Sounds like TV Week absorbed a lot of publications.
The merger of TV News and TV Times in Sydney came about as by 1958 there were four weekly TV magazines in a market where TV was less than 2 years old: TV News (ABC), TV Times (Australian Consolidated Press), TV Week (Southdown Press) and another (TV Preview? I think it might have been). It was barely sustainable given the infancy of the TV market.
TV News and TV Times amalgamated in October 1958 with ABC and ACP owning the magazine in partnership. The title shortened to TV Times later in 1959. I believe that TV Preview was bought out and merged into TV Week.
In 1980, ABC sold its half share of TV Times to ACP. ACP published TV Times alone for about six weeks but then then did a deal with Southdown Press to merge TV Times into TV Week, with the combined magazine owned jointly by both parties, but ACP essentially a silent partner. Southdown Press also acquired TV Guide and merged that with TV Week as well.
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Greatly researched TelevisionAU!
Quite interesting how many TV magazines merged or were acquired over the years so we ended up with only one TV magazine in Australia. There were a few other TV magazines which started up over the years but didn’t last very long.
There was What’s on Weekly which started and ended in 2002.
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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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25/8/2010 The Seven Network airs Part 1 of the “Such is Life: The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins” documentary. Part 2 goes to air the following night, with wrap-around analysis hosted by Hamish McLachlan.
25/8/2011 Two Nine News Queensland reporters are sacked for their roles in the “Choppergate” scandal - namely Melissa Mallet and Cameron Price. Lee Anderson also resigns over the affair; he later becomes a news director at Seven News Melbourne. Price moved to Sydney where he became a reporter for Sky News Australia before later joining Seven News Sydney in mid-2016.
This is the Channel Seven report of the two Nine reporters being sacked -
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Is that Eva Milic?
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27/8/2001 Channel Seven airs a special episode of The Weakest Link subtitled “Housemates Revenge”. It featured nine housemates from the first season of Big Brother which had concluded on Network 10 the previous month.
Due to licensing/commercial requirements, the words “Big Brother” is not allowed to be mentioned throughout the show, though there were subtle references including words/phrases like “big bother”, “locked up in a house” and “big sister”, among others. Words such as “eviction” and “housemates” were still allowed to be used, though.
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I believe Sale of the Century did something similar around the same time… it was called “The Housemates Final Test”
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Ah, yes. The day Sale of the Century officially “jumped the shark”.
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YouTube: BB AU
28 August 1967: The ABC soap opera Bellbird begins, screening in 15-minute episodes, Monday to Friday at 6.40pm. It was produced at the ABC studios in Melbourne. It didn’t rate well in the capital cities but was hugely popular in country areas.
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By 1976 the series was screening as a single one-hour episode before changing to three half-hour installments in its final season.
Or when they changed the format/rules and name to $ale of the NEW Century in 2000, despite the new century starting in 2001.
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…or even during 1999, when Nine trialed a half hour version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” at 7pm weeknights during several weeks that year?
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They went from this in 1999:
To this in 2000:
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I can’t remember that… Any TV gudies to support this? I must be going senile with age.
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I have seen ads on YouTube advertising this.
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29 August 1981: ATV10 presents its annual telethon for the Nerve Deafness foundation. The telethon begins at 8am and continues through to midnight, pausing only for the news and Young Talent Time (with the latter including intermittent crosses to the telethon).
Source: TV Week, TV Scene
Channel 0/28 (SBS) broadcasts its TV adaptation of the play The Liberation Of Skopje. The Age - Google News Archive Search
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