 Shelf Life
noon Journal
12.30 In Focus
1.00 One World Sputnik
1.30 Sutara
2.00 Macedonian Visions
2.30 One Step Beyond
3.00 Global 3000
3.30 GR-TV
4.00 Class
4.30 Yanni’s City Life
5.00 1700
6.00 Zhong Hua
6.30 MATV
7.00 4WD
7.30 Restoring Dreams
8.00 Gasolene
8.30 Restos
9.00 Footy Tragic
9.30 That’s Fishing
10.00 Catch & Cook
10.30 River to Reef
11.00 Underground Sounds
mid. Guitar Gods
12.30 Youth Gone Wild
1.00 The Boy’s Place
1.30 late-night programs
(72) 7Two
6.00 Raggs
6.30 Flipper
7.30 Martha Stewart Show
8.30 Sons & Daughters
9.00 Home & Away: The Early Years
9.30 Shortland Street
10.00 Coronation Street
10.30 Emmerdale
11.00 Hollyoaks
11.30 Deal or No Deal
noon Hart to Hart
1.00 Grey’s Anatomy
2.00 Murphy Brown
2.30 Valerie
3.00 Perfect Strangers
3.30 Growing Pains
4.00 Night Court
4.30 Columbo
6.00 Bargain Hunt
7.00 Doc Martin
9.00 Wimbledon, day 4
11.30 Movie “Relentless”
1.40 The Australians
2.10 Leyland Brothers’ World
3.00 Dr. Oz
4.00 Coronation Street
4.30 Emmerdale
5.00 Room for Improvement
5.30 Home Shopping
(73) 7mate
6.00 Six Million Dollar Man
7.00 Men from Shiloh
8.30 McHale’s Navy
9.00 NBC Today
11.00 Quantum Leap
noon Quincy, ME
1.00 Rockford Files
2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess
3.00 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
4.00 Malcolm & Eddie
4.30 NewsRadio
5.00 Drew Carey
5.30 According to Jim (2 episodes)
6.30 My Wife & Kids
7.00 That 70s Show
7.30 Swamp People
8.30 MythBusters
9.30 Heli-Loggers
10.30 Demolition Day
11.30 Jacked: Auto Theft Task Force
mid. The Prisoner
1.00 Six Million Dollar Man
2.00 Quantum Leap
3.00 Quincy, ME
4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess
5.00 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
(90) GEM
6.00 Today
9.00 Alive & Cooking
9.30 The Zoo
10.00 Friends (2 episodes)
11.00 Murder, She Wrote
noon Movie “See Jane Date”
2.00 Trust Me
3.00 McLeod’s Daughters
4.00 Hoarders
5.00 Ellen
6.00 Friends (2 episodes)
7.00 The Zoo
7.30 As Time Goes By
8.30 My Strange Addiction
9.00 Bizarre ER
9.30 Embarrassing Bodies
10.30 How to Have Sex After Marriage
11.30 Conan
12.30 Friends
1.00 My Strange Addiction
1.30 Bizarre ER
2.00 Home Shopping
4.30 Joyce Meyer
5.00 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5.30 Today
(99) Go!
6.00 children’s programs
10.30 Entertainment Tonight
11.00 TMZ
11.30 Married…with Children
noon I Love Lucy (taking a guess on this, the listings only said Lucy)
12.30 Spin City
1.00 Seinfeld (2 episodes)
2.00 Charlie’s Angels
3.00 Just Shoot Me!
3.30 Secret Saturdays
4.00 Kids WB
4.30 I Love Lucy
5.00 I Dream of Jeannie
5.30 Bewitched
6.00 Seinfeld
6.30 Two & a Half Men
7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos: Daily Edition
7.30 Big Bang Theory
8.00 Two & a Half Men
8.30 Big Bang Theory
9.00 Two & a Half Men
9.30 Movie “Zoolander”
11.15 Nikita
12.10 V
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Just Shoot Me!
4.30 TMZ
5.00 Married…with Children
5.30 Flintstones
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Divorce Court? Who says things were classier back in the day 
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With guest appearances from a young lawyer by the name of Bronwyn Bishop, apparently.
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Did she have her plastic fantastic hair do back then? 
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That was the end of the first week of The Block’s fourth season which marked the beginning of MasterChef’s ratings decline. MasterChef’s ratings were on similar levels as the record breaking second season before Nine decided to show The Block at 7pm (or 7 O’Block as Nine called it) which not only took viewers from The Project, but also the first half of MasterChef. MasterChef managed to regain most viewers when The Block finished, but was no longer dominant in the 7.30pm timeslot.
2011 was also the first year of Seven’s broadcast of Wimbledon.
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Enough promos for QTQ9 there?
Does anybody know when the QLD regionals started to relay QTQ9 News? I know DDQ10 was the exception as all they initially did was take QTQ9 News off-air being so close to Brisbane. When was the actual microwave link set up fot ther rest of QLD? I’m guessing early 70’s?
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I can’t answer for the rest of Queensland, but this article from TV Week in June 1973 announces the expansion of QTQ9 news and A Current Affair being picked up for direct relay by WBQ8 Maryborough.
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Based on the list of relays listed prior to each bulletin, RTQ had joined by 1974 and the link had reached Cairns in 1975.
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SES 8 changed to GTV 9 news when the Victorian regionals changed, before switching to NWS 9 in 1991.
Have a look at the ID from 1990 (at 17:10) and watch out for the shot from National Nine News in Melbourne:
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Brilliant, thanks all. I suspect by 1987 all regional stations had access to satellite’s so they could pick which news service they wanted to relay from Brisbane unlike previously where regional QLD was all all nothing. And with 7 & 0 airing one hour news in 1987, Nine would have been more appealing so they could slot in 30 mins of Brisbane news and local regional news before or after QTQ9 news.
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