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11 November - 7Two, 7mate, GEM, Go!, One HD and 11 expand to South Eastern South Australia.
30 September - Ten Late News and Sports Tonight withdrawn their broadcasts for the very last time.
26 October – David Knox of TV Tonight announces Susan Bower will be written out as Neighbours' excutive producer.
1 October - Network Ten broadcasts AFL for the very last time, before handing the expanded television rights to the Seven Network.
9 September - Nine Network confirmed that they were bringing back Big Brother Australia in 2012.
1 August - Surfers and best friends Tyler Atkins and Nathan Jolliffe win the first season of The Amazing Race Australia.

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...that television did not arrive in Darwin until NTD-8 commenced transmissions in 1971?
...the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (pictured) was originally a group of radio stations?
...that the original television stations in Melbourne and Sydney were established by November, 1956 in order to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics?
...all television stations were required to convert to colour on March 1, 1975?
...that TCN-9 Sydney was Australia's first television station?
...it was not until 1977 that the VFL Grand Final was telecast live?
...community television was introduced with C31 Melbourne in 1994?

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