28 July 2022. The Neighbours “Finale” screened in Australia. It screened the following day in the UK.
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2022?
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Oops. Yes. A year ago today.
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It sounds like strikes hitting the (old version of the) Vic SEC were often enough a thing back then, for Seven to choose a snippet from a news bulletin prior to a power strike closedown, to trail their last few seconds of HSV-7 on analogue 
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29 July 1981: The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. The event was given saturation coverage on ABC and commercial stations across Australia. ADS7 in Adelaide was one of the few commercial stations in Australia to provide an alternative to the live coverage, instead playing a John Wayne movie and screening a delayed telecast of the wedding the following day.
29 July 1984: The Opening Ceremony of The Games Of The XXIII Olympiad, live from Los Angeles, begins two weeks of Olympic Games telecast on the Ten Network. It was Ten’s first Olympics coverage.
With no Ten outlet in Perth the rights to broadcast the Games are shared between local channels TVW7 and STW9 — with Seven having the Opening Ceremony and the first week of competition, and Nine having the second week of competition and the Closing Ceremony.
ABC also agreed to relay Ten’s Olympics coverage to remote and regional areas that did not have access to commercial television.
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30 July 2013: Analogue television switches off in Darwin
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1 August 1964: Melbourne becomes Australia’s first four-station market with the official opening of ATV0. The new channel is the first of the Independent Television System network now known as Network Ten.
1 August 1971: Mass For You At Home, the weekly Catholic Mass, makes its first appearance on ATV0, presented by Father Michael King — a well-known local media identity whose television appearances also included In Melbourne Tonight and even a guest appearance (as himself) in an episode of Homicide.
1 August The American Apollo 15 mission’s second day on the moon has live coverage.
1 August 1993: The FIFA World Cup Qualifier — Australia versus Canada — is broadcast live from Alberta, Canada, on SBS.
1 August 1994: ABC‘s TVTV returns after a short break, now based in Melbourne, with new hosts Mark Mitchell and Tiffany Lamb.
1 August 2006: The premiere of Yasmin’s Getting Married, the would-be reality TV quest to find a groom for potential bride Yasmin Dale. Ratings were poor and the show was axed only four days into its planned nine-week run.
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And replaced with Futurama, IIRC?
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That seems like the thing Ten would have put in its place at the time.
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2 August 1993: John Mangos and Sharon Dale host the debut of Seven‘s new mid-morning magazine program At Home.
2 August 2010: SBS launches its new game show Letters And Numbers, an Australian adaptation of the French show Des chiffres et des lettres and the long-running UK series, Countdown. Although production ended in 2012, Letters And Numbers continues to air in reruns on SBS.
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3 August 1964: First weekday transmission for Melbourne’s new channel, ATV0. Nancy Cato, Alec Finlay and Michael Boddy host the debut of the station’s afternoon program, The Children’s Show. The show becomes a predecessor to The Magic Circle Club, which debuts in 1965 and screens nationally.
3 August 1979: One-Day Miller, the comedy spin-off from the Tickled Pink series, debuts on ABC, starring Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Lucky Grills and Willie Fennell.
3 August 1992: While the Olympic Games are in progress on Seven, Nine’s Sale Of The Century also takes on a sporting theme, with the start of the two-week ‘Battle Of The Codes’ contest, featuring players of Rugby League, Australian Rules, Rugby Union and Soccer.
3 August 2008: After 27 years, the final edition of Nine’s morning current affairs show Sunday.
3 August 2012: The final edition of Network Ten’s mid-morning program The Circle.
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SBS has also produced three seasons of Celebrity Letters and Numbers.
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4 August 1964: ATV0 launches weekly pop music show Go!!, hosted by Alan Field and featuring regular performers April Byron, Ian Turpie and Colin Cook. The show ended up being shown nationally and ran for three years.
4 August 1978: The Opening Ceremony of the XI Commonwealth Games, broadcast live from Edmonton, Canada, on ABC in the early morning with repeats in the evening.
4 August 1980: Seven screens live coverage of the Closing Ceremony of The Games Of The XXII Olympiad from Moscow.
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5 August 1979: Jovan — The John Sullivan Story, the telemovie spin-off from The Sullivans, airs on Nine. Starring Andrew McFarlane in the title role of John Sullivan, with Frank Gallacher, Olivia Hamnett, Carol Burns and Vera Plevnik.
5 August 1996: It has taken two years, but Friends is finally making its Australian debut on the Seven Network. The hit US sitcom has taken two years to get to Australian screens, largely due to a prolonged battle between Seven and Nine for rights to the show.
5 August 2001: The debut of mockumentary series All Aussie Adventures, following accident prone outback adventurer Russell Coight (Glenn Robbins) as he tackles Australia’s rugged outback and wildlife.
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6 August 1994: Mal Walden hosts a one-hour special, ATV 30th Anniversary, commemorating thirty years of ATV10, that was launched in 1964 as ATV0.
6 August 2008: Hole In The Wall, possibly television’s most ridiculous physical game show, debuts on Nine.
6 August 2011: Network Ten’s music video show Video Hits ends after a 24-year run
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Apparently, Video Hits’ axing in July was due to a major restructuring of the network.
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Hard to believe 60 years is coming up soon.
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2011/12 was a year or two that 10 wouldn’t won’t to remember. Bad management lead to terrible decisions.
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10 Peach would try and bring back that Video Hits feel in 2012 with The Loop hosted by Scott Tweedie and Ash London.
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That lasted for a decent amount of years before they pulled the plug. I think the idea of a Music Video show on TV in the age of YouTube seems kind of pointless these days. Though I am sure if the ABC ever canceled Rage there would be a mass outrage (pun not intended)
Yep, The “News Revolution” in 2011 then all the bad shows they premiered in 2012 that all flopped.
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