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Retro: Perth, Australia Fri, Apr 5, 1963

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Bluenoser

from TV Times-Western Australia edition

Ratings Key
G-general audiences
A-recommended for adults
AO-adults only

ABW2
noon test card/music
2:00 Life of Riley "Big Sacrifice" (G)
2.30 For Schools: For the Juniors
2.50 test card/music
3.00 For Schools: The First Australians
3.20 test card/music
4.45 Kindergarten Playtime
5.00 Friday Children's Hour (Shari Lewis/Clutch Cargo/Wizard of Oz (Video-Craft version)/Gillipops)
6.00 Junior Sports Magazine
6.30 Town & Country
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.25 Weather
7.30 Dickie Henderson "The Fur Coat" (G)
8.00 Twilight Zone "The Fugitive" (A)
8.30 Lively Arts: The Glory That was Greece (G)
9.00 O. Henry Playhouse "After Twenty Years" (A)
9.30 West Coast (local news magazine; topics included car theft in WA, an interview with Louis Armstrong, and a visit to a local tattoo parlor)
10.00 Stage Seven "Cold Harbor" (AO)
10.30 Newsreel
10.40 close

TVW7
12.15pm test pattern/music
1.00 It Could Be You (Tommy Hanlon)
1.30 Woolworths Say When
2.00 test pattern/music
2.30 Concentration
3.00 test pattern/music
4.45 Children's Channel 7 "The Magic Lantern" (also Crusader Rabbit/Cartoon Classic/stories with Geraldine Carlin/Three Stooges/Barry Welles with Fun with Science/Pixie & Dixie)
6.00 Man & the Challenge
6.25 Cartoons
6.35 News/Weather
7.00 Adventure Theatre "Isles of Summer"/"Little Joe Otter"
7.30 Father Knows Best "Turn the Other Cheek"
8.00 Gunsmoke "Big Man" (A)
8.30 77 Sunset Strip "Bullets for Santa" (A)
9.30 Witness
10.30 Racing Stable (performance of horses owned by the station)
10.40 Night Owl Theatre "The Fountainhead" (A)
12.05 Epilogue
12.10 close
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Times-Western Australia edition

Ratings Key
G-general audiences
A-recommended for adults
AO-adults only
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When did Australia start their TV ratings system? Considering the date, they were probably one of the first in the world to institute TV ratings.
 
About TVW Channel 7, IIRC, it was the only one of the Seven Network's affiliated stations to have been the first station on air in its state (in TVW's case Western Australia). By the same token, virtually all of the founding stations of the National Nine Network had been the first to begin operations in their respective areas, including its flagship TCN-9 in Sydney, N.S.W. and GTV-9 in Melbourne, Victoria (STW-9 in Perth didn't begin operations until 1965).
 
Mr. Mike said:
About TVW Channel 7, IIRC, it was the only one of the Seven Network's affiliated stations to have been the first station on air in its state (in TVW's case Western Australia). By the same token, virtually all of the founding stations of the National Nine Network had been the first to begin operations in their respective areas, including its flagship TCN-9 in Sydney, N.S.W. and GTV-9 in Melbourne, Victoria (STW-9 in Perth didn't begin operations until 1965).
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A correction on that...HSV7 was actually the first station in Melbourne. Also TVW7 was actually independent until 1988, as was STW9; the two stations shared programs from all 3 Eastern States networks until NEW10 launched.
 
Bluenoser said:
Mr. Mike said:
About TVW Channel 7, IIRC, it was the only one of the Seven Network's affiliated stations to have been the first station on air in its state (in TVW's case Western Australia). By the same token, virtually all of the founding stations of the National Nine Network had been the first to begin operations in their respective areas, including its flagship TCN-9 in Sydney, N.S.W. and GTV-9 in Melbourne, Victoria (STW-9 in Perth didn't begin operations until 1965).
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A correction on that...HSV7 was actually the first station in Melbourne. Also TVW7 was actually independent until 1988, as was STW9; the two stations shared programs from all 3 Eastern States networks until NEW10 launched.
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My mistake. I didn't realize that HSV7 was the first station in all of Victoria, let alone the Melbourne area. IIRC, HSV7 in its early days was affiliated with TCN9 in Sydney, while likewise GTV9 was aligned with ATN7. That was before TCN9 and GTV9 formed the National Nine Network in 1959, followed two years later by the Australian Television Network in 1961 (ATN7 and HSV7), now known as the Seven Network.

Also, I knew for a fact that TVW7 and STW9 in Perth ran essentially as independents (sort of analgous to indies in both the U.S. and Canada) even though they used, respectively, the logos of the Seven and Nine networks. And as you pointed out, TVW7 and STW9 didn't become network affiliates until Channel 10 began operations of its then-new station NEW10 in 1988. So I submit that even the most knowledgeable TV history buffs sometimes get mixed up a little.
 
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