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1998 in Australian television

Events

February – Kim Kilbey starts hosting Australia's Funniest Home Video Show.
12 February – British Swiss children's animated TV series Pingu (which started off as a segment on Seven Network's The Book Place) makes its air on ABC for the very first time starting off with the first two episodes at 8:25am. It will later broadcast several more episodes on 24 March at 3:55pm and again in several months on weekdays at 10:25am, 9:25am, 7:25am (for Sundays), 8:25am (for a second time) and at 4:55pm (until 1 January 1999 in all states and on 8 January 1999 in Western Australia).
16 February – The pink rabbit Mixy from The Ferals/Feral TV presents her very own children's weekday morning block on ABC starting from 7:30am to 10:00am.
16 February – British children's TV series Teletubbies debuts on ABC.
18 February – Australian talk show The Panel debuts on Network Ten.
24 February – Australian hospital drama series All Saints debuts on Seven Network.
27 March – 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.
10 May – Australian drama series SeaChange debuts on ABC.
24 June – In Neighbours, Karl Kennedy has a massive fight with Susan Kennedy about his feud with Sarah Beaumont, and slaps him in the face very hard.
31 July – The Wiggles' first self-titled television series, screens on the Seven Network.
5 October – Pokémon makes it debut on Network Ten.
27 November – 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. Martin was replaced by Mike Munro from December 1998. 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.
20 December – The pay television station, Disney Channel Australia launch the Wiggles in a TV special taking place in Disneyland, California titled The Wiggles Live at Disneyland, this was later screened on the Seven Network.
21 December – Network Ten debuts a brand new children's series aimed at pre-schoolers called In the Box.

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