2 November 1959: ABC launches its Brisbane station, ABQ2, the first ABC station in Stage 2 of the roll-out of television across Australia.
3 November 1964: Melbourne Cup Day. While live TV coverage of the race is not allowed in Victoria by rule of the Victorian Racing Club (VRC), ATV0 broadcasts five hours of previews during the morning.
Viewers in Victoria would have to wait for film replays of the race in the evening.
Interstate viewers (except for WA which had no direct link to the eastern states) would have been able to see it live.
3 November 1978: The final episode of Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks airs on TEN10, Sydney.
Not sure if this is the place to post, but on November 4 2013 Ten Wake Up launched
The show might have failed… but this was good time to be on Media Spy. Not every day we saw two morning shows launch.
Another failed morning show
4/11/2002 Rod Young joined the Seven News Brisbane team as a belated replacement for Frank Warrick, who retired the previous December, co-presenting with Kay McGrath. Within five years, the pair (along with some help from John Schluter and Sharyn Ghidella, two ex-Nine personalities) would take the bulletin to the top of the south-east Queensland ratings.
5 November 1956: ABC Television debuts with the launch of ABN2, Sydney.
The night did not go to plan…
5 November 1974: The Melbourne Cup is televised in colour for the first time.
I’ve seen a number of videos on line and the chemistry seemed great! It didn’t take itself seriously but wasn’t full of cash give always unlike the other networks.
7 November 1978: ATV0 is the host broadcaster of the 1978 Melbourne Cup – the first time that the race is allowed to be televised live in Victoria. It is also the first time that the VRC had granted exclusive television rights to the Melbourne Cup, although 0-10 had the option to make the race available to other channels, which apparently happened in Sydney where the three other channels carried 0-10’s coverage of the Melbourne Cup race.
In Melbourne it appears that ABV2 ran a delayed telecast
Also… lots of “premieres” that evening and The Young Doctors now at 8.30 instead of its usual 6.00. Guessing this is now entering non-ratings with all the A-list shows going on a break.
Source: TV Times
8 November 1974: 3UZ announcer Grant Goldman hosts the first episode of pop music show Countdown. The show was broadcast in colour as part of ABC’s test colour transmissions.
11 November 1971: Darwin’s first commercial station, NTD8, commences transmission. The first program is Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.
The station was taken off-air by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and returned to air ten months later.
NTD8 re-branded on air as Nine in 2003.
Even before they were rebranded as Nine they were using Nine’s station IDs.
i think i read somewhere that NBN3 helped rebuild them after the cyclone or idk.
14/11/2005 Martin Flood becomes the second person to win the top prize of $1M on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in Australia. He is also the last winner of the original format.
15 November 1976: World War II drama series The Sullivans debuts on the Nine Network.
The Melbourne-based series was a hit here and sold well overseas, and ran for six years.