# Random TV History **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Created:** [January 17, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489 "2020-01-17T16:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 86
**Author:** ![rock12](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@rock12](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/rock12)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1742 "2023-06-30T23:50:30Z")
> [@BJT2](#): > > So just putting this together…. > > 1997 - Agro Cartoon Connection > 1998 - Cartoon Connection (without Agro and Presenter) > 1999 - Big Breakfast > 2000 - AMV All Music > 2001 - Expansion of Sunrise Yes with Big Breakfast carrying over to mid 2000. And the temp Olympic Sunrise during the Sydney Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1743 "2023-06-30T23:51:18Z")
> [@Tane04](#): > > After several experiments, Seven gave up on children’s morning television. From memory, the ABC also had a competitive line up (1998) of children’s content in the mornings. Teletubbies seemed to be a drawcard for a lot of children and parents. ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1744 "2023-06-30T23:53:21Z")
Saturday Disney would last until 2016, despite several timeslot and channel changes. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1745 "2023-06-30T23:55:44Z")
Always remember getting the Agro Show bag at Royal Melbourne Show. I think Agro also made some guest appearances at the Seven Marquee they had set up there in the mid 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Spi](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/spi/32/270161_2.png) [@Spi](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Spi)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1746 "2023-07-01T01:21:59Z")
Pretty much, although keeping in mind that (at least certainly in 1998/99), there was still the original incarnation of Sunrise from 6-7, so those only ran for an hour and a half, until The Book Place at 8.30. AMV would’ve been later in 1999, they still ran cartoons (very) early in 1999 but without the CC branding. Big Breakfast took all thaqt over in… summer non-ratings of 99 I think? and went from 6-8.30 initially, being justified by having kids-oriented news updates on the half hour… meant the later cartoons started at 6.45 and just after 7.30 from memory but I seem to recall that the “studio” links (including the news updates that replaced Sunrise mk.1) got quickly pared down and it then went out from 7am as basically just a cartoon show (I think they might’ve filled the 6am slot with crap, like repeats of Gladiators and whatnot) - that cut-down might’ve been after Olympic Sunrise came and went, or not long before? and then the current version Sunrise came in and Big Breakfast got relegated to Big Arvo. ---
**Author:** ![Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tane04/32/348677_2.png) [@Tane04](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Tane04)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1747 "2023-07-01T02:30:35Z")
The Big Breakfast ran from 2 August 1999 to 14 July 2000. It moved to afternoon in February 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1748 "2023-07-01T06:12:26Z")
> [@Tane04](#): > > ACC was filmed at BTQ I first read ACC and thought A Current Affair and thought yeah if Agro hosted that I’d watch it more often! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![AirJordanFan93](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/airjordanfan93/32/315299_2.png) [@AirJordanFan93](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/AirJordanFan93)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1749 "2023-07-01T10:09:08Z")
Agro would probably do a great job introducing a “Neighbours at War” or “Menace to Society” story. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1750 "2023-07-01T13:27:24Z")
Been listening to the Ten News theme from 2011-13 and someone in the comments has pointed out that the refrain sounds somewhat similar to the “One to Watch” jingle that Seven had in the early 2000s. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HGx3HO42yow/maxresdefault.jpg "Ten News full length theme music (2011)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGx3HO42yow) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kTJZ4pTj89Y/hqdefault.jpg "Seven Network - Ident - 2002 The One to Watch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJZ4pTj89Y) You be the judge… do they sound familiar? Also worth noting Ten has had that famous refrain as its news theme since at least 1995 when they (first) moved away from the Eyewitness News brand. ---
**Author:** ![RetroTvVideos](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/retrotvvideos/32/108932_2.png) [@RetroTvVideos](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/RetroTvVideos)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1751 "2023-07-02T01:13:28Z")
Here is something that has not aged well. The intro to Channel Nine’s Wild Sex hosted by Don Burke [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h4kEfmwN5c0/hqdefault.jpg "Wild Sex Hosted By Don Burke Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kEfmwN5c0) ---
**Author:** ![mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mubd)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1752 "2023-07-02T08:34:50Z")
I’ve just come across this - a pretty well done parody on the classic “Love You Brisbane” slogan/jingle! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h0RheyH6BSo/hqdefault.jpg "Shove You Brisbane") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0RheyH6BSo) ---
**Author:** ![Jasondockers](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jasondockers/32/275195_2.png) [@Jasondockers](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Jasondockers)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1753 "2023-07-03T06:15:15Z")
Is don burke in jail these days cos you dont see him on tv or hear about him he is a recluse. ---
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2023, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1754 "2023-07-03T06:20:15Z")
Take a look: > **[Don Burke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Burke)** > > Donald William Burke OAM (born 16 July 1947) is an Australian television presenter, television producer, author and horticulturist. He is best known as the longtime host of Burke's Backyard, a lifestyle program produced by his wife's company CTC Productions, which ran for 17 years from 1987 to late 2004 on the Nine Network. He was also responsible for the creation of garden makeover program Backyard Blitz, starring former colleague Jamie Durie. > In 2004, Business Review Weekly listed Burke amo... ---
**Author:** ![T-Mac](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@T-Mac](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/T-Mac)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1756 "2023-07-04T01:19:59Z")
That sounds exactly like Amyl and the Sniffers ---
**Author:** ![TheTARDIS](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thetardis/32/359535_2.png) [@TheTARDIS](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheTARDIS)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1757 "2023-07-06T03:32:48Z")
At the end of last month, WIN News did a short story on the retirement of their long serving Victorian transmission engineer. I’m surprised that this role was kept in house and not outsourced. The video has some good footage of the old Walker Street studios in Ballarat. [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsBallarat/videos/1888391841554387/) ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1758 "2023-07-10T08:38:04Z")
Barry Crocker has posted video of his appearances at the 1970 _TV Week Logie Awards_. His show, _The Sound Of Music_, won the Logie for Best Musical/Variety Show and then later in the evening he and daytime TV presenter Maggie Tabberer won Gold Logies. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qX-sgjB6Ujo/hqdefault.jpg "The Logies 1970") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-sgjB6Ujo) The awards ceremony could have been over in barely 2 hours in those days. No long acceptance speeches, no showreels of nominees, or nominations at all… just straight to announcing the winner! AFAIK there was no musical performances in the Logies then, either. That was something that apparently didn’t really become commonplace until the early 1980s when Ten started hosting them. ---
**Author:** ![mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@mubd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mubd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1759 "2023-07-10T17:00:16Z")
A Nine HD demo loop + Mornings with Kerri-Anne segment from 2002 featuring a humongous newspaper printing kiosk which everyone thought would be the next big thing at the time… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IhmmYepAS4s/maxresdefault.jpg "[4K50] 2002 Australian 1080i50 HDTV demo on VHF Channel 8") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmmYepAS4s) ---
**Author:** ![rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/rhettrospective/32/311779_2.png) [@rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/rhettrospective)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1760 "2023-07-11T11:25:18Z")
Came across ABC’s 15min promo reel for 1988 on a tape I was digitising [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HIa-87nOuaw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHsBIAC4AOKAgwIABABGEwgSChyMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDiGLzaWAS2-WLgNKxe8Oj7I99eUA "ABC Australia 15min content promo reel for 1988") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIa-87nOuaw) ---
**Author:** ![BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bigvic/32/209954_2.png) [@BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BigVic)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1761 "2023-07-11T11:53:37Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qcm35Jwnmqo/maxresdefault.jpg "31/12/1999 Sydney Millennium - Rock the Millennium closing credits") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcm35Jwnmqo) Moments before 7 unveiled its new logo following Rock the Millennium ---
**Author:** ![rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/rhettrospective/32/311779_2.png) [@rhettrospective](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/rhettrospective)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489/1762 "2023-07-11T13:01:39Z")
Even during Princess Di’s Funeral - NBN’s Big Dog tells the children to go to bed. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UQhGkS8zoBk/maxresdefault.jpg "During Princess Di Funeral - NBN's Big Dog tells children to go to bed.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhGkS8zoBk) [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489.md?page=85) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-tv-history/12489.md?page=87)