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Happy Birthday TEN

Video: Today marks the 50th anniversary since Network TEN first broadcast from ATV-0 in Nunawading.

2014-08-01_1542Today marks the 50th anniversary since Network TEN first broadcast from ATV-0 in Nunawading, Melbourne on August 1st 1964.

Yes that’s the site best known as Prisoner‘s Wentworth Detention Centre, and still home to Neighbours and the “Lassiters” backlot.

TEN-10 broadcast in Sydney from April 1965.

In honour of the occasion, here is a previous clip for TEN’s 21st birthday, although strictly speaking it was used for TEN Sydney.

TEN screens its 50 Years Young special at 6:30pm Sunday -and in a stroke of fortune, looks set to win the ratings week.

21 Responses

  1. Brilliant show, I hope channel 10 finds its way again. So many great moments. Carrie is the best asset this network has atm imho. Happy birthday TEN

  2. Watching the party….eating dinner…taking 2nd mouthful….Bondi Vet….little black doggie throws up …Eeewwwww…..
    Love 9yr old Asher Keddie…

  3. Any excuse for a party is good enough for me, hope the there is a bloopers segment to have a human touch but not as ridicule, and or not just present day hype to repair the damage some have inflicted on Network Ten over the years ( or what ever banner one can recall).

    Please ‘ No Party Poopers such as Paul Henry, Sir Andrew Bolt, Joe Hilderbrand or Promos’ for stuff Ten may or may not deliver or out of sequence/scattered if they do.

    Network Ten the ‘shout’ is on you.

  4. And before either 0 or 10 were even a glimmer, the older stations networked vaguely where 7 in one city were linked to 9 in another.

    I hope it was a good party last night at the Burvale. It was hard to find details, apart from on Facebook, where, when I tried to join up (3 times) I got no response whatsoever. I couldn’t recognise many member names from the very first days of 0 in Melbourne, apart from Di Rolle who was all of about 17 when she started in the Film Library. Done well Di !

  5. In the spirit of some being pedantic here, technically, TEN10, ATV10, TVQ10, ADS10, and NEW10 are no more since analogue was switched off. They now exist as TEN11, ATV11, TVQ11, ADS11, and NEW11.

    And don’t forget that ADS11, formerly ADS10, which as adelaide_john mentions before that was ADS7, launched back in 1959. Thus meaning ADS is 55 years old this year, the current oldest station in the current group TEN Network stations.

  6. Yeah, thanks for the clip. When it finished, up came a link to a video of the 40 year special in 2004 hosted by Rove & Bert. I decided to have a little look and 90 minutes later the dinner dishes are untouched and I am ready for bed! Still, if Sunday’s special is as good as this it will be well worth ignoring the dishes for.

  7. @maxxdude – STW-9 commenced broadcasting on 12 June 1965 and was the second commercial tv station in Perth. It was never a ‘channel 0’ station.
    @Regional Viewer – 1965 + 50 = 2015
    @Maev….Sydney – Just a few history lessons and corrections!

  8. OK people…like David said…any excuse for a cake…leave the nit picking and just enjoy the ride… 🙂
    And saw a promo while watching The Project….I did not realise Ann Sanders was at Ten.

  9. Russell, the 0-10 stations formed the Independent Television System (ITS) with the launch of ATV0 ahead of the sister stations in other cities. This was so they could buy and share programs among each other like 7 and 9 had already been doing.

    ITS then became the 0-10 Network and then Network Ten. But you are right that the concept of a “network” as we know it now didn’t really hit until the 80s/90s. But the grouping of separate stations into a “network” certainly dates back to 1964.

  10. TVQ 0 was launched in Brisbane on 1 July 1965 with the slogan Channel 0 is on the Go! & switched to TVQ 10 on 10 Sept 1988 to broadcast the Olympics. It was owned by Sir Reg Ansett along with ATV 0 Melbourne so there was an early network there & probably why it was the 0-10 Network up until January 1980.
    The original Perth Channel 0 became STW 9 in the late ’70s.

  11. @Russell- They weren’t ” playing the same programming” for many years. ATV-0 aired many programs that TCN-9 was airing. Patty Duke, Burke’s Law, Grindl, The Fugitive, Outer Limits, Greatest Show on Earth, Sgt Bilko, Phil Silvers, etc. These had been bought by WIN which R. Murdoch acquired in 1963.TEN aired ATV’s Young Talent Time and Matlock Police, but with a long time delay due to haggling over costs. Not until1972 when Number 96 started did ATV & TEN start to have anything like a similar program schedule, but nowhere near being common or a ‘network’ as it is today..

  12. As a child every christmas day my family would make the journey to the relatives from Reservoir to Mulgrave. We would always drive past the Nunawading site for Channel 10. It was in the middle of nowhere at the time and as time went on it produced my shows from that spot,my favourite being saturday mornings with Darryl Cotton & Marty Monster,absolute crack up time,all live.Sydney had nothing to do with it.

  13. NEW-10 Perth changed ownership before it even went to air. It was originally to be called WCW-10 (West Coast Television) and during the media takeover frenzy it was taken over and renamed NEW-10 a month or so before the first broadcast.

  14. So wait. The Ten Network is not 50 years old. But the TV station ATV-10 Melbourne is.

    It wasn’t a network until
    At least 3 stations were linked playing the same programming.

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