They hosted both shows from that location. Don’t know if the Morning Shift also ran during the Olympics though. The coverage didn’t start until later in the day so it is possible.
At least one episode is in the National Film and Sound Archive:
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14 March 1980: Bert Newton hosts the 22nd annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Hilton Hotel, Melbourne. Daytime TV host Mike Walsh won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality On Australian Television.
14 March 1992: ABC debuts current affairs program Foreign Correspondent, hosted by George Negus, taking a look at the news behind some of the week’s major world events, including reports from correspondents around the world.
14 March 2004: Pay TV operator Foxtel launches its digital service, offering over 100 channels including near video-on-demand and improved picture quality including many programs in widescreen.
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We got Foxtel in 2004, they had a heavy sales force out when that launched going door to door.
15 March 1979: ABC debuts ten-part documentary series Marque: A Hundred Years Of Motoring, presented by Peter Wherrett and produced by Andrew Lloyd James.
15 March 1981: The debut of the ABC period drama Outbreak Of Love, starring Rowena Wallace, Tony Bonner, Sigrid Thornton, Jackie Woodburne, Larry Held, Ilona Rodgers, Cornelia Frances, Susannah Fowle, Lewis FitzGerald, Val Lehman, Brendon Lunney and Frank Thring. The series, set in Melbourne in 1913, is based on the novel by Martin Boyd.
15 March 1991: Daryl Somers hosts the 33rd annual TV Week Logie Awards from Melbourne’s World Congress Centre and broadcast nationally through the Nine Network.
15 March 1994: Former ABC host Andrew Denton makes his long-awaited debut on Seven with his new late night show, Denton.
15 March 2003: Eddie McGuire, Dennis Cometti, Garry Lyon and Dermott Brereton host Nine‘s coverage of the AFL Wizard Cup Grand Final from Telstra Dome, Melbourne.
15 March 2006: Ray Martin and Liz Hayes host Nine’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the XVIII Commonwealth Games from Melbourne. Daily coverage of Games competition begins the following day on Nine and seven dedicated channels via Fox Sports.
15 March 2009: ABC debuts two-part docu-drama Rogue Nation, covering the stories from the early years of Australian colonialism. Historian Michael Cathcart is joined by a cast including John Wood, John Gregg, Simon Chilvers, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Geoff Morrell, Abe Forsythe, Les Hill, Heather Mitchell, Peter O’Brien and Wayne Pygram.
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16 March 1979: Bert Newton hosts the 21st annual TV Week Logie Awards, telecast on the Nine Network from the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne. Special overseas guests include Robin Williams (Mork And Mindy), Susan Seaforth and Bill Hayes (Days Of Our Lives), Lauren Tewes (The Love Boat), Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy (George And Mildred) and championship boxer Muhammad Ali.
16 March 1986: SBS begins transmission in Perth and Hobart — completing the broadcaster’s roll-out into every state capital city.
16 March 1991: Seven covers the Grand Final of the AFL pre-season Foster’s Cup, live from AFL Park, Waverley.
16 March 1996: The 90-minute special The Crawford Story (Nine) presents a nostalgic look at the shows to come from Crawford Productions, led by Hector and Dorothy Crawford.
16 March 1998: Elle McFeast (Libbi Gorr) launches her new chat show McFeast Live on ABC. The debut episode sparked controversy with the guest appearance by notorious underworld figure and convicted criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, whose graphic retelling of his real-life crimes as “comedy” sparked condemnation from both inside and out of the ABC.
16 March 2003: Network Ten airs Blackjack, the first in a series of telemovies, co-written by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie and starring Colin Friels.
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17 March 1962: New TV Station — CBN8, Orange, New South Wales
Source: TV Week
17 March 1974: ABC debuts Marion, a four-part series of self-contained dramas centred around Marion Richards (Helen Morse), a 21-year-old teacher facing her first posting, in a country Victorian town, during World War II. The series also features John Frawley, Kerry Armstrong, Jacqui Gordon, Elspeth Ballantyne, Patsy King, John Clayton, Ian Smith, Maurie Fields, Marty Fields, Sally Conabere, Kerry Dwyer, Gus Mercurio and Tony Bonner.
17 March 1989: Bert Newton hosts the 31st annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Hyatt On Collins. The awards are being broadcast on the Seven Network for the first time, and marks Newton’s return to hosting the awards after five years and to Seven after 30 years.
17 March 1991: ABC debuts Sunday morning children’s program, Couch Potato With Grant Piro.
17 March 1993: ABC debuts the new youth-oriented current affairs program Attitude, hosted by Samantha Butler.
17 March 2003: Seven launches its new panel show The Chat Room, featuring Matt Tilley, Amanda Keller, Peter Berner, Greg Fleet and Tracy Bartram. On the same night, ABC debuts interview series Enough Rope With Andrew Denton.
17 March 2010: ABC2 Live Presents Bliss — a live broadcast of the new Australian opera and adaptation of Peter Carey’s award-winning first novel. Includes backstage coverage with Jennifer Byrne and Chris Taylor.
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18 March 1962: New TV Station — WIN4, Wollongong, New South Wales.
Source: TV Week
18 March 1974: The Seven Network debuts game show Blind Date, hosted by Bobby Hanna, and teen drama Class Of ’74. The latter is the first drama series to come from producer Reg Grundy.
18 March 1985: The Seven Network debuts its new soapie, Neighbours, in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. (Brisbane follows a week later) The series was axed six months later but soon re-surfaced on rival Network Ten.
18 March 1990: Seven presents the premiere of two-part mini-series All The Rivers Run II, starring John Waters, Nikki Coghill, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Peta Toppano and American actor Parker Stevenson.
18 March 1996: Garry McDonald and Magda Szubanski host 40 Years Of Television, a look back at Australian television through the years — featuring footage of programs from all networks, including The Aunty Jack Show, The Box, The Mavis Bramston Show, Blankety Blanks and Bellbird. Guest presenter Amanda Keller presents a segment dedicated to the sacred sites of Australian TV, including Wentworth Detention Centre (Prisoner), Ramsay Street (Neighbours), Russell Street Police Headquarters (Homicide) and the apartment block that depicted Number 96.
18 March 1999: Seven screens concert special The Main Event, featuring John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow.
18 March 2002: Nine begins nightly coverage of the Australian Swimming Championships from Brisbane’s Chandler Aquatic Centre, hosted by Ken Sutcliffe. The competition forms the selection for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
18 March 2004: SBS premieres documentary series Storyline Australia. The first episode, The President Vs David Hicks, traces the journey of David Hicks from Australia to Afghanistan and then detention by the US in Guantanamo Bay.
18 March 2006: Network Ten has live coverage of the Grand Final of the AFL pre-season NAB Cup.
18 March 2007: Bill Woods hosts Network Ten‘s coverage of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, live from Albert Park, Melbourne. Commentators include Murray Walker, Jeremy Shaw, Greg Rust and Daryl Beattie.
18 March 2007: ABC premieres the three-part documentary series Constructing Australia. The first episode is focused on the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, on the occasion of its 75th birthday. Subsequent episodes look at the laying of the Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin and the construction of the Goldfields Pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie.
18 March 2007: Network Ten screens the Australian-UK co-production Joanne Lees: Murder In The Outback, a dramatised account of the outback disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio and follows his girlfriend Joanne Lees (played by Joanne Froggatt) as she makes her way to safety, and the court case that followed.
18 March 2010: Maeve O’Meara and Melbourne chef Guy Grossi present the SBS documentary series Italian Food Safari.
