I was at the game. I can tell you TV doesn’t do justice to the roar that went up from the crowd when McCullum got out.
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31 March 1962: Journalist Gerald Lyons hosts the 4th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Chevron Hotel. The awards were given a half-hour live telecast on ABV2, Melbourne, and recorded for later screening in other states.
31 March 1964: GTV9, Melbourne, debuts one of Australia’s first situation comedies, Barley Charlie, starring Ed Hepple, Sheila Bradley, Robina Beard and Stewart Weller. The series is based on two sisters who inherit a rundown service station, and its clueless mechanic. Sydney’s TCN9 debuted the series two weeks later.
31 March 1979: The first episode of Parkinson In Australia (ABC) features Ita Buttrose, Mike Willesee and Sir Robert Helpmann.
31 March 1989: The first full day of programming following aggregation affecting Southern NSW and Canberra. New arrivals Prime and WIN launch their first Canberra-market news bulletins, competing with Canberra’s Ten News on former incumbent Capital Television.
(WIN’s debut news bulletin was a bit of a train wreck!)
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31 March 1991: Ten crosses to Bathurst for coverage of the James Hardie 12-Hour Race, hosted by Tim Webster. Coverage starts at 6.00am for an hour, then resumes at 2.00pm for the next three-and-a-half hours.
31 March 1992: Nine presents a delayed telecast of the 64th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal at the Los Angeles Music Centre.
31 March 1995: Seven’s new football entertainment program Four Quarters is hosted by Sandy Roberts, Wayne Carey, Tim Watson, Brigitte Duclos and Michael Veitch.
31 March 1998: The ABC documentary The Fame Game, co-directed and written by Oscar-winning costume designer Lizzie Gardiner, looks at the rise and fall of some of TV’s popular stars. The documentary features interviews with former soap stars Ashley Paske, Bruce Samazan, Isla Fisher, Melissa George and Tempany Deckert — some of whose fame has continued, while others have faded out of the spotlight.
31 March 2008: The Nine Network debuts game show Power Of 10, hosted by Steven Jacobs. The show was axed after two episodes due to poor ratings.
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More like Power of Ratings.
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2 April 1979: Melbourne’s HSV7 debuts afternoon children’s program Shirl’s Neighbourhood, hosted by Shirley Strachan.
2 April 2001: Jimeoin hosts the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala (Ten), with performances by Auto Boosh, Chris Addison, Rich Hall, Dave O’Neil, Judith Lucy, Land And Woodley, Peter Helliar and Rod Quantock.
2 April 2004: Bill Woods hosts Ten‘s coverage of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, with Daryl Beattie, Greg Rust and Leigh Diffey.
2 April 2007: Nine debuts football (AFL) panel/discussion show Footy Classified, with Wayne Carey, Caroline Wilson, Garry Lyons and Craig Hutchison.
2 April 2013: Shutdown of analogue television services — Adelaide
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3 April 1982: The 1982 Victorian State Election is reported on all five Melbourne channels.
3 April 1987: Don Lane hosts the 29th annual TV Week Logie Awards, telecast on Network Ten from the Hyatt On Collins, Melbourne.
And one of the most brutally ballsed up opening numbers of all time (6:09 in the video) Missed cues, death stares, dodgy camera shots and Daryl Somers
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3 April 1994: Ten’s coverage of the James Hardie 12 Hour Race kicks off with the opening hour from 6.00am, then continues with race updates at 9am, 10am and 11am before live coverage resumes at midday, continuing through to 5.30pm.
3 April 2005: The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala (Ten) features Dave Hughes, Arj Barker, Akmal Saleh, Danny Bhoy and Chris Addison.
3 April 2006: The debut of 7-part SBS series Song For The Socceroos, hosted by Julia Zemiro. The series was a contest to find the theme song to the Socceroos campaign for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
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I always thought Don Lane was known as a bit of a song and dance man, but his singing in that is horrific
5 April 1963: The Federal Government announces that it has awarded licences to United Telecasters Sydney Limited and Austarama Television Pty Ltd (Ansett Transport Industries) to operate the third commercial channels in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively. There were nine applicants for the Sydney licence and six for Melbourne.
5 April 1965: TEN10, the new channel operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited, is officially opened by the Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies. The opening night schedule is highlighted by TV Spells Magic, a musical production telling the story of the building of the TV station.
A copy of TEN’s internal staff newsletter, April 1965:
5 April 1983: The Nine Network debuts its new soap Starting Out, based on a group of first year medical students.
5 April 1984: Bill Hunter stars in the new ABC drama The Keepers, a nine-part series based around the private and professional lives of two fisheries and wildlife officers.
5 April 1995: Andrew Denton hosts The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Charity Gala (Seven) from Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, including performances by Magda Szubanski, Steady Eddy, Flacco, Rachel Berger, Anthony Morgan and Emo Phillips.
5 April 2006: Network Ten launches improvisational comedy series Thank God You’re Here.
5 April 2010: Paul McDermott hosts Melbourne International Comedy Festival Presents The Comedy All-Stars Cabaret on Ten.
5 April 2020: The Nine Network launches reality channel 9Rush
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SAS10 and STW9 weren’t on yet, either.
SAS10 showed TV Spells Magic at the end of its first week in July. STW9 showed it on its opening night in June.
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TEN-9 Tamworth?
6 April 1978: Melbourne’s ATV0 debuts action drama Chopper Squad, based on the rescue services of a Sydney surf club, starring Dennis Grosvenor, Robert Coleby, Eric Oldfield and Rebecca Gilling. The series made its Sydney debut the following week.
6 April 1984: Bert Newton hosts the 26th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Hilton Hotel, Melbourne. Telecast on the Nine Network.
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6 April 1991: ABC launches it new late-night music program Racket, hosted by James Valentine with Stephanie Lewis, Toby Creswell, Joanne Corrigan and Tim Ritchie.
6 April 1992: Tonight Live With Steve Vizard (Seven) begins a week of shows presented live from London.
6 April 2002: Simone Kessell hosts Seven‘s new series Dog Eat Dog, featuring regular Australians facing mental and physical challenges.
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Only 2 episodes were aired before it was axed. The final eight were shown in the summer of 2002/03.
This show also lasted only 10 episodes.
I recall the Nine Network sketch show Comedy Inc did a parody of Dog Eat Dog called “Screw You and I Hope Your Dog Dies”. lol.
If anything, that sketch was a hybrid parody of all the “nasty” game shows around that time (Dog Eat Dog, The Weakest Link etc)
7 April 1976: The Nine Network debuts the 13-episode Luke’s Kingdom, one of the first major mini-series productions in Australia. A co-production with Trident Television in the United Kingdom, Luke’s Kingdom starred Oliver Tobias, James Condon, Gerard Maguire, Elizabeth Crosby, John Meillon, Gerry Duggan, Helen Morse, Joseph Fürst, Shirley Cameron and John Clayton.
7 April 1986: The Melbourne debut of mini-series Shout! The Story Of Johnny O’Keefe, the story of Australia’s first rock star, starring Terry Serio as O’Keefe, with Melissa Jaffer, Russell Newman, Roger Ward, Tony Barry, John McTernan, Marcelle Schmitz, Candy Raymond and John Paramor. The mini-series debuted in Sydney the following night.
7 April 1991: Seven launches its new celebrity game show The Main Event, hosted by Larry Emdur.
7 April 2007: Richard Wilkins hosts Tropfest 2007 (Nine), showcasing the finalists from the prestigious Australian short film festival.
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Ah Trident, the forerunner to all the mergers on ITV down the line. Not sure why the symbol is a flipped small letter t, though.
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Trident also was a player in the colour TV rental game in the early years of colour. They had stores all over Melbourne and Geelong.
9 April 1996: Jana Wendt‘s new Seven Network current affairs program, Witness, debuts with reporters Graham Davis, Paul Barry, Mark Llewellyn, Tracey Bowden and Prue Lewarne.
9 April 2000: The Nine Network debuts lifestyle show Backyard Blitz, hosted by Jamie Durie.
9 April 2008: ABC1 debuts Travel Oz, a travel documentary series hosted by Greg Grainger. The Nine Network debuts reality show My Kid’s A Star, hosted by Cameron Daddo, following ten junior performers vying for the title of “child star” and a cash prize of $50,000.
9 April 2013: Shutdown of analogue television services — Tasmania
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My Kid’s A Star - what a dodgy show that was