1980's SABC Television Schedules

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Hi guys. Recently I've been revelling in a bit of 1980's nostalgia especially with regards to the programs we watched, Robotech, Magnum, Wielie Walie etc etc

Has anybody got any idea where I can get tv schedules for the 80's? I've googled my best but the closest I could get was getting the USA television schedules, albeit they are quite close since our viewing was similiar to theirs?

I'm wanting to start a collection and any help will be appreciated. I've scanned ebay for old schedules because often somebody will put them on for collectors such as myself.

Anway any help appreciated :)
 
Contact "Die Huisgenoot". "Maybe they have stuff on archive that they can send you.
 
When we bulldoze an old house we tend to find odds and ends. Found a few old newspapers in the walls of more than one place. I'll check them for TV schedules. The rest of the paper brings back memories though; new cars advertised for a few grand and so on. LOL.
 
I downloaded every episode of Robotech not to long ago. Brought back some happy memories.
 
Drunkard #1 said:
When we bulldoze an old house we tend to find odds and ends. Found a few old newspapers in the walls of more than one place. I'll check them for TV schedules. The rest of the paper brings back memories though; new cars advertised for a few grand and so on. LOL.
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IS that why you're called Drunkard? Smashing down houses? :p :D

But, yes, you do find interesting stuff in the most unexpected places :)
 
We didn't have SABC in the 80's we had some other stuff when i was younger and i was born in the late 80's... I remember something like CCVTV or something, i dunno i might just be crazy :P
 
UtianG said:
Hey JHatman

Unfortunately I dont have the TV schedules but what I do have is a link to a site where u can download the theme songs of all your favourite 80's classics on SABC.

This will definately bring back memories.

http://pumamouse.com/quaksatsounds.html

Enjoy,
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Hehe thanks for that this brought back a lot of memories :D

I'll try and contact Huisgenoot and ask/beg for old material who knows maybe I get lucky.

Drunkard I'd appreciate any old schedules you may find and we can work something out I'm sure! Send me a pm on the forums when u find summing ty :)

I'm thinking of buying the entire Robotech saga on dvd, I watched a few on youtube and it still capture my imagination after so many years maybe we really dont grow up?? :D
 
Nothing turned up after a quick rummage, not even the newspapers. I'll search more carefully tonight, but I might have thrown them during a storeroom cleanup. Sorry.
 
w1z4rd said:
I downloaded every episode of Robotech not to long ago. Brought back some happy memories.
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Yeah you bet!

- "To Be In Love" - Reba West (Minmei)

Sung for Hikaru Ichijyo (Rick Hunter)

To be in love,
Must be the sweetest feeling that a girl can feel.
To be in love...
To live a dream
With somebody you care about like no one else.
A special man... A dearest man
Who needs to share his life with you alone.
Who'll hold you close and feel things
That only love brings,
To know that he is all your own.

To be my love,
My love must be much more than any other man.
To be my love...
To share my dreams,
My hero, he must take me where no other can,
Where we will find a brand new world.
A world of things we've never seen before.
Where silver suns have golden moons,
Each year has thirteen Junes.
That's what must be for me...
To be in love ...
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http://www.robocon.org/r10/lyrics.htm
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/lynn-minmay-to-be-in-love/3691467375/?icid=VIDLRVMUS02

So sing along everyone, you know you want to!
 
w1z4rd said:
I downloaded every episode of Robotech not to long ago. Brought back some happy memories.
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I bought the box set and even the latest movie they brought out........ I is a fan. :)

On the subject of old series, I've managed to get my hands on all four series of MacGyver. :p Still surprisingly good actually. Didn't age too badly. :D
 
Nod said:
Schedule for 26 June to 2 July '78?
http://www.allatsea.co.za/nostalgiatv.htm
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Hah thanks for that! :D

I was born in '77, the first television my folks bought was in 81. But I only started watching tele from 1984, my first year of school.

I was never much into music until 12 or 13, but the first song I ever heard was "Eye Of The Tiger" not sure who its by though but I was 5 then :p
 
phiber said:
We didn't have SABC in the 80's we had some other stuff when i was younger and i was born in the late 80's... I remember something like CCVTV or something, i dunno i might just be crazy :P
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The channels up until early 1996 were;
TV1 - (Now SABC 2)
CCV - (Now SABC 1)
NNTV - (Now SABC 3)

I remember the test pattern being displayed until 6am when transmissions would start, and the closing transmission played out with the national anthem at 10pm. They also would display Teletext before GMSA would start (Good Morning South Africa).

Graeme Heart (not sure of spelling?) always did the weather.
 
genetic said:
The channels up until early 1996 were;
TV1 - (Now SABC 2)
CCV - (Now SABC 1)
NNTV - (Now SABC 3)

I remember the test pattern being displayed until 6am when transmissions would start, and the closing transmission played out with the national anthem at 10pm. They also would display Teletext before GMSA would start (Good Morning South Africa).

Graeme Heart (not sure of spelling?) always did the weather.
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Wow:

* TSS ('Topsport Surplus') was introduced as an unofficial supplementary service in October 1991. It was relayed on the spare capacity of the TV1 signal and carried the sports programmes that could not normally be accommodated in the TV1 schedule.
* The consolidation, on 1 October 1992, of its TV2, TV3, and TV4 channels into one multicultural channel, CCV-TV ('Contemporary Community Values Television').
* On 11 February 1994, the TSS spare channel was discontinued and replaced by NNTV (National Network Television).
* Establishment in October 1993 of the Independent Broadcasting Authority by Act of Parliament.
* Satellite broadcasts on the KU-band PAS-satellite were introduced on 2 October 1995. This switched transmission of the SABC's three television channels and 11 public service radio stations to the satellite, making radio and television reception available to every one in South Africa, no matter where they lived, provided they had the necessary receiving equipment.
* On 17 November 1995, the SABC launched an analogue sports channel broadcasting from the satellite for six hours a day.
* On 4 February 1996, the SABC relaunched the TV1, CCV-TV and NNTV channels as SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3.
* The SABC launched two analogue-based satellite TV channels — AstraPlus (a movie channel) and AstraSport — on 15 July 1996. The free-to-air channels were to be the vanguard of a full-scale pay TV bouquet.
* In accordance with a directive from the IBA, the SABC in September 1996 sold its six regional radio stations — Highveld, Jacaranda, Kfm, East Coast, Algoa and Oranje — to private enterprise.
* On 28 September 1996 the SABC relaunched its Radio portfolio. The new line-up of 16 radio stations, complete with new names and new identities, finally broke the mould in which SABC Radio had been cast since its inception in 1936, and completed the visible transformation of the corporation from a State broadcaster to a public service broadcaster accountable to all the people of South Africa. 6
* On 28 February 1998 the SABC discontinued its Astrasat analogue satellite channels, AstraPlus and AstraSport.
* On 1 March 1998 popular former homeland television station Bop-TV was formally integrated into the SABC stable. This followed the abolition by Act of Parliament of the broadcasters of the former Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei and the transfer of their services and facilities to the SABC and to Sentech.
* On 16 November 1998 the SABC, in a deal with pay-TV company MultiChoice, launched two 24-hour digital satellite TV channels aimed at Africa. One was a news channel and the other an entertainment channel.
* In May 1999 a new broadcasting law, the Broadcasting Act (No 4) of 1999, set the scene to irrevocably change the face of broadcasting in South Africa. It provides for three categories of broadcasting: public service, commercial and community. The SABC is to become a limited liability company with the State as 100% shareholder, and is to be restructured into separate public service and commercial arms.
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