30 October 1986: SBS premieres The Movie Show with Silvio River, Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton.
30 October 1993: ABC presents the final episode of The Late Show, ending a two-year run.
30 October 1994: ABC‘s TVTV presents a one-hour special, Countdown — 20 Years Ago Today, taking a look back at the popular music show that ran between 1974 and 1987.
30 October 2001: The Nine Network presents the documentary Aussies: Who Gives A XXXX?, explaining the British love-hate relationship with Australian popular culture.
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30 October 2005: The Seven Network presents the special Celebrity Spelling Bee, hosted by Todd McKenney and featuring contestants Geoff Huegill, Molly Meldrum, Andrew O’Keefe, Kate Ritchie, David Koch, Zoe Carides, Noeline Brown, Jason Gillespie, Elka Graham, Murray Cook, Simone Warne and Pauline Hanson. Network Ten premieres the mini-series Mary Bryant, starring Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Tony Martin, Dan Spielman, Stephen Curry and Garry McDonald.
30 October 2006: The Seven Network premieres afternoon cooking show Good Chef Bad Chef, with Gary Mehigan and Janella Purcell.
31 October 1976: Adelaide’s SAS10 presents its fourth annual Christmas Appeal, raising funds for the newly-formed Channel 10 Children’s Medical Research Foundation.
31 October 2007: ABC premieres comedy series The Librarians, starring Robyn Butler, Roz Hammond, Heidi Arena, Stephen Ballantyne, Keith Brockett, Kim Gyngell, Wayne Hope, Josh Lawson and Nicole Nabout.
31 October 2018: Network Ten launches a new ’10’ logo and announces its new streaming platform, 10 All Access. Secondary channels One and Eleven are re-named 10 Boss (later 10 Bold) and 10 Peach respectively
October 31 of 1999: Network 10 undergoes another major revamp in it’s on air presentation, featuring the removal of the Turn Me On 10 motto and introduces version 2.0 of it’s 1991-2018 logo that featured the yellow ring around the Blue circle logo being made permanent.
2 November 2015: The now-defunct Optus Sport wins the EPL rights from Fox Sports until the 2024-25 season changing the way we watch sport in Australia. Optus Sport is no longer around and is absorbed into Stan Sport with Stan having the EPL and all the football rights Optus used to have.
3 November 1964: Melbourne Cup Day, 1964. It is 1978 before ATV0 obtains the rights to live coverage of the Melbourne Cup, but as far back as 1964 the station was showing an active interest in horse racing with five hours of coverage leading up to the big race.
3 November 1988: The Seven Network presents the docu-drama Darwin — Australia’s Greatest Shame, re-enacting when Australia suppressed news to the public of the Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942. Starring Peter Adams, John Benton, David Cameron, Anthony Hawkins and George Mallaby and narrated by John Stanton.
3 November 2008: ABC2 premieres ABC News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli, Barrie Cassidy and Joe O’Brien
November 3 of 2001: Broadcast on 10 for the final time before 2019, the 2001 broadcast of the VRC Melbourne Cup Carnival will cover four huge days of racing - AAMI Victoria Derby Day, Crown Oaks Day, Emirates Stakes Day and of course Australia’s greatest day of racing, Tooheys New Melbourne Cup Day. Join a star studded team featuring Tim Webster, Peter Donegan, Sandra Sully , Tim Bailey, Lyn Talbot, Jenny Chapman, Simon Marshall, John Letts, Dan Mielicki, Tim Gossage and much more for all the action of the biggest event of the Australian racing calendar. LIVE and exclusive across the globe from Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, this is the 2001 VRC Melbourne Cup Carnival on Network 10. Enjoy the coverage.
4 November 1959: HSV7 celebrates its third birthday with a variety special, Anniversary Party.
4 November 1987: The Seven Network premieres the mini-series Nancy Wake, based on the true story of the Australian World War 2 heroine tagged by the Gestapo as the “White Mouse”. The mini-series starred Noni Hazlehurst in the title role.
4 November 2005: HSV7 presents Made In Melbourne: Drama, a look back at the drama productions that have come from Seven Melbourne as it enters its 50th year. The special is followed by a repeat of a 1973 episode of Homicide, featuring the departure of long-time cast members Leonard Teale and Alwyn Kurts.
4 November 2009: Network Ten presents the telemovie A Model Daughter: The Killing Of Caroline Byrne, based on the real-life case of the death of Sydney model Caroline Byrne in 1995. Starring Cariba Heine, David Lyons, Gyton Grantley, Russell Kiefel, Garry McDonald, Tiriel Mora, Heather Mitchell, Kylie Watson, Indiana Evans, Sarah Chadwick and Diana McLean.
4 November 2010: ABC premieres legal comedy/drama series Rake, starring Richard Roxburgh.
4 November 2013: Network Ten premieres morning programs Wake Up and Studio 10
5 November 1974: The Melbourne Cup is televised in colour for the first time.
5 November 1986: The Nine Network premieres the mini-series Cyclone Tracy, a fictionalised account of the days before and after Cyclone Tracy wiped out the city of Darwin in 1974. Starring Tracy Mann, Chris Haywood, Nicholas Hammond, Tony Barry, Linda Cropper, Caroline Gillmer, Aileen Britton, Jack Webster, Paul Pryor, Nicholas Papademetriou, Noel Hodda and Kate Ritchie.
5 November 1993: ABC presents the Australian Film Institute Awards, live from the Wesley Centre, Sydney.
5 November 2006: ABC presents the 90-minute special The ABC Of Our Lives, a nostalgic look at 50 years of ABC television, narrated by John Clarke. Includes interviews with former ABC personalities including Lorrae Desmond, Bill Peach and Garry McDonald.
