On This Day

plus there were the various state-based magazines. Victoria had the Listener In-TV, that became TV Scene. In SA, they had TV-Radio Guide that became TV Guide which went national in 1979, and then TV Radio Extra was launched to replace it in Adelaide.

The women’s magazines had a go, too, with The Australian Women’s Weekly and Woman’s Day both launching TV magazine inserts in the early 1980s. New Idea was already a sister publication to TV Week so it didn’t join that battle.

TV Star came and went in the mid-1980s.

But once the newspapers started doing TV magazine inserts that seemed to trigger the downfall of the TV magazine sector.

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