It wasn’t like the usual informercials you would see in the early hours of the morning or increasingly ads that they keep showing for Global Shop Direct in the 8am hour of Sunrise it was presented in an informative and interesting way. I used to watch it regularly it was on weekend at about lunch time from memory.
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Yeah they’d show useful ways to use the products and be filmed in a way like Better Homes and Gardens. Sometimes if you didn’t want sport, it was the only other thing on.
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5 May 1985: The 30th annual Eurovision Song Contest is on delayed telecast on SBS from Gothenburg, Sweden.
5 May 1991: The 36th annual Eurovision Song Contest is on delayed telecast on SBS from Rome, Italy.
5 May 1993: The Australian economy comes under the scrutiny of the team from Fast Forward in the two-hour comedy special A Royal Commission Into The Australian Economy.
5 May 2007: SBS quiz show Rockwiz presents a special edition from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
5 May 2009: Network Ten debuts game show Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, hosted by Shaun Micallef with team captains Josh Thomas, Charlie Pickering and Amanda Keller.
5 May 2011: Shutdown of analogue television services — Regional Victoria
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God knows we need a Fast Forward style show like that back.
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Promo for the Fast Forward special.
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Would it be able to be as funny today as it was back then though?
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5 May 2012 - WIN GOLD renamed as just GOLD.
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6 May 1957: GTV9 launches Graham Kennedy’s In Melbourne Tonight, a live variety program that lasted 13 years.
6 May 1990: SBS has a delayed telecast of the 35th annual Eurovision Song Contest, from Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
6 May 1992: Nine’s telecast of the Rugby League State Of Origin is being scheduled in prime time across Australia for the first time.
6 May 2001: Rebecca Gibney, Grant Bowler, Jane Hall, Paul Sonkkila, Steve Vidler, Brooke Harman, Paul Denny, Victoria Longley, Monica Maughan and Damien Garvey star in the Network Ten telemovie Finding Hope.
6 May 2007: The 49th annual TV Week Logie Awards are held at Crown Casino, Melbourne. Hosting duties are shared between Adam Hills, Fifi Box and Dave Hughes, with Hamish Blake and Andy Lee doing the “green room” interviews.
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6 May 2010: ABC1 screens the one-hour special The Inquisition, the docu-drama on the historic Wood Royal Commission into police corruption in New South Wales.
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7 May 1960: New TV Station — ABW2, Perth.
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7 May 1981: Melbourne’s ATV10 screens Prisoner In Concert, a variety special featuring the cast of Prisoner and staged at Pentridge Prison.
7 May 1983: Following the first round of programs aired in February 1982, SBS begins a second round of test transmissions of public access television from Open Channel. The Melbourne-based group was granted airtime on 7, 8 and 14 May 1983. Open Channel’s test transmissions became a predecessor to community TV channels being formed and licenced in later years.
7 May 1989: The 34th annual Eurovision Song Contest has a delayed telecast on SBS from Lausanne, Switzerland.
7 May 1992: Seven presents coverage of the AFL Centenary Match between Collingwood and Carlton on the 100th anniversary of the traditional rivals’ first match, from the MCG.
7 May 1995: Ray Martin hosts the two-hour special 50 Fantastic Years, highlighting how Australia has changed since the end of World War II — featuring segments presented by Daryl Somers, Reg Livermore, Deborah Hutton, Liz Hayes, Ken Sutcliffe, Mike Munro, Charles Wooley, Tracy Grimshaw and Richard Carleton.
7 May 2006: Bert Newton, Ray Martin, Daryl Somers, Lisa McCune and Georgie Parker co-host the 48th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Crown Palladium, Melbourne.
7 May 2008: SBS premieres Salam Cafe, a Muslim-based chat and comedy show with host Ahmed Imam and featuring Waleed Aly, Susan Carland, Nazeem Hussain, Ahmed Hassan and Aamer Rahman. The show is a revamp of a former community TV program, Ramadan TV.
7 May 2009: ABC celebrates 20 years of Media Watch with the special Media Watch 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups And Barneys.
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Sadly, 60 Minutes journalist Richard Carleton passed away on this day 20 years ago while covering the Beaconsfield Mine collapse.
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Didn’t AFL’s centernary take place in 1996?
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the teams were part of the VFA before the formation of the VFL in 1897
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The 1992 match was about Collingwood’s centenary, not the league as a whole
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Because everything is about Collingwood in the AFL. 
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8 May 1970: The celebration of “Australia Day” at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, is covered in a two-hour special broadcast live on ABC in all Australian states via satellite. Hosted by Bill Peach, the telecast includes performances from Judy Stone, The Young Australians, The Don Burrows Septet, Darryl Stewart, Greg Anderson and the Royal Australian Naval Band.
8 May 1989: The premiere of sitcom Dearest Enemy, starring Grigor Taylor and Linden Wilkinson, on ABC.
8 May 1989: Media Watch with Stuart Littlemore begins on Monday nights on ABC, presenting analysis on various aspects of the media but predominantly on journalism.
8 May 1991: ABC screens telemovie Act Of Necessity, featuring Angie Milliken, Mark Owen-Taylor and Lauren Hewett. The Film Australia production tells the story of a couple who believe that their daughter’s cancer has been caused by chemicals in the water supply.
8 May 1992: ABC presents the long-awaited debut of its new big-budget children’s series Lift Off, featuring a combination of live action, puppetry and animation.
8 May 1996: The AFL Centenary Game (Seven) between Essendon and Geelong at the MCG marks the 100th anniversary of the first official round of football and features the two teams running out on the field in uniforms styled on yesteryear.
8 May 1997: The Nine Network covers the official opening ceremony of Melbourne’s Crown Casino, with a one-hour special hosted by Eddie McGuire.
8 May 2002: ABC debuts cooking series James Can Cook with James Reeson.
8 May 2003: The Seven Network debuts sketch comedy series Big Bite, with cast including Andrew O’Keefe, Chris Lilley, Kate McCartney, Rebecca De Unamuno and Andrew Dyer.
8 May 2004: SBS debuts Countdown To Eurovision hosted by Des Mangan. Over seven nights, each half-hour episode features guest panellists as they discuss the songs from the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul.
8 May 2005: The Nine Network debuts new celebrity reality show Celebrity Circus, with contestants including Dieter Brummer, Dylan Lewis, Cameron Daddo, Toni Pearen, Ricki-Lee Coulter , Kimberley Davies, Vadim Dale and Kerri Pottharst.
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Shame it didn’t go on longer, it was really well done.
As opposed to James Can’t Cook - which would’ve been funny.
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The Front Bar’s Facebook page posted highlights from Seven’s coverage from that night.
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9 May 1992: SBS presents a live telecast of the Coca-Cola Soccer League Awards from the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, followed by live coverage of the FA Cup Final from Wembley Stadium and a delayed telecast of the Scottish FA Cup Final from Glasgow.
9 May 1993: Dr Norman Swan presents the new four-part series Invisible Enemies (SBS), exploring the relationship between history, destiny and disease.
9 May 1994: ABC premieres satirical series Frontline, based on the workings of a fictional current affairs program. Starring Rob Sitch, Jane Kennedy, Alison Whyte, Tiriel Mora, Bruno Lawrence, Santo Cilauro, Genevieve Mooy, Pip Mushin, Trudy Hellier and Anita Smith.
9 May 2005: Ten screens the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Debate, hosted by John Safran with Carl Baron, Robyn Butler, Arj Barker, Stephen K Amos, Julia Zemiro and Akmal Saleh.
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10 May 1970: The Seven and Nine networks cross to Rome for live coverage of the World Featherweight Title Fight between Australia’s Johnny Famechon and Vicente Saldivar from Mexico. Commentators are the two Ron Caseys — Ron Casey (from HSV7, Melbourne) and Ron Casey (from TCN9, Sydney).
10 May 1992: SBS screens a delayed telecast of the 37th annual Eurovision Song Contest from Malmö, Sweden.
10 May 1996: Interfooty (Seven) is a new football show for children which looks at how to become an AFL player.
10 May 1998: SBS screens a delayed telecast of the 43rd annual Eurovision Song Contest from Birmingham, United Kingdom.
10 May 1998: ABC premieres comedy-drama series Seachange, starring Sigrid Thornton.
10 May 2000: The Seven Network crosses to Olympia, Greece, for the traditional lighting of the Olympic torch ceremony ahead of The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad to be held in Sydney in September.
10 May 2002: Neighbours reaches its 4000th episode.
10 May 2004: The Seven Network debuts afternoon show Girl TV, presenting topics including art, fashion, workplace occupations and entertainment aimed at a young female audience.
10 May 2008: ABC debuts drama series Bed Of Roses, starring Kerry Armstrong.
10 May 2009: The Nine Network debuts twice-weekly reality show Homemade.
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