November 4, 2002 - Rod Young joins Kay McGrath as co-anchor of Seven News Brisbane. However ratings were still dire and it wasn’t until Sharyn Ghidella became weekend presenter in 2007 that Seven News were able to overtake Nine News in the Queensland ratings.
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November 4, 2013 - Studio 10 makes its debut on Ten, as part of the network’s new morning line up which also included Wake Up.
Sadly, Wake Up would be cancelled six months later due to poor ratings.
The first episode of Wake Up drew 52k viewers, trailing way behind Sunrise, Today and ABC News Breakfast. A week after that, they’ve lost half its audiences share, rating much lower than 2012’s show Breakfast. The reasons why Wake UP failed is not just poor ratings but also the cost of production. It was very high.
Also, on that day - November 4 2013: TEN resurrected Early and Morning News bulletins.
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November 6, 2001 - Ten showed it’s last Melbourne Cup (until yesterday) won by NZ mare Ethereal
November 6, 2018 - Seven showed it’s last Melbourne Cup won by Cross Counter
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Finally get to see a Channel 9 test patten.
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8 November 1974: Grant Goldman from radio 3UZ hosts the first episode of Countdown, launching as an 8-episode series on Friday nights and produced in colour.
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10 November 1983: The Don Lane Show ends on Nine after eight and a half years and 666 episodes. Lane would turn 50 three days later and celebrates that milestone on the final show. While Lane claims to not know why the show was dropped, it is reported contract renewal negotiations between Nine and Lane had broken down weeks earlier.
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It was a school night but I was allowed to stay up to watch the full show. My parents said there would never be another show like it. I guess they were right.
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10 November 1969: Sesame Street debuts on US public television. Since then, over 4,500 episodes have been produced, entertaining and educating kids around the world.
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The Whitlam dismissal - a news summary from the ABC’s coverage.
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Took a long time to get here, though. It debuted on ABC in January 1971
Is there any detail as to what coverage actually occured on all the networks? The culture of rolling coverage for big events has only really been the last 20 years or so.
Like you, I was a little too young to remember or understand the significance of what was happening that day. I do recall my mother having a deep hatred of Malcolm Fraser during his time as Prime Minister as a result of the dismissal. Constant rolling coverage in the form we see today wouldn’t have happened. More likely news flashes throughout the day with information delivered by a voice of authority. Certainly no panels of political pundits dissecting the issues for hours on end as we see today during political upheavals.
This story about ATN 7’s coverage appeared in Sydney’s Sun-Herald on 16 November 1975:
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11 November 1971: NTD-8 is officially launched by the Administrator of the Northern Territory, Fred Chaney. Skippy The Bush Kangaroo and Bandstand were the first shows broadcast on the station.
NTD-8 was wiped out by Cyclone Tracy three years later and would be off air for ten months while it was rebuilt.
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I was probably more concerned whether or not Adventure Island was going to be on that day
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Your post prompted my to do a bit of research. The proposed opening night schedule that was sent to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board:
A news article in B&T:
A logo from a 1974 rate schedule:
Source: National Archives of Australia
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some excellent finds there! Thank you
Super obscure fact 
: NTD station CEO Frederick T Yates would be the same Frederick T Yates that was station manager of WBQ8 in Wide Bay, Qld, a few years earlier.
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Don’t know if it’s intentional or a result of fading, but the 8 in that logo is NT ochre…
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