I remember “This Afternoon”. I could tell it was going to be a fizzer even on the first episode.
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Also joining BH&G as the resident architect and remains on the show today regularly opening/closing the show and doing segments with 20 year jost Johanna Griggs.
Oh dear, not a good period for the network especially their news department, which was going through major changes and had 6 months or so earlier axed many
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Also that same day (29/6/2009), Andrew Lofthouse joined Melissa Downes on the weeknight line-up at Nine News Queensland. They had a rough initiation coming up against the might of Kay and Rod but in time would return QTQ to the top of the news ratings.
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Helped that Seven shafted Kay and Rod for Bill and Sharyn, for reasons which are still unknown to this day,
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I think it was more about Seven wanting to refresh its weeknight line-up, which as we all know backfired in the long term.
Still it was good for them to give Bill a second chance after he was let go by Ten as part of cost cutting measures in 2012 (which also claimed the likes of Ron Wilson, Bill Woods and Helen Kapalos to name a few). But I think they should’ve put him on weekends for a start, like Nine did with Lofthouse (though he would later be promoted to weeknights just six months after joining them, when Bruce Paige “retired” from the news desk).
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30 June 1985: SBS extends its network to launch in Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong — adding to the existing network in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
30 June 1995: ABC in Canberra begins transmission on VHF Channel 9, commencing a simulcast period with the existing service on VHF Channel 3. ABC scheduled to shut down the VHF Channel 3 signal in August 1995. The changeover is part of the national clearance of TV transmissions from VHF Band II (Channels 3-5) to allow expansion of FM radio services.
30 June 1999: SBS premieres Fetching Shorts, a series of short films from Australian creators.
30 June 2003: Disney Channel launches a new early morning show, AMTV On D, hosted by former Popstars winner Scott Cain.
30 June 2004: Following the departure of former hosts David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz to ABC, SBS re-launches The Movie Show with a new hosting line-up: Megan Spencer, Fenella Kernebone, Jaimie Leonarder and Marc Fennell.
30 June 2006: The Nine Network premieres children’s series Mortified, starring Marny Kennedy, Nicholas Dunn, Maia Mitchell, Rachel Blakely, Andrew Blackman and Steven Tandy.
30 June 2008: Network Ten premieres comedy series Mark Loves Sharon, a spin-off featuring characters from sketch comedy series The Wedge.
30 June 2010: Mildura becomes the first region in Australia to convert to digital-only television, with analogue signals shut off at 9.00am
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Fast forward 12 months:
30 June 2024: Mildura becomes the first region in Australia to have a television service shut off, with Mildura Digital Television ending transmission at midnight
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years
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14 Years Actually
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As I said
It was mentioned that it was 12 months ago, when it is actually 14 years. I was just pointing out the 14 part.
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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 1969: The ABC, Seven and Nine networks present live coverage of the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince Of Wales from Caernarfon Castle, Wales.
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 1978: ABC premieres musical variety series The Saturday Show.
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 1990: ABC premieres More Winners, a series of children’s dramas. The first instalment, His Master’s Ghost, stars Jonathan Hardy, Simon Grey, Erica Kennedy, Cathy Godbold and Scott Major.
1 July 1991: Nine debuts a new morning program, What’s Cooking, hosted by Gabriel Gate and Colette Mann.
1 July 1992: The ABC special Baby Crazy focuses on what it’s like to be a first time parent — using home movies, interviews and archival footage — narrated by Noni Hazlehurst.
1 July 1997: Regional city Mildura receives a second commercial station, Prime, ending a 32-year commercial monopoly held by STV8 (WIN).
1 July 1999: The Nine Network presents the concert special John Farnham’s 50th Birthday Party, featuring John Farnham and guest artists including Kate Ceberano, Merril Bainbridge, Ross Wilson, Human Nature, James Reyne and Nana-Zhami (son Robert Farnham‘s band).
1 July 2000: Network Ten‘s Saturday night music show The House Of Hits comes to an end after less than six months.
1 July 2004: ABC premieres At The Movies with David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz.
1 July 2006: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France with the prologue race — twenty-two teams (198 riders) competing in a seven-kilometre time trial around Strasbourg, France.
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.
1 July 2019: SBS launches the World Movies channel.
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A lot has happened on July 1 over the years.
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2 July (NZ): The New Zealand version of an Australian music show, Ground Zero, premieres on TV2 (now TVNZ 2). Hosted by Francesca Rudkin and Graeme Hill, Ground Zero was a mix of music videos, live performances, comedy, gossip, celebrity guests and discussion of youth issues. The show ran for a year before being replaced in 2000 by Space.
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2 July 1971/1976: ABC crosses to Wimbledon for live via satellite coverage of the Women’s Singles Final. (1976 was ABC’s last year covering Wimbledon. Nine took over from 1977)
2 July 1985: ABC premieres mid-evening current affairs program The Carleton-Walsh Report, with Richard Carleton and Max Walsh, airing Tuesday to Thursday nights.
2 July 1995: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a package of highlights each evening and repeated late at night.
2 July 2004: Network Ten premieres children’s series Wicked Science, starring Andre de Vanny, Bridget Neval, Benjamin Schmideg, Emma Leonard, Brook Sykes and Saskia Burmeister.
2 July 2005: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with 2-3 hours of live coverage each late night and a half-hour highlights package the following evening.
2 July 2008: The Nine Network presents coverage of Game Three of the Rugby League State Of Origin — NSW versus Queensland — from ANZ Stadium, Sydney.
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2/7/2013 The Mole returns to Channel Seven after an eight-year absence. Unfortunately, the comeback season did not rate well, with episodes buried into a late-night timeslot (first 9:30pm, and then 10:30pm) after the first two weeks.
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It was a clash with a documentary on the Essendon FC supplements saga that saw The Mole pushed to 10:30pm.
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Correct and wrong - in the AFL states, one episode was pushed back by one week to create a double-header due to that documentary, while that episode aired as normal in Sydney and Brisbane (see week five):
After that doco, the show settled into a Wednesday night 10:30pm timeslot, remaining there until its off-Broadway ending in October.
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I stand corrected, good sir.
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