I remember that day. I was in Melbourne on holidays and it was all over the news that afternoon.
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On this day, 9 years ago, Channel 10 axed Wake Up alongside the early, morning, and late news:
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A very bad time for Ten. It was like 1990 all over again.
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2012 was the same. Breakfast, The Circle, Morning News and The Late News all gone. History repeats it self in 2014.
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That actually ended in September 2011, the day before Ten’s final AFL telecast, though it was revived in a magazine format in June 2012 before reverting back to a standard news format until its (final) axing in May 2014.
The Late News and Sports Tonight with Sandra Sully and Brad McEwan was must-watch television every weeknight (except Fridays)! Or was it…?
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On this day 9 years ago, Wake Up, Ten Eyewitness News Early, Ten Eyewitness Morning News, and Ten Eyewitness News Late aired for the final time:
Credit: South Coast tv
Credit: Media and transport channel
Credit: Melb TV
Credit: South Coast tv
Sadly, couldn’t find any footage of the last early news bulletin. Both Wake Up and Breakfast were wasted on 10. Axing Good Morning Australia has to be the biggest mistake, and the most stupid thing that channel 10 has ever made and done.
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25/5/2021 Weakest Link returns to Australian television, with Channel Nine picking up the revival anchored by Magda Szubanski. The revival was badly received and only ten (or so) episodes aired before it was quietly axed.
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26 May 1994: SCN in Victoria presents the last edition of its local news, News At Six. From the next day, the local news is replaced by The Simpsons on relay from Ten, and SCN is rebadged Ten Victoria.
Source: The Bendigo Advertiser
YouTube: Regional TV Australia Web Project
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I’ve noticed that the regional Ten affiliates in Queensland QTV & in NSW NRTV, changed their names to Ten Queensland & Ten Northern NSW respectively at around the same period. Must have had to do with them being affiliated at the time with the 3rd ranked commercial network, because rivals WIN & Prime’s on air names lasted until 2021 & 2022 respectively.
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Telecasters Australia which owned Ten QLD and NNSW had investment in the metro Ten Group so I think that led to QTV/NRTV adopting the Ten branding.
In the case of SCN, I think it was just pure cost cutting as it meant no longer having to cut their own promos/idents, etc., and just take everything from Ten without any modifications.
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30 May 2005: The Nine Network brings back Sale Of The Century under its former 1970s title, Temptation. Hosted by Ed Phillips and Livinia Nixon. The show continues until 2009.
Source: TV Week
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26 June 1967: The global television production Our World is broadcast live on ABC with a repeat that evening. The program, a massive technical undertaking, broadcast in 24 countries with contributions from 14, included three segments from Australia.
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27 June 1987: The final edition of Melbourne’s TV Scene, ending 62 years of publication, initially as The Listener In, then Listener In-TV from 1955. It became Scene, then TV Scene, from 1976.
There was no mention that this was to be its last edition. It was announced the day after this edition hit the newsstands that it was axed. It did, however, get a double-page tribute in The Sun newspaper later in the week.
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Very competitive market back then.
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Free weekly TV magazines in newspapers were seen as the death knell for TV Scene. Its newspaper format was also a hard sell to younger readers while its traditional reader base was ageing. A glow-up/relaunch in 1985, which saw the front and back pages upgraded to glossy print but still retaining the newsprint format on the inner pages, didn’t do much to increase its circulation.
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30 June 1985: SBS expands its network to include Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong.
Source: TV Week
Source: TV Radio Extra
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Am I correct in saying that when SBS first started broadcasting in Adelaide, there was no 30 min delay system (for example if World News was on at 7.00pm in the eastern states, it was shown at 6.30pm in Adelaide) & that the 30 min delay started in the mid 1990’s?
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Correct, when it started programs were seen 30 minutes “earlier” in Adelaide. They then put a delay system in place sometime around 1986, so Adelaide viewers got programs in local time, but then for some reason took it off again a year or so later.
It was reinstated IIRC around 1993-ish, or maybe a bit later.
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1 July 1932: The Australian Broadcasting Commission is formed as Australia’s national broadcaster, comprising 12 radio stations. The broadcaster was later chartered to provide Australia’s national television service from 1956.
1 July 1962: Station affiliations change, with Melbourne’s GTV9 becoming aligned with TCN9 Sydney, and Melbourne’s HSV7 with ATN7 Sydney. The change would see the formation of what is now the Seven Network and the Nine Network and would result in some programs swapping channels to match the new alignments. However, viewers would notice few on-air changes for some weeks, even months, as sponsorship contracts were left to run their course before specific programs change channels.
1 July 1965: Brisbane’s third commercial TV station, TVQ0, is officially opened.
1 July 1974: The 0-10 Network’s new current affairs program, 24 Hours, begins with John Bailey. The new program is the product of former A Current Affair host and producer Mike Willesee.
1 July 1974: Peter Hitchener begins as newsreader for National Nine News, Melbourne, following a stint as relief newsreader at TCN9, Sydney, and hosting a game show, Gambit. Prior to joining Nine in 1973 he worked at ABC in Brisbane.
1 July 1979: Countdown presents its 200th episode.
1 July 1987: The wedding of Scott Robinson and Charlene Ramsay (Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue) marks a defining moment in Neighbours‘ long history.
1 July 1997: Mildura receives a second commercial station, Prime, ending a 32-year commercial monopoly held by STV8 (WIN)
Source: Sunraysia Daily
1 July 2016: Southern Cross Austereo changes its regional affiliation from Ten to Nine in regional Queensland, Southern NSW/ACT and Victoria. WIN switches from Nine to Ten in the same markets as well as Tasmania and Western Australia. The switchover was reversed in 2021.
1 July 2017: Receivers are called in to Network Ten, two weeks after the company was placed in voluntary administration.
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July was obviously a big month television-wise.
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