Prime Television re-enters the local news market with an aggressive attack on the top-rating Capital Eyewitness News. Prime’s one-hour bulletin combines local and national news and is largely staffed by former Capital employees, including newsreader Geoff Hiscock and news director Ken Begg.
Flashback to Canberra’s other leadership battle
Source: The Guide (The Canberra Times), 1 March 1993
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| 6AM | 6.30am First Edition | 6am Alf Tales 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection |
6am Entertainment Tonight 6.30 ITN World News 6.55 Business Today |
6am Ten Eyewitness News | |
| 7AM | 7.30 Electric Avenue 7.55 Concerto Grosso Modo |
7am Today | 7am The Big Breakfast | ||
| 8AM | 8am The Smoggies 8.25 Quaq Quao 8.30 Sesame Street |
8.30 Mulligrubs | |||
| 9AM | 9.30 Play School | 9am The Book Place 9.30 Sons And Daughters |
9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Ernie And Denise. Ernie Sigley, Denise Drysdale |
9am Good Morning Australia. Bert Newton | |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: The Magic Library, Book Dramatisations, Look Up, Tales From The Blue Crystal, The World Of Chemistry | 10am Aerobics Oz Style 10.30 Real Life |
10.30 National Nine Morning News | ||
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am What’s Cooking 11.30 Entertainment Tonight |
11am Sally Jessy Raphael | ||
| 12PM | 12pm The World At Noon 12.30 National Geographic Special |
12pm Movie: Raise The Titanic. 1980 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Santa Barbara | |
| 1PM | 1.30 Compass (Rpt) | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue |
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| 2PM | 2pm Landline (Rpt) | 2.30 A Country Practice | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show | 2.35pm Itogi (Russia) |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends |
3.30 My Three Sons | 3.30 Katts And Dog | 3.30 General Hospital | 3.15 TV Ed 3.45 English At Work |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Babar 4.55 Bump |
4pm Ducktales 4.30 Now You See It |
4pm Kidzone 4.30 The New Adventures Of Skippy |
4pm The Wonder Years 4.30 The Miraculous Mellops |
4.15 Coca-Cola Soccer League Match Of The Day |
| 5PM | 5pm The Afternoon Show. Includes Widget, Degrassi Junior High | 5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune |
5pm Sale Of The Century 5.30 Happy Days |
5pm Neighbours 5.30 Jeopardy. Tony Barber |
5.15 Little Missy (Brazil) 5.50 FYI |
| 6PM | 6pm Dad’s Army 6.30 No Job For A Lady |
6pm Prime 6 O’Clock News PREMIERE Geoff Hiscock, Tracey Chamberlain | 6pm WIN Nightly News 6.30 National Nine News |
6pm Capital Eyewitness News | 6pm World Sports. Les Murray 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report |
7pm Home And Away 7.30 A Country Practice |
7pm A Current Affair 7.30 Special: Ray Martin’s Laughs And Larrikins |
7pm Hinch 7.30 Healthy Wealthy And Wise |
7pm Dateline 7.30 Fragile Earth |
| 8PM | 8pm Liberal Party Policy Speech 8.29 News Update 8.30 Four Corners |
8.30 Movie: Black Rain. 1989 [IMDB] | 8.28 NSW Lotto 8.30 Movie: Defenseless. 1991 [IMDB] |
8.30 Movie: Batteries Not Included. 1987 [IMDB] | 8.30 Liberal Party Policy Speech 8.50 Masterpiece |
| 9PM | 9.15 Media Watch 9.30 The Brittas Empire |
9.50 Movie: December Bride. 1990 (Ireland) [IMDB] | |||
| 10PM | 10pm Review 10.30 Lateline |
10.40 Nightline | 10.40 Liberal Party Policy Speech | ||
| 11PM | 11.05 English Soccer 1992/93 | 11pm Liberal Party Policy Speech 11.30 Prime Late News. Mal Grieve |
11.10 21 Jump Street | 11.10 Ten Eyewitness News 11.40 Cops |
11.15 Movie: Romance. 1986 (Italy) [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12am Hunters Of The Skies 12.30 Australia Television International News |
12am Real Life 12.35 Today (NBC) |
12.10am China Beach | 12.10am Dallas | 12.25am Close |
| 1AM | 1.30 The Bill | 1.10 Night Court 1.40 Doctor Doctor |
1.10 Close | ||
| 2AM | 2.20 Close | 2.35 Close | 2.10 Movie: Invitation To The Wedding. 1982 [IMDB] | ||
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| 4AM | 4am Movie: Angels Over Broadway. 1940 (B&W) [IMDB] | ||||
| 5AM | 5.30 The Sullivans (continues to 6am) |
