6 November 1995: ABC‘s Four Corners presents a special report leading up to the 20th anniversary of the dismissal of prime minister Gough Whitlam.
6 November 1999: ABC, SBS and Nine give varying amounts of coverage to the the 1999 referendum on the question of whether Australia should become a republic. Seven has late night coverage of the final and closing ceremony of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, from Cardiff, Wales.
6 November 2001: SBS premieres six-part comedy series Effie: Just Quietly, featuring Mary Coustas’ signature comic character navigating Australians’ everyday attitudes and prejudices.
6 November 2005: The Seven Network presents the special Comic Relief Australia. Comedians, TV personalities and musicians get together to encourage donations and increase awareness for causes in Australia and throughout the Asia Pacific region.
6 November 2006: ABC presents the special Celebrating 50 Years: Reporting The Nation. Juanita Phillips, Lisa Millar, Kerry O’Brien and Tony Jones take a look back at the major national and topical news stories that have helped shape the nation as covered by ABC television over 50 years.
November 6 of 2001: The Melbourne Cup is broadcast on 10 for the last time before 2019 which was won by Caulfield Cup winner, the New Zealand mare Ethereal (The second of four horses to win both races during the very same spring since 1997).
November 6 of 2018: For the foreseeable future, The Melbourne Cup is broadcast on Seven for the last time following 17 years of exclusive Coverage and was won by Cross Counter
7 November 1978: The 0-10 Network is the first to present exclusive television coverage of the Melbourne Cup and the first to telecast the race live to air in Victoria.
7 November 1993: Network Ten premieres Take 40 TV, featuring music videos, live performances, interviews and previews of the hottest new songs. Hosted by Eden Gaha.
7 November 1998: SBS presents the 40th annual AFI Awards from the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney. Host is Mary Coustas.
7 November 1999: The Nine Network presents Fox Studios Australia — The Grand Opening, hosted by Hugh Jackman and with interviews by Richard Wilkins and Marie Patane.
7 November 2004: Network Ten presents Sweet Science, a telemovie in the BlackJack series. Starring Colin Friels, Marta Dusseldorp, Alex O’Loughlin, Vince Colosimo, Lara Cox, Anthony Hayes, Chris Haywood, David Field, Russell Dykstra, Steve Jacobs and Doris Younane.
7 November 2005: SBS premieres Speaking In Tongues, featuring John Safran and Father Bob Maguire.
7 November 2010: Network Ten presents the 24th annual ARIA Awards, live from the Sydney Opera House forecourt. Hosts are Dylan Lewis and Natalie Bassingthwaighte
8 November 1974: ABC premieres pop music show Countdown.
8 November 1976: The Nine Network premieres serial drama The Young Doctors in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. (Adelaide followed the next night)
8 November 1977: The Box airs its final episode in Melbourne, ending a four-year run. The final episode was originally planned for 11 October but was postponed due to industrial action interfering with scheduling.
8 November 2001: The Nine Network‘s Getaway presents a special episode for its 10th anniversary
8 November 2002: Network Ten premieres children’s series Legacy Of The Silver Shadow, starring Eloise Mignon, Alex Hopkins, Stephen Lopez, Aljin Abella and Stephanie McIntosh.
GTV9’s use of the slogan “World Vision” was not related to the humanitarian organisation of the same name, but rather refers to an international “affiliation” of program ideas, formed by ABC in America, and heralded Nine’s broad attack on the popular “Seven Revolution” in October 1970.
8 November 1987: Australia defeat England in the Final of the 1987 cricket world cup played in Calcutta (now Kolkata) coverage on Channel 9 was rather sporatic
9 November 1990: The Seven, Nine and Ten networks all participate in a simultaneous broadcast, Cartoon Allstars To The Rescue, helping young children understand the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. The half-hour special, which attracted more than 33 million viewers when it aired in the US, features cartoon characters representing the major animation studios. The Australian screening of the program was introduced by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Hazel Hawke. The three networks repeated the special, again in simulcast, on Christmas Eve.
9 November 1991: Hey Hey It’s Saturday presents the first of its two special shows from the Warner Bros studios in Hollywood, with guest appearances by Chevy Chase, Toni Childs and Murphy Brown star Joe Regalbuto.
9 November 1994: The Nine Network screens the first of the series of Halifax fp telemovies, Acts Of Betrayal. Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) helps an old friend, psychiatrist Owen Toser (Andrew McFarlane) when he is accused of murdering a patient, Corri Neale (Sophie Lee).
9 November 2003: ABC premieres the two-part drama series Marking Time, written by John Doyle and starring Geoff Morrell, Abe Forsythe, Bojana Novakovic, Matthew Le Nevez, Abbie Cornish, Gyton Grantley, Graeme Blundell, Brian Meegan, Sueyan Cox and Arianthe Galani.
10 November 1991: ABC premieres four-part mini-series The River Kings, set in the early 1920s about a boy growing into manhood under difficult circumstances. Starring Tamblyn Lord, David Bradshaw, Willie Fennell, Bill Kerr and Edward Hepple.
10 November 1995: The Seven Network presents the Australian Film Industry Awards from the Melbourne Town Hall. Hosted by Magda Szubanski.
10 November 2001: The ABC and Nine networks devote the evening to coverage of the 2001 Federal Election — with Kerry O’Brien hosting for ABC and Ray Martin for Nine. The Seven Network takes a different tact with its coverage hosted by Roy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver) with Seven News journalists Chris Bath and Glenn Milne.
10 November 2002: SBS screens the special Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words. The former prime minister gives his views on 50 years in public life, including his rise to power, his short term in government and his dramatic sacking.
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10 November 2008: The Nine Network premieres The Kingdom Of Paramithi, a children’s fairytale series starring Simon Pryce, Carolyn Ferrie, John Rowe, Kendall Goddard and Cassie Howarth.
yes I remember that. The commentary sounded like they were speaking into a telephone. Channel 9 screened the Australian (they batted first) innings live, then the England run chase was shown delayed after the Sunday night movie.
The only time Roy and HG were featured in a Federal Election broadcast. Also on the same day Ten aired Stakes Day which would be their last broadcast of the Melbourne Cup Carnival until 2019
November 10 of 2018: Seven aired VRC Stakes Day which is, for the foreseeable future, the network’s last broadcast of the Melbourne Cup Carnival (Excluding Racing. com)
11 November 1964: ATN7 Sydney premieres comedy revue series The Mavis Bramston Show
11 November 1971: New TV Station — NTD8, Darwin.
11 November 1995: ABC presents the special The 20th Anniversary Of The Whitlam Dismissal, hosted by Elle McFeast (Libbi Gorr) with Mark Warren and Mikey Robins.
11 November 1996: Network Ten premieres the telemovie Whipping Boy, starring Sigrid Thornton, Temuera Morrison, Tammy MacIntosh, Maria Mercedes, Robert Alexander, Michael Denkha and David Baldwin.
12 November 2001: SBS premieres animated comedy series Quads!
12 November 2006: The Nine Network presents the special ABBAmania. Richard Wilkins and Bec Cartwright present a nostalgic look at the iconic ’70s pop group. Includes guest appearances by Guy Sebastian, Kate Ceberano, Michala Banas, Matthew Newton, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Hi-5 and The Young Divas. ABC premieres the telemovie Stepfather Of The Bride, starring William McInnes, Noni Hazlehurst, Lucy Taylor, Leon Ford, Kate Ritchie, Georgie Parker, Garry McDonald, Les Dayman, Ally Fowler, Alex Dimitriades, Lara Cox, Kerry Walker and Annie Byron.
14 November 1990: ABC presents a 75-minute special, Bradman, featuring cricket legend Don Bradman‘s first television interview to respected cricket writer Jack Egan.
14 November 1995: The final episode of ABC‘s consumer affairs program The Investigators, ending a ten-year run.
14 November 1997: ABC presents the 39th annual AFI Awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman from the Melbourne Town Hall.
14 November 1998: The Nine Network presents the special The Concert Of The Century, from the Melbourne Cricket Ground, celebrating 25 years of Mushroom Records. Performers include Kylie Minogue, Master’s Apprentices, Jo Jo Zep And The Falcons, Ol’ 55, Skyhooks, John Farnham, Paul Kelly and The Uncanny X-Men.
14 November 2004: Network Ten presents the mockumentary special Russell Coight’s Celebrity Challenge, featuring the accident prone wildlife expert (played by Glenn Robbins) taking a team of “celebrities” on a trek across Australia to raise money for charity.
14 November 2005: The Seven Network premieres Dragon’s Den Australia, hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.
14 November 2006: Pay-TV channel TV1 premieres sitcom Stupid Stupid Man, set in the office of a fictional men’s magazine. Starring Wayne Hope, Matthew Newton, Bob Franklin, Sophie Katinis and Leah Vandenberg.
15 November 1976: The Nine Network premieres World War II drama The Sullivans.
15 November 1996: ABC presents the 38th annual AFI Awards from the Melbourne Town Hall, hosted by Tim Ferguson and Sigrid Thornton.
15 November 2005: The Seven Network premieres drama series Headland, starring Sam Atwell, Conrad Coleby, Sophie Katinis, Brooke Harman, Adrienne Pickering, Josh Quong Tart, Libby Tanner, Yvonne Strahovski and Rachael Taylor.
15 November 2009: Rove McManus announces the end of his weekly show, Rove.
15 November 2016: SBS2 is re-launched as SBS Viceland
