Yes with Big Breakfast carrying over to mid 2000. And the temp Olympic Sunrise during the Sydney Olympics.
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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.
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Saturday Disney would last until 2016, despite several timeslot and channel changes.
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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.
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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.
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The Big Breakfast ran from 2 August 1999 to 14 July 2000. It moved to afternoon in February 2001.
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I first read ACC and thought A Current Affair and thought yeah if Agro hosted that I’d watch it more often! 
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Agro would probably do a great job introducing a “Neighbours at War” or “Menace to Society” story.
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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.
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.
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Here is something that has not aged well. The intro to Channel Nine’s Wild Sex hosted by Don Burke
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I’ve just come across this - a pretty well done parody on the classic “Love You Brisbane” slogan/jingle!
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Is don burke in jail these days cos you dont see him on tv or hear about him he is a recluse.
Take a look:
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That sounds exactly like Amyl and the Sniffers
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.
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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.
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.
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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…
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Came across ABC’s 15min promo reel for 1988 on a tape I was digitising
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Moments before 7 unveiled its new logo following Rock the Millennium
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Even during Princess Di’s Funeral - NBN’s Big Dog tells the children to go to bed.
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