Yes, that too. But in a technical sense, Channel 0 was the better choice
DDQ’s relay stations 4 and 5A would end up moving to the UHF band (DDQ-65 and SDQ-42).
A lot might already know about it, but around early 1991 or so, DDQ0 (just after becoming RTQ0 or WIN Queensland) was received by F2 skip in the UK and the Netherlands. Way further than the 200km you mentioned.
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Yup, I’ve seen the video. Mind you, that’s a fairly rare occurrence.
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TVQ had also been received in the UK. Similarly some UK Band 1 reception was made in Australia.
In some cases, the reception was limited to receiving the vision carrier on a VHF radio.
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11 September 1967: ABC premieres children’s series, Adventure Island, starring Nancy Cato, Liz Harris, Ernie Bourne, Brian Crossley, Marion Edward and Colin McEwan. Melbourne’s ATV0 launches its expanded news service, now presenting a half-hour evening bulletin with Barry McQueen.
11 September 1971: New TV Station — ITQ8, Mount Isa, Queensland.
11 September 1978: The Seven Network premieres mini-series Against The Wind, set in Australia’s early colonial era, in Sydney with Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide following the next night.
11 September 1978: Melbourne’s ATV0 premieres The Daryl And Ossie Show as a half-hour variety/game-show format with Daryl Somers and Ossie Ostrich (Ernie Carroll), having made the move from hosting Nine‘s Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Sydney’s TEN10 was due to premiere the show on the same date but shelved the program before putting it to air.
11 September 1984: TCN9, Sydney, screens the special Cut That Out, hosted by Peter Sumner, Graeme Blundell, Victoria Nicolls and Brian Bury, billed as Australia’s first bloopers show. Melbourne’s GTV9 screens the show the following night.
11 September 1995: Kerri-Anne Kennerley returns to TV with a new weekday afternoon chat show, Monday To Friday, on Ten.
11 September 2001: A date forever marked in history as “9/11”, with terrorist attacks occurring in the morning in the United States. In Australia, where it was late night as events unfolded, regular programming was overtaken by continuous news coverage, mostly via relaying broadcast news from the US and the BBC in the UK. First to break the news in Australia was newsreader Sandra Sully during the Ten Late News bulletin.
11 September 2002: All networks present some level of special programming and extended news coverage during the week to commemorate the first anniversary of 9/11, but on the day itself, Seven screens the documentary 9/11 from French filmmakers, brothers Gédéon and Jules Naudet, who were in New York filming a documentary about firefighters and happened to capture vision of the first plane to hit the World Trade Centre. The documentary proceeds to cover events, emergency response and reaction around the city on the day. The Seven and Nine networks cross to rolling coverage overnight of commemorative ceremonies from the US, including from Ground Zero in New York.
11 September 2005: Colin Friels, Marta Dusseldorp and David Field lead the cast in the Network Ten telemovie BlackJack: In The Money.
11 September 2006: With the 50th anniversary of Australian television approaching, Nine‘s Mike Munro hosts a repeat screening of the 2005 special 50 Years 50 Shows, counting down the 50 greatest shows of Australian television.
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Daryl doesn’t look back on this game show fondly.
7 was the last to break the news joining Today in progress at 11:41PM AEST after Talking Footy ended
Actually SBS were last
Would’ve been only in Victoria with the final 30 minutes of the program or so not shown in South Australia and the program not shown at all in Western Australia (Mind you, on 10, Western Australia was 15 minutes into Rove while Nine had The West Wing running when the news broke and I don’t know what was running on ABC). Not sure what Seven had running across Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
12 September 1971: Nine in Sydney and Melbourne presents Quest Of Quests, hosted by Bert Newton with former Miss World Ann Sidney, announcing Australia’s representatives for the upcoming Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, Miss Teen International and Queen Of The Pacific pageants.
12 September 1977: John Waters, Gerard Kennedy, John Frawley and Sean Scully star in The Trial Of Ned Kelly, a dramatisation of the trial of the 19th century bushranger. The ABC telemovie is narrated by actor and writer Alan Hopgood.
12 September 1990:ABC premieres drama series Embassy, tracing the story of Australian Embassy staff in strife-torn Ragaan, a fictional Islamic, South East Asian country. The series stars Bryan Marshall, Janet Andrewartha, Alan Fletcher, Nina Landis, Frankie J Holden, Gerard Maguire, Nicki Wendt, Joseph Spano and Anthony Wong.
12 September 2010: Network Ten premieres the first series of Junior MasterChef Australia, featuring host/judges Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris, Matt Preston and Anna Gare.
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13 September 1965: Sydney’s TEN10 premieres Showcase, promoted as Australia’s richest talent quest. Melbourne’s ATV0, where the show is based, follows two days later.
13 September 1966: GTV9 celebrates ten years of Australian television with the special, Ten Years Of Television — Or, We’re Getting Sentimental About Us, produced at TCN9, Sydney. The program aired on TCN three days later.
13 September 1988: ABC premieres two-part mini-series The Four Minute Mile, starring Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York, Tracy Mann, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Chuck Faulkner, John O’May and Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell.
13 September 1989: ABC screens the telemovie Becca, starring Gary Sweet, Lynette Curran, Dafydd Emyr, Dafydd Hywel, and Beth Roberts in the title role. The telemovie told the story of a forbidden love set in Australia’s early European settlement.
13 September 1990: ABC premieres lifestyle series The Home Show with Maggie Tabberer and Richard Zachariah.
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In the US Supernatural premiered 20 years ago today on 13 September 2005 on The WB. It ran for 15 seasons.
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September 14 of 2003 - Seven’s current emblem is officially the Network emblem despite being first unveiled on January 1 of 2000 (When Five different coloured versions of the previous Ribbon emblem were also launched).
Emblem or logo?
14 September 1971: The Seven Network celebrates 15 years of Australian television with Nostalgia Unlimited screening in both Sydney and Melbourne.
14 September 1973: Melbourne’s HSV7 screens The Wicked City, a pilot for a proposed series, starring Robin Ramsay, Jill Forster, Graham Rouse, Michele Fawdon and Abigail. The big-budget production, filmed in Sydney but set in Melbourne in the 1880s, did not proceed to a series.
14 September 1975: The Seven Network premieres This Is Your Life with Mike Willesee. Based on an overseas format, the show surprises and pays tribute to high-profile Australians. Willesee was later replaced by Digby Wolfe, then Roger Climpson.
14 September 1978: ATV0, Melbourne, premieres comedy series The Tea Ladies, starring Pat McDonald (Number 96) and Sue Jones (The Truckies) as tea ladies working in Parliament House, Canberra.
14 September 1983: The Nine Network’s talent quest New Faces presents a special 20th anniversary show.
14 September 2000: On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games, Seven screens the two-hour special The Winner Is Sydney, featuring Australian athletes and high-profile celebrities, including Paul Hogan, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Nicole Kidman, Derryn Hinch, Wendy Harmer and Andrew Denton, as they share their hopes and ambitions on what the Games will mean to Sydney and Australia.
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15 September 1977: Nine in Sydney and Melbourne present a one-hour special with Bert Newton to commemorate 21 years of Australian television and follows up with a repeat of the classic ’60s variety show The BP Super Show.
15 September 1981: The Nine Network’s celebration of 25 years of television includes The Way It Was, looking at the big news stories of the previous quarter century. The program was hosted by Nine’s Sydney newsreader Brian Henderson and Melbourne newsreader Brian Naylor.
15 September 1986: The Nine Network debuts three-part mini-series The Great Bookie Robbery, based on the real-life robbery of the Victoria Club in 1976.
15 September 2000: The Opening Ceremony of The Games of the XXVII Olympiad from Sydney — a telecast that set a new record for the most watched program ever on Australian television. The lead-up to the opening ceremony includes extended editions of Olympic Sunrise and Follow The Flame and a broadcast of the official film of the 1956 Olympic Games, the only other time that the Games have been hosted in Australia.
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I remember the torch getting stuck while making its way up.
I thought it was stalling just for dramatic effect.
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