X Factor in 2005 was to complement Idol but the former show lasted only one season flopped.
Next year Idol goes from 10 to 7.
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Further, Mark Holden (who was one of the founding judges on Idol) was also a mentor on the first incarnation of X Factor and led the boy group “Random” to the series win. They were actually the first group in worldwide X Factor to win the series, not Little Mix as many thought (they won the eighth season of the British series, in 2011).
Be interesting to see how Idol goes on Seven next year, esp. after a hiatus of 13 years.
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The 8th season will launch 13 years after the show ended on 10.
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Yes - “Television Preview” was the first TV magazine, pre-dating “TV Week”, TV Times", and “TV News”.
TV Week carried “With Preview” on the cover for a month or so:
The original (non-ABC) TV Times was the same A5 size as TV Preview and TV Week:
“TV News” began as A4 in height, although narrower. After the re-naming, it still didn’t go full-width until mid-March 1961:
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We know the first issue of TV-Radio Week covered the week 5–11 December 1957. Do we know when TV Preview started?
The numbering on those covers doesn’t really help determine that.
Vol.2 No.14 April 5.
Vol.3 No.8 August 23-29.
31 August 1970: The VFL Brownlow Medal count is telecast live on TV for the first time, broadcast across both HSV7 and 3DB. The whole show done and dusted in an hour. Not like these days.
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It’s possible they started counting the votes before 8:30 (as suggested by Nine’s five-minute segment at 7.25…unless that was just a “who will win” prediction segment.
For the record, South Melbourne’s Peter Bedford was the winner.
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" We know the first issue of TV-Radio Week covered the week 5–11 December 1957. Do we know when TV Preview started?"
First issue covered the week starting July 6th 1957.
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That’s a lot of antennas.
Thanks for that.
Sep 3 1992 - A one-off special spin off program, AUstralia’s Naughtiest Home Videos went to air on Nine. Mr Kerry Packer was very angry of what he saw on TV and furiously demanded that this show be pulled off air. THis show was replaced by repeat of CHeers. The next day, Mr Packer was very angry, slamming this show as ‘disgusting and offensive shit’. Doug Mulray was dumped from CHannel Nine.
Sep 3 2006 - After 5 years, Channel Nine aired its final AFL match, Collingwood v Kangaroos.
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In 2021, Peter Helliar and Tommy Little often show these types of videos on The Project. 
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‘Get that f…ing s…t off the air!’
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Jeez, Helliar isn’t that bad.
I was merely quoting what Kerry Packer said when he saw Doug Mulray’s show.
It aired in full in 2008
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Words that I’d imagine many would’ve used years later to describe innocuous hit programs of the time such as Burke’s Backyard and Hey Hey It’s Saturday!
I think it was edited slightly to remove a gag that would’ve been deemed offensive by 2008 standards…
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4 September 1991: The six-part mini-series Brides Of Christ, set in the 1960s, debuts on ABC. Screening twice a week over three weeks, it became the ABC’s highest rating drama series and collected five Logies the following year.
Most Popular Telemovie Or Mini-Series: Brides Of Christ
Most Popular Actress In A Telemovie Or Mini-Series: Josephine Byrnes
Most Popular New Talent: Kym Wilson
Silver Logie – Most Outstanding Actress On Australian TV: Josephine Byrnes
Most Outstanding Telemovie Or Mini-Series: Brides Of Christ
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Brides of Christ is on this YouTube channel in 12 parts:
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5 September 1959: TV begins in South Australia with the official launch of NWS9 in Adelaide, operating from studios at Tynte Street, North Adelaide. Unlike other TV station launches, there was no lavish special to signal Nine’s debut other than a half-hour documentary on the building of the station.
5 September 1975: The night of the bomb-blast at Number 96, the cliffhanger that wiped out four characters but whose identities would not be known until the following Monday.
YouTube: SilentNumber96
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