1998 in Australian television

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Events

• March 27 - Darwin finally gets a second commercial television station when TND-34 opens, taking a Seven Network affiliation.
• WIN Television WA is granted a licence to broadcast to regional & remote Western Australia.
• November 27 - After 25 years, the Midday Show is retired by the Nine Network. A Current Affair draws with a final goodbye with Ray Martin in the hot-seat before retiring for the very last time. As the program is rested to try out a major revamp, he is definitely to be replaced by Mike Munro from February 1999. Martin returns to the program 5 years later.
• December - The remote Central & Eastern Australia markets are aggregated, with Imparja taking a Nine Network affiliation & Seven Central (formerly QSTV) taking a joint Seven & Network Ten affiliation.

Debuts

• All Saints (Seven Network)

Television shows

ABC

• Four Corners (1961-present)

Seven Network

• Wheel of Fortune (1981-1996, 1996-2003, 2004-06)
• Home and Away (1988-present)
• Blue Heelers (1994-2006)
• The Great Outdoors (1993-present)
• Today Tonight (1995-present)

Nine Network

• Today (1982-present)
• Sale of the Century (1980-2001)
• A Current Affair (1971-1978, 1988-present)
• Hey Hey It's Saturday (1971-1999)
• Midday (1973-1998)
• 60 Minutes (1979-present)
• Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (1990-2000, 2000-2004, 2005-present)
• The AFL Footy Show (1994-present)
• The NRL Footy Show (1994-present)
• Water Rats (1996-2001)
• Burgo's Catch Phrase (1997-2001, 2002-2003)
• The Price is Right (1993-1998)

Network Ten

• Neighbours (Seven Network 1985, Network Ten 1986-present)
• GMA with Bert Newton (1991-2005)
• Totally Full Frontal (1998-1999)
• Teletubbies (1997-1998)

Ending / Resting this year