ABC launches its new Asia-Pacific television service, Australia Television International (ATVI) with a one-hour special, A Network Begins, hosted by Karina Kelly. ATVI was officially opened by Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Later, ABC begins nightly broadcast of Australia Television International News, presented from ABC’s Darwin studios.
ATVI initially broadcast via satellite to fifteen countries in South-East Asia.
Source: TV Week, 13 February 1993
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| 6AM | 6.30am First Edition | 6am ALF Tales 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Includes Tom And Jerry, The Flintstones, Top Cat, Kissyfur |
6am Entertainment Tonight 6.30 ITN World News 6.55 Business Today |
6am Ten Eyewitness News | |
| 7AM | 7.30 Open Learning | 7am Today | 7am The Big Breakfast | ||
| 8AM | 8am The Smoggies 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 Puddle Lane 10.15 Rod Jane And Freddy 10.30 Turn On To T-Bag 10.50 Grimms’ Fairy Tales |
10am Aerobics Oz Style 10.30 News |
10.30 News | ||
| 11AM | 11am Fox Tales 11.25 Roobarb 11.30 Wild And Crazy Kids 11.55 Rosie’s Walk |
11am Eleven AM | 11am What’s Cooking 11.30 Entertainment Tonight |
11am Sally Jessy Raphael | |
| 12PM | 12pm The World At Noon 12.30 The Italians |
12pm Movie: The Honey Pot. 1967 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Santa Barbara | |
| 1PM | 1pm National Press Club Luncheon | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue |
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| 2PM | 2pm True Stories: The Ape Trade | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2.30 Oprah Winfrey | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends |
3pm The Beverly Hillbillies 3.30 My Three Sons (B&W) |
3.30 Katts And Dog | 3.30 General Hospital | 3.45pm Novosti (Russia) |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Babar 4.55 Spider |
4pm Ducktales 4.30 Now You See It |
4pm Bewitched 4.30 The Girl From Tomorrow |
4pm The Wonder Years 4.30 Kelly |
4.15 TV Ed 4.45 English At Work |
| 5PM | 5pm The Afternoon Show. Michael Tunn. Includes Widget, Degrassi Junior High | 5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune |
5pm Keynotes 5.30 Happy Days |
5pm Ten Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson | 5.15 Little Missy (Brazil) 5.50 For Your Information |
| 6PM | 6pm Big Square Eye 6.30 Yes Prime Minister |
6pm Seven Nightly News. Jennifer Keyte 6.30 Real Life. Stan Grant |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 A Current Affair |
6pm Jeopardy. Tony Barber 6.30 Neighbours |
6pm Sports Special 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Ian Henderson 7.30 The 7.30 Report |
7pm Home And Away 7.30 Hey Dad! |
7pm Sale Of The Century 7.29 Keno 7.30 Jake And The Fatman |
7pm Hinch 7.30 E Street |
7pm Say Aah (Netherlands) 7.30 The Movie Show. David Stratton, Margaret Pomeranz |
| 8PM | 8pm Lifesense 8.30 Special: Funny Business: Visual Comedy — A Lecture By Rowan Atkinson |
8pm Newlyweds 8.30 Football: AFL. Foster’s Cup. Collingwood v Melbourne. Live from Waverley Park, Melbourne |
8.30 Movie: The Fabulous Baker Boys. 1989 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Die Hard 2. 1991 [IMDB] | 8pm Face The Press. Helen Vatsikopoulos 8.30 Jean Galmot, Adventurer (France) |
| 9PM | 9.30 Special: A Network Begins. Karina Kelly | ||||
| 10PM | 10.30 Lateline. Includes ABC News Late Edition | 10.50 Nightline With Jim Waley | 10pm AIDS — A Priest’s Testament 10.55 Movie: Cabbie In New York. 1987 (Italy) [IMDB] |
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| 11PM | 11.05 A Sense Of Guilt 11.55 Ripping Yarns |
11pm Tonight Live ’93 | 11.20 The Avengers | 11.05 Ten Eyewitness News. Anne Fulwood 11.35 COPS |
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| 12AM | 12.30am Australia Television International News PREMIERE | 12am Minder | 12.20am Night Court 12.50 Rugby League: Challenge Cup. Newcastle v Canberra. Eastern Suburbs v St George |
12.05am World Of Difference | 12.40am Close |
| 1AM | 1.30 The Bill | 1.05 Today (NBC) | 1.05 Movie: The Winds Of Autumn. 1975 [IMDB] | ||
| 2AM | 2.20 Close | 2.35 Detectives | |||
| 3AM | 3.05 Movie: China 9 Liberty 37. 1978 [IMDB] | 3am The Street | |||
| 4AM | 4am Prisoner | ||||
| 5AM | 5am Aboriginal Australia 5.05 The Carol Burnett Show (Continues to 6am) |
5am Secrets And Mysteries 5.30 The Sullivans (Continues to 6am) |
5am The New Animal World 5.30 Starting From Scratch (Continues to 6am) |
