The second page states “circulating in Melbourne Suburbs and Victorian Country Areas” so I presume some country regions got TV News as well as metropolitan Melbourne. But GMV6 Shepparton, SES8 Mount Gambier and RVN-AMV Wagga/Albury were not listed in TV News for some reason. I did not recall any milk bars in Shepparton that had TV News anyway.
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Image descriptions online confirm that the same articles appeared in both Austar and Foxtel magazines. Was this always the way from the start or did they come to an agreement to share everything later?
Did the Optus magazine have original articles or did they share resources too?
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Following the launch of a TV magazine insert in The Australian Women’s Weekly in 1980, the first issue of TV Day, Woman’s Day TV magazine insert (zip-out), launched 40 years ago this week.
The magazine contained only 4 pages of editorial (sometimes even less if they sold some advertising!), one page of movie reviews, 7 pages for capital city listings and 2 pages for regionals. Although I have only ever seen editions covering Victoria, New South Wales/ACT, South Australia/NT/Broken Hill.
TV Day continued for less than a year. The last issue I have is from September 1982 so it must have ended not long after that?
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gosh, full multi-channel listings for the full day (from my cursory only glance)
A certain magazine here should learn how to do that.
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Many many channels missing but decent roundup of the major ones
I suppose so, I forget that they have heaps of niche multi-channels there not via the major networks. But it really shouldn’t be hard for the magazine here to include full listings for the multi-channels we have here.
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The entries also include a lot more info on each program than TV Week makes room for.
There is also a preceding page for each day.
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The US “TV Guide” has a two page layout for each day. Each edition covers a 2 week period. Each day is listed twice - for Eastern and Pacific time zones.
There is also another section that has some extra info for each day.
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so they only list prime time now? And now it’s essentially a national magazine there are no listings for local channels anymore?
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TV listing for next Monday from “Love TV” - seen each Saturday in The Mirror. Each day gets 4 pages in the 56 page magazine.
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3 August 2002: Cover date for the first edition of What’s On Weekly, Pacific Magazines’ rival to TV Week which it had just sold its half-share to ACP.
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Yeah, and for a while now, at least on the latter part - apparently the last “localised” editions (and subsequently, first “national” versions) of TV Guide were put out in October 2005. You’d notice the 7 Eastern/6 Central hour is just marked as “local programming” for the broadcast networks in that pic.
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I wonder what the Foxtel Magazine listings look like in the 2000’s
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The UK’s Radio Times is set to streamline its three regional editions for England into a single edition. There are no changes to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales editions.
The changes to the listings come as regional variations to BBC radio are being cut back and there are now fewer non-news regional variations on television.
This comes some years after the US TV Guide cut out all local listings in favour of a handful of timezone-based editions.
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Up on the Sunshine Coast for a few days. Bought the local “Sunshine Coast Daily” and found their TV listing interesting
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It lists both Brisbane and Sunshine Coast LCNs but not the related program variations eg. only lists Hot Seat at 4.30
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Under “Please note” near the bottom, it lists an advice for Mackay viewers re program variations. That is a TV market that is 850 kms away, and still no changes are shown.
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Here is the Gold Coast Bulletin’s attempt to list metro and regional TV variations… one of the better ones I’ve seen other 9 Regional being incorrectly listed as NBN.
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I thought 9 regional is NBN on the Gold Coast?
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