2 August 1980: Paul Cronin (The Sullivans)

2 August 1980: Lorraine Bayly (The Sullivans)

2 August 1997: Isla Fisher (Home And Away)

2 August 2003: Ada Nicodemou and Ben Unwin (Home And Away)

2 August 2008: Farmer Wants A Wife

2 August 2009: Daniel Amalm and Les Hill (Rescue: Special Ops)

2 August 1964: The second day’s broadcast of ATV0, Melbourne, includes a repeat of the previous night’s program preview, Seven Wonderful Nights, and the channel’s first news bulletin, read by Brian Wright.

2 August 1976: ABC premieres late-afternoon teen/pop culture show Flashez, hosted by Ray Burgess.

2 August 1993: John Mangos and Sharon Dale host the premiere of Seven‘s new mid-morning magazine program At Home.

2 August 1998: The LifeStyle Channel premieres interview series Life Changes, hosted by Richard Zachariah. The show’s first guest is publisher, editor and writer Ita Buttrose.

2 August 2009: The Nine Network premieres drama series Rescue: Special Ops, starring Libby Tanner, Peter Phelps, Les Hill, Daniel Amalm, Gigi Edgley, Katherine Hicks and Andrew Lees.

2 August 2010: SBS launches its new game show Letters And Numbers, an Australian adaptation of the French show Des chiffres et des lettres and the long-running UK series, Countdown. Hosted by former ABC newsreader Richard Morecroft with writer David Astle and mathematician Lily Serna.