Pretty much zero from ABC, 7 and 9.
Studio 10 put them all to shame and did a special episode for 60 years of TV
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In Sydney, Nine showed some old ID’s on the 60th birthday but that was it. But as was mentioned before, Studio 10 commemorated it.
Nine Melbourne probably did the same.
I recall that Seven gave the 60th a token mention at the end of the news on the night of the anniversary. ABC clearly blew the budget and altered its watermark to include a “60 years” caption… for a few days. 
2 June 1962: CTC7 opens as Canberra’s first TV station. The station is controlled by interests including The Canberra Times and 2CA.
Of course CTC is now part of Southern Cross Nine.
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CNN celebrating 40 years of broadcasting having launched June 1, 1980.
The network’s first news anchor, Bernard Shaw, was giving his perspective on the unrest in the U.S. a little earlier today.
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Do they still broadcast on VHF7?
40 years on this is what we are seeing.
Not since the analogue switch-off in June 2012, they haven’t. They now broadcast on VHF-6.
In Canberra, VHF-7 is now occupied by SBS.
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On this day in 2012, analogue TV in Southern and Western NSW, Griffith and the ACT was switched off for the last time. Here is the last five minutes of WIN’s Illawarra analogue transmission. Credit: sirmechie (YouTube) https://youtu.be/IJ6zZEkkjrY
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6 June 1967 (and early AM on 7 June): Australians stay up late to watch live coverage via satellite of Australia’s national celebration at Expo 67 in Montreal. ABC is the host Australian broadcaster and given the technical significance as one of the first international satellite transmissions, makes its coverage available to commercial channels to broadcast commercial-free.
The coverage was broadcast live to all states except Western Australia, which at the time did not have a direct link to the eastern states.
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8 June 2000 The start of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch Relay from Uluru which was shown on 7.
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I remember the Olympic Torch visiting where I live, it was great to see it up close.
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Saw the torch when it was in Perth
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What Perth personalities carried the torch through the city, do you remember?
I’d like to think that Ernie Dingo was one of them.
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12 June 1965: Perth’s second commercial channel STW9 is officially opened by WA Premier David Brand
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Sorry for yesterday, 14 June 1991: SBS TV is permitted by the government to broadcast five minutes of advertising per hour, as a form of additional funding.
15 June 1967: Test colour television transmissions are made for the first time in Australia by ATV-0.
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17/6/2004 Dean Cartechini becomes the first player to win the maximum top prize of $200,000 on Deal or No Deal.
That week, Nine countered by scheduling five episodes of WWTBAM (in its normal format) in an attempt to shore up its Sydney 6pm ratings, which suffered in 2004 with Ian Ross now reading the news for Seven.
Nine’s Millionaire experiment failed and (from memory) they extended The Price is Right to a full hour. The 5:00pm timeslot proved to be a poisoned chalice for Nine until the launch of Hot Seat in 2009.
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17 June 1959: ABC broadcasts the first Australian TV productions of Shakespeare. ABN2 in Sydney broadcasts Hamlet, while ABV2 in Melbourne broadcasts Antony And Cleopatra at the same time. Both productions are broadcast live to air.
TPIR had a $500,000 Condo from the GC as a top prize during its hour-long format.
Only 3 contestants won it with the format dumped for a $100,000 cash giveaway in April 2005 until it’s axing. According to Wikipedia, there was a contestant which got the showcase right but took the cash buyout.
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