10 April 1971: Maggie Tabberer (Maggie), Gerard Kennedy (Division 4) with Dolly and Bob Dyer (Pick-A-Box)

10 April 1982: Annette Andre and Bill Stalker (Cop Shop)

10 April 1982: Fiona Paul (The Sullivans)

10 April 1993: Jo Bailey (Sale Of The Century)

10 April 1999: Karen Fischer (What’s Up Doc?), Kim Kilbey (Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show), Raelee Hill (Water Rats)

10 April 2004: Kate Garven and Christie Hayes (Home And Away)

10 April 2010: Todd Lasance and Tessa James (Home And Away)


10 April 1965: New TV Stations — NEN9, Tamworth, New South Wales — Prime7 Tamworth turns 50 [2015]; and WBQ8, Wide Bay, Queensland — Seven Queensland turns 50 [2015]

10 April 1967: ABC premieres its new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight, hosted by Bill Peach. And GTV9 has highlights of the ninth annual TV Week Logie Awards, the first Logies to be hosted by Bert NewtonThis Day Tonight: 50 years on [2017], TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago [2017]


YouTube: ABC News (Australia)

10 April 1972: Number 96 makes its Adelaide debut on SAS10, almost a month after its debut in the eastern states — Number 96 at 50 [2022]

10 April 1979: Nine has a delayed telecast of the 51st Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

10 April 1981: Michael Parkinson hosts the 23rd annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Centrepoint Convention Centre, Sydney. It is the first time that the awards are televised on Network Ten and the first time the awards are held in Sydney since the mid-1960s. Parkinson’s hosting of the awards also marks the end of Bert Newton‘s 14 consecutive years of hosting the awards. Newton did, however, win the Gold Logie. The ABC, Seven, Nine and Ten networks also break into programming to cross to the US for live coverage of the latest Space Shuttle launch.

10 April 1984: Seven has a delayed telecast of the 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

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