Source: TV Week
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2 July 1971/1976: ABC crosses to Wimbledon for live via satellite coverage of the Women’s Singles Final.
2 July 1985: ABC premieres mid-evening current affairs program The Carleton-Walsh Report, with Richard Carleton and Max Walsh, airing Tuesday to Thursday nights.
2 July 1995: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a package of highlights each evening and repeated late at night.
2 July 2004: Network Ten premieres children’s series Wicked Science, starring Andre de Vanny, Bridget Neval, Benjamin Schmideg, Emma Leonard, Brook Sykes and Saskia Burmeister.
2 July 2005: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with 2-3 hours of live coverage each late night and a half-hour highlights package the following evening.
2 July 2008: The Nine Network presents coverage of Game Three of the Rugby League State Of Origin — NSW versus Queensland — from ANZ Stadium, Sydney.
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3 July 1970: ABC begins live satellite coverage of Wimbledon, with the Women’s Singles Final, followed the next night by the Men’s Singles Final.
3 July 1971: ABC presents live via satellite coverage of the Men’s Singles Final at Wimbledon, with Australian John Newcombe winning the title against American Stan Smith.
3 July 1978: ABC premieres children’s sketch comedy series Wayzgoose, starring Michael Caulfield, Deborah Kennedy, Michael Salmon, Jon Stephens and John Summers.
3 July 1989: ABC launches Countdown Revolution, a weeknight revival of the legendary music show Countdown. Initially hosted by Andy McLean, Lisa Collins and Dan Woods (pictured) and taped at Melbourne’s Metro nightclub, the series rated poorly. Replacing the hosts with actor Mark Little and comedian Tania Lacy did little to help its fortunes and it quietly wound up late in 1990.
3 July 1994: SBS begins nightly half-hour coverage of the Tour de France
3 July 2005: The Nine Network premieres celebrity reality show Skating On Thin Ice.
3 July 2010: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with 2-3 hours of live coverage each late night and a half-hour highlights package the following evening.
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Today marks 10 years since Phil Walsh’s death.
From 7News’ midday bulletin today.
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4 July 1967: The Nine Network spy drama Hunter premieres on NWS9, Adelaide. The Melbourne and Sydney premieres followed over the next two nights respectively.
4 July 1975: ABC begins live satellite coverage of Wimbledon, with the Women’s Singles Final, followed the next night by the Men’s Singles Final.
4 July 1979: The Nine Network begins live via satellite coverage of the finals at Wimbledon.
4 July 1993: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 6.00pm, repeated late at night.
4 July 1999: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 6.00pm, repeated late at night.
4 July 2001: The Nine Network presents a celebrity edition of quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
4 July 2004: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 6.00pm, repeated late at night.
4 July 2007: The Nine Network presents coverage of Game Three of the Rugby League State Of Origin — Queensland versus NSW — from Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.
4 July 2008: SBS screens the documentary The Fabulous Flag Sisters, about the trio of drag performers, including Australian Neil Hansen, and their rise to stardom following an appearance on Italian television in the 1970s.
4 July 2009: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with live coverage each late night and a half-hour highlights package the following evening.
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6 July 1973: ABC crosses to Wimbledon for live via satellite coverage of the Women’s Singles Final, followed the next night by the Men’s Singles Final.
6 July 1993: Game show Wheel Of Fortune clocks up its 2500th episode. Blood Brothers, a four-part series of Indigenous stories, debuts on SBS.
6 July 1997: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 7.30pm. The Nine Network premieres Kids, a factual series taking viewers behind the scenes at the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney.
6 July 1999: Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show presents a 10th anniversary special, with host Kim Kilbey joined by two former hosts, Lisa Patrick and Jacki MacDonald, and a guest performance by guest star Raymond J Bartholomew (Brian Nankervis)
6 July 2003: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 6.00pm, repeated late at night.
6 July 2010: The Seven Network premieres Australia Versus with Tim Ross. Game show featuring comedians from the US, England and Ireland battling it out with Australian comedians.
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7 July 1982: The Mike Walsh Show celebrates its 2000th episode with a prime-time special featuring highlights of the program which began in 1973. Special guests include David Frost and Toni Lamond.
7 July 1983: The mini-series Women Of The Sun, broadcast on SBS in Sydney and Melbourne a year earlier, is re-run on ABC to a national audience. The four-part series is broadcast as two double-episodes over two Thursday nights.
7 July 1993: The Seven Network news program Eleven AM reaches its 4000th episode.
7 July 1998: Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton celebrates its 1500th episode. The show began as The Morning Show in 1992 and took on the Good Morning Australia name the following year. Network Ten screens the Kylie Minogue concert special Kylie — Intimate And Live, including behind-the-scenes footage of two months of preparation, planning and rehearsal for Minogue’s Australian tour.
7 July 2002: Seven premieres Quizmaster with Simon Reeve, where contestants compete for the title of Australia’s Ultimate Master of Quiz and a total prize pool of $1 million. SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package, repeated late at night.
7 July 2004: The Nine Network presents coverage of Game Three of the Rugby League State Of Origin — NSW versus Queensland — from Telstra Stadium, Sydney.
7 July 2006: Network Ten premieres children’s drama series H2O: Just Add Water.
7 July 2007: SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with live coverage each late night and a half-hour highlights package the following evening.
7 July 2010: The Nine Network presents coverage of Game Three of the Rugby League State Of Origin — NSW versus Queensland — from ANZ Stadium, Sydney.
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8 July 1982: Network Ten premieres weekly current affairs program The Reporters with host Steve Cosser and reporters Ken Burslem, Mary Delahunty, Scott Chisolm and Chris Hawkins.
8 July 1992: ABC premieres mini-series The Leaving Of Liverpool, starring Kevin Jones, Christine Tremarco, John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Pamela Rabe and Colin Moody. SBS interview series Face The Press presents its 100th episode as three former Prime Ministers — Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke — face questions about Australia in the 21st Century.
8 July 1997: Blue Heelers reaches its 150th episode.
8 July 2000: Richard Wilkins hosts the premiere of weekly half-hour series Before They Were Stars (Nine), featuring early work of famous Australians before they were stars, including Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Elle Macpherson.
8 July 2001: Do Or Die, a two-part mini-series set in London and Sydney, premieres on the Seven Network. Starring Martin Sacks, William McInnes and Tom Long. SBS begins its coverage of the Tour de France, with a nightly half-hour highlights package at 6.00pm, repeated late at night.
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According to legend, Ten’s makeup artists were instructed to add wrinkles to Cosser’s face to make him look “more experienced” (read: older)
Cosser would eventually found Broadcom, who held the VFL rights for a year in 1987, and later ran Network Ten for a while through Northern Star Holdings.
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and another time where Ten has tried to muscle in on handling heavy current affairs and not doing very well at it. Sounds familiar.
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10 July 1991: Bruce Spence, Hugo Weaving and American actress Rosanna Arquette star in the Australian-made telemovie Wendy Cracked A Walnut (ABC), telling the story of a housewife who yearns for the romance and passion she finds in pulp novels.
10 July 1992: ABC premieres a four-part documentary series, Track Record, tracing the history of Australian railways.
10 July 1997: The Nine Network premieres Moment Of Truth, a ten-part series following ordinary Australians at critical moments in their lives. Hosted by Jennifer Keyte.
10 July 1998: In Melbourne, Seven‘s coverage of the AFL State Of Origin — Allies versus Victoria — from Brisbane, is up against Nine‘s coverage of the EJ Whitten Legends Game — a charity match featuring retired football stars in honour of the late Ted Whitten.
10 July 1999: The Nine Network premieres The Mick Molloy Show, a comedy-variety show with Mick Molloy and regulars including Bob Franklin, Judith Lucy, Tony Martin and Pete Smith. The show was cancelled after eight episodes.
10 July 2003: ABC premieres comedy series Fat Cow Motel, starring Brendan Cowell and Kate Atkinson.
10 July 2004: ABC premieres nostalgia series The Way We Were, hosted by Mark Trevorrow. The first episode looks at how children’s television has changed over the years and features guest appearances by Nancy Cato (The Magic Circle Club, Adventure Island), Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton (The Curiosity Show) and Pat Lovell (Mr Squiggle).
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11 July 1992: ABC is the Australian broadcaster for the global television presentation of Puccini’s opera Tosca from the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome — starting with Act One at 8.30pm, Act Two at 4.15am (interrupting Rage), with Act Three shown during the following day. The event is broadcast to 53 countries to an estimated audience of 1.5 billion.
11 July 1994: The Nine Network premieres game show Strike It Lucky with Ronnie Burns.
11 July 1995: The Derryn Hinch special No Means No (Nine) looks at rape and the legal system.
11 July 1997: SBS presents a Front Up special, Inside Out. The subject is Bobby Veen, who has been imprisoned for 22 of his 42 years. Interviewed from Parramatta Correctional Centre, he gives an insight into his childhood and adolescent years.
11 July 1998: The Nine Network presents the special Tina Arena: In Deep Live, featuring interviews and performances with Tina Arena while on tour in Australia and on the eve of the launch of her album in the US.
11 July 2000: The Nine Network presents Somebody’s Mother, a documentary about ovarian cancer as seen through the eyes of a recently diagnosed patient and presented by Tracey Curro, whose mother died of the disease.
11 July 2006: The Nine Network premieres reality series Torvill And Dean Dancing On Ice, featuring contestants Lara Bingle, Jules Lund, Giaan Rooney, Michael Slater, Karl Stefanovic, Jake Wall, Trisha Broadbridge, Annalise Braakensiek, Dermott Brereton and Jackie Kelly. Hosted by Jamie Durie and Sami Lukis.
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A few injuries on that show IIRC.
Michael Slater suffered a severe tendon injury after his partner’s blade accidentally skated over his hand.
Giaan Rooney dislocated her ankle just before the second episode, forcing her to withdraw.
Annalise Braakensiek fractured a rib during rehearsals and later twisted her ankle during the first episode, leading to her withdrawal.
Jules Lund experienced a spinal injury during rehearsals, which included a fainting spell and temporary inability to move.
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The show was cancelled despite good ratings due to production costs
Such as accident insurance? 
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I didn’t remember the two matches went head to head.
Matthew Lloyd (who kicked two goals in Victoria v Allies match, which the Allies won) spoke about the decline of AFL State of Origin in 1997-1999 on 3AW’s Wide World of Sports last night.
Karl Stefanovic… avoided injury, leading to a running gag on Get This that he was secretly a robot.
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“Yes, I can confirm we are human. Most of the time.”
13 July 1985 Live Aid and Oz For Africa take place. 40 Years ago today
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