2 March 2016 - TEN HD was revived on Channel 13 from 3pm. With the changes, ONE was reduced to a SD broadcast on both Channels 1 and 12.
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Ahh yes, as I seem to recall there was quite a lot of upconverted SD content during the early months of Ten HD - think bits and pieces of the Sydney 5pm news may have been the only truly HD content on Day 1!
Compared to the other networks, it’s taken quite a long time for anywhere near the majority of Ten’s main channel output to be seen in HD.
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4 March 1985: ABC replaces its 7.00 news and former current affairs show Nationwide with a new one-hour 6.30 program, The National. It was an expensive dud that saw ABC revert back to its previous 7.00 news format and separate current affairs program less than a year later.
ATV10 debuts 4-part mini-series The Cowra Breakout, starring Tracy Mann.
HSV7 begins News Overnight, including relays of NBC and CNN programming with the flagship being NBC’s Today from midnight. I understand that News Overnight had already launched on Seven in Sydney and Brisbane earlier in the year?
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20 years ago today, 5 March 2001: Channel 31 in Melbourne launches its new daytime programming block, Renaissance TV, with programming aimed at over-55s. It was a venture of Prime Life, a chain of retirement villages, which basically ran it as a sponsored program of some exclusive programming and lots of vintage shows and movies that were probably public domain.
It was sort of a commercial channel by stealth (Prime Life apparently foot the bill for Channel 31 to upgrade its transmitter), so the ABA stepped in and put a limit on the number of sponsored hours could be run.
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Renaissance TV was later expanded to Channel 31 (CTS) in Sydney in June 2002, which coincided with a transmitter change from the Optus Tower in North Sydney to the ABC tower in Gore Hill, therefore allowing greater coverage across the metro area.
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Dig and Dine with Denise (Drysdale) was one of the shows, gardening and food lifestyle show. As well as a Tony Barber hosted travel show.
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I seem to recall Rennaisance TV also on Briz31 (Channel 31 Brisbane) at one point. Not sure if it also lead to transmitter upgrades.
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7 March 1975: The TV Week Logie Awards are held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne. It is the awards’ first time broadcast in colour.
Winner of the Gold Logies were Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale. The pair also won for Most Popular Personalities in Victoria, and The Ernie Sigley Show won Most Popular Program In Victoria.
Number 96 won two Logies – Best Drama and Bunney Brooke for Best Actress – and the ABC series Rush won Best New Drama and series star John Waters won for Best New Talent.
Source: TV Week
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It’s Governor Frontbottom!
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“Seven Color Television”.
9 March 1990: Mark Mitchell hosts the TV Week Logie Awards, telecast on Network Ten.
Craig McLachlan wins the Gold Logie, and he and Neighbours co-star Rachel Friend win Silver Logies for Most Popular Actor and Actress.
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10 March 1983: The final episode of The Sullivans airs in Melbourne, ending a six-year run and 1114 episodes.
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It always bugged me that they never changed the opening titles when high profile cast members like Lorraine Bayley and Andrew McFarlane left.
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Well MASH had the same opening titles for 11 years. They just replaced Trapper with BJ.
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Who were the State Award Winners for 1990?
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TV Week Logie Winners 1990:
State-based categories (Most Popular Personality, Most Popular Program)
NSW: Ray Martin , Home And Away
VIC: Daryl Somers, Neighbours
QLD: Jill Ray , Wombat
SA: Anne Wills, Wheel Of Fortune
WA: Rick Ardon, Seven Nightly News
TAS: Bert Taylor, Taylor’s Australia
Source: TV Week , 17 March 1990
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11/3/2002 Seven Melbourne moves into new headquarters at Docklands, at the north-western corner of Colonial Stadium (now Marvel Stadium). That same evening, a special episode of The Weakest Link airs featuring the nine remaining contestants from The Mole where the objective was to bank money for the prize kitty on the latter show. A total of $14,100 (rounded up to $15,000) was raised, making it the worst ever (until at least when the 2021 reiteration premieres on Nine later this year) score on TWL.
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11 March 1960: ABC opens its Adelaide channel, ABS2
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11 March 1969: GTV9 debuts Crawford Productions’ Division 4, starring Gerard Kennedy, Terence Donovan, Chuck Faulkner, Pat Smith and Ted Hamilton. The series was a new starring vehicle for Kennedy who had previously been popular from his role in another Nine/Crawford drama, Hunter.
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11 March 2011: ABC News 24, which has just turned eight months old, has rolling live coverage of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit eastern Japan. The channel achieves an audience share of 3.3% – its highest prime-time viewing share at the time.
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