I think the actual anniversary was September 8th.
It was two years ago at 3:20pm on Thursday September 8, 2022 that an important chapter in royal history came to a full stop with the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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That’s true, though IIRC it was in the very early hours of September 9 on the east coast that the news broke.
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6:33 pm london time, which translates to 3:33 am AEST
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As previously posted it was 9 September in Australia. Networks broke into early morning programs for announcement. We went to bed at midnight with major health concerns being reported and family travelling to the bedside.
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YouTube: RIEGS-TV
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is that John Schluter doing the voice over?
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Don’t know.
Although it’s an interesting sequence of events and I wonder if said Gold Coast viewers actually saw the message about the temporary disruption flash up on their screen??
- Transmission on Channel 0. Playout of Ten ID commences, Channel 0 switches off
- Channel 10 switches on, TVQ10 test pattern comes on, then Ten ID continues
- Announcement re: Gold Coast viewers.
Presumably the temporary disruption to Gold Coast (UHF) was to allow a re-tuning of the receiving equipment from receiving 0 to 10? As the Gold Coast announcement was played after the changeover to 10, would UHF viewers still just be getting off-air static during this time as the input from Channel 0 was now switched off? Would they not have even seen the message that was intended for them and just wait for service to resume on UHF when re-tuning is done?
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Likely - he did V/O work for them in the late 80s
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Yes, it is him. He re-joined QTQ in 1989.
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I’ve seen the video and I’m pretty sure that the Gold Coast UHF veiwers would not have seen the message about the interruption to transmission as the techies would have had to retune the off-air receiver. TVQ at Mount Tamborine is still fed by an off-air link to this day while BTQ and QTQ have been fed by dedicated links for a while due to the seperate content, such as local news.
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10 September 1978: Sydney’s TEN10 premieres talent quest series, Showcase, reviving the former 1960s and 1973-74 format of the same name. Host is Stuart Wagstaff and leading the 36-piece orchestra is producer Hector Crawford. Judging the acts are Robert Helpmann, Margaret Schofield, Roger Savage and Kenn Brodziak. Melbourne’s ATV0, where the show is produced, premieres the series three days later.
10 September 1988: First day of transmission for Brisbane’s TVQ10, following its switch overnight from TVQ0.
10 September 1993: In the 2000th episode of Neighbours (Ten), a surprise birthday celebration for Helen Daniels (Anne Haddy) sees the return of Lucy (Melissa Bell) and Paul (Stefan Dennis) to Ramsay Street.
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10/9/2001 part two of Charles Ingram’s run on Millionaire is recorded. Many of us will know the story of what happened - in that he hired an accomplice (Tecwen Whittock) who would cough on a correct answer as Ingram read out the options to a question, up to and including the jackpot question (“A number one followed by one hundred zeroes is known by what name?” Googol, Megatron, Gigabit, Nanomole).
Side note: even by my standards, that sounds like a very easy question!
Days after he “won” the jackpot, the payment was suspended amid allegations of cheating, from which a documentary titled “Who Wants to Steal a Million?” was borne, and aired in the UK to massive ratings; this documentary would also be shown on Channel Nine in Australia, in place of a normal Millionaire episode, in April 2003.
The scandal would indirectly inspire the 2008 Bollywood blockbuster film “Slumdog Millionaire” and would also be dramatized in the 2020 telemovie “Quiz” (also shown on Nine in Australia).
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12 September 1971: Nine in Sydney and Melbourne presents Quest Of Quests, hosted by Bert Newton with former Miss World Ann Sidney, announcing Australia’s representatives for the upcoming Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, Miss Teen International and Queen Of The Pacific pageants.
12 September 1977: John Waters, Gerard Kennedy, John Frawley and Sean Scully star in The Trial Of Ned Kelly, a dramatisation of the trial of the 19th century bushranger. The ABC telemovie is narrated by actor and writer Alan Hopgood.
12 September 1990:ABC premieres drama series Embassy, tracing the story of Australian Embassy staff in strife-torn Ragaan, a fictional Islamic, South East Asian country. The series stars Bryan Marshall, Janet Andrewartha, Alan Fletcher, Nina Landis, Frankie J Holden, Gerard Maguire, Nicki Wendt, Joseph Spano and Anthony Wong.
12 September 2010: Network Ten premieres the first series of Junior MasterChef Australia, featuring host/judges Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris, Matt Preston and Anna Gare.
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Any Mention Of 9/11?
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13 September 1965: Sydney’s TEN10 premieres Showcase, promoted as Australia’s richest talent quest. Melbourne’s ATV0, where the show is based, follows two days later.
13 September 1966: GTV9 celebrates ten years of Australian television with the special, Ten Years Of Television — Or, We’re Getting Sentimental About Us, produced at TCN9, Sydney. The program aired on TCN three days later.
13 September 1988: ABC premieres two-part mini-series The Four Minute Mile, starring Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York, Tracy Mann, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Chuck Faulkner, John O’May and Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell.
13 September 1989: ABC screens the telemovie Becca, starring Gary Sweet, Lynette Curran, Dafydd Emyr, Dafydd Hywel, and Beth Roberts in the title role. The telemovie told the story of a forbidden love set in Australia’s early European settlement.
13 September 1990: ABC premieres lifestyle series The Home Show with Maggie Tabberer and Richard Zachariah.
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September 14 2003: Seven’s current logo became permanent despite being first unveiled on January 1 2000. I wonder if anyone has any Seven Promo/Ident montage from this day in 2003?
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what does it mean “became permanent”?
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14 September 1973: Melbourne’s HSV7 screens The Wicked City, a pilot for a proposed series, starring Robin Ramsay, Jill Forster, Graham Rouse, Michele Fawdon and Abigail. The big-budget production, filmed in Sydney but set in Melbourne in the 1880s, did not proceed to a series.
14 September 1975: The Seven Network premieres This Is Your Life with Mike Willesee. Based on an overseas format, the show surprises and pays tribute to high-profile Australians. Willesee was later replaced by Digby Wolfe, then Roger Climpson.
14 September 1978: ATV0, Melbourne, premieres comedy series The Tea Ladies, starring Pat McDonald (Number 96) and Sue Jones (The Truckies) as tea ladies working in Parliament House, Canberra.
14 September 1983: The Nine Network’s talent quest New Faces presents a special 20th anniversary show.
14 September 2000: On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games, Seven screens the two-hour special The Winner Is Sydney, featuring Australian athletes and high-profile celebrities, including Paul Hogan, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Nicole Kidman, Derryn Hinch, Wendy Harmer and Andrew Denton, as they share their hopes and ambitions on what the Games will mean to Sydney and Australia.
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This version would last until the start of the 80s.
In 1995, the show returned on Nine hosted by Mike Munro, and lasted for 13 years. There was a brief revival by Nine, hosted by Eddie McGuire, but was cancelled after 4 episodes due to low ratings.
The show returned on Seven in 2022, hosted by Melissa Doyle.
During the day, Seven had rolling coverage of the Olympic Torch relay.
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