On 7 August 2007, Network Ten and Foxtel officially signed a new agreement allowing Ten's digital signal to be transmitted via Foxtel ’ s cable and satellite services.

Some new Foxtel Services offer a " Video On Demand " ability for limited product, various transmission paths offer a broader VOD version.

On 15 November 2009, Fox8 HD was launched on Austar and Foxtel.

On 23 August 2006, Foxtel announced the Fox Footy Channel would cease broadcasting at the conclusion of the current AFL season and be replaced with Fox Sports 3.

On 11 July 2011, Austar announced that " it had entered into definitive transaction agreements with Liberty Global, Inc. ( LGI ) and Foxtel Management Pty Limited ( Foxtel ) under which Foxtel will acquire AUSTAR by a series of transactions including a scheme of arrangement ( Scheme ).

On 21 January 2008, Murdoch and James Packer announced that their companies, Illyria Pty Ltd and Consolidated Press Holdings would seek to privatise Consolidated Media Holdings which owns holdings in the Nine Network, Foxtel and Australian Consolidated Press.

On 1 March 1999, Switkowski was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Australia's public and largest telecommunications company Telstra, and to the Board of Directors of Telstra's pay television partner Foxtel.

On 20 December 1966, Holt announced that Australia's military force in Vietnam was to be increased again to 6, 300 troops plus an additional twelve tanks, two minesweepers and eight bombers.

On 4 June 1829, newly arriving British colonists had their first view of the mainland, and Western Australia's Foundation Day has since been recognised by a public holiday on the first Monday in June each year.

On 9 May 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament House was opened on Capital Hill as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, and the Federal Parliament moved there from the Provisional Parliament House, now known as Old Parliament House .< ref name = pho >

In 2007, Gideon Haigh wrote an article in The Monthly arguing that On the Beach is Australia's most important novel: " Most novels of apocalypse posit at least a group of survivors and the semblance of hope.

* On May 11, 2009 and May 12, 2009, Jerry Seinfeld filmed a commercial for Australia's " Greater " bank in Cedarhurst.

On 30 May 2012, S Club featured on Australia's Channel 7 The Morning Show, announcing they are in the country for a national tour from 23 May to 2 June 2012.

On the basis of his studies of international heads of state, Duffy was one of six people ( including Sir Ellis Clarke, the former Governor-General and President of Trinidad and Tobago ) commissioned in 1993 by Australia's Republic Advisory Committee to prepare reports on international republican experiences — to appear as an appendix to the committee's main report.

On November 21, 2011 Salt-N-Pepa appeared on The X-Factor Australia's third season with contestant and finalist Johnny Ruffo.

On 17 June 1865 the first known rugby match to be played in Australia took place in Hyde Park between members of Australia's first rugby club, the Sydney Football Club, which had been established that month.

On 8 April 1942 an Imperial Japanese force consisting of the light cruiser Tatsuta, destroyer Mutsuki and a troop transport ship Mishima Maru entered Lorengau harbour, and several hundreds of Japanese soldiers of the 8th Special Base Force, swarmed ashore onto Australia's mandated responsibility.

On 12 July 2012, Harry Kewell was named Australia's greatest football player in voting by Australian fans, players and media, at a gala ceremony in Sydney.

One day later an article was reported on SBS's The World Game website that Harry Kewell's manager, Bernie Mandic, had explained why an innovative proposal to bring the Socceroos star to the A-League failed at the final hurdle and that Mandic claimed that Football Federation Australia's head of corporate affairs and communications, Kyle Patterson, had made Kewell look like a greedy villain by misrepresenting the facts On 7 July, The Australian stated that there had been claims that Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC had signed him.

On the 7th of February 2004, 2. 5 million Oriental Pratincoles were recorded on Eighty Mile Beach in Australia's north-west by the Australasian Wader Studies Group.

On 2 August he successfully moved a vote of no-confidence against Premier Walter James, and was asked to form Western Australia's first Labor government.

On 3 September 1939 Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station across Australia.

* 1968: On 14 October, the town of Meckering was almost destroyed in Australia's second worst earthquake with a magnitude of 6. 9 on the Richter Scale.

On 24 August 2011, the Gillard Government appointed Beattie as Australia's first Resources Sector Supplier Envoy charged with promoting a Buy Australian at Home and Abroad program for supplying products to the Australian resources industry.

On 26 March 2009 TVNZ announced that it had acquired a 33 % stake in Hybrid Television Services ( 67 % owned by Australia's Seven Media Group ).

On 21 July 2008 Tim Fischer was nominated by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as the first resident Australian Ambassador to the Holy See since 1973, when diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Australia were first established .. Tim Fischer worked closeley with the Vatican on all aspects of the canonisation of Australia's first Roman Catholic saint, Mary MacKillop.

* On 28 April 2008, Australia's Governor-General Major General ( ret ) Michael Jeffery and Israeli President Shimon Peres unveiled a monument to the Light Horse in Beersheba, Israel.

On 16 January 2009, Trooper Mark Donaldson, a member of the SASR, was awarded Australia's highest gallantry medal, the Victoria Cross for Australia.

On 28 June 1880 in the nearby small town of Glenrowan located some 10 km away the final shootout that led to the capture of Australia's most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly occurred.

On 10 June 2012, a television docudrama based on the life of Mabo was broadcast on Australia's Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) network.

* On 6 January 1992, he was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia ( AC ), Australia's highest civilian honour, " for eminent service to Australian / Greek relations ".

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

On November 18, 2004, however, the CRTC approved an application by cable companies to offer Fox News on the digital cable tier.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

On 25 September 1883 a test of a cable car system was held by Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company in Kirkdale, Liverpool.

On cable, only digital ( DVB-C ) will be broadcast from 2008 on.

On 28 March 1988 an 8, 000 telephone circuit fibre optic cable, the longest unregenerated system in Europe, was inaugurated.

The original taglines of the channel were " You'll never look at music the same way again ," and " On cable.

On 29 November 1939 he sent out a cable regarding the " Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces ", describing details of the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which would be the basis on which those deportations were performed.

) On cable TV, it is possible to use adjacent channels only because they are all at the same power, something which could only be done over the air if the two stations were transmitted at the same power and height from the same location.

On the other hand, a one-way audio phantom could be formed from the two pairs ( go and return signals ) making up the star-quad cable.

On December 17, 2006, CANTAT-3 services were disrupted due to damage to the submarine cable, resulting in loss of service to hundreds of thousands of users connecting via internet and media providers ( Síminn, Vodafone and Hive ).

On October 21, 2009 it was announced that cable channel Nickelodeon ( a subsidiary of Viacom ) had purchased all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.

On the converse, electric and magnetic fields outside the cable are largely kept from causing interference to signals inside the cable.

On the other hand, a similar laboratory supporting a coaxial cable manufacturer may not be as familiar with this specific calibration subject.

On May 20, 2003, Nintendo released the " Nintendo GameCube Preview Disc " for the Nintendo GameCube, which allows players to download the NES version of Dr. Mario to their Game Boy Advance consoles using the Nintendo GameCube – Game Boy Advance cable.

On January 11, 1949, the coaxial cable linking East and Midwest ( known in television circles as " the Golden Spike ") was activated.

On April 6, 2010 the cable suspending the bob in the Musée des Arts et Métiers snapped, causing irreparable damage to the pendulum and to the marble flooring of the museum.

On the opening game of the season, broadcast on the TNT Network and featuring the debut of James and Bosh in Heat uniforms, the game was the most-watched NBA contest ever on cable television.

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

The premiere of the crossover special Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana ( involving Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life on Deck and Hannah Montana ) also beat out its competition, both cable and broadcast network programming, on the night of its premiere with 9. 1 million viewers ( making it the highest-rated episodes of Wizards and On Deck to date ).

On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012 ; the Disney Junior channel ( which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD ) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.

* Disney Channel On Demand is the channel's video-on-demand service, offering select episodes of the channel's original series and Disney Junior programming, along with select original movies and behind-the-scenes features to digital cable and IPTV providers.