 Independence meant CTC was free to choose programs from any source and the station claimed for many years that over 80% of Australia's top rating programs were broadcast in Canberra.However local residents would often complain of big name television programs missing from the Canberra schedule, while cheap repeats of American sitcoms such as "Bewitched" and "Gilligan's Island" were staples until the late 1980s.The popular Nine Network variety program "Hey Hey It's Saturday" was never broadcast by CTC nor were lifestyle program "Burke's Backyard", game show "Wheel of Fortune" or the Seven Network dramas "Sons and Daughters" and "Home & Away".