Retro: Brisbane/Toowoomba/Lismore, Australia Fri, Nov 20, 1964

[Bluenoser]

from TV Week-Brisbane/Toowoomba/Lismore edition

Ratings:
G General
A Adult

ABQ2 Brisbane/ABDQ3 Toowoomba
11:35 For Schools: All Join In
noon For Schools: Science
12:20 sign-off
1:00 True Adventure
1:35 For Schools: Science & Life
2:00 For Schools: All Join In
2:25 For Schools: Looking at the United States
2:45 sign-off
3:30 Kindergarten
3:45 Sheffield Shield Cricket: Queensland v Western Australia (live from Brisbane)
5:33 Friday Fair
6:03 Junior Sports Magazine
6:55 (2) Interlude
6:55 (3) Regional News
7:00 News/Newsreel
7:30 Zero One (G)
8:00 Policy Speech: Labor leader Arthur Caldwell delivers a speech in connection with the upcoming Senate elections
8:30 Zizi Dance
9:00 Town & Country
9:30 World Film Playhouse "The Immortal Eye" (G/return)
10:00 Twentieth Century
10:30 UK Match of the Day (soccer)
11:00 sign-off

ABRN6 Lismore
11:15 For Juniors: Safety First at Home
11:40 For Schools: Science & Life
noon sign-off
2:00 For Schools: Maths for First Form
2:20 For Schools: Looking Around
2:40 For Schools: Science & Life
3:00 sign-off
3:30 Kindergarten
3:45 Sheffield Shield Cricket: Qld v WA
5:33 Friday Fair
6:03 Junior Sports Magazine
6:55 Regional News
7:00 News/Newsreel
7:30 Zero One (G)
8:00 Policy Speech: Labor leader Arthur Caldwell delivers a speech in connection with the upcoming Senate elections
8:30 Zizi Dance
9:00 Town & Country
9:30 World Film Playhouse "The Immortal Eye" (G/return)
10:00 Twentieth Century
10:30 UK Match of the Day (soccer)
11:00 sign-off

BTQ7 Brisbane
11:55 Daily Diary
noon Midday Movie "Storm Over the Nile" (A)
1:30 Love Story (A)
2:30 Beauty & the Beast
3:00 Brian Tait
3:30 Video Village
4:00 Happy Show
5:00 Heckle & Jeckle (G)
5:25 Beany & Cecil
5:30 Ampol Stamp Quiz
6:00 Big News
6:30 Best of Groucho (one of Groucho's guests is Miss France)
7:00 Zorro (G)
7:30 Theatre Royal
8:30 Academy Theatre "Malaya" (G)
10:00 Late News
10:10 Casebook of Sgt. Cork
11:05 Late News/Epilogue
11:35 sign-off

RTN8 Lismore
4:30pm test pattern/music
5:00 Birthday Book
5:05 TV Optometrist/Cartoons
5:19 Noddy
5:31 Lawman
5:55 Interlude
6:00 Ampol Children's Show
6:30 Sporting Parade
6:45 News/Weather
7:00 Room for One More (G/premiere)
7:30 Bachelor Father (G)
8:00 Perry Mason (A)
9:00 Combat (A)
9:55 News Headlines
10:00 Wrestling Down Under: John Durvetakis v Jan Meeske
10:25 Closing Thought
10:30 sign-off

QTQ9 Brisbane
10:50 Let's Talk It Over
11:00 Romper Room (Miss Betty)
noon Midday Movie "Saratoga" (A)
1:30 Take the Hint
2:00 It Could Be You
2:30 Concentration
3:00 First Impression
3:30 Jane Wyman (G)
4:00 Channel Niners
5:00 Bomba/Jungle Boy
6:00 Top News
6:30 Addams Family (G)
7:00 Farmer's Daughter (G)
7:30 Big Star Movie "Boy on a Dolphin" (A)
9:40 Tonight
10:45 News Digest (week in review)
11:15 Late News Headlines
11:20 Musical Nightcap
11:30 sign-off

DDQ10 Toowoomba
5pm Cisco Kid
5:30 Ampol Stamp Quiz (relay from BTQ7)
6:00 Top News (relay from QTQ9)
6:30 Aquanauts
7:30 Red Skelton (G)
8:30 Hong Kong (A)
9:25 SQ Country News
9:30 Coronation Street (A)
9:55 Yesterday's Newsreel
10:10 Mahalia Jackson Sings
10:15 sign-off

[azumanga]

Ratings:
G General
A Adult

Does anyone know the history of Australia's TV ratings? Apparently, they were one of the first (if not THE first) to provide TV ratings, such a concept that only came to the US 12 years ago.

[FreddyE1977]

I know for a time Australia actually had a "Channel Zero", which was inserted as sort of an afterthought at the low
end of the VHF dial.  It was such a low frequency that I've heard it was pretty much useless, as it was prone to all
sorts of atmospheric interference.  I don't believe it is used any longer.

[mleach]

Ratings:
G General
A Adult

Does anyone know the history of Australia's TV ratings? Apparently, they were one of the first (if not THE first) to provide TV ratings, such a concept that only came to the US 12 years ago.

I would be interested in hearing about that too. Heck, funny how Australia had content ratings for TV a number of years before the US had such ratings for MOVIES much less TV.

On a similar note several years ago I was listening online to a radio station from Sydney and even they had some kind of content rating as I can remember the announcer say the following program was rated for Adult audiences. Wonder if this was just this one station or if there are ratings for content involving radio as well down under?

At the time when the ratings came to the US TV ( and later with video games ), I do remember the "rumors" that such ratings will sooner or later be applied to radio as well, but so far that has yet to happen.