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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that Channel Seven Adelaide Pty Ltd, the licensee of SAS, breached the 2004 Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice (the code) by incorrectly classifying an episode of Packed to the Rafters as PG.

‘Viewers’ decisions about what they and their children watch are fundamentally informed by a program’s classification, so it is vital to the integrity of the broadcasting sector’s co-regulatory framework that licensees accurately classify programs,’ said ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman. ‘As the ACMA has indicated on more than one occasion in recent times, the presentation of material with themes directed more towards an adult audience requires particular care if a program is to be classified PG.’

When Jessica Watson sails her S&S 34 Ella's Pink Lady through Sydney Heads at around 11.00am on Saturday, Seven News will be on the ground, in a special chartered yacht on the harbour and in choppers to capture her momentous arrival.

The 16-year-old left Sydney Harbour on October 18 last year and will have sailed approximately 23,000 nm in the 210 days it has taken her to circumnavigate the globe to be the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

Mark Ferguson will host a live Seven cross to Jessica’s arrival. And a Seven News chartered yacht with World Champion female surfer Layne Beachley will be among the first to greet her as she sails into Sydney Harbour.

A month ago, I praised Seven for finally providing an accurate EPG that reflects the TRUE starting times of shows on their two channels rather than just saying "8.30" for something that starts up to 10 minutes later than that time. You can read that article here.

Now, I take all of that praise back.

It sould seem that now we are into the first week of serious ratings competition (although officially, the ratings season starts Feb 7) with numerous shows premiering this week or returning for new seasons, Sven have gone back to their old ways.

Could we finally see the Seven network providing an accurate to the minute EPG?

Over the weekend, I noticed that there were variances in the starting times of many shows on both Seven and 7TWO. In particular, Amazing Race on 7TWO showed as having a 12.57 start for Mon Dec 28 where usually it would show as 1.00pm start and then start at 12.57 anyway - meaning you miss the first three minutes if you are recording straight off the EPG onto your PVR without any allowance time for early starts.

Here are the latest changes to channel 7’s schedule.

1. Next Monday Aug 17 at 9.30pm, following City Homicide, will be the return of Beyond the Darklands.

This episode is about ‘Neddy Smith’ who has been convicted of rape, armed robbery and murder. He has been serving a life sentence since 1989 and is currently imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre in New South Wales.

Seven Melbourne won Thursday with a 29.6% share and the night’s three most-watched shows – SEVEN NEWS, HOME AND AWAY and TODAY TONIGHT

SEVEN NEWS was Melbourne’s top show last night with 371,000 viewers. It was also the Number One news bulletin, ahead of National Nine News (336,000), ABC News (267,000) and Ten’s News at Five (227,000).

HOME AND AWAY (367,000) dominated at 7pm – out rating Nine’s Two and a Half Men (300,000) and ten’s Friends (158,000).

TODAY TONIGHT (339,000) was the third most watched show of the night and Melbourne’s number one public affairs program, defeating Nine’s A Current Affair (324,000).

At 7:30pm MAKE ME A SUPERMODEL came out on top (288,000) in 10th position against Nine’s Getaway (277,000) and Ten’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (252,000).

At 8:30pm HEROES attracted 317,000 viewers and was ranked 7th for the evening. Nine’s The Strip was down at number sixteen and only managed 245,000.