7 Perth celebrating 65 years in Wa
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From the end of the 50th Anniversary special in 2009:
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Wow so many wonderful memories:pray:
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17 October 1959: NWS9 Adelaide premieres variety show Adelaide Tonight, hosted by Lionel Williams and Kevin Crease. Performers in the first show included American comedian Oscar Cartier, local singer Paula Kitson, comedian Hal Turner and a 24-year-old Malaysian student, Kamahl, making his television debut. Adelaide Tonight continued in various forms until 1973.
17 October 1976: TVW7 Perth presents its annual Telethon, raising a total of $721,624 — including the auction of the Telethon house, which was sold for $62,500.
17 October 1979: The Seven Network presents the fourth annual Sammy Awards, live from Sydney’s Seymour Centre and hosted by Roger Climpson.
17 October 1997: After 13 years as Helen Daniels, Anne Haddy makes her final appearance in Neighbours.
17 October 2000: SBS premieres documentary series Australia By Numbers.
17 October 2004: Network Ten presents the 18th annual ARIA Music Awards, hosted by Rove McManus live from the Sydney SuperDome.
17 October 2005: The Seven Network premieres a revival of children’s quiz show It’s Academic, hosted by Simon Reeve.
17 October 2007: SBS premieres seven-part documentary series Is Your House Killing You.
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18 October 1980: Coverage of the 1980 Federal Election is featured on all four networks to varying degrees.
18 October 1994: The Seven Network presents Homicide: 30 Years On, paying tribute to the police drama that ran from 1964 to 1977. Hosted by Blue Heelers stars John Wood and Lisa McCune and featuring guest appearances by Alwyn Kurts, Ian Turpie, Sigrid Thornton, Maurie Fields, Val Jellay, Denise Drysdale and Terry McDermott.
18 October 1995: The Seven Network announces that it has signed Ten News‘ Melbourne newsreader David Johnston to front Seven Nightly News in Melbourne from January 1996.
18 October 1998: Network Ten premieres mini-series The Day Of The Roses, a re-enactment of the Granville train disaster of 1977. Starring Rebecca Gibney, Peter O’Brien, Paul Mercurio, Helen Dallimore, Carol Burns, Stephen Curry, Heather Mitchell, Bill Young, Jeremy Sims, Wayne Pygram, Steven Vidler and Andrew McFarlane. ABC premieres mini-series A Difficult Woman, starring Caroline Goodall, Peter Feeney, Nicholas Eadie, Bill Hunter, Rosey Jones, Julia Blake and Felix Williamson.
18 October 2000: ABC begins daily coverage of the XI Summer Paralympics from Sydney, with the Opening Ceremony broadcast live and highlights packages each night.
18 October 2001: The Nine Network premieres dating show Chains Of Love, hosted by Rozz Switzer.
18 October 2004: Network Ten premieres drama series The Cooks, starring Toby Schmitz, Rhondda Findleton, Emma Lung, Matt Passmore, Robert Mammone, Jeanie Drynan, Gyton Grantley and Rachel Gordon.
18 October 2009: SBS One presents The Deadly Awards, hosted by Luke Carroll from the Sydney Opera House.
18 October 2010: Network Ten premieres observational series Undercover Boss Australia. The first episode features Don Meij, Chief Executive Officer of Domino’s Pizza Australia.
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18 October 1995: The Seven Network announces that it has signed Ten News ‘ Melbourne newsreader David Johnston to front Seven Nightly News in Melbourne from January 1996.
If I’m not mistaken this signing prompted then solo Melbourne presenter Jennifer Keye to leave Seven. David Johnston was eventually joined by Anne Fulwood as co-anchor.
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yes the story goes that the plan was to pair him up with Jennifer Keyte but nobody told her that, apparently. So she left, and ended up going to Nine.
David Johnston read the news solo from 1996 until Anne Fulwood came onboard sometime around middle of 1999 before Peter Mitchell replaced them both at the end of 2000.
Ten must have known something was up when David Johnston was featured in a Seven News interview in mid-October 1995 to talk about the 20th anniversary of death of the Balibo Five (some of who would have been former colleagues of his) and it looked like he was talking from within a Seven studio/control room or something, so he was on Seven’s premises just prior to the announcement coming out.
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18 October 2000: ABC broadcasts live coverage of the 2000 Sydney Paralympics Opening Ceremony.
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yep already mentioned that
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18/10/2002 Rod Young presents his final ABC News Queensland bulletin, before joining Seven the following month.
At Aunty, I think he was replaced by Andrew Lofthouse, who would spend six years at the helm before joining Nine in 2009.
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Jennifer Adam’s was also promoted to Weekends. She was a good talent back then.
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Sorry missed it
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We have a come a long way since Sydney 2000 with Paris 2024 being broadcast on Channel 9, 9Now and Stan Sport which was the widest coverage of the Paralympics we’ve ever seen.
A home Paralympics and only restricted to highlights after Channel 7 said no
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The same Rozz that does those advertorials on The Morning Show?
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i believe so
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19 October 1964: In Melbourne Tonight presents its first show from GTV9‘s new Studio 9. Special guest on the show is Bert Newton, making his return to TV after nine months due to illness.
19 October 1974: The first day of colour test programming, as permitted by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. The official changeover to full-time colour transmission followed on 1 March 1975.
19 October 1984: Network 0-28 premieres current affairs program Dateline World (later named Dateline), hosted by Paul Murphy.
19 October 1985: Adelaide-based program Music Express celebrates its 10th anniversary with a three-hour special taped in front of a live audience at Adelaide’s Le Rox nightclub. Later, ADS7 presents the 1986 Miss South Australia Quest, hosted by Tony Gordon and Wheel Of Fortune‘s Adriana Xenides, broadcast live from the station’s North Adelaide studios.
19 October 1990: Commencing a week-long celebration of its tenth anniversary, SBS begins a repeat screening of the 1982 mini-series Women Of The Sun.
19 October 1994: The Nine Network presents the special The Very Best Of The Don Lane Show. Don Lane introduces some of the memorable segments to have come from the popular variety show that ran from 1975 to 1983, including footage of guest stars Mel Brooks, Billy Connolly, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli, Robin Williams, Sammy Davis Jnr, Peter Allen, Peter Sellers and Johnny O’Keefe.
19 October 1995: ABC presents the documentary Behind The Frontline, taking a look behind-the-scenes into the production of current affairs satire Frontline.
19 October 1996: Hey Hey It’s Saturday celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special episode from Walt Disney World in Florida.
YouTube: @rhettrospective
19 October 1999: The Nine Network premieres Simply The Best. Host Ray Martin and a panel of celebrity and expert judges celebrate the people, moments and memories of the past 100 years.
19 October 2006: The Nine Network premieres Big Questions. Host Jules Lund and a group of panellists seeking to answer the mundane questions that polarise Australians.
19 October 2008: Network Ten presents the 22nd annual ARIA Awards. Hosted by Hamish Blake, Andy Lee and James Mathison from Acer Arena, Sydney.
19 October 2010: The Seven Network premieres Iron Chef Australia, hosted by Grant Denyer.
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Seven capitalizing on the success of Ten’s Master Chef.
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20 October 1958: ATN7 Sydney launches Australia’s first TV breakfast session, including highlights of earlier editions of Sydney Tonight and debuting Australia’s first serial drama, Autumn Affair.
20 October 1964: HSV7 Melbourne premieres crime drama Homicide
20 October 1973: The Official Opening of the Sydney Opera House by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II receives coverage on all channels.
20 October 1993: To mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, the ABC special Sydney Opera House Honours Television Gala pays tribute to the greats of jazz, drama, ballet, concert music and contemporary dance and opera in Australia — including Don Burrows, Ruth Cracknell, Garth Welch, Marilyn Jones, Sir Charles Mackerras, Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge.
20 October 1994: The Nine Network presents They Said Don’t Worry: The Deborah Maybury Story, the story of a young woman’s brave fight to beat the disease that eventually claimed her life. Hosted by Perth news presenter Tina Altieri.
YouTube: Zoey Maybury
20 October 1998: Network Ten presents the 12th annual ARIA Awards from the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Hosted by Paul McDermott.
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21 October 1970: In Melbourne Tonight celebrates its 3000th episode with a look back at some of its highlights from over the past 13 years.
YouTube: Phil Johnson
21 October 2001: The Nine Network presents Scorpion’s Kiss, the latest in the series of Halifax fp telemovies. Starring Rebecca Gibney, William McInnes, Jeremy Callaghan, Caroline Gillmer, Rhondda Findleton, Richard Cawthorne and Fred Whitlock.
21 October 2003: Network Ten presents the 17th annual ARIA Awards, hosted by Rove McManus from the Sydney Superdome.
21 October 2007: The Seven Network premieres game show National Bingo Night, hosted by Tim Campbell with Renee Bargh and Tanveer Ahmed.
21 October 2009: ABC1 premieres eight-part documentary series John Safran’s Race Relations.
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So it’s Homicide’s 60th anniversary. Hopefully the Melbourne media will mention something about the milestone today.
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