"Coronation Street" is a British soap opera that first aired in Australia in 1963 on TCN-9 Sydney, GTV-9 Melbourne and NWS-9 Adelaide. By 1966, "Coronation Street" was more popular in Australia than in the United Kingdom. The show eventually left some free-to-air television stations in Australia in the 1970s. It remained on some regional stations throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s and could be viewed in capital cities until 1989. It briefly returned to the Nine Network in a daytime slot during 1994–95 and picked up from where it last left off. In 2005, Channel Nine in Perth began airing "Coronation Street" at 5:30 pm each weekday to improve the lead in to "Nine News Perth", but this did not work and the show was cancelled a few months later.