7 May 2006 - Richard Carleton died while reporting on the Beaconsfield mine collapse for 60 Minutes
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7/5/2012 “The Price is Right” returns to Australian television, airing on Channel Seven with Larry Emdur as host. Unfortunately, this iteration didn’t do well in the ratings (in Melbourne, the show was moved to 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon) and by year’s end it would be axed.
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Ah yes, who could forget the awfully terrible and cheap 2012 revival of TPIR.
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7 May 1960: ABC Television comes to Western Australia when ABW 2 begins broadcasting from studios on Adelaide Terrace.
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Apparently the Price was Tight back then.
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The second run from 2003-05 was the best version of TPIR in Australia as well as the original version all hosted by Emdur
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Larry Emdur wasn’t even alive when the original version went to air.
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it’s hard for me to go past the 1980s The New Price Is Right with Ian Turpie. That was (for me) the first and best. It was so big they couldn’t tape it at the Channel 7 studios and had to do it at Festival Hall.
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That’s the version I best remember and hold dear. Turpie was perfect for that show. The ones that came after just didn’t feel as big, exciting and glitzy. When Deeks yelled “It’s a new car!” and the huge audience screamed you couldn’t help but feel excited. I vaguely recall a black and white version from early childhood that aired on Ten.
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I was not quite old enough to see the 1973-74 series, I only saw bits of footage later on. But apart from the change to B&W to colour it looks like there was not much difference in appearance between the 1970s and 1980s versions.
YouTube: Lee Meadows (host Garry Meadows’ son)
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12 May 1962: RTN-8 Lismore begins transmission servicing the Richmond River / Tweed areas of northern NSW. The station merged with NRN-11 Coffs Harbour in the early 1970s and was known on air as 11-8 Television, later NRTV.
I wonder what WIN Television has planned to mark the 60th anniversary today?
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Probably a story on the Tasmanian bulletin for that sweet sweet local relevance!
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20 May 1988: At 6.00pm, the launch of Perth’s NEW10 finally brings the city in line with the eastern capitals in having three commercial channels and formally aligning to the respective networks. At 6.30pm, NEW10 joins the rest of the Ten Network for the 24-hour national Olympic telethon.
20 May 1994: SBS Television debuts in Darwin, finally completing the roll-out of SBS to all capital cities.
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23 May 1960: Tasmania’s first TV station, TVT6, is officially opened by Tasmanian Governor Sir Lord Rowallan
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23/5/2014 Ten’s early, morning and late night bulletins are axed, leaving only the flagship 5:00pm and national weekend bulletins as its only news bulletins on the network. IMO this marked the end of its so-called “News revolution” which spectacularly failed.
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I can’t believe it has been eight years since Ten axed those bulletins. I still think it was a rash and incorrect decision.
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and by the end of 2020 Ten’s news service was reduced to produced bulletins out of Sydney and Melbourne. A far cry from where it was a decade earlier.
I’d like to think that Sandra Sully (Sydney) and Stephen Quartermain (Melbourne) are the only remaining presenters from the pre-2000 (even pre-2010) era.
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25 May 2005: Graham Kennedy died at the age of 71. Best known for In Melbourne Tonight, The Graham Kennedy Show, Blankety Blanks, Graham Kennedy’s News Show/Coast To Coast and Graham Kennedy’s Funniest Home Video Show. Also prolific in radio, where he began his career, and starred in a number of films. And was also a founding owner of 2DAY in Sydney (John Laws and Mike Willesee were the others IIRC)
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26 May 1962: TNT9 is officially opened in Launceston. The station was originally owned by Northern Television Limited, a company owned by W R Rolph and Sons, owner of newspaper The Examiner and radio station 7EX.
2pm Test Pattern
6pm The Mickey Mouse Club
6.45 TNT News
7pm Official Opening TNT9: Governor Lord Rowallan
7.30 The Flintstones
8pm BP Super Show
9pm The Dave Brubeck Show
9.30 Movie: Two Guys From Milwaukee
11pm News; Close
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Is it safe to say this is the last reginal television station in Australia still broadcasting from its traditional home?