Never say never. What if 10 regains the AFL broadcast rights for 2032? I know it is a long wait, but it is possible that negotiations will start in 2029 or 2030 with a deal by the end of 2030.
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FTA will be the second part rather than the main medium by then though.
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But 10 have Paramount+ to back them up, while Seven is relying on dwindling revenue from FTA and limited revenue from BOVD, and both Seven and Foxtel are losing content to other outlets (i.e. Max, Disney+, etc).
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I’m not doubting Paramount (if it still exists) funding the AFL rights, but I’m just saying who knows if 10 as we know it now would be broadcasting then.
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6 October 1994: Melbourne’s community TV station, Channel 31, begins regular transmission. The channel had been conducting test transmissions since August, including Saturday night harness racing courtesy of sponsor Harness Racing Victoria.
Programming was initially only five nights a week – regular programming on Monday to Thursday nights and racing on Saturday night.
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I can remember when Channel 31 Sydney started in the mid 1990s, along with ACA’s exposé on them regarding the sh*t quality of the transmissions, even in areas where the signal was strong. Dodgy transmitter I think it was. It was real amateur hour TV.
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I never saw CTS or whatever the Sydney 31 was called. I only have sketchy memory of it. It was taken off air eventually? Replaced with TVS?
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Yes, and I also do remember they took the Renassaince TV feed from Channel 31 Melbourne in 2002. TVS was a far superior channel than the old Channel 31.
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7 October 1972: The 1972 VFL Grand Final — Richmond versus Carlton — is restricted in Melbourne to evening replays on ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9. In Sydney the Grand Final was telecast live on TCN9 with a replay on ABN2.
7 October 1974: TV stations commence test pattern transmissions in colour.
7 October 1976: The Seven Network presents the inaugural Sammy Awards in partnership with TV Times and the Variety Club Of Australia. Hosted by David Frost and held at the Sydney Opera House.
7 October 1989: SBS screens the five-hour film The Mahabharata, director Peter Brook’s adaptation of the book which forms the basis of India’s mythology. Given the movie’s long length SBS have made a rare allowance to insert breaks into the presentation, but these are only placed at points which separate the three significant stages in the story.
7 October 1990: The Seven Network premieres mini-series Jackaroo, starring Annie Jones and David McCubbin. ABC presents Esso Night At The Opera, featuring Les Huguenots, the final performance of Dame Joan Sutherland.
7 October 1992: ABC premieres two-part mini-series Frankie’s House, starring Iain Glen, Ally Fowler and Kevin Dillon, telling the story of a group of young photo journalists during the Vietnam War.
7 October 1999: ABC premieres three-part documentary series Federation, looking at the struggles not just in forming a nation but in forming a democracy.
7 October 2007: The Nine Network premieres the Australian version of The Singing Bee, hosted by Joey Fatone, followed by factual series Dirty Jobs with Jo Beth Taylor and Ben Dark.
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Enjoyed the description of the colours in the newspaper article “pink circle on a black grading with ATV in yellow” because of course the newspaper was in black and white 
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I do seem to recall seeing that TCN9 test pattern once when I was a kid during those “technical f**k ups” that used to occur almost every second day. This was the mid 1980s.
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9 October 1971: Melbourne’s GTV9 premieres Hey Hey It’s Saturday, cartoons and segments hosted by Daryl Somers and Peter McKenna.
9 October 1978: The Nine Network in partnership with the Commonwealth Employment Service premieres The Job Show, an early weekday program aimed at helping the unemployed find work. Hosted by Brian Bury and Gail Jarvis with separate editions produced for Sydney and Melbourne.
9 October 1990: Network Ten premieres two-part mini-series Shadows Of The Heart, starring Jason Donovan, Sherrie Krenn, Marcus Graham, Josephine Byrnes, Barry Otto and Robyn Nevin.
9 October 1998: The Seven Network presents the special The Mike Walsh Show Years, paying tribute to the long-running variety show that ran from 1973 to 1985.
9 October 2000: Network Ten premieres Rove Live with Rove McManus.
9 October 2004: ABC and the Nine Network devote the evening to Federal Election coverage. Network Ten presents a one-hour coverage later in the evening.
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It aired on the Nine Network the previous year, though was dropped because it didn’t rate well IIRC.
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it probably didn’t rate well because Nine slotted it in at 11.00pm on a Thursday night or something like that. Nobody was going to ever see it.
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13 October 1973: ABC presents the Australian Opera production of Tolstoy’s War And Peace. Recorded in September, it was the first opera to be performed at the Sydney Opera House ahead of its official opening on 20 October.
13 October 1975: ATN7 Sydney premieres morning news and current affairs program Eleven AM as a local program before extending nationally in the 1980s.
13 October 1978: The Nine Network presents the TV Week King Of Pop Awards, hosted by Glenn Shorrock with special guests Kate Bush and Leif Garrett.
13 October 1994: The Seven Network premieres comedy special Big Girl’s Blouse, starring Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski and Jane Turner, ahead of an eight-episode series to follow in 1995.
13 October 1995: SBS presents the documentary The Flying Nun, profiling Queensland’s Sister Anne-Maree Jensen, a 40-year-old Catholic nun who has been flying her single engine Cessna across some of the most remote parts of south-western Queensland in conducting her ministry across her bush parish.
13 October 2004: The Seven Network premieres observational series Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.
13 October 2005: Network Ten premieres drama series The Surgeon, starring Justine Clarke, Sam Worthington, Katie Wall, Nicholas Bell, Chum Ehelepola, Matt Zeremes and Matthew Newton.
13 October 2007: The Nine Network and Foxtel announce the purchase of Australian broadcast rights to the 2010 XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Games of the XXX Olympiad in London — the deal believed to be worth around $110 million.
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14 October 1979: ABC premieres a six-part season of Australian plays. The first feature is Burn The Butterflies, starring Ray Barrett, Fred Parslow, Gerard Maguire, George Mallaby, Alan Hopgood, Monica Maughan, Rowena Wallace and John Wood.
14 October 1983: Channel 0/28 (SBS) changes name to Network 0-28 and commences transmission in Canberra.
14 October 2001: ABC premieres six-part drama series Changi, depicting the experience of six fictional Australian soldiers interned at the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore during World War II. The series was written by John Doyle (of “Roy And HG” fame) and featured Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Frank Wilson, Terry Norris, Slim de Grey, Bill Kerr, Desmond Kelly, Mark Priestley, Matthew Newton, Stephen Curry and Anthony Hayes.
14 October 2010: Network Ten premieres observational series Keeping Up With The Joneses, following the activities of the Jones family, running a cattle station in the Northern Territory.
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16/10/2013 Hillal Kara-Ali wins the sixth (and most recent) season of The Mole, winning $180,000 in prize money.
Because the finale aired so late at night, it wasn’t until just before midnight that he was announced as the winner.
Seven treated the revival poorly, bumping it to a 10:30pm timeslot midway through the season.
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