It was mentioned on Morning News Now not to big has a quick mention. Skip ahead to 27.49
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20.49?
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Sorry it’s 27.49
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The Gulf War - waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes - commenced on this day (17 January) in 1991.
Most television programmes, across Australia and New Zealand, were preempted by full coverage of the war. In Australia, for instance, Network 10’s regular programming was suspended and replaced by 24-hour coverage of the war as the events occurred.
Back in my home country, TV3 (now Three) extended its main evening news bulletin, 3 National News (now Newshub), to an hour long and moved the start time for the news to 6pm. Once the war was over, the network continued to screen the hour-long news bulletin.
The hour-long edition of 3 National News was used as a selling point over TVNZ’s One Network News (now 1 NEWS), which was still a half hour bulletin followed by Holmes at 6.30pm. TVNZ did not extend its news to an hour long until February 1995.
On weekends and during the Christmas and New Year holiday period, 3 National News was usually reduced to a half hour bulletin.
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I remember watching the Ten/CNN coverage at work, we were crowded into a room to watch one of the few TVs in the building and which had an antenna connection.
Pretty sure Nine, Seven and ABC also mounted continuous coverage although I think Seven might have been hampered to some extent having to work around tennis commitments? Ironically I think most people were probably watching Ten’s CNN feed even though Ten had just a few days earlier relaunched itself as “the entertainment network” 
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Here are some posts from a year ago when the 30th anniversary ocurred
7 used coverage from NBC
9 used coverage from both ABC and CBS
10 used coverage from CNN and BBC
A lot of the US coverage from the first day or so of the war is on YouTube and I watched quite a bit of it last year.
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This was a few days after 10 launched their 1991-2018 logo
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How many kidnappings, hostage situations or murders in the pilot episode?
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Spoiler Alert
Milko turned out to be a mass murderer
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On this day in 1988
Seven’s news service is overhauled. Seven National News replaced by Seven Nightly News in a half hour format. In Sydney Ann Sanders was Brough across from TEN-10 and paired with 11AM host Richard Zachariah.
On rival station Channel 9, A Current Affair is revived.
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In Melbourne, Jennifer Keyte and Glenn Taylor front the new Seven bulletin in Melbourne, hoping to rectify the train wreck of HSV7’s news the year before.
YouTube: telerecordings
Also OTD:
1982: Sons And Daughters debuts on Seven, beginning a six-year run.
1988: Home And Away begins weeknight episodes after the previous night’s pilot
1988: Hinch At Seven begins on Seven
1994: Blue Heelers debuts on Seven, beginning a 12-year run.
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…or the Willesee program is rebadged following the departure of Mike.
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19 January 1957: GTV9 is officially opened by the Victorian Governor Sir Dallas Brooks
Source: Broadcasting and Television (B&T)
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20 January 1980: “You’re On Top With Ten” as ATV0 relaunches as ATV10.
YouTube: dontv3192
That evening, the newly-named Network Ten launches its new soap Arcade with a 90-minute episode. It did not go well and was axed after six weeks.
YouTube: DPWW1
20 January 1986: Neighbours makes its debut on Ten after being axed by Seven the previous year
20 January 1992: Bert Newton returns to TV with The Morning Show (later Good Morning Australia) on Ten
20 January 1992: Ten Eyewitness News moves to become “First at Five”. Network Ten affiliate Capital Television makes the same move in Canberra but ends up reversing the switch in March after backlash from viewers.
20 January 1992: Derryn Hinch, axed by Seven, launches Hinch on Ten in the 6.00pm timeslot. It soon shifts to 7.00pm.
20 January 1992: With Ten Eyewitness News shifting to 5.00, Southern Cross Network in Victoria launches its own “national” news with Southern Cross Eyewitness News at 6.30pm to supplement the local news (Bendigo/Gippsland) at 6.00pm.
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21/1/2005 The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Jim Waley has been dumped as presenter of Nine News Sydney after some average ratings in the two years that he was in the chair. He is replaced by Mark Ferguson, who doesn’t fare much better with the once-unbeatable bulletin dropping below Seven News in the Sydney market for the first time.
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24 January 1988: At 6.30pm, straight after the news, we got introduced to this baby - launched on the Network Ten stations (except TV0 in Brisbane, clearly, whose turn came later in the year when it moved up the dial to 10)
There was no warning or any teaser campaign that this change was coming, as far as viewers were concerned, it came out of nowhere.
YouTube: Aussiekid237
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