This is a list of Australian television events and premieres that are scheduled to occur in 2015, the 60th year of continuous operation of
television in Australia
Television in Australia began experimentally as early as 1929 in Melbourne with radio stations 3DB and 3UZ, and 2UE in Sydney, using the ''Radiovision'' system by Gilbert Miles and Donald McDonald, and later from other locations, such as Bris ...
.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Channels
Channel launches
* 1 February –
Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group ...
,
HGTV
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. As of February 2015, appr ...
,
Travel Channel
Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which had previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007. The channel is headquartered in New York, New York, United S ...
(
Fetch TV
Fetch TV is an Australian IPTV provider that delivers a subscription television service over a user's regular internet service. Fetch TV launched in 2010 backed by its Malaysian parent Astro Malaysia Holdings. On 2 August 2022, Telstra acquire ...
only)
* 28 March –
Foxtel Arts
Foxtel Arts was a subscription television arts channel available in Australia on the Foxtel platform.
History
Foxtel Arts replaced the SBS owned arts channel Studio, and became the third iteration of a dedicated arts channel on Foxtel in six ...
,
Foxtel Movies Disney+2
* 28 August –
Racing.com
Racing.com (stylised as RACING.COM) is an Australian free-to-air standard-definition digital television channel, owned and operated by the Seven Network and Racing Victoria. The channel broadcasts live Victorian and South Australian horse racing ...
(Free-To-Air)
* 17 November –
Food Network Australia
* 26 November –
9Life
9Life is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel owned by Nine Entertainment. The channel airs mostly foreign lifestyle and reality programs, with the channel having a licensing agreement with Discovery Inc. (previously Scrip ...
,
9HD
9HD is an Australian television channel owned by Nine Entertainment, originally launched on 17 March 2008 featuring unique "breakaway" programming until 2009 and a high-definition simulcast of the Nine Network from 2009 to 2010 and again sin ...
Closed channels
* 15 March –
TVN TVN may refer to:
* TVN (Australian TV channel), a former horse racing channel
* Televisión Nacional de Chile, a public broadcaster
* TVN (Indonesia), a former television station; predecessor of Rajawali Televisi
* TVN (Norway), or TVNorge, a comm ...
* 28 March –
STUDIO
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(replaced by Foxtel Arts)
* 31 October –
Bio.
* 26 November –
eXtra
Extra or Xtra may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Film
* ''The Extra'' (1962 film), a Mexican film
* ''The Extra'' (2005 film), an Australian film
Literature
* ''Extra'' (newspaper), a Brazilian newspaper
* ''Extra!'', an American me ...
(replaced by 9Life)
* 20 December –
TVS
Renamed channels
* 1 August –
111 (was 111 Greats)
* 26 November –
9Go!
9Go! is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Nine Network on 9 August 2009, replacing Nine Guide. It is a youthful channel that offers a mix of comedy, reality, general entertainment, movies, anim ...
(was GO! channel)
* 26 November –
9Gem
9Gem is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, launched by the Nine Network in September 2010. The channel provides general entertainment and movie programming, from which the original name "GEM" is derived.
History
Nine N ...
(was GEM Channel)
Deaths
Ratings
For the 2015
calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days. A year can also be measured by starting on any o ...
, the Seven Network had the highest consolidated metro ratings share with 29% of the audience. Channel Seven was the most watched primary channel (20.4% share) and
7Two was the most watched multichannel (4.7% share). Of the twenty most watched programs, 13 programs were sports coverage, including the most watched program being the
2015 AFL Grand Final
The 2015 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 2015. It was the 120th annual Grand Final of the Australian F ...
with 2.64 million viewers. The highest rated non-sport program was the announcement of the
seventh season winner of ''
MasterChef Australia
''MasterChef Australia'' is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British ''MasterChef''. It is produced by Endemol Shine Australia and screens on Network 10. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Cal ...
'' with 2.2 million viewers.
On subscription television, all but one of the top twenty most watched titles was sport, including the
2015 Cricket World Cup Final
The final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup took place on 29 March 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It was played between the tournament's two co-hosts, New Zealand and Australia. Australia went into the game as favouri ...
on
Fox Sports 3
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush'').
Twelv ...
, which topped the list with 616,000 viewers. The only non-sport program making the list was ''
Game of Thrones
''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first ...
'' which averaged 356,000 across its season.
Premieres
Domestic series
International series
Telemovies and miniseries
Documentaries
Specials
Programming changes
Changes to network affiliation
Criterion for inclusion in the following list is that Australian premiere episodes will air in Australia for the first time on a new channel. This includes when a program is moved from a free-to-air network's primary channel to a digital multi-channel, as well as when a program moves between subscription television channels – provided the preceding criterion is met. Ended television series which change networks for repeat broadcasts are not included in the list.
Free-to-air premieres
This is a list of programs which made their premiere on Australian free-to-air television that had previously premiered on
Australian subscription television. Programs may still air on the original subscription television network.
Subscription premieres
This is a list of programs which made their debut on
Australian subscription television, having previously premiered on Australian free-to-air television. Programs may still air (first or repeat) on the original free-to-air television network.
Returning programs
Australian produced programs which are returning with a new season after being absent from television from the previous calendar year.
Endings
See also
*
2015 in Australia
*
List of Australian films of 2015
This is a list of Australian films scheduled for release in 2015.
2015
See also
* 2015 in film
*2015 in Australia
*2015 in Australian television
* List of 2015 box office number-one films in Australia
External links
2015 Australian film ...
Notes
*Unconfirmed; filming postponed in August 2014.
*Unconfirmed; in development as of September 2013.
*Originally set to premiere in a previous year; auditions were announced in October 2012.
*Unconfirmed; originally announced to air in 2013.
*Originally aired as a segment on Seven Network's current affairs programme ''
Sunday Night'', rather than a stand-alone series
*Made its free-to-air premiere the following night on Network Ten.
*The first two episodes premiered on Nine, and subsequent episodes premiered on Stan.
*Originally scheduled to premiere on 31 January 2015.
*Originally scheduled to premiere on 23 February 2015.
*Originally scheduled to premiere on 19 February 2015.
References
{{Years in Australian TV