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 [2013]
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 ABC 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) |
