I had that issue too but no trace of it now except for the cover (Priscilla Presley). The rest of that magazine has gone AWOL. Somehow fell through the cracks over various house moves etc 
Also I clearly didn’t look after them too carefully as a youngster too as a lot of the ones that have survived from my childhood are shredded from photos cut out and some covers missing.
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Same here. Some older ones are not in the best condition or are incomplete.
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5/2/2001 The Weakest Link premieres on Channel Seven. Twenty years ago already!
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5 February 1973: The Mike Walsh Show debuts on the 0/10 Network, offering a “prime time” variety format to a daytime audience usually accustomed to low-rent re-runs or game shows. It was originally produced by Screen Gems but was later taken over by Walsh’s own company Hayden Productions. The show continued on the 0/10 Network until 1976, when the show moved across to Nine where it continued until 1985.
In Victoria, an industrial dispute by TV technicians sees commercial TV stations restricted to broadcast only from 4.00pm. ATV0 was listed in TV guides to be making an exception to allow the debut of The Mike Walsh Show to go to air from Sydney.
Also at ATV0, Number 96 begins screening in one-hour episodes each weeknight for the next two weeks to catch up with Sydney’s screening of the series.
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Also happy birthday to Skippy.
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How long do kangaroos live? He’s still hopping around on Nine catching bad guys and defusing bombs in the wee small hours 53 years after his Australian television debut.
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Unmissable viewing
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5 February 2009: Bondi Vet premieres on Ten. It follows the work of veterinarian Chris Brown, who works at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital, and Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital at North Ryde, both in Sydney. Although the show shares the same region with Bondi Rescue, it is produced by WTFN while CJZ makes Bondi Rescue.
Bondi Vet would run for eight seasons on Ten before it moves to Nine in December 2018. Chris Brown quit the show in 2017.
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6 February 1982: SBS Channel 0/28 begins a series of test transmissions for Melbourne-based Open Channel, offering community access programming. The transmissions took place on Saturday and Sunday afternoons for two weekends.
Open Channel did some further weekend transmissions on 0/28 in 1983. After that, SBS instead launched a weekly program, Windows, that featured programming from various aspirant community TV groups from around Australia.
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Whatever happened to Open Channel?
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Assume it became the Channel 31 network of channels eventually, only Channel 44 in Adelaide and C31 Melbourne remain due to the Coalition government.
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it still exists
http://www.openchannel.org.au/
In its earlier history Open Channel acted as a key advocate for the development of community television in Australia and was instrumental in the establishment of what has now developed into the successful community television consortium Channel 31 (C31). Open Channel retains close ties to community television production today as the registered training partner of C31.
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They’re just keep getting lifelines at the last minute.
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They’re both successful financially it’s just their licenses keep becoming an issue for no apparent reason, for alternative uses that aren’t going to happen right now.
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er the history of community television is that they have been anything but “successful financially” … I was involved with Channel 44 and it’s not that flash either … as for “no apparent reason”, Stephen Conroy when he was communications minister told the community stations that they could no longer use “the fourth digital channel” from the end of 2014 as part of his “Convergence Review” published in 2012 …
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why couldn’t they?
… you’ll have to ask Conroy, it was his decision …
Errr I’m aware of the situation as it stands now and they’re doing fine financially. The licence issues didn’t help but the fact they’re doing more original programming themselves is a good sign.
… couldn’t agree more … Lauren seems to have a lot more going for her than her predecessor …
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