By 1988 Perth’s third commercial station NEW10 had arrived and slowly Perth’s TV schedules were beginning to match that of its eastern state counterparts.

NEW10 had also taken the bold step of programming its evening news at 5.30pm instead of the traditional 6.00pm timeslot.

Source: The Sunday Times’ TV Extra, 13 November 1988

	ABW2	TVW7	STW9	NEW10	SBS28
6AM		6am TVAM	6am National Nine News 6.30 Business Today	6am USA Today 6.30 Ten News
7AM	7am Battle Of The Planets 7.27 Belle And Sebastian 7.52 Today’s Special	7.30 Earlybirds	7am Today	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8.20 Sesame Street	8.30 The Brady Kids
9AM	9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Too Close For Comfort	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Marcus Welby MD
10AM	10am For Schools:Insight, Puppets, Shakespeare In Perspective, Upper Primary Arts and Craft, Australia Place, Flip Slide Turn	10am Trapper John MD	10am General Hospital 10.30 Coronation Street	10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten News
11AM		11am Eleven AM	11am Maude 11.30 National Nine News	11am Santa Barbara
12PM	12pm Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	12pm Another World	12pm Midday With Ray Martin	12.45pm The Bold And The Beautiful
1PM	1pm Parental Guidance Recommended 1.10 For Schools: World Studies, Women 88, Little Tim and The Brave Sea Captain, Petunia	1pm Days Of Our Lives	1.30 Movie: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers [IMDB]	1.40 Ten News
2PM	2pm David Copperfield 2.30 Turning The Tide	2pm The Young And The Restless		2pm Our Town
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine	3pm Sons And Daughters 3.30 Happy Days	3.45 Cartoon Corner	3pm Adam 12 3.30 Airplay	3pm TV Ed
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Stop At This Station	4pm Wombat 4.30 Flipper	4pm C’mon Kids	4pm Ridgey Didge 4.30 Wonder World	4pm Vox Populi 4.30 Kaleidoscope
5PM	5pm Inspector Gadget 5.30 Doctor Who	5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Press Your Luck	5pm Live At 5	5pm Superman 5.30 Ten News	5pm Dance With Me 5.30 Rin
6PM	6pm World At Six 6.30 The Oz Game	6pm Seven Nightly News 6.30 State Affair	6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair	6.30 Neighbours	6pm The Noise 6.30 World News
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report	7pm Home And Away 7.30 A Country Practice	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 Special: Peter Ustinov In China	7pm Perfect Match 7.30 Tour Of Duty	7pm Sport Report 7.30 Changing Australia
8PM	8pm Brush Strokes 8.30 Open All Hours	8.30 Mini-Series: Favourite Son [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: One Crazy Summer [IMDB]	8.30 Mini-Series: Emma Queen Of The South Seas. Part 1 [IMDB]	8.30 Derrick
9PM	9.05 Four Corners 9.50 Rubbery Figures				9.30 Tonight With Paul Murphy
10PM	10pm English Soccer	10.30 Newsworld	10.30 Graham Kennedy’s News Show	10.30 McMillan And Wife	10pm Special: Martin Scorsese And The Last Temptation Of Christ
11PM	11pm The World Tonight 11.30 Don’t Miss Wax	11.30 227	11.30 Dynasty		11pm Special: Nikos Kazantzakis 11.35 Lindenstrasse
12AM	12.05am Close	12am Today (NBC)	12.30am Spencer For Hire	12.25am Wrestling	12.10am Close
1AM		1.50 Close	1.30 Movie: Lonely Are The Brave (B&W) [IMDB]	1.25 Close
2AM
3AM			3.15 Movie: The Joker Is Wild (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.30 The Young Doctors (continues to 6.00am)