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NTD Darwin: Blake Street, THE GARDENS NT 0820
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TEN Sydney: GPO Box 10, SYDNEY NSW 2001
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ADS Adelaide: 80 Hutt Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
NEW Perth: PO Box 10, MIRRABOOKA WA 6941
SBS:
Locked Bag 028, CROWS NEST NSW 1585 or [email protected]
WIN:
New South Wales: Locked Bag 8800, WOLLONGONG NSW 2500
Victoria: PO Box 464, BALLARAT VIC 3350
Queensland: Dean Street, NORTH ROCKHAMPTON QLD 4701
South Australia: PO Box 821, MT GAMBIER SA 5290
Western Australia: PO Box 99, TUART HILL WA 6939
Tasmania: PO Box 1209M , HOBART TAS 7001
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Corporate: PO Box 878, DICKSON ACT 2602
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PO Box 750, NEWCASTLE NSW 2300
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Southern Cross Ten: Private Bag 10, Dickson ACT 2602
Southern Cross Television GTS/BKN: 76 Wandearah Road, PORT PIRIE SA 5540
Southern Cross Television Darwin: Suite 5/90 Ross Smith Ave, FANNIE BAY NT 0820
Southern Cross Television Central: Tenancy 2, Level 1 Awangu House, 44 Hath Street, ALICE SPRINGS NT 0870
Southern Cross Television Tasmania: PO Box 873, LAUNCESTON TAS 7250
IMPARJA:
PO Box 52, ALICE SPRINGS NT 0871
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PO Box 296, MAROOCHYDORE QLD 4558
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PO Box 1166, CROWS NEST NSW 2060
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Margaret Lewis
25 July 2012 at 4:31 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
I am trying to find in the archives the TV show, JUNIOR JURY shot in Adelaide at channel 9 studio in the years 1969-1972 can you help? I think it was produced by Grundy Enterprises ? Would appreciate any help with this.
Andrew
25 July 2012 at 11:47 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Margaret, I suggest you contact Channel 9 Adelaide at the address given above. You might also have some luck contacting the National Film and Sound Archive or FremantleMedia Australia (formerly Grundy Television Productions).
Chris
20 August 2012 at 7:34 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi i am trying to find past TV guides from 2011, i see you’ve got the ‘classic’ tv guides but not the more recent. Could you help? i would appreciate help, thanks.
Andrew
20 August 2012 at 11:21 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Chris, is there anything in particular you’re after from 2011?
Chris
21 August 2012 at 6:03 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Uh Yes, was looking for Channel 7 (Seven Network) past TV schedule for 2011, sometime between April & July. I remember watching a Movie called Thirteen, I really liked this movie and just out of curiosity wanted to look it up from when i saw it. Hope this is specific enough
Andrew
21 August 2012 at 10:53 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Chris
I’ve had a browse through the TV listings I had available and can only find a screening of the movie “Thirteen” at 1.00am on the night of Sat June 11 (or early morning Sunday June 12) on Seven (Melbourne). It is marked as a repeat so I don’t know if it was shown earlier in the year but that’s the only reference to it I could find.
Chris
22 August 2012 at 6:13 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Yeah, that was the date that i watched it, I remembered watching it early in the morning on a weekend. Thank you, I appreciate your help
James Ellison
24 August 2012 at 9:04 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Your Doc Martin rehash :
I used to enjoy very much the 1hr episodes of the wonderful UK
series Doc. Martin – until you crowd got hold of it, and I caught fleeting glimpses
of it that managed to interrupt your sustained, moronic barrage of
!@!*&%##!! Ads.
Thanks for nothing ! Guess I/we will just have to watch it
via DVD from now on….
Andrew
24 August 2012 at 11:55 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi James, perhaps you didn’t read the notice above but I’ll repeat it here for you:
“This website has no connection or affiliation to any television station and you are best to forward your complaint in writing to the television station on which you saw the program.”
The Seven Network’s contact details are further up this page. Thank you.
Colin Drennan
23 October 2012 at 7:42 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
I have a friend who is slightly retarded. He is looking for DVDs of 1974 episodes of Matlock Police in particular episodes 32 to 42. Could you please advise me how to help him obtain these . Colin Drennan
Andrew
23 October 2012 at 10:28 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Crawfords Australia are releasing some titles on DVD but as far as I know Matlock Police is not one of them.
Keep an eye on the Crawfords store website for any new releases
Faye Thiele
8 November 2012 at 10:06 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
I saw a feature on channel 10 (Southern Cross?) last night on the local news regarding people complaining about poor digital reception. I live in Goughs Bay near Mansfield and also have had trouble with poor reception. I would like to know more about this segment and who to contact regarding this problem. Faye
Andrew
8 November 2012 at 1:25 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Faye. You could contact Network Ten in Melbourne or Southern Cross Ten (addresses as above) or if you are having problem with digital reception try the Digital Switchover Taskforce on telephone 1800201013 or via their website
John Turnbull
13 December 2012 at 11:29 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
I live in Sarina and my reception is not good I was thinking of installing Impaja television and cant find out who to contact, Can you help
John Turnbull
Andrew
13 December 2012 at 11:51 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi John
Contact the Digital Ready hotline on 1800 201013
Paul Tamplin
15 December 2012 at 1:58 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi
As its the 50th Birthday of NBN I hope you can assist me in finding footage of a boxing match which was televised 50 years ago from the Perth Empire game in 1962. Details of the bout are :
Quarter final 24th November 1962
Geoffrey Rees of Wales V Richard (Dick ) McTaggard of Scotland
Please advise if you can assist directly or advise where I may enquire.
Happy birthday and hope you can help.
Regards
Paul Tamplin
Andrew
15 December 2012 at 10:36 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Paul
Try the National Film and Sound Archive 1800067274 or their website http://www.nfsa.gov.au/
Ian Stimson
20 December 2012 at 5:56 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Andrew,
The on air date for GSW-9 was 1968,you asked why the GSW-10 translator came out on Ch 10 .It really only serviced the Viewers on that side of Mt Clarence as Ch9 bounced around the Rocks that form Albanys harbour.
Sending Ghost images around the bay,Mt Clarence is a very large hunk of rock.
The reasons for the delay in getting both stations on the Air was due to people objecting to having antennas erected as these were considered as unsightly. Mt Clarence is a Memorial Mountain,as it was where the ANZAC’s had their last sight of their home land.
Today a beautiful memorial sculpture of a “Horse and light horseman is erected there.
This memorial was Returned to Australia after the Suez crisis around 1960?
VEW -8 is cunning play on words the mind conjurs up the word Veiw.
Rgds.
IAN
Andrew
22 December 2012 at 12:31 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Ian
Many thanks for the clarification.
I’ve updated the 1960s page with the correct on-air date for GSW9.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Ray Spaeth
27 December 2012 at 9:14 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Trying to find an address for Annette Allison – so I can send her a few pictures of my parents who she befriended years ago
Andrew
27 December 2012 at 12:37 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Ray,
I have sent you a response via email.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Sarah Routledge
23 January 2013 at 10:15 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi
I’m trying to find out when electronic TV guides first became available on the internet in Australia. Please can you help?
Thanks!
Sarah
Andrew
24 January 2013 at 12:56 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Sarah. Unfortunately I do not know the answer although some Australian sites such as Sofcom (now eBroadcast) were providing TV listings online sometime around the late 1990s. eBroadcast might be able to provide a more definitive answer from their perspective.
Jules
5 February 2013 at 4:12 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi there,
How would I find footage of a Pot of Gold episode I performed in as a young boy, back in 1974-75.
Regards
Jules
Andrew
5 February 2013 at 5:45 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Jules
Refer to the FAQ above. The footage is unlikely to be available, often due to reasons of copyright but also not a lot of that material has been archived.
Gary Stevens
11 February 2013 at 4:50 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hello
I am wondering how Tweed Heads/Banora Point residents in NSW and Gold Coast residents in Queensland watched televison prior to NRN Gold Coast TV which I believed started in 1984? Was Tweed Heads people watching RTN 8 prior to this but have been 1 hour behind since its incepetion?
Gary Stevens.
Andrew
13 February 2013 at 11:52 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Gary,
I’m not overly familiar with the area during that period but I understand that prior to the installation of local UHF towers that viewers had to erect high antennas that depending on their location along the Gold Coast either pointed north towards Brisbane or south towards Lismore. Remembering that the population along the Gold Coast at that time was not as high in number or density as it has since become.
Janet
9 March 2013 at 10:25 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
When are next series of The Sullivand and Carson’s Law due out on DVD.
Janet O’Connor
Andrew
11 March 2013 at 12:56 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Janet. I suggest you keep an eye on the Crawfords website for any updates on new releases.
Evelin Korner
15 April 2013 at 2:09 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
What happened to the early morning 8 am german news?????
Andrew
15 April 2013 at 5:42 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Evelin,
I suggest you contact SBS with your enquiry:
Locked Bag 028, CROWS NEST NSW 1585 or [email protected]
peter
7 May 2013 at 11:48 AM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
is there any more volumes of the sullivans due out if so when if not why
Andrew
7 May 2013 at 12:00 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Peter
I am not aware of any further releases but you would be best to contact the Crawfords Store directly
Andy
7 May 2013 at 5:34 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi,
Are you able to tell me what years during the 80s, the following shows (obviously re-runs) were aired:
WONDER WOMAN
ADVENTURES OF BLACK BEAUTY
INCREDIBLE HULK (live-action)
IRON MAN / INCREDIBLE HULK (10 minute segments )
* I’ve searched through the available program guides you have on your website … thank you btw, it’s a great website.
kind regards,
Andy
Andrew
12 May 2013 at 7:04 PM (UTC 10) Link to this comment
Hi Andy
Unfortunately without thumbing through a mountain of magazines from that era I am unable to retrieve that level of information. Also keeping in mind that during those years each city/state ran their own schedule so what was broadcast in one part of the country may not have applied to others.
Thank you for your kind words but I am sorry I am unable to answer your question.
Andrew.