WhAt a QuIcDeNcE!!
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Probably stronger with Nine considering they had exclusive access to CBS News product throughout much of the ‘70s and ‘80s and gained rights to use the 60 Minutes brand in this country. Loads of CBS News product, particularly the long form stuff, was used in 60, Sunday and ACA back in those days.
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Yeah, CBS probably had a stronger relationship with Nine until 2007 when news and some programming moved over to Ten.
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3 August 1964: ATV0’s third day, and its first weekday, sees the launch of its new afternoon show The Children’s Show, with Nancy Cato, Michael Boddy and Alec Finlay.
Finlay has the rare honour of being the first on-air person to quit the new channel. He lasted four days in the show, leaving the channel after what emerged as a “misunderstanding”.
He wasn’t the first person to quit the channel, however. It turns out a cameraman resigned the day after opening night, 1 August.
Also launched on 3 August, the channel’s 45-minute news bulletin, presented by Barry McQueen
YouTube: Australian Television Archive
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Not a great start to the new channel.
mere teething problems. And Finlay later said in a TV Times interview that his disagreement was with the production company DYT that made the show, not the channel itself.
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Did he give a reason for the disagreement?
All that script work and no pay.
4 August 1964: ATV0 launches its new pop music show, Go!!, hosted by Alan Field.
The show lasts for 3 years.
Later in the evening it launches another current affairs show, In Close Up, with R R Walker, airing at 9.00pm
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6 August 2011 - After 24 years, the last episode of Video Hits went to air on Channel 10. The final song being played in the last episode was Every Teardrop is a Waterfall from Coldplay.
6 August 2016 - The Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games aired during the morning in Australia on Channel Seven. However, 1.6 million Australians watched the Opening Ceremony live, which was the lowest.
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And Nine actually had an office at CBS, at least in the 90’s.
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8/8/2016 Seven News relaunches a new set of graphics, six months after introducing a new theme. For the most part, this set of graphics remains today, though some transitions and fonts were recently changed.
8/8/2008 Seven televises the Melbourne vs Geelong Cats AFL match at the earlier time of 7:00pm in Melbourne so it would not clash with the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
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Wrong, there’s been a few notable and significant tweaks to Seven News’ graphics since 8/8/2016.
Mainly the introduction of those ABC World News Tonight-inspired Headline/Coming Up graphics in January 2018, the addition of the red line to supers + “7News.com.au: Happening Now” endtags after all bulletins/updates early last year and most recently, the current logo/graphics (barely much different look wise, but new graphics are new graphics) that were introduced just under a fortnight ago!
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a little late
9 August 1968: MVQ-6 launches in Mackay
8 – 24 August 2008: SBS TV partners up with the Seven Network for joint coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
9 August 2009: GO! launches on Channel 99 in Nine-owned areas and Channel 88 in WIN/NBN areas. (i remember that night very well)
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August 14, 2000:
After the introduction of new sets some time earlier (Sydney got theirs in Early 1999, not so sure about Brisbane but theirs was definitely in use by March 2000), National Nine News relaunches with their first new graphics package and theme music for the milennium in at least Sydney & Brisbane:
Video credit: Dan Martin. If by any chance someone out there has a recording of National Nine News Sydney from 14/8/2000, I’d really like to see it one day! 
As for the other markets it seems that Melbourne kept the classic 90s look for National Nine News until doing their own relaunch in Early 2001. Not 100% sure about Adelaide & Perth, although footage I’ve seen would suggest that both markets switched to their own take on the TCN/QTQ graphics in 2000.
While this look was definitely a much needed improvement for National Nine News in 2000 (I’d imagine there would’ve been a scramble to refresh at least TCN before the Olympics a month later, let alone the 1/1/2001 launch of Digital TV), it doesn’t quite look as modern for the time as Ten News and even Seven News (despite being a watered down version of their 1999 look) did back then.
Others may disagree but rather than the look launched on this night two decades ago, I personally think the branding that launched on 26/1/2004 with the introduction of VizRT graphics (a system pretty much every network is using now of course, but absolutely groundbreaking for Australian TV back then) was the first truly modern/21st century-looking On-Air Presentation package for National Nine News - something that still looks great today and with a few tweaks, an updated version for HD would probably even still work on TV today.
Finally, isn’t that “LG Flatron TV” Sponsor Billboard very dated these days?!
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13 August 1971: ABD-6 launches as Darwin’s first television station.
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Why did it take 15 years for TV to come to Darwin, and indeed Northern Territory?
Might have something to do the NT’s population.
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Our resident TV History buff may know for certain, but communications links into Darwin were limited as well
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