And Ben is now a producer in the reality world.
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The show some critics called “Chances on Valium”.
clearly nobody reads these posts as nobody noticed i had the date wrong 
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I read your post I just have no idea what day it is 
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I tend to skim these posts and look for shows I might be interested in. 
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I definitely enjoy these posts, but yeah I don’t really pay attention to the date, just the tidbits.
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TBH like others have mentioned, I’m mainly interested in the historical facts than the date.
Plus I don’t know the dates of many in the first place
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30/01/2006 - Nine launched a new logo and new look on its network and news presentation. The dots were replaced by a numeral 9 in a blue box which was short-lived
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And it launched just before a revamped Today went to air at 6am
Jessica Rowe’s first day as co-host after she joined from Ten
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30 January 1984: Network Ten debuts dating game show Perfect Match, with Greg Evans and Debbie Newsome. The show became a ratings hit in the 5.30pm timeslot.
30 January 1995: Don Lane hosts ABC’s coverage of the Superbowl XXIX, live from Miami. The Seven Network launches its new current affairs program Today Tonight, with separate editions from each of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
30 January 1999: Seven screens the next instalment of the six-year Spirit 2000 series, tracing the journey of a group of Australian athletes heading towards the Sydney Olympic Games. The series of documentaries, presented and produced by David Goldie, began in 1995.
30 January 2001: ABC launches 26-part drama series Love Is A Four Letter Word, based around a group of twentysomethings working in an inner-city pub. The cast includes Peter Fenton, Leeanna Walsman, Matt Doran, Paul Tassone, Damian Walshe-Howling, Kate Beahan, Linal Haft and Paul Barry.
30 January 2005: ABC screens the telemovie Hell Has Harbour Views, starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Richard Beasley.
30 January 2006: Network Ten launches two new morning shows to replace the former Good Morning Australia: 9AM With David And Kim, with David Reyne and Kim Watkins, and Home Life Style with Andrew Daddo and Alyssa-Jane Cook.
30 January 2006: Larry Emdur takes over as host on Seven‘s Wheel Of Fortune.
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Not quite sure what 10 were going for, but constantly grumpy David Reyne was about the most ill-suited person I’ve ever seen host a mid-morning television program.
The last host for the OG Wheel of Fortune with the show being axed in the middle of the year
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Wow, I have no memory of this whatsoever.
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neither did I, until i came across it. Must have been very short-lived!
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31 January 1983: The first episode of the new Nine Network police drama Waterloo Station. The series, starring Ron Graham, Pam Western, Sally Tayler, Danny Roberts, John Bonney, Jennifer Ludlam, Jennifer West, Andrew Clarke, Tex Morton, Gerry Sont and Bartholomew John, was produced by Grundy Television. It was to have a short life.
31 January 1993: Seven launches it new magazine show Talk To The Animals, hosted by Dr Harry Cooper with reporters Pamela Graham, Richard Fitzgerald, Kelly Pummeroy and Mike Lester.
31 January 1994: Sydney radio host Alan Jones presents the first edition of Alan Jones Live on Ten. The new program also gets a late-night repeat screening.
31 January 2000: SBS and ESPN telecast coverage of Super Bowl XXXIV, live from Atlanta, Georgia.
31 January 2000: Eddie McGuire and Richie Benaud host The Inaugural Allan Border Medal presentation, on Nine, live from the Palladium Room, Crown Casino, Melbourne.
31 January 2005: Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis host the first episode of Rockwiz on SBS.
31 January 2009: After eight seasons and 224 episodes, Nine‘s McLeod’s Daughters comes to its final episode.
I reckon this show is one of if not my first memory of TV, i watched it when i was very little
i suddenly feel very old 
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As opposed to their short-lived show Swear At The Animals
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Talk to the Animals Up Late