From memory, I think some ABC personalities contributed to the production. I’m think Adam Hill was there?
I think that was when the three commercial network hosts presented the Logies, with Hills in the Green Room.
At the time of the tsunami appeal, Spicks And Specks hadn’t begun so Hills wouldn’t have had the profile.
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9 January 1959: Melbourne and Sydney are linked by microwave for the first time, enabling television programs to be screened simultaneously in both cities.
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10 January 1964: The Third Test — Australia versus South Africa — is relayed live from Sydney to Melbourne via the recently-launched coaxial cable link between the two cities.
10 January 1977: The 0-10 Network launches its new daytime chat/variety show Adams After Noon, the replacement for The Mike Walsh Show, which is soon to re-launch on Nine. Adams After Noon is hosted by NSW-born Brian Adams, returning to Australia after some years working overseas as a journalist, actor, compere and in advertising.
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11 January 1993: Tony Barber returns to TV as host of Ten’s new game show, Jeopardy
11 January 2005: Fox8 launches the first series of Australia’s Next Top Model, hosted by Erika Heynatz.
11 January 2011: Network Ten launches its secondary channel, Eleven, promising an entertainment-based line-up of both retro hits and new series aimed at a young adult audience. Long-running series Neighbours makes the shift from Ten to Eleven.
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13 January 1975: Number 96 returns for its fourth year on air. The new season debuts as the apartment block residents find out that a second murder has taken place in the building and the killer is still on the loose.
13 January 1991: Network Ten is relaunched as ‘The Entertainment Network’ with a new logo and a new resolve to focus on the under-40s demographic. Central to the new-look network’s line-up are new series The Simpsons and Twin Peaks and local dramas Neighbours and E Street
YouTube: Steevee TV – Classic Australian Television
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It was a big night in news with the lead-up to Operation Desert Storm on most channels. Rolling coverage would begin 4 days later relaying coverage from CNN and the Big Three US broadcast networks via satellite with regular programming suspended
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January 14 of 2019: The Australian Open is broadcast exclusively on Nine for the first time, ending 45 years of coverage on Seven.
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14 January 1973: The Nine Network screens the Elvis Presley concert special Aloha From Hawaii, broadcast live via satellite.
14 January 1985: The Nine Network launches its latest soapie, Possession. Starring Tamasin Ramsay, Tracey Callander, David Reyne, Anne Charleston, Maggie Millar and Lloyd Morris.
14 January 1991: Ten’s 6pm news bulletin is re-named from Ten Evening News to Ten Eyewitness News to coincide with the launch of the network’s new logo the previous day.
14 January 2004: Curtis Stone and Ben O’Donoghue present a new series of Surfing The Menu for ABC
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Keeping the initials T E N for the news product. Every clever.
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Summer 2018-19 began the sports switcheroo with 9 getting the tennis and 7 getting the cricket for most of the 2020s. 20 years ago it was the other way round. 7 also lost the Melbourne Cup Carnival to 10 and 9 since 2019 and the Olympics until 2032 as well as the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race.
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The Gulf War was a perfect timing for Ten to refresh to “Ten Eyewitness News” from its previous news branding of “Ten Evening News”
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15 January 2023: Seven launches its new reality and entertainment channel 7Bravo
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16 January 1983: HSV7 screens the telemovie A Special Place, the story of a group of runaway kids who have set up house with an elderly lady that they have adopted as their unofficial grandmother. The telemovie served as a pilot to an ongoing series but was not picked up. It starred Davina Whitehouse, Tracy Mann, Mark Lee, Kay Ellmer and Craig Pearce.
16 January 1984: Situation comedy Mother And Son debuts on ABC. Starring Garry McDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris, Mother And Son was widely acclaimed and ran for six series over ten years. McDonald and Cracknell were both later inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards Hall of Fame.
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17 January 1988: The movie-length pilot of Home And Away screens on Seven, with the series’ half-hour episodes commencing the next night. The pilot cast included Roger Oakley, Vanessa Downing, Alex Papps, Helena Bozich, Kate Ritchie, Adam Willits, Sharyn Hodgson, Sheila Kennelly, Ray Meagher, Judy Nunn, Gwen Plumb, Frank Lloyd, Norman Coburn and Nicolle Dickson.
17 January 1991: Much of the day’s pre-planned schedules from all networks are abandoned with the outbreak of war in the Persian Gulf and networks switching to continuous news coverage – in particular the Ten Network makes much of its connection to US network CNN, relaying the news channel through most of the day and over subsequent days, and continuing its regular overnight broadcast.
17 January 1994: Actor Noah Taylor and performer Debra Byrne are special guests on the first episode of Kate Ceberano‘s Ceberano And Friends (ABC).
17 January 2000: ABC premieres its new evening serial, Something In The Air, airing Monday to Thursday at 6.30pm. The series, set in the rural town of Emu Plains, starred Frankie J Holden, Kate Fitzpatrick, Anne Phelan, Ray Barrett, Ullie Birve, Eric Bana, Roger Oakley, Danielle Carter, Colin Moody, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Mariel McClory, Melita Jurisic and Steven Adams.
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And 35 years since the earliest clip of ‘Seven News Sunrise’ on the web originally went on air:
Just out of interest, how long did that bulletin last for in 1991?
18 January 1982: The premiere of the Seven Network soap opera Sons And Daughters with episodes one, two and three combined into a movie-length debut.
18 January 1988: Seven launches its revamped and retitled half-hour news bulletin, Seven Nightly News; its new current affairs program, Hinch At Seven, with Derryn Hinch; and starts nightly episodes of Home And Away (after its movie-length pilot screened the previous night). Nine launches a revival of the A Current Affair title with former 60 Minutes reporter Jana Wendt as host.
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18 January 1994: The Seven Network debuts its new cop drama Blue Heelers, starring John Wood, Martin Sacks, Grant Bowler, William McInnes, Julie Nihill and newcomer Lisa McCune.
18 January 1996: The ABC special First Day looks at the different experiences of a range of five-year-olds as they prepare for their first day of school.
18 January 2010: The Lifestyle Channel debuts the Australian franchise of UK series Come Dine With Me.
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19 January 1957: Opening night for Melbourne’s second commercial channel, GTV9. The broadcast was highlighted by the arrival of Governor Sir Dallas Brooks, who entered the studio in a chauffeur-driven limousine before officially opening the new channel. The two-hour variety show that followed set the tone that GTV9 was going to be heavily into live variety — elements of which continued to appear on the channel for decades to follow.
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19 January 1980: The final day for ATV0 before it re-launches as ATV10 the next day.
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The Meet The Press theme from NBC used for the first ever Sunrise when it first went to air
Just days after the launch of the “Ten” logo from 1991-2018 and the “Ten Eyewitness News” brand