23 October 1968: Mike Preston (In Melbourne Tonight)
23 October 1976: Garry McDonald (The Norman Gunston Show) and Pat McDonald (Number 96)
23 October 1993: Kimberley Davies (Neighbours)
23 October 1999: Bree Desborough (Home And Away), Jacinta Stapleton (Neighbours), Lara Cox (Heartbreak High)
23 October 2004: Australian Idol
23 October 2010: Georgie Parker (Home And Away)
23 October 1964: Hobart’s TVT6 presents live coverage of the Miss Australia 1965 pageant from the Hobart Town Hall. The coverage is recorded for delayed broadcast on the mainland, including HSV7 Melbourne on 24 October and ATN7 Sydney on 25 October.
23 October 1976: All four Melbourne channels televise the eclipse of the sun from Ballarat. With the public told that to avoid eye damage the best way to watch the eclipse was on TV, ratings for the afternoon telecasts were huge.
23 October 1988: The Nine Network premieres mini-series Barlow And Chambers: A Long Way From Home, starring John Polson, Hugo Weaving, Julie Christie, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Armstrong, Robin Ramsay, Victor Banerjee, Shapoor Batliwalla, Liddy Clark, Georgie Parker and Mouche Phillips.
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23 October 1995: Pay-TV operator Foxtel — a joint venture between News Corporation and Telstra — commences a 20-channel cable TV service.
23 October 2005: Network Ten presents the 19th annual ARIA Awards from the Sydney Superdome. The hosting line-up includes James Mathison, Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, Dave Hughes, Ja’mie (Chris Lilley) and Natalia Bassingthwaighte.
23 October 2008: ABC1 presents The Prime Minister Is Missing, a dramatised account of the events leading up to and following the sudden disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt from a Portsea beach in December 1967.
