19 June 1964: RVN2 opens in Wagga Wagga.
This TV Week article from February 1964 previewed the new channel:
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The coverage of RVN2 was very wide. Could be easily seen in Griffith and Canberra. For many Canberra folk, it was a credible alternative commercial channel to CTC7.
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22 June 1972: HSV7 hosts the first Tattslotto draw, presented by David Johnston and Lucy Kiraly
1st Divison was a massive $50,535.27
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That would be about half a million in today’s money
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I’ll still take it
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22 June 2002: The SBS World News Channel is officially launched by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston.
23rd June 2000. Childers Fire Disaster.
Seeing some archived ABC News reports shown on News channel today.
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26/6/2009
The news breaks during Sunrise and Today at about 7:45am AEST that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, had suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away at the age of 50.
Nine runs an extended Afternoon News bulletin, anchored by Mark Ferguson and Kellie Connolly, coveting the story in depth.
That night, in Brisbane, Bruce Paige co-anchors Nine News Queensland for the final time. He is replaced the following Monday by Andrew Lofthouse, who will mark eleven years with Melissa Downes at the desk this Monday (29/9).
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30 June 1985: SBS begins in Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold Coast in its first expansion since 1983
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This Afternoon was a failed news bulletin with the 4.30pm news reinstated after a few weeks
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Speaking of which - it launched yesterday in 2009. Also on that date (29/6) - Andrew Lofthouse took over from Bruce Paige as co-anchor of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes.
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I do like the Sunrise graphics back then.
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Those graphics look fresher and more contemporary than the ones they use now.
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Did Sunrise extend past 9:00am that morning, can you remember?
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30 June 2010: Mildura becomes the first TV market in Australia to switch off analogue TV. Local transmitters for ABC, WIN, Prime and SBS are shut off at 9.00am. The shutdown provides the first glimpse at how well the rest of the country might cope without analogue TV.
Despite concerns that there would be outrage at blank screens at 9.01am, it didn’t seem to cause too many dramas.
Mildura also had a fairly high rate of digital conversion, with 87% of households converting their main set by Quarter 1, 2010. (the national average was 68%)
It was probably no surprise that the highest conversion rates were in markets where digital-only commercial stations had appeared: Darwin was on 82% and Tasmania 79%.
WIN News was presented live from Mildura that evening.
YouTube: Regional TV Australia Web Project
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Wow, hard to believe it’s now been a decade since Australia’s first analogue TV signals were switched off!
Don’t know if there’s any footage still online, but I believe a “nightlight” service remained on-air for a short time (possibly on the channel which was formerly home to the ABC) in Mildura. Nothing like this happened with the analogue TV switchoffs in any other markets.
…and sadly, only remained in production for the first five years or so of Mildura’s Digital TV-only era.
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1/7/2016 WIN Television begins its affiliation with Channel Ten after many years affiliated to Channel Nine.
Strangely, the 2006-08 National Nine News theme remains on WIN News - this is still the case today.
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1 July 1988: After 25 years and 5,853 episodes, the final ATN 7 produced version of Romper Room airs on the Seven Network. Fat Cat and Friends replaces it in a cost saving measure instigated by Christopher Skase.
1 July 2006: It is early on day 70 of Big Brother Australia season six when reality television is rocked by an incident that would make headlines across the country and draw the ire of Prime Minister John Howard.
While the infamous “turkey slap” incident was never shown on television, it was seen by a small number of viewers watching the live feed on the internet. It resulted in two housemates being accused of sexual assault and booted from the Big Brother compound, a Queensland Police investigation and the development of a code of practice for live streaming by Australia’s Internet Industry Association.
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Probably also helped that they “inherited” Fat Cat when SAS10, where it was made, became SAS7 a few months earlier and joined the Seven Network. Suddenly it seemed a bit superfluous to have 2 preschool shows?
Although apparently after the 7/10 swap in Adelaide, Fat Cat And Friends actually shifted production from SAS10 to ADS10 for a few months to fulfil, I guess, an obligation to Network Ten. When that ended it skipped back to SAS to move to the Seven Network where it replaced Romper Room as above
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