The media education agency Weller later founded has a handful of materials around his short tenure:
Not sure if they’ve been posted here before.
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This tournament marked the beginning of watermarks being used by Australian FTA stations during live sporting telecasts. The watermarks would later spread to other shows including news bulletins.
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12 February 1987: John Wood, Catherine Wilkin, Simon Chilvers and Arky Michael star in Seven‘s new drama series Rafferty’s Rules.
12 February 1996: Midday With Kerri-Anne (Nine) marks the return of the traditional variety format to the Midday brand, with Kerri-Anne Kennerley taking over from last year’s co-hosts Tracy Grimshaw and David Reyne. Nine debuts police drama Water Rats with a two-hour episode, starring Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Sophie Heathcote and Aaron Jeffery.
12 February 1999: Children’s science fiction series Thunderstone debuts on Ten.
12 February 2006: ABC debuts Sunday morning sports discussion program Offsiders, hosted by journalist Barrie Cassidy.
12 February 2007: ABC debuts Difference Of Opinion, a talk/debate series hosted by Jeff McMullen.
12 February 2008: The Nine Network debuts “reality/comedy” series Monster House, starring Glenn Butcher, Celia Ireland, Rebel Wilson, Travis Cotton, Julie Herbert and Jody Kennedy. The series was axed after two episodes.
12 February 2008: Seven HD launches late-night talk show The Nightcap, hosted by Matthew White, Jessica Rowe, Monique Wright, Paul Murray and former Big Brother contestant Zach Douglas.
12 February 2010: Cal Wilson hosts the debut of ABC‘s eight-part murder mystery Sleuth 101, with guest appearances by Dave O’Neil, John Wood, Nicola Parry, Robyn Butler, Dave Lawson and Denise Drysdale.
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IIRC, Nine aired the remaining eight episodes as counterprogramming against the 2008 Olympics.
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The Nightcap was cancelled not long after Zach Douglas insightfully informed the nations on different ways to perform fellatio
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Was this a Rob McKnight thing? It was awful.
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i think it was Adam Boland’s creation?
I never actually saw the show as I didn’t have an HD tuner at the time.
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I remember that. That caused quite the informative ruckus. Also back in the day when Paul Murray wasn’t a far right blowhard.
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If I remember correctly, Garry McDonald fell ill, and The Norman Gunston Show was cancelled.
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i seem to recall Effie (Mary Coustas) was a last minute fill in for one show but yeah I don’t think the show completed its run. McDonald had a significant mental health episode.
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I think The NightCap went on a break for the Easter non-ratings period, and just never returned. Kind of the Australian TV industry version of your pet ‘running away to live on a farm’.
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Yes, I think maybe a handful of episodes ran, with fill in hosts such as Effie mentioned above. I remember a lot of publicity about that show over the summer season of that year.
After taking a break, Garry would go on to film the last season of the original Mother and Son later that year, alongside Ruth Cracknell. These episodes went to air in early 1994.
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I still remember when this came out. I was so annoyed that I couldn’t watch it because I didn’t have a HD tv at the time and was too young to work. I laugh at it now, all these years later when I found out how bad it was. 
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Yeah - I think it was Adam Boland. It was intended as a ‘Sunrise Up Late’ type format from memory, but didn’t quite work out.
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13 February 1967: ABC premieres afternoon series Something Else, set in a family-owned Sydney hotel called The George, starring Lois Ramsey, Benita Collings, Liza Goddard, Stanley Walsh, Barbara Joss and Jack Allan.
13 February 1989: Network Ten premieres three-part mini-series Tanamera: Lion Of Singapore, starring Christopher Bowen, Khym Lam, Lewis Fiander, Ed Devereaux, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gary Sweet, Anne-Louise Lambert, Robert Coleby, Sinan Leong and Tushka Bergen.
13 February 1990: Kerry O’Brien presents ABC’s new late night current affairs program, Lateline.
YouTube: Trevor Trevalgen
13 February 1992: ABC presents the movie-length debut of its new police drama Phoenix, starring Paul Sonkkila, Simon Westaway, Nell Feeney, Sean Scully and Andy Anderson.
13 February 1994: The Fast Forward special 38 And A Bit Fabulous Years Of Australian Television (Seven) takes a comical look at Australia’s television history — featuring Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Gina Riley, Michael Veitch, Jane Turner, Geoff Brook, Steve Blackburn, Alan Pentland, Glenn Robbins and Peter Moon.
13 February 1996: Ex-pat Aussie Clive James makes a guest appearance in Neighbours (Ten), playing the part of a postman.
13 February 2004: The debut of ABC‘s weekly pop culture magazine Mondo Thingo, hosted by Amanda Keller.
13 February 2005: The premiere of reality show Celebrity Overhaul (Nine), hosted by Deborah Hutton and Dr John Tickell.
13 February 2006: Bert Newton marks his return to the Nine Network after 20 years with the premiere of Bert’s Family Feud. The debut of the first series of The Biggest Loser Australia (Ten) with host Ajay Rochester.
13 February 2008: The premiere of true crime drama Underbelly on Nine. The series, a dramatic re-enactment around Melbourne’s gangland killings between 1995 and 2004, aired in all states except in Victoria due to upcoming criminal trials of people depicted in the series.
13 February 2010: Nine begins coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, Canada, with hosts Eddie McGuire, Leila McKinnon, Ken Sutcliffe, Alissa Camplin and Steve Bradbury.
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Why was I under the impression the early days were from Canberra?
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Probably because of the Full Frontal parodies that always started “Live from Canberra, it’s Lateline”
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I found on the net a photo of Khym Lam and Christopher Bowen at the filming of Tanamera: Lion of Singapore.
Khym Lam has been married to comedian and radio presenter Richard Fidler since 1993.
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Foxtel aired some coverage at the time. I didn’t have Foxtel until 2012 and did not get to experience it back then.
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Did Foxtel not do the same as what they did for the London Olympics? I still remember when Foxtel on xbox360 a thing was. I signed up to it, but I was a few weeks late from getting to try out the Olympics coverage. It was still on there and the Olympics were finished.
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