It’s interesting that the NBN brochure makes no mention of the Gold Coast.
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Seven’s 1992 line-up promo shown after midnight on 1 January 30 years ago today. Yeah!
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I am sure if I asked this question before, but why was Mildura not included in the initial aggregation in regional Victoria?
(It could also explain why Mildura and surrounding region were excluded from regional tally board at Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal until Prime came to Mildura)
I understand that it was deemed that smaller, more remote towns like Griffith, Mount Isa and Mildura were too isolated/remote and too small a population to support multiple competing services and would have to be disproportionally dependent on being subsidised by the more populated markets. It was intended from the start that these operators could opt for multi-channel services, though as we know it was ultimately only Griffith (MTN) out of the three that went down that path.
I’m not sure of the circumstances of how Mildura was able to get a second competitive licence given the reasoning for excluding it from aggregation.
EDIT: Because it’s Saturday night and people like me have no life, I found the Australian Broadcasting Authority’s annual report for 1996-97 which gives some explanation for the allocation of second licences to Darwin and Mildura
Australian Broadcasting Authority Annual Report 1996-1997
Until 5 January 1996, s.73 of the Act allowed an existing commercial television
licensee to apply to the Authority for permission to operate a second service in its
licence area if it was the only licensee and additional commercial television licences
could be allocated in the licence area.The Authority could give permission if it was satisfied that ‘it is unlikely that another
person would be interested in, and likely to be in a position to, operate another
commercial television broadcasting service in the licence area’.On 5 January 1996, s.73 was repealed and was replaced with two clauses (s.38A and
s.73). Among other things, the new provisions allowed the Authority to allocate a
second commercial television broadcasting licence to an existing licensee if it was
the holder of the only commercial television licence in force in the area and
additional commercial television licences could be allocated in the licence area.The new provisions required the Authority to allocate a licence if it was satisfied
that it would be unlikely that another person would be interested in operating, and
in a position to operate, another commercial broadcasting television service in the
licence area.As reported in the Annual Report 1995–96 (pp.26–27), WIN Television Mildura Pty
Ltd, MTN Television Pty Ltd (Griffith) and Territory Television Pty Ltd (Darwin)
applied to the Authority for permission to operate second commercial television
broadcasting services in their licence areas.The Authority decided not to grant permission to these licensees to operate second
commercial television broadcasting services in their licence areas. These decisions
were appealed.On 1 July 1996, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) upheld the Authority’s
decisions in relation to the Darwin and Mildura licensees and set aside the
Authority’s decision in relation to the Griffith licensee. Licence allocation exercises
for new commercial television licences to serve Darwin and Mildura were held in
October 1996.
So it appears the laws changed compared to pre-aggregation and the ABA was satisfied that there would be other takers for second licences in Darwin and Mildura so they were put out to bids.
Telecasters Australia (now SCA) got the Darwin licence for a bid of $2.1 million, and Prime Television successfully bid $3.2 million for Mildura. It is unclear who the other bidders were, if any.
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4 January 1971: Sesame Street debuts on ABC
Source: TV Week
Plus, TV Week’s “Telebird” is Joan McInnes who would later go on to a national profile in Today on Nine and hosting 'Til Ten and Monday To Friday on Ten. Now, she is Lady Joan Hardy.
And the “Odd Spot” feature on actor Joe Hasham, starring in the ABC comedy series The Thursday Creek Mob but would later be a star in Number 96 and The Young Doctors, hosting special events like the TV Week King Of Pop Awards in 1975 and the variety show Cabaret for SBS in the early 1980s.
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Is Sesame Street still popular with young children today? Generations X and Y seems to be when the show was at its high.
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Yes extremely popular. My little niece loves it and the toys sell out at the major stores.
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must be harder to stay popular these days. In Gen X and Y days we had much fewer shows/options so Sesame Street probably got a lot of us purely by default. Now with so many shows, platforms and viewing options it must be incredibly hard to gain/hold kid viewers’ attention.
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Different times. Imagine if TV Week had a “Telechick” section these days.
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5 January 1986: The last day of transmission for SBS on VHF Channel 0 in Sydney and Melbourne. After close of transmission tonight SBS becomes available only on UHF. The shutdown of the VHF channel was originally due to happen in December 1984 but was extended to a further year to allow people more time to convert.
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8/1/2005 The Seven, Nine and Ten Networks jointly televise “Australia Unites: Reach Out to Asia” to raise money for World Vision’s humanitarian response to the Boxing Day tsunami.
Kochie and Mel from Sunrise, and Larry Emdur, who was at Nine at the time, presented from outside the Sydney Opera House, while Eddie McGuire and Andrew O’Keefe presented from the call centre at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne.
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I believe Rove and Bert represented Channel 10 at the call centre.
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That would sound about right for 2005 period 10.
From memory Rove was also sitting with them. The three of them hosted together representing 7/9/10. Adam Hill represented the ABC.
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Seem to recall Gretel Killeen was also involved for 10.
Gretel Killeen was also representing Ten at the Sydney Opera House
Unlikely given that nobody knew who Adam Hills was then. Spicks And Specks hadn’t started until later that month.
Andrew Denton was present but did not have a major role in the event
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9 January 1959: Sydney and Melbourne are linked for television for the first time via “Operation Kangaroo”, a series of mountain top microwave links carrying signal from Sydney to Melbourne. The operation, over a year in planning between GTV9 and ATN7, allowed Melbourne viewers to watch the Sydney cricket test live for the first time. Some unstable weather near Sydney interfered with clarify of the signal on the first day but picture quality later improved to the point that players could be easily recognised on screen and the ball could be viewed comfortably.
ATN7 executive Brian Wright as pictured on screen at GTV9 on the evening of 9 January, launching the link between the two cities during In Melbourne Tonight
Source: The Age
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Today is Eleven’s 11th birthday. The channel is now known as Peach. Here’s how it all began. 
Promo Loop:
Southern Cross Ten: Eleven Promo Loop (2011) - YouTube
Channel Launch:
He11o Channel 11 ELEVEN Australia Digital TV launch-11th January 2011 at 11am - YouTube
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Crazy to think its been 11 years since it launched. At the time it was probably the best of the multi-channels and it helped 10 was putting effort into it back then. But over the years its clearly become less of a priority and it just sort of exists with a very stale lineup of shows that run on never-ending loops.
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Does anyone know what links they were?
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