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
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.
7 September 1963: RTQ7 opens in Rockhampton. Now part of the WIN network.
7 September 1964: AMV4 opens in Albury. Now part of the Prime7 network.
7 September 1981: The New Price Is Right debuts on the Seven Network, marking a return to TV for Ian Turpie and reviving the format last seen on Australian TV in 1974. Produced in Melbourne, it was too large for HSV7’s studios in South Melbourne so was taped at Festival Hall.
9 September 1988: The last day of transmission for what was TVQ0 and DDQ10. At midnight(ish) they swap over to become TVQ10 and DDQ0 (later RTQ0 post-aggregation)
12 September 1978: Against The Wind, one of Australia’s first big blockbuster mini-series, debuts on Seven in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. In Sydney it debuted the night before.
14/9/2015The Chase Australia premieres on the Seven Network. It was launched in an attempt to shore up national ratings for its 6:00pm news bulletin, which had fallen behind Nine’s by a mile (with deficits of around 100k in the two biggest markets, Sydney and Melbourne).
16/9/2013 After a 19-year absence, the Ten Eyewitness News brand is revived, with new graphics and, in some markets, new sets launched. On Seven, Million Dollar Minute premieres, and Seven News on-screen graphics are relaunched yet again, for the fourth time since 2010 (previous relaunches occurred in February 2010, then February 2011 and then August 2012).
23/9/2005 David Johnston read his final news bulletin following a near-half-century career. He is best known for being the main anchor on both Seven News and Ten News in Melbourne, and after he and Anne Fulwood were replaced by Peter Mitchell in 2000 he became a back-up newsreader before being appointed as the newsreader of Target Iraq.
After the initial invasion in Iraq concluded, Seven retained the bulletin and reformatted it to the 4:30 News, which until 2010 had no sports news (the reason for this I don’t know). He remained at the helm until September 2005, after which he was replaced by Rebecca Maddern. Nowaways, the Afternoon News exists in five different markets.
This is the video of his final bulletin (with credits going to AM Videos):
