If you were at home and have put your day aside to watch free to air TV (Seven, Nine Ten, ABC and SBS), what do you choose to watch?
I’ll start:
Morning
5:30am Sunrise
9:15am The Morning Show
11:00am Today Extra
11:30am Seven Morning News
Afternoon
12:00pm Seven’s Midday Movie
2:00pm ABC News at Noon
3:00pm Tipping Point
3:30pm The Chase UK
Late Afternoon
4:00pm Seven Afternoon News (Melbourne)
4:30pm Nine Afternoon News (Melbourne)
5:00pm Ten News First (Melbourne & Adelaide)
5:30pm Letters and Numbers
Evening
6:00pm Seven News (Melbourne)
7:00pm Home and Away
7:30am: Today
9am: The Morning Show
11:30am: Seven Morning News
12pm: Ellen or Dr. Phil
1pm: Reality Encore or Nine Movie
3pm: Tipping Point
4pm: Nine Afternoon News
5pm: Hot Seat
6pm: Nine News
7pm: A Current Affair
7:30: Reality
9pm: Depends
Mine:
When I wake up: Sunrise
9:15am The Morning Show
11:30am Seven Morning News
12:00pm ABC News on ABC News channel
3:00pm Tipping Point
4:00pm Seven Afternoon News Sydney
5:00pm The Chase Australia
5:30pm Millionaire Hot Seat
6:00pm Nine News Sydney
7:00pm The Project
7:30pm TBD (to take a leaf out of Seven’s programming schedules!)
~10:30pm The Latest or Nine News Late, whichever starts first.
I haven’t watched a full day of free to air TV since the late 1980s when I was home in bed sick with glandular fever. I’d consider it cruel and unusual punishment to be restricted exclusively to free to air these days. Even if I was restricted to the house I would want to be doing other things besides watching TV all day.
News Breakfast (70%) Today (20%) Sunrise (10%)
ABC Morning News (80%) TMS (20%)
Seven Morning News
ABC Midday News (usually left on in the background)
Seven Afternoon News
10 News First
7 News (60%) 9 News (40%)
The Project 7pm (80%) ABC News (20%)
I don’t really watch much TV throughout the evening anymore, usually Netflix or the ABC. I’m watching Today and Nine News more over the last couple of weeks though.
This was my schedule back in 2019, when The Daily Edition existed and Tipping Point was not on air yet, which featured many Channel 7 programs (I still watch mostly Seven, but not as much as I did).
5:30am Sunrise
9:15am The Morning Show
11:00am Today Extra
11:30am Seven Morning News
12:00pm Seven’s Midday Movie
2:00pm The Daily Edition
3:00pm The Chase UK
4:00pm Seven Afternoon News (Melbourne)
4:30pm Nine Afternoon News (Melbourne)
5:00pm The Chase Australia
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Home and Away
I used to watch so much more FTA TV. Nowadays, very little, due to time constraints and lack of interest. This would be my current non-sport schedule.
Sunday:
Beat The Chasers
Monday:
Have You Been Paying Attention
That’s about it. I used to watch Seven News Melbourne regularly, but not too much anymore. I also occasionally watch Spicks And Specks repeats on ABC Comedy.
This is what I usually watched on free-to-air TV in the past year if I thought to turn it on:
Nightly News 7 Tasmania (mainly for Murph’s weather and the sport)
Home And Away
The Front Bar
AFL (technically watched all the live FTA games on Fox Footy apart from the GF)
SAS Australia
Housos
Regular Old Bogan
Fat Pizza: Back In Business
A Glorious Life (Bill Lawry and Ian Chappell specials)
And that’s it, coming from a viewer who used to watch WIN (including their news) more often than the other channels over a decade ago.