1 January 1988: ABC, SBS, the Nine Network and regional stations across Australia join to present Australia Live, a four-hour snapshot of a day in the life of Australia, to open Australia’s bicentennial year of European settlement.
1 January 1992: Aggregation comes to Victoria with the statewide launch of VIC TV and Southern Cross Network. Prime Television, based in Albury, follows in March.
1 January 1995: Pay TV arrives in Australia with the soft launch of Galaxy in Sydney and Melbourne. The service opens with one channel, Premier Sports Network, operating eight hours a day. Further channels and expansion of Premier Sports to a 24-hour channel comes with Galaxy’s official launch on 26 January.
1 January 2001: Digital television begins with a whimper rather than a bang in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth
Digital TV Brochure -- DBA
Source: Digital Broadcasting Australia
1 January 2004: Tasmanian Digital Television (TDT) begins
1 January 2004: WIN Ten, a supplementary service to WIN in Riverland and Mt Gambier, begins
1 January 2006: Mildura Digital Television (Ten Mildura) begins