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This timeline of Australian television lists important station launches, programs, major television events, and technological advancements that have significantly changed the forms of broadcasting available to viewers of television in Australia. The history of television in Australia can be traced back to an announcement from the Menzies' government concerning plans for television services in Sydney and Melbourne.[1]

The new medium was introduced by Bruce Gyngell with the words "Good evening, and welcome to television".[2] Colour television was introduced in 1975, while subscription television, initially on the Galaxy platform, began in the mid-1990s. Digital terrestrial television was introduced on 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities, later to be expanded to smaller cities and regional areas.

1920s[]

  • Experimental TV broadcasts began as early as 1929 in Melbourne on stations 3DB and 3UZ using the Radiovision system by Gilbert Miles and Donal McDonald.[3]
  • Thomas (Tom) M. B. Elliott experiments with an electromechanical version of television using the Nipkow disc technique that Baird employed.[4]

1930s[]

  • Other experimental transmissions followed in other cities, such as the 30 line Baird system in Brisbane in 1934[5][6] by Tom Elliott and Dr Val McDowall, members of the Royal Society of Queensland, at the amateur station (VK)4CM.[7][8] By 1938 Elliot demonstrated an electronic 180 line version.[6]

1940s[]

  • Broadcasting tests halted due to the advent of World War 2.[6]

1950s[]

1950
  • June: Robert Menzies' government announces a gradual introduction of television in Australia, with plans to launch an ABC Television station in Sydney and other areas subject to funding approval. As well as this, commercial television services in Sydney and Melbourne are planned with "any other capital city where it is felt that the applicant's capacity to provide a service justifies the issue of a licence".[9]
1953
  • January: The Menzies government amends the 1948 Broadcasting Act to provide legislative framework for commercial television licenses.[10]
1954
1956
  • 13 July: Test transmissions commence in Sydney on TCN-9 in monochrome.[12]
  • 16 July: HSV-7 Melbourne commences test transmissions in monochrome.[13]
  • 16 September: TCN-9 Sydney launches at 7.00pm. Announcer John Godson is the first voice heard and Bruce Gyngell is the first person seen in-vision, introducing This is Television.[14]
  • 27 October: TCN-9 officially opens.[12]
  • 4 November: HSV-7 Melbourne officially launches.[1]
  • 5 November: The Australian Broadcasting Commission begins television broadcasting with ABN-2 Sydney.[14]
  • 19 November: Melbourne's ABV-2 launches.[1]
  • 22 November: 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne commence, televised by ABV-2 & HSV-7 and during GTV-9 test transmissions.[15]
1957
1959
  • 9 January: Melbourne and Sydney are linked by microwave for the first time, allowing programs to be broadcast live to both cities concurrently.[15]
  • 1 July: Mr. Squiggle and Friends begins on ABC.
  • 16 August: QTQ-9 Brisbane begins transmission.[17]
  • 5 September: NWS-9 Adelaide officially launches.[18]
  • 16 October: TVW-7 Perth launches.[19]
  • 1 November: BTQ-7 Brisbane launches.[19]
  • 2 November: ABQ-2 Brisbane launches.[20]

1960s[]

1960
  • 11 March: ABS-2 Adelaide launches.[20]
  • 7 May: ABW-2 Perth begins transmission.[20]
  • 23 May: TVT-6 Hobart opens, bringing television to Tasmania.[20]
  • 4 June: ABT-2 Hobart commences broadcasting.[20]
1961
  • 19 August: Current affairs program Four Corners begins on ABC.[21]
  • 9 December: GLV-10 Traralgon is the first regional station to open.[22]
  • 23 December: BCV-8 launches in Bendigo while GMV-6 began in Shepparton.[22][23]
1962
1963
1964
  • 19 June: RVN-2 Wagga Wagga launches.[25]
  • 1 August: ATV-0, Melbourne's third commercial station, launches.[29]
  • 7 September: AMV-4 Albury commences broadcasting.[25]
1965
1966
1967
  • 10 March: BTW-3 Bunbury becomes the first regional television station in Western Australia.[37]
  • 10 April: ABC TV current affairs program This Day Tonight premieres.[29]
  • 15 June: Test colour television transmissions are made for the first time in Australia by ATV-0.[29]
1968

1970s[]

1971
1972
  • 13 March: Soap opera Number 96 debuts, heralding the night 'Australian television lost its virginity'
  • 20 March: Brisbane channel BTQ7 claims Australia's first one-hour news bulletin, The Big News[40]
1973
  • In 1973, the only Australian designed and made precision colour television monitor, was produced for local use and international export. The broadcast quality monitor (LDN5006) was developed by Willem Sparrius, Project Engineer at Philips subsidiary company Electronics Engineering Communications and produced at their South Oakleigh plant.[42][43]
1974
  • 29 August: GSW-9 Albany begins broadcasting as a relay of VEW-8 Kalgoorlie.[citation needed]
  • October: Colour test transmissions begin on Australian television.
  • 8 November: Countdown begins on ABC.
1975
  • 1 March: At midnight, colour television is introduced across the country. The main networks celebrate with their own unique slogan - Come to Colour (ABC TV), Seven Colors Your World (Seven Network), Living Color (Nine Network) and 0 - First in Color (0-10 Network).[14]
1976
1977
  • 21 January: GTW-11 Geraldton begins broadcasting, completing the roll-out of regional commercial television across Australia.
  • 24 September: The Victorian Football League Grand Final is broadcast live to viewers in Melbourne for the first time.[40]
1979

1980s[]

1980
  • 20 January: Melbourne's ATV-0 converts to ATV-10; after nearby La Trobe Valley regional station GLV-10 converts to GLV-8 to facilitate this change, which concurrently frees up the frequency for Channel 0/28 later that same year.
  • 14 July: Game show Sale of the Century debuts on the Nine Network.
  • 24 October: Channel 0/28 is launched by Bruce Gyngell in Sydney and Melbourne.[14]
1982
  • 28 June: The Nine Network Australia premieres Today.
1983
  • 1 July: The Australian Broadcasting Commission becomes the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[44]
  • 16 October: Channel 0/28 expands into Canberra, Cooma and Goulburn, and changes its name to Network 0-28.[45]
1984
  • 4 February: Hey Hey It's Saturday moves from its morning timeslot to the 9.30 pm timeslot.
  • July: The 1984 Summer Olympics are broadcast on Network Ten.
  • 26 July: US-French-Canadian animated series Inspector Gadget begins on ABC.
1985
  • 18 February: Network 0-28 once again changes its name to SBS, and begins daytime transmissions.[45]
  • 4 March: ABC National, a one-hour national news and current affairs program shown from 6.30 pm, replaces ABC TV's half-hour 7.00pm state news bulletins.[44]
  • 18 March: Soap opera Neighbours begins on the Seven Network.
  • 30 June: SBS Television expands into Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Wollongong, and the Gold Coast.[45]
  • 24 October: The ABC Board elects to abandon ABC National.[44]
1986
  • 5 January: SBS Television phases out its second VHF 0 channel.[45]
  • 16 March: SBS launches in Perth and Hobart.[45]
  • 19 August: Treasurer Paul Keating, in his budget speech, announces the amalgamation of the ABC and SBS.[44]
1987
  • 26 March: Bob Hawke calls off the proposed amalgamation of the ABC and SBS.[44]
  • 17 April: Rage begins on ABC.
  • 27 December: Adelaide stations SAS-10 and ADS-7 swap frequencies to become SAS-7 and ADS-10.[45]
1988
  • 2 January: Imparja Television launches in remote eastern and central Australia from studios in Alice Springs.
  • 17 January: Home and Away premieres on the Seven Network as a two-hour pilot and begins as a regular weeknight soap opera the following evening.
  • 20 May: NEW-10 launches in Perth.[45]
  • 10 September: TVQ-0 Brisbane becomes TVQ-10.[45]
1989
  • 31 March: Aggregation begins in southern New South Wales.[46]

1990s[]

1990
1991
  • 10 February: US animated comedy series The Simpsons begins on Network Ten.
  • 14 June: SBS TV is permitted by the government to broadcast five minutes of advertising per hour, as a form of additional funding.[48]
  • 31 December: Northern New South Wales is aggregated.[46]
1992
  • 1 January: Aggregation begins to take place in Victoria.[46]
  • 3 February: Midday news program The World at Noon is launched on ABC TV.[44]
  • 3 February: Former Europe correspondent for the ABC Ian Henderson takes over as newsreader for the 7.00 pm weeknights ABC News in Victoria.
  • 8 May: An educational television series for children called Lift Off begins being broadcast on ABC every Friday afternoon at 2:00pm. The show will later air on weekdays at 4:30pm on 29 June and on Saturday evenings at 6:00pm on 19 September.
  • 20 July: Children's TV series Bananas in Pyjamas begins on ABC.
  • 27 November: Parliament passes a bill permitting the ABC to provide subscription television services.[44]
1993
  • 26 January: Early morning news program First Edition begins on the ABC.[44]
  • 17 February: The ABC's Australia Television International is launched by Prime Minister of Australia's Paul John Keating.[44]
  • September: The Victorian arm of the Southern Cross Network changes its name to SCN.[22]
1994
  • Southern Cross Broadcasting purchases Canberra-based station Capital Television.[28]
  • 20 May: Darwin is the last capital city to begin receiving SBS.[46]
  • 30 April: Tasmania is aggregated, as a two-station market.[46]
  • 31 July: Community station Briz 31 commences transmission.[49]
  • October: WIN Television expands into Victoria and Tasmania, purchasing ENT Limited, owners of TasTV and Vic Television.[23]
  • 6 October: Community station C31 Melbourne launches.[50]
1995
  • 26 January: Galaxy launches Australia's first subscription television service on MMDS.[51]
  • 19 September: Australia's first cable TV provider, Optus Vision, begins broadcasting.[52]
  • 22 October - Foxtel was founded and introduced into Australia.
  • 4 December: State editions of The 7.30 Report are merged into a single national program, presented from Sydney by Kerry O'Brien.[44]
1996
  • Prime Television expands into Mildura as PTV-31, after being granted the area's second commercial licence.[53]
  • December: Prime Television purchases the Golden West Network for $71 million.[53]
1997
  • 8 July: Ownership of Australia Television International moves from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to the Seven Network.[44]
  • December: Prime Television Limited purchases Canal 9 in Argentina.[53]
1998
  • 16 February: UK children's television series Teletubbies begins on ABC.
  • 27 March: TND-34 Darwin, a Seven Network affiliate, is officially inaugurated by Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Shane Stone.[54]
  • 10 May: Drama SeaChange begins on ABC.
  • 1 July: The WIN Corporation acquires MTN-9 Griffith and supplementary licence AMN-31.[55]
  • 31 July: The Wiggles' television show is launched on Seven Network.[56]
  • 30 August: Prime Television New Zealand is launched, owned by Prime Television's parent company Prime Television Limited.[53]
  • 5 October: Pokémon begins on Network Ten.
  • 20 December: The Disney Channel Australia premieres a TV special: The Wiggles Live at Disneyland to launch The Wiggles' debut.[57]
1999
  • 26 March: WOW, regional Western Australia's second commercial television network owned by WIN Television, launches.[58]
  • 18 June: Perth community station Access 31 officially commences transmission.[59]
  • 15 August: WIN South Australia is established following the buyout SES-8 Mount Gambier and RTS-5A Loxton by WIN Corporation.[55]
  • 31 December: ABC is the Australian broadcaster of the global television event 2000 Today.

2000s[]

2000
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony becomes one of the highest-rating programs in Australian television history.
  • 15 September: The 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony is broadcast by the Seven Network - one of the highest-rating programs ever shown on Australian television.[60]
2001
2002
2003
  • 22 May: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation decides to close the ABC Kids and Fly TV channels.[44]
  • 22 December: Tasmanian Digital Television, a Network Ten affiliate, launches.[67]
2004
  • 17 March: Trial datacast service Digital Forty Four begins in Sydney.[68]
  • 23 April: Community station C31 Adelaide launches.[69]
  • 18 July: Senator Helen Coonan becomes the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.[70]
2005
2006
  • 1 January: Mildura Digital Television, a Network Ten affiliate, launches.[75]
  • 8 February: Prime Television Limited sells Prime Television New Zealand to Sky Television for NZ$30 million.[60]
  • 18 July: Play School celebrates 40 years
  • 16 September: Australian Television's 50th anniversary.
2007
  • 13 March: Channels are reserved for the introduction of digital television to remote areas such as Alice Springs, Mount Isa, and regional Western Australia.[76]
  • 28 March: The Australian Communications and Media Authority extends Digital Forty Four's trial datacast licence.[68]
  • 18 May: ACMA grants a licence to Darwin Digital Television, owned by PBL Media and Southern Cross Broadcasting.[77]
  • 30 May: Southern Cross Broadcasting announces the sale of Adelaide station NWS-9 to WIN Television for $105 million.[78]
  • 8 June: WIN Television completes its takeover of STW-9 Perth for $163.1 million.[79]
  • 13 June: C31 Adelaide's trial licence is extended for a further twelve months.[80]
  • 13 July: National Indigenous Television launches as Australia's 'third public broadcaster'.[81]
  • 14 September: Network Ten announces Ten HD.[82]
  • 15 September: The Seven Media Group announces a high definition multichannel, to be launched in December 2007.[83]
  • 23 September: The Australian Government proposes a new children's multichannel, ABC3.[84]
  • 15 October: The Seven Media Group launch 7HD, a high definition multichannel.[85]
  • 16 December: Network Ten launches Ten HD, a high definition multichannel.
  • 18 December: Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy announces switch-off of analogue television signals will take place between 2010 and 2013.[86]
2008
  • 1 January: ABC TV becomes ABC1 and changes its logo along with ABC2.[87]
  • 17 March: The Nine Network launches its new high definition multichannel, 9HD.
  • 28 April: Darwin Digital Television, a Network Ten affiliate, is launched.
  • 7 May: SBS TV changes its logo and its on-air look and along with it comes a new slogan - "Six Billion Stories and Counting" and SBS HD become 720p.
  • 3 August: Nine airs the last ever edition of long-running Canberra-based political program, Sunday after 27 years.
  • 8 – 24 August: SBS TV partners up with the Seven Network for joint coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
  • 20 October: Nine relaunches National Nine News as Nine News.
  • 24 November: Freeview Australia is launched across Australia at 6:29pm
2009
  • 26 March: One HD launches - the first commercial digital-only network in Australia.
  • 3 May: Nine launches The Morning News Hour and The Late News (renamed Nightline)
  • 1 June: SBS TV becomes SBS ONE and SBS TWO launches on digital television.
  • 9 August: GO! launches on Channel 99 in Nine-owned areas and Channel 88 in WIN/NBN areas.
  • 1 November: 7TWO launches on Channel 72 in Seven-owned areas.
  • 4 December: ABC3 launches on Channel 23. ABC for Kids on 2, a block on ABC2 from 9am (on weekends, 6am) to 6pm, launches.

2010s[]

2010
  • 1 March: Television Sydney commences digital broadcasting on Channel 44.
  • 10 April: Digital-only community station West TV launches in Perth, replacing Access 31.
  • 28 May: C31 Melbourne commences digital broadcasting on Channel 44.
  • 7 June: 31 Brisbane commences digital broadcasting on Channel 44.
  • 10 June: West Digital Television, a Network Ten affiliate, commences digital broadcasting in Western Australia.
  • 22 July: ABC News 24 launches on channel 24 by the ABC as Australia's first free-to-air English news channel. (SBS originally had an international news channel)
  • 25 September: 7mate launches on Channel 73 by the Seven Network, replacing 7HD on Channel 73 in Seven-owned areas and 63 in Prime areas. 7TWO changed its theme to a Best of British-oriented format.
  • 26 September: GEM launches on Channel 90 in Nine-owned areas and Channel 80 in WIN/NBN areas replacing 9HD, two days late due to technical issues.
  • 5 November: C31 Adelaide launches digital broadcasting on Channel 44 as 44 Adelaide, as allocated to all metropolitan community television services.
  • 1 December: WIN Television commences broadcast of Network Ten in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA).
2011
  • 11 January: Eleven launches on Channel 11 in Metro and Channel 55 in Regional areas.
  • 16 January: The Big Red "7" logo expands to Prime & GWN as names Prime7 and GWN7
  • 2 May: Central Digital Television, a Network Ten affiliate, commences digital broadcasting in remote areas. ABC for Kids on 2 rebrands as ABC4 Kids, and expands its time to 6am to 7pm.
  • 8 May: One HD rebrands as One, launching the format with entertainment targeting 25 to 54-year-old men.
  • 18 July: Play School celebrates 45 years
  • 28 July: 7TWO, GO!, GEM, One, Eleven & 7mate in Albany/Bunbury.
  • 16 September: Australian Television's 55th anniversary.
  • 18 September: Television 4 launches on Channel 64.
  • December: Television 4 rebrands as TV4ME launches on Channel 64 in Prime areas and Channel 74 in Seven-owned areas.
  • 11 November - February 2012: 7TWO, GO!, GEM, One, Eleven & 7mate in Mount Gambier/Riverland.
2012
  • 13 January: WIN Television commenced broadcasting of GEM, GO!, One, and Eleven in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA).
  • 4 March: NBN Television (The first regional television station in NSW as NBN-3 Newcastle) celebrates broadcasting for 50 years to Newcastle and Northern NSW, from as far south as the Central Coast to as far north as the Gold Coast and as far west as Gunnedah.
  • 26 March: Extra launches on Channel 94 in Eastern Seaboard Metro Markets and Channel 84 in the Northern NSW market.
  • 20 April: WIN Television commenced broadcasting of 7mate in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) on LCN 60.
  • 1 May: WIN Gold launches on Channel 84 and Channel 94 in metropolitan areas Perth and Adelaide.
  • 5 May: WIN Gold rebrands as Gold.
  • 5 June: WIN Television commenced broadcasting of 7TWO in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) on LCN 66.
  • 24 September: Network Ten to commence broadcasting of datacasting channel TVSN on LCN 14.
  • 27 November: Shutdown of analogue television services: Northern NSW
  • 12 December: NITV commences free-to-air broadcast via SBS
2013
  • Conversion from analogue to digital television is completed: Shutdown of analogue television services: Adelaide SA (2 April); Tasmania (9 April); Perth WA (16 April); Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast QLD (28 May); Regional and Remote WA (25 June); Darwin NT (30 July); Sydney, Central Coast NSW (3 December); Melbourne VIC, Remote Central and Eastern Australia (10 December).
  • 1 April: SBS relaunches digital channel SBS TWO (SBS 2) with a focus on the under-40 age group.
  • C31 Melbourne, C31 Adelaide, C31 Perth, C31 Brisbane, and TVS C31 Sydney goes to Digital 44.
2014
  • 2 February: GO! changes its branding and logo to new ones.
  • 7 July: ABC4 Kids expands its time to 5am to 7pm on ABC2.
  • 21 July: ABC1 rebrands as ABC.
2015
  • 2 March: ABC4 Kids rebrands as ABC Kids.
  • 18 March: Neighbours celebrates 30 years.
  • 5 July: SBS ONE rebrands as SBS.
  • 29 August: Racing.com (A Horse Racing channel) launches on channel 78 in metro places and channel 68 in regional places.
  • 17 November: Food Network (SBS's fourth channel featuring food shows) launches on Channel 33, replacing SBS 3.
  • 26 November: 9Life launches on channel 94, along with a relaunch of 9HD on channel 90. GEM is renamed 9Gem and moved to channel 92 and GO! is renamed 9Go! and moved to channel 93 with the quality of 9Gem changed from HD to SD.
2016
  • 28 February: 7flix launches on channel 76.
  • 1 March: NBN relaunch 9HD. 9Life launches for NBN audiences.
  • 1 March: WIN relaunch their version of 9HD, WIN HD. 9Life launches for WIN audiences.
  • 2 March: Ten relaunch Ten HD and the quality of One changes from HD to SD.
  • 30 April: 4ME shuts down, being replaced by a simulcast of ishop tv (simulcast later removed in June).
  • 10 May: Seven relaunch 7HD (HD simulcast of Seven in Melbourne and Adelaide, HD simulcast of 7mate in other markets) and the quality of 7mate changes from HD to SD.
  • 1 July: Southern Cross Austereo switches affiliation from Network Ten to the Nine Network in Southern NSW, Australian Capital Territory, Regional Queensland, Regional Victoria and Tasmania.
  • 1 July: WIN Television switches affiliation from the Nine Network to Network Ten in Southern NSW, Australian Capital Territory, Regional Queensland, Regional Victoria, Mildura, Regional WA, Tasmania and Eastern SA.
  • 17 July: 9Life relaunches in Southern NSW, Australian Capital Territory, Regional Queensland and Regional Victoria due to the affiliate swap.
  • 18 July: Play School celebrates 50 years.
  • 16 September: 60th anniversary of television in Australia.
  • 19 September: ABC3 rebrands as ABC Me.
  • 15 November: SBS 2 rebrands as SBS Viceland.
  • 6 December: ABC relaunch ABC HD and the quality of ABC News 24 changes from HD to SD.
2017
  • 1 January: ABC Kids expands its time to 5am to 7.30pm, ABC2 also expands its time to 7:30pm to 2am.
  • 23 March: Southern Cross Television relaunches a high definition simulcast of their main channel, Southern Cross HD, in Tasmania on channel 60.
  • 8 April: SBS launches a high definition simulcast of SBS Viceland on channel 31.
  • 10 April: ABC News 24 rebrands as ABC News.
  • 31 May: WIN Television purchases NRN from Southern Cross.
  • 4 December ABC2 rebrands as ABC Kids/Comedy.

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