Another prime time game show launched by 7.
The Rich List launched after the Australian Open in 2007 to strong ratings hovering around 1.1-1.3m viewers for the first season. However the second season only received 721,000 viewers for the premiere and was pulled from the schedule.
Remaining unaired shows aired from 3 November 2008 to 14 January 2009.
TV Tonight’s article about the infamous audio glitch heard in the US documentary Mayday.
Seven News in Melbourne tried having sport first, then news and weather in early 2002 which backfired
Really?
No.
The newsreaders read headlines, introduced themselves and threw to the sports presenter, who did one or two sports headlines. Then the news began.
There was also a weather preview in the first block.
It’s rather interesting how the Late 1990s/Early 2000s Seven News ideas of having sport/weather previews before the first ad break and standing presentation was deemed a failure, when Nine News (not to mention 10 News First & ABC News NSW - I think Seven is the only one in Sydney not to do standing presentation in 2020) is quite successfully doing all that and more these days!
Personally I wonder if those ideas were really just things ahead of their time, that the Sydney & Melbourne TV news viewers of 1999 probably weren’t quite ready for…
And on the first ever episode, the $2,000,000 was the first ever prize to be knocked out! What an embarrassing anti-climax that was for Seven…
The $2,000,000 top prize was never awarded
It was also actually $515,000 that Nathan Cochrane won (you were off by $1K).
The first season of the abbreviated version saw Dean Cartechini take out the top prize on June 17, 2004. Apparently, his win drew more than usual viewers to that night’s Seven News bulletin in Melbourne, something Nine hadn’t hoped for.
You’ll also remember Nine countered by scheduling a half-hour version of the normal WWTBAM at 5:30pm, but it was scrapped after one week.
HSV7 used footage from that episode on the day they shut off their analogue signal.
Seven’s noughty problems were really only the early noughties and even then they still had decent rating programs. They certainly came back from 2005.
Dog Eat Dog and Undercover Angels are failures that come to mind
Seven Perth still won the ratings IIRC.
Perfect Match airing on Saturdays in 2002 at 6:30pm competing with 10’s AFL coverage. 7 tried reality TV on weekends when they lost the AFL coverage.
Replacing Rob Elliott with Steve Oemcke as host of Wheel of Fortune led to its demise
And then Larry Emdur hosted the final season after finishing up at Nine in 2005.
WoF was never the same after Rob Elliott left.
and even after WOF was axed, Seven still had episodes left from Steve Oemcke’s time as host.
Seven killed that show when they removed Baby John Burgess. It was change for the sake of change and led to an audience backlash they couldn’t recover from. Burgo was as synonymous with the role in this country as Pat Sajak is in the American version. Viewers didn’t forget even after Tony Barber was moved on.
The stupid thing is Seven never learned from that experience. The default response to freshening up a show is to remove well liked, established talent. Jason Hodges being the latest example.
Kinda like how Tony Barber is synonymous with Sale of the Century.
All networks are probably guilty of same over the years. 
“moving into a different direction”, they would say. Would rarely be for the better
Though I think Glenn Ridge comes pretty close.