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1919

Yes, because the microwave link only allowed one channel, whichever news service WBQ/SEQ picked had to be used up the coast.

Here is the BTQ relay list in 1986.

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1920

Just uploaded an audio clip related to discussion - unfortunately you’ll have to imagine the vision! Includes QTQ 9 lead up to 6pm news in 1974; Later in clip, lead up to 6pm news in 1975 from “Sunshine Television Channel 9” with the relay station listings. Also included are news openers for Channel 7 Eyewitness News and Channel 0 News Watch from 1974.

Note the relay to DDQ included channel 5 rather than the later frequency of 5a plus no channel 10 Nambour for WBQ.

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1921

I like the music QTQ went with for their “Sunshine Television” station ID.

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1922

The SES8 clips are interesting! An announcer appearing in vision - was that limited to sign-off/closedown? I’ve seen a clip somewhere of an announcer appearing in vision after the final episode of The Sullivans, apologising for technical difficulties in some areas - I have a feeling that was from an SA station too.

The 8 logo looks similar to what NTD8 Darwin used for a while.

I know SES broadcasts to parts of Western Victoria as well as the SE of South Australia, but it seems odd they would take their news from Melbourne rather than Adelaide.

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1923

I would imagine that it might have been for technical reasons that SES8 relayed Melbourne news instead of Adelaide in that it may have been easier to get a microwave link from Melbourne being geographically closer. I could be wrong.

The SES8 logo was a direct copy of the one used by BTV6 and GMV6, and altered accordingly.

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1924

SES8 also took a live feed of 11am and The Midday Show, shown in SA at 10.30 and 11.30am respectively.

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1925

And if I recall correctly, NWS9 took the Today Show live. I think it has only been in the past 2 decades that it has been on a 30 minute delay.

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1926

Did the regional stations generally receive clean feeds of the content they took live from the network? I noticed in a recently shared video that GTS/BKN showed a game show via a dirty feed of NWS9 complete with the metro PRGs and advertised it as “relayed programming”.

1927

Definitely a clean feed, I don’t recall any dirty watermarks ever on 8, apart from Sport broadcasts.

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1928

Today’s TV: 26.6.1967, Victoria

ABC is the host Australian broadcaster for the two-hour satellite program Our World.

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1929

Melbourne TV listings: Sunday, June 28, 1998
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.00 Rupert
7.25 Pingu
7.30 Neverending Story
8.00 True Tilda
8.30 Couch Potato with Jane Nield
8.35 Orson & Olivia
9.00 Escape from Jupiter
9.30 Sunday Basketball
10.30 Gardening America
11.00 Songs of Praise
12.00 Landline
1.00 Express
1.30 3000-Mile Garden
2.00 Jonathan Miller Opera Works
2.50 The House
4.00 NBL Grand Final: South East Melbourne Magic v. Adelaide 36ers
6.00 Land of the Tiger
6.50 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 SeaChange (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 Movie “King Lear”
10.50 Compass
11.50 Listen Paula
12.40 Class Act
1.30 Waiting for God
2.00 Ytene: England’s Ancient Forest
3.00 Astronomy
3.30 Global Economy
4.00 Marketing
4.30 Anthropology
5.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.30 Time to Grow

HSV7
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Sky Trackers
7.00 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
7.30 A*mazing
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Sportsworld Footy Panel
12.00 AFL Game Day
12.40 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. Collingwood, followed by West Coast v. Melbourne
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Harry’s Practice
7.00 Soul Man
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 Dharma & Greg
8.30 Movie “Shine”
10.45 Movie “The Crossing”
12.35 NBC Today
1.35 NBC Meet the Press
2.35 Telemall Shopping
3.35 Movie “Rustler’s Rhapsody”
5.10 MacGyver

GTV9
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 World View
7.00 Wonder World!
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sunday Footy Show
12.00 Sports Sunday
1.30 Dog’s World
2.00 How’d They Do That?
3.00 Tennis: Wimbledon '98 (highlights)
4.00 Lois & Clark: New Adventures of Superman
5.00 Touched by an Angel
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Our World “Great Rail Journeys of Queensland” (hosted by QTQ9 newsreader Bruce Paige; includes Keno at 7.29)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie “Fair Game”
10.30 News
10.35 Formula One: French Grand Prix
12.45 NRL: Newcastle Knights v. Parramatta Eels
2.45 Celebrity Home Shopping
3.45 Hunter
4.45 Outer Bounds
5.00 Law of the Land

ATV10
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Sword Fish
7.00 Fudge
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 News Week
8.30 Meet the Press
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Extreme Games
12.30 Total Sport
1.00 1998 Steingarten Challenge
1.30 Australian Rally Championships: Rally of Queensland
2.00 RPM
3.00 500cc Dutch Grand Prix
4.00 Surfing: Konika Rip Curl All-Star Arena
5.00 Ten News
5.30 Addams Family
6.00 Hogan’s Heroes
6.30 The Nanny
7.00 Roseanne
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie “Brady Bunch Movie”
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 500cc Dutch Grand Prix
1.30 A Year to Remember
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day

SBS
6.00 World Cup: 1A v. 2B
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Ukrainian News
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 Weatherwatch & Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Apo Tin Ellada
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Maltese News
11.00 Chilean News
11.30 Indoor Soccer: National Challenge
12.30 Hungarian News
1.00 Ukrainian News
1.30 Germany: The Reluctant Nation
2.30 Dateline
3.30 The Nature of Healing
4.00 Volleyball: Australian League
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 Champagne Charlie
6.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.30 SBS World News
7.30 World Cup '98 highlights
8.00 Space: Beyond the Final Frontier (US)
8.30 Fire from the Earth (France)
9.30 World Cup '98 (super matches)
11.30 Fantasy World Cup
12.00 World Cup: 1C v. 2D
2.30 Glam Metal Detectives
3.00 KYTV (UK)
3.30 Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America
4.30 World Cup: 1D v. 2C

Channel 31
8.00 Eckankar
8.30 Buone Notizzie: Good News
9.00 Zontas 100%
9.30 Word of Life
10.00 That the World May Know
10.30 Football: Diamond Valley League
11.30 Races
3.00 Fish Cam
5.30 Rendez-Vous
6.30 Liquid Music
7.00 The Snow Show
7.30 UK Today
8.00 The Bike Show
8.30 Asian Community TV
9.30 Serbian Music Box
10.30 BPM Australia
11.00 close

1930

NRL and F1 were shown late night in Melbourne during its run on 9

1931

And there was a reason for that- the interstate double headers on Seven drew big ratings.

1932

Historic game the first game which was between France and Paraguay, as Laurent Blanc scored the first ever Golden Goal to win the game 1-0 for the hosts (Blanc would get sent off in the semi against Croatia and miss the final). The other game saw Denmark (2nd in Group C) eliminate Nigeria by 4-1.

Sixers with home court advantage in Game 1 won 100-93 in what turned out to be the 2nd last game the Magic would play (Sixers would win the title belting the Magic on their own floor 90-62 midweek). There was an unusually short off season as the 1998 season finished early to allow the transition from a winter to a summer competition, and in that time the Magic merged with the North Melbourne Giants to form the Victoria Titans.

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1933

Perth TV Listings - Thursday 15th December 2005

ABC
Morning:
6.00 Jeopardy
6.25 Batfink
6.30 Untalkative Bunny
6.35 The Magic School Bus
7.00 Little Wolf’s Book Of Badness
7.30 King Arthur’s Disasters
7.55 Lazy Lucy
8.00 Little Robots
8.10 Franny’s Feet
8.25 Rubbadubbers
8.35 Bambaloo
9.00 Boohbah
9.20 Max And Ruby
9.25 Bananas In Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
10.10 The Wiggles Show
10.25 Hilltop Hospital
10.45 Dragon
10.55 The Hoobs
11.20 Oobi
11.35 Brambly Hedge
Afternoon:
12.00 Midday Report
12.30 Something In The Air
1.00 Down To Earth
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Bananas In Pyjamas
3.05 Poko
3.30 Play School
3.55 Pocoyo
4.00 Bob The Builder
4.10 Planet Cook
4.30 The Wild Thornberrys
5.00 Roller Coaster
Evening:
6.05 Doctor Who
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Creature Comforts
8.30 Cutting It
9.25 Teachers
10.15 ABC News Update
10.25 Take Me
11.15 Double The Fist
11.45 CNNNN The Chaser NoNstop News Network
Overnight:
12.15 Movie: Crack-Up (1946)
1.45 Movie: Johnny Angel (1945)
3.05 Movie: The Half-Breed (1952)
4.30 Movie: Theirs Is The Glory (1946)

Seven
Morning:
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 The Fairies
9.30 Always Greener
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Scrubs
Afternoon:
12.00 Movie: Moonstruck (1987)
2.30 Reba
3.00 Grounded For Life
3.30 Ocean Zoo
4.00 Backyard Science
4.30 News At 4.30
5.00 MAS*H
5.29 Powerball
5.30 Deal Or No Deal
Evening:
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Headland
8.00 Will & Grace
8.30 Stacked
9.00 Tommy Lee Goes To College
9.30 Family Guy
10.00 American Dad
10.30 Lost
Overnight:
12.30 Veritas: The Quest
1.30 Coastwatch
2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia
3.00 Brand Developers
3.30 Icon International
4.00 NBC Today

Nine
Morning:
6.00 Today
9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne: Summer Series
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.29 Health Watch
11.30 Malcolm In The Middle
Afternoon:
12.00 Dr Phil
12.58 Health Watch
1.00 Days Of Our Lives
1.58 Crimestoppers
2.00 The Young And The Restless
3.00 Entertainment Tonight
3.30 What I Like About You
4.00 [Hot] Source
4.30 Frasier
5.00 The Price Is Right
5.30 Coronation Street
Evening:
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 The King Of Queens
7.30 Golden Getaway
8.30 Movie: Midsomer Murders (2002)
10.45 Airline
11.15 Nightline
Overnight:
12.00 The Wire
1.00 Late Show With David Letterman
2.00 One On One
2.30 Ren & Stimpy
3.00 Guthy-Renker Australia
4.00 Creflo A. Dollar
4.30 Good Morning America

Ten
Morning:
6.00 Bright Ideas
7.00 Toasted TV
8.30 In The Box
9.00 GMA With Bert Newton
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten Morning News
Afternoon:
12.00 Murder, She Wrote
1.00 Ready Steady Cook
2.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show
3.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
3.30 Judge Judy
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
Evening:
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
7.30 Smallville
8.30 Medium
10.30 Ten Late News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Bread
Overnight:
12.00 Drivetime TV: Raceline
12.30 Cops
1.00 The Up-Late Game Show
1.55 Video Hits Up-Late
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Life Today With James Robison
5.30 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn

SBS
Morning:
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.50 WeatherWatch & Music
7.25 Italian News
8.00 Das Journal
8.30 Spanish News
9.20 Le Journal
9.55 Russian News
10.30 Greek News
11.30 Arabic News
Afternoon:
12.05 Indonesian News
12.30 Business Report
1.00 Watergate Plus 30 Pt 1
2.00 Whispering In Our Hearts: The Mowla Bluff Massacre
3.00 A Fork In The Road
3.30 School Torque
4.00 World Sport
4.30 The Journal
5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer
Evening:
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News Australia
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Inspector Rex
8.20 Hotline
8.30 The Cutting Edge
9.40 World News Australia
10.10 Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
10.40 Movie: Avalon (2001)
Overnight:
12.25 Movie: The River (2001)
2.15 Temporary Close
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.25 Japanese News

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1934

Melbourne, Sunday 29 June 1975
from TV Times

ATV0
10.30 You Say the Word
11.30 Mass for You at Home
noon Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 VFA Football
5.00 Bonanza “The Fence” (G)
6.00 News/Sport/Weather
6.30 Waltons “The Birthday” (G)
7.30 Six Million Dollar Man “Act of Piracy” (A)
8.30 Movie “The Beguiled” (AO)
10.35 Movie “Desperate Journey” (A/bw)

ABV2
11.00 Divine Service (Most Rev. Dr. Keith Rayner’s enthronement as Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide)
noon A Big Country “The Contract”
12.30 Sow What?
12.45 Science Report (bw)
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Radio with Pictures
2.30 Prism “Poetry” (bw)
2.55 Movie “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (G)
4.40 Mr. Benn (bw)
4.50 Jumbleland
5.15 Banana Splits “The Royal Visitor”
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News/Magazine
7.30 Norman Gunston Show
8.00 A Big Country “The Pipeliners” (the men and machines building the natural gas pipeline between Moomba, SA and Sydney)
8.30 News/Weather
8.35 Onedin Line “Race for Power” (A)
9.25 Challenge “Meet Paul Sudhankar”
9.50 News/Weather
10.00 Liver Birds (bw/finale)

HSV7
9.15 It is Written “I Met a Miracle” (G)
9.45 Sunday Magazine
10.00 World of Sport Replay
noon World of Sport
3.00 Movie “The Aquarians” (G)
5.00 Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (G/guests Joe Namath and 12 Playboy Playmates)
6.00 News/Weather/News Magazine
6.30 Disneyland “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes” (G/pt 1)
7.30 Dick Emery Show “The British Character” (A)
8.00 And Mother Makes Five “Matter of Tiny Feet” (A)
8.30 Movie “The Trouble with Girls” (G)
10.25 This Week
11.25 Insight “King of the Penny Arcade” (AO)

GTV9
9.30 Science School (bw)
11.00 Religious Feature
11.30 Nature Walkabout (bw)
11.50 Point of View
noon Wrestling
1.00 Movie “The Gladiators” (G/bw)
2.30 Movie “Raising the Wind” (A/bw)
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea “Blow Up” (G)
6.00 News/Sunday Magazine
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs “The Hero’s Farewell”
8.30 Movie “Torn Curtain” (AO)
10.45 News
10.50 Federal File
11.20 World of Golf (from Buenos Aires)
12.20 Epilogue

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1935

Melbourne TV listings: Monday, July 1st, 1996
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 Marketing
6.30 Discovering Psychology
7.00 First Edition
7.30 A Sense of Place
8.00 French in Action
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 See How They Crow
10.15 Forget Me Not Farm
10.30 The Brollys
10.45 Art Attack
11.00 Rubbish: King of the Jumble
11.10 Winners
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Northwood
1.00 Landline
2.00 Foreign Correspondent
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Secret Life of Toys
4.45 Insektors
5.00 Genie from Down Under
5.25 Bananaman
5.30 Aaahh! Real Monsters
6.00 Rugrats
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Fawlty Towers
8.28 ABC News Update
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.28 ABC News Update
9.30 Glynn Nicholas Show
10.00 Review: Popular Arts
10.30 ABC News-Late Edition
10.35 Celluloid Heroes
11.30 Australia Television News
12.00 My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg
1.30 Movie “Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill”
3.00 Chemistry
3.30 Astronomy
4.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
4.30 Alles Gute
4.45 Study Skills
5.00 Accounting
5.30 Visual Arts

HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Sister, Sister
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (includes documentary of the movie at 2.20pm)
2.30 Newlyweds
3.00 Hey Dad!
3.30 The Making of “Balto”
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Family Feud
5.00 Seven News at Five
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 JAG
8.30 Movie “The Tower”
10.20 Seven Nightly News
10.50 Talking Footy
11.50 Freddy’s Nightmares
12.50 If You Lose It, It Won’t Come Back
1.00 Telemall Shopping
2.00 NBC Today
4.00 Cop Shop (repeat)
5.05 Family Passions

GTV9
6.00 ITN World News
6.30 Daybreak (includes Business Today)
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Tennis: Wimbledon '96 highlights
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 Pacific Drive
4.00 Ship to Shore II
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Cheers
5.30 The Price is Right
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Water Rats
8.30 Gulliver’s Travels (conclusion)
10.30 Nightline
10.35 Tennis: Wimbledon '96
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
4.30 Sanford & Son
5.00 Good Times
5.30 Maude

ATV10
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Doug
7.30 X-Men
8.00 Monster Force
8.30 Ladybird
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 Donahue
2.00 Oprah Winfrey (guest Robin Williams)
3.00 Monday to Friday
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie “Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.”
10.25 Ten News
10.55 Sports Tonight
11.25 IndyCar World Series (from Cleveland, USA)
1.25 Bless This House
1.55 Aboriginal Australia
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 General Hospital

SBS
6.00 Euro '96 final (cont’d)
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Weatherwatch & Music
8.00 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Vremya
10.30 Oto Polska
11.00 The Journal
11.30 Weatherwatch & Music
12.00 English at Work
12.30 Movie “Dreaming of Rita” (Sweden)
2.15 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 PAGE: Professional & Graduate Education
4.30 The Global Family
5.00 Sartre (Canada; conclusion)
6.00 Happiness (Brazil)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Euro '96: highlights of the final
8.00 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
8.30 Masterpiece “Classic Widows” (UK)
9.30 Movie “Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe” (Hungary)
11.10 Euro '96 (replay of the final)
12.45 close

Channel 31
6pm State League Table Tennis
6.30 Bosnian Program
7.00 Sputnik
8.00 Access News
8.30 Melbourne Musos
9.00 Richmond
9.30 The Big Screen
10.00 Bent TV
10.30 TOE

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1936

Darwin TV listings: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
from Northern Territory News

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1937

TV WEEK Adelaide listings: Friday April 21st, 1995

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I noticed that Ricki Lake’s topic episode was “Help…I’m Addicted to Home Shopping” If it aired today, it would’ve been “Help…I’m Addicted to Online Shopping” LOL

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1938

I actually went to a taping of Four Quarters at channel 7 Melbourne. Sat in the studio audience with my family as a kid.

I don’t think the show lasted long.

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