Aug 09 2023
9 August 1975: Jill Forster and John Stanton (The Box) 9 August 2003: Claudia Karvan and Vince Colosimo (The Secret Life Of Us) 9 August 2008: Jodi Gordon and Paul O’Brien (Home And Away) 9 August 1968: Regional Queensland station MVQ6, Mackay, is officially opened — Seven Mackay turns 45 [2013] 9 August 1996: Peter …
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Jul 30 2023
30 July 1983: Lorraine Bayly (Carson’s Law) 30 July 1988: ‘Kylie Mole’ (Maryanne Fahey, The Comedy Company) 30 July 2005: Stefan Dennis and Natalie Bassingthwaighte (Neighbours) 30 July 2022: Ian Smith, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Annie Jones, Stefan Dennis (Neighbours) 30 July 1972: Sunday night movies are Woman Of Straw (1964), The Pink Panther (1964) …
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Jul 01 2023
1 July 1972: Johnny Farnham 1 July 1995: Kimberley Davies (Neighbours) 1 July 2000: Belinda Emmett (All Saints) 1 July 2006: Katie Hastings, Jamie Brooksby, David Graham, Krystal Forscutt, Camilla Severi (Big Brother) 1 July 1932: The Australian Broadcasting Commission is formed as Australia’s national broadcaster, comprising 12 radio stations. The broadcaster was later chartered …
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Jan 01 2021
It is 20 years today since Australian television first entered the digital age with the commencement of digital transmission in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Digital television marked the most significant change in television viewing since the introduction of colour in 1975. With the advent of high definition, widescreen television, there was a lot …
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Oct 22 2015
SBS has unveiled details of its new food channel, Food Network, which is to begin transmission on Tuesday 17 November. Food Network, to be available on digital channel 33, will feature locally-made product from SBS combined with programs sourced through a licencing agreement with Scripps Networks Interactive — producer of food and lifestyle programs from around the …
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Jul 22 2015
ABC News 24, Australia’s first free-to-air 24 hour dedicated news channel, turns five years old today. The channel, based at ABC‘s Ultimo headquarters in Sydney, launched on 22 July 2010 at 7.30pm (AEST) during the Federal Election campaign Although ABC News 24’s daily ratings share rarely lifts above a single per cent, the broadcaster claims that the channel has …
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Mar 07 2015
ABC‘s secondary channel ABC2 turns 10 years old today. The new channel came two years after ABC had been forced to axe its previous digital channels ABC Kids and Fly TV due to budget cuts. ABC2 launched in a rather low key manner on the morning of Monday, 7 March 2005. Anyone watching to see the …
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Aug 01 2014
Part V marks the conclusion of this week’s tribute to Network Ten on its 50th anniversary Part I — ATV0… from Go!! to Ten Part II — ATV0: The Channel 0 Viewers’ Club Part III — ATV10… A new decade, a new channel Part IV — Ten: Rising from receivership The new millennium saw Ten sign up comedian …
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Apr 30 2014
The Government’s plan for aggregation of regional television markets enabled viewers in the more populated regional areas of New South Wales (including ACT), Queensland and Victoria to have the same level of choice of commercial television as their major city cousins. Once these states were completed the next stage was to introduce the scheme to …
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Jan 25 2015
Networks, it’s time to go retro
25 January 2015
The advent and conversion to digital television has opened the market right up to new opportunities and niche markets as broadcasters can now cram more digital channels in the same space that in the past used to only accommodate one analogue channel. In the United States, the conversion to digital television has opened up a …
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