On This Day

[Brayden_Courtney]

Monday the 2nd of February in 2004 also Saw the Launch of Southern Cross Ten News Updates in Regional Queensland, Southern and Northern New South Wales Including the Gold Coast and Regional Victoria.

7 Local News Also Launched Local News Bulletins in the Cairns & North Tropical Coast and Tablelands and Townsville & the Herbert & Lower Burdekin Sub Markets.

Steve Oemecke Made his Debut as the New Wheel of Fortune Australia Presenter Taking over from Outgoing Presenter Rob Elliott with Letter Toucher Sophie Faulkner and Japanese Car Company Mitsubishi Motors Joining Wheel of Fortune Australia as the New Car Sponsor, taking over from French Car Company Renault in April 2003.

[digitaldan]

All those capitals are hurting my eyes! Here is a tip. Only use capitals at the start of a sentence or for names. Easy

[JBar]

What an effort to keep hitting the shift button too.

[BigVic]

@Brayden_Courtney

Steve Oemecke Made his Debut as the New Wheel of Fortune Australia Presenter Taking over from Outgoing Presenter Rob Elliott with Letter Toucher Sophie Faulkner and Japanese Car Company Mitsubishi Motors Joining Wheel of Fortune Australia as the New Car Sponsor, taking over from French Car Company Renault in April 2003

That was the beginning of the end of WoF in Australia

[craigj77]

If I may quote Kath Day-Knight. ‘Wheel hasn’t been the same since Adriana Obscenities left’

[BigVic]

Sophie had big shoes to fill in when Xenides left in 1999

[TelevisionAU]

3 February 1983: The debut of five-part documentary series Peach’s Gold. Written and presented by Bill Peach, each episode presents a dramatised history of gold in Australia, from the earliest discoveries to the gold rush and through to the present day.

3 February 1984: Network Ten and regional stations across Australia link together to launch the National Olympic Telethon, the 26-hour telethon to raise funds to send Australia’s Olympic team to Los Angeles.

3 February 1990: Nine telecasts the last day of competition and the Closing Ceremony from the Commonwealth Games, live from Auckland.

3 February 1992: Ten debuts its new lifestyle/magazine show Healthy Wealthy And Wise, hosted by Jacki MacDonald and Ronnie Burns and featuring Iain Hewitson, Ross Greenwood, Jim Brown and Lyn Talbot.

3 February 2004: Barry Crocker hosts the premiere of off-beat talent quest We’ll Call You for The Comedy Channel.

3 February 2004: Ten launches weekly news program TTN, aimed at school-age viewers.

3 February 2008: Ten launches the first Australian series of So You Think You Can Dance, hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte with judges Bonnie Lythgoe, Jason Coleman and Matt Lee.

3 February 2009: Kelly Landry, James Brayshaw and Josh Lawson host the debut of Wipeout Australia for Nine.

[TelevisionAU]

4 February 1972: Mike Willesee and John Bailey host Preview 72, a one-hour special highlighting the shows coming up on the Nine Network during the year.

4 February 1984: Network Ten‘s 26-hour National Olympic Telethon comes to a close with a final total of $5,520,000 raised from across Australia.

4 February 1991: Network Ten’s Good Morning Australia launches a revamped look, with Kerri-Anne Kennerley and new co-host Tim Webster. The morning show now has a lighter, brighter format with more emphasis on entertainment, consumer affairs, recreation, health and sport. Later in the day Ten launches evening game shows Let’s Make A Deal, with Vince Sorrenti, and Blind Date, with Greg Evans and Nicky Buckley.

4 February 1998: Wildside, previously seen as a four-part mini-series on ABC, returns as a weekly series of 36 episodes.

4 February 2002: SBS and Fox Sports present coverage of Super Bowl XXXVI, live from New Orleans, Louisiana.

4 February 2005: Seven Network personality and former champion swimmer Johanna Griggs takes over as host of Better Homes And Gardens.

4 February 2008: SBS and Fox Sports 2 present coverage of Super Bowl XLII, live from Phoenix, Arizona.

[TelevisionAU]

5 February 1968: Adventure series Skippy The Bush Kangaroo debuts on Nine.

5 February 1973: Mike Walsh returns to television with his new daytime variety show, The Mike Walsh Show, airing on the 0-10 Network.

5 February 1979: Former Brisbane television presenter Annette Allison begins as newsreader at Eyewitness News in Melbourne, working alongside Bruce Mansfield.

5 February 1993: The Seven Network launches travel series The Great Outdoors, featuring Penny Cook, Ernie Dingo, Sofie Formica, Rex Hunt, Jack Absalom, Ted Egan, Neil Crompton, Bridget Adams and Sharon Tyrrell.

5 February 2000: Molly Meldrum and Leah McLeod host the debut of Ten‘s new pop music show House Of Hits, incorporating video clips, live performances and guest co-hosts.

5 February 2001: The Australian version of game show The Weakest Link begins on Seven, hosted by Cornelia Frances.

5 February 2007: SBS, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN present coverage of Super Bowl XLI, live from Miami Gardens, Florida.

5 February 2009: Network Ten launches new factual series Bondi Vet, featuring Dr Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital.

[JBar]

It’s astounding how it was alright to have that sort of innuendo to publicise the news. I couldn’t see any journalist agreeing to anything like that today.

[TelevisionAU]

@JBar

It’s astounding how it was alright to have that sort of innuendo to publicise the news.

Bruce Mansfield wrote many years later that when the ad was published Derryn Hinch went onto his radio show and said even then how sexist it was. Apparently he was dating Ms Allison so may have had a conflict of interest but interesting that even at the time it was thought to be crossing a line.

Of course, more recently, as in 20ish years ago, when Nine in Perth had the all-female newsreading lineup of Dixie Marshall and Sonia Vinci that the ads had the tagline “6 o’clock never looked so good”. Very sexist for the 2000s!

[JBar]

Good that someone spoke up but you do wonder if he would have spoken out if there wasn’t a personal connection. But equally, I think that’s a bad thing to do to the male newsreader too. Suggesting he is seeing “another woman” as if cheating makes him a legend. Really, what would that have to do with delivering the news?

[TelevisionAU]

@JBar

Good that someone spoke up but you do wonder if he would have spoken out if there wasn’t a personsl connection. But equally, I think that’s a bad thing to do to the male newsreader too. Suggesting he is seeing “another woman” as if cheating makes him a legend. Really, what would that have to do with delivering the news?

just goes to show that rage bait isn’t just a current/internet phenomenon, it was used to troll us even then. I guess the old saying ‘all publicity is good publicity’ also applies, especially when you are probably ranked 4th in a 3-horse race

[mvpmadsen]

Who knows whether that show will ever see the light of day again on a streaming service. Probably sitting on a shelf somewhere in Sony’s archives on the other side of the world.

[TelevisionAU]

6 February 1982: Channel 0/28’s afternoon test pattern is replaced by a test broadcast by public access organisation Open Channel. 0/28 would host several such test broadcasts over the following years in the lead up to regular trials and licencing of community television stations.

6 February 1996: With a federal election looming, Ten News presents a one-hour special, Paul Keating: True Colours, profiling the Prime Minister. The previous night there was an equivalent special featuring Opposition Leader John Howard.

6 February 2000: The Seven Network debuts the new reality series Popstars, based on a New Zealand format, which resulted in the formation of the all-girl pop group Bardot.

6 February 2005: Network Ten debuts reality series The X Factor with hosts Daniel MacPherson and Chloe Maxwell and judges Mark Holden, Kate Ceberano and John Reid.

6 February 2006: SBS and ESPN cover Super Bowl XL, live from Detriot, Michigan.

[Tane04]

@TelevisionAU

6 February 1982: Channel 0/28’s afternoon test pattern is replaced by a test broadcast by public access organisation Open Channel. 0/28 would host several such test broadcasts over the following years in the lead up to regular trials and licencing of community television stations.

[TelevisionAU]

7 February 1963: The 12-part series Alcheringa makes its Melbourne debut on ABV2. The series of 15-minute programs presented a re-enactment of the life, customs and practices of an indigenous family 200 years ago — before the arrival of Europeans. The series was filmed on location in Victoria and New South Wales.

7 February 1972: Melbourne’s ATV0 launches new daytime shows Surprise Surprise, with Tommy Hanlon Jnr and Ian Turpie, and Queen Of The House, hosted by Sean Myers and Joy Westmore, and after-school children’s show The Wonderful World Of The Young with Judy Banks and Fredd Bear (Tedd Dunn).

7 February 1977: The Mike Walsh Show debuts on the Nine Network after four years on the 0-10 Network.

7 February 1987: ABC debuts six-part mini-series Great Expectations — The Untold Story, presenting a different take on the Charles Dickens classic, starring Sigrid Thornton, Robert Coleby, Todd Boyce, John Stanton, Jill Forster, Bruce Spence, Noel Ferrier and Anne Louise Lambert.

7 February 1990: The debut of Nine’s new drama Family And Friends.

7 February 1994: Midday returns for the new year with new host Derryn Hinch.

7 February 1997: Garry McDonald, Celia de Burgh, Brian Vriends, Leah Purcell, Geoff Morrell, Simon Chilvers and Ling-Hsueh Tang star in the new ABC drama Fallen Angels.

7 February 1998: The Seven Network begins coverage of the XVIII Olympic Winter Games from Nagano, Japan.

7 February 2004: ABC weekly drama series Fireflies, starring Jeremy Sims, Libby Tanner, Nadia Townsend, Anna Hruby and Russell Newman, debuts with a 90-minute episode.

7 February 2005: SBS and Fox Sports 1 broadcast Super Bowl XXXIX, live from Jacksonville, Florida.

7 February 2007: Osher Günsberg and Brigitte Duclos host the premiere of Network Ten game show, The Con Test.

7 February 2008: The premiere of documentary series Saving Kids on Network Ten, hosted by Australian Idol winner Damien Leith.

[TelevisionAU]

8 February 1978: ABC launches a new music series The Real Thing hosted by radio host Ron E Sparx. The first show includes appearances by Little River Band, Radio Birdman, Renee Geyer and Dragon.

8 February 1979: The Federal Government approves the application for Melbourne channel ATV0 to convert its transmission to the Channel 10 frequency.

8 February 1993: ABC launches breakfast news bulletin First Edition, presented by Kate Dunstan and Doug Weller.

8 February 2006: The debut of ABC cooking show The Cook And The Chef, featuring Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant.

8 February 2009: Chris Bath and Mike Munro host the premiere of Seven‘s weekly current affairs show Sunday Night.

8 February 2010: Network Ten (and One HD), Fox Sports 3 and ESPN telecast Super Bowl XLIV, live from Miami Gardens, Florida.

[JohnsonTV]

@TelevisionAU

8 February 2006: The debut of ABC cooking show The Cook And The Chef, featuring Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant.

This show is still being repeated on SBS Food 20 years later.

[BigVic]

@TelevisionAU

8 February 2009: Chris Bath and Mike Munro host the premiere of Seven‘s weekly current affairs show Sunday Night.

The first episode was presented from Kinglake in the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires when the scale of the tragedy became known