I don’t know unfortunately. The earliest post-aggregation TV listing I have for Tasmania is from January 1995. But Southern Cross’ Victorian branch went 24/7 a little while (not immediately) after aggregation happened in regional Victoria, so Tasmania may have done similar.
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Worth posting here, a new iView only series from ABC
###When TV Was Awesome
When TV Was Awesome is a series of short vignettes especially selected from the rich resource that is the ABC archive. Pulled out, dusted off and creatively revoiced, some of our best archival gems get the comedy-mash-up make-over they deserve! Irreverent, funny, satirical, sharable, clickable and above all, When TV Was Awesome is an enjoyable reimagining of our television history.
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ABC moments make you LOL.
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when are these available to watch?
I can’t find it?
Is there a link to the series?
I posted ABC’s program slate for Aug- Dec and this is one of the programs - no other details at this stage.
Marked as “Coming Soon”
http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/abc-main-channel-programs-and-schedules/105/147?u=tv.cynic
An episode of Autumn Affair, courtesy of YT uploader ‘Classic Australian TV’.
An old Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne promo for the San Francisco earthquake way back in 1989. One of the oldest VHS’s I own…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRAoXfgwV4
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Sydney television guide for the first week of the 1960 Rome Olympics. ATN7 had a breakfast program at the time, and looking at the daily programs it appears that the first hour from 7:00am was a mixture of news and other programming, with the second hour from 8:00am being news and talk, so an Olympic report probably would have aired during this I think particularly as they had a late morning Olympic report on the weekend.
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iView program When TV Was Awesome now available
Sounds like The Olden Days and Bargarse.
“Bad hat, bad hat, bad hat!”
“Naughty sleeve, naughty sleeve!”
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Bit random and international, but a video I’ve never come across before: a reel of CNN’s 2006 branding (which I personally love).
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That was when Disney was on Nine in Sydney and Seven in Melbourne, a situation that continued to around the early 1980s I think!? I distinctly remember Mike Walsh doing an interview about the late 1970s The New Mickey Mouse Club on his show as it was going to be on TCN-9, but he made a joke about it being on Seven elsewhere.
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A promo for Ten Eyewitness News! I almost forgot what they look like 
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Yep as TCN9 and HSV7 were affiliates in those days, and GTV9 was with ATN7. Then Frank Packer who owned TCN9 bought up GTV9 in 1960. But it was still not until 1962 before the 9s and 7s matched up as networks and even then it still took a while for some shows to follow suit, pending existing advertiser contracts etc. But for some reason Disney stayed with their respective channels in Sydney and Melbourne until well into the 1980s.
For years Disney was a 6.30 Sunday fixture on TCN9 and HSV7. GTV9 had talent quest New Faces with Bert Newton at that time on Sundays but because of Disney TCN9 ran New Faces on Friday nights at 7.30.
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Here’s something that I don’t think we’ve ever seen here before… a Nine closedown! (NWS, to be exact) From 1983:
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Ten Brisbane bulletin from that night with Anna McMahon and Geoff Mullins crossing to Ken Burslem in the US. Not the best recording but it show the presentation style, graphics etc from that time. The earthquake was the worst in North America since 1906 and a huge story at the time with a large section of the Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge collapsing producing some iconic images of cars hanging over the edge of the pavement. The other classic scene was the upper deck of a double-decker freeway collapsing onto the lower deck.
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TV History enthusiasts might be interested in Australian Story presented by Brian Henderson in his “final television appearance”.
http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-story/611/26?u=tv.cynic