Dates | Achievements |
15 April 1992 | Melbourne's Deaf Children TV Workshop (DCTVW) was established by a group of four Deaf and three hearing adults in Petrie Street, Frankston. It was a first Deaf TV organisation in Australia. |
15 October 1992 | DCTVW was changed to Deaf TV Network (DTN) which became incorporated. |
24 October 1993 | Deaf TV Network (DTN) launched a first-ever Deaf TV program broadcasting in Australia. It was broadcasted from Northern Access TV studio on Channel 31. Jolimont Square Social Club (Deaf Club at Jolimont) became a first paid sponsor to advertise its activity in a break in the program. |
November 1993 | DTN broadcasted the second program on Melbourne Channel 31. |
December 1993 | DTN's Christmas program became Australia's first Deaf program to be broadcasted in a foreign country when it was shown on BBC's See Hear in Britain. |
28 December 1993 | DTN's same Christmas program - the third - became Australia's first Deaf program to be broadcasted nationally when it was shown on SBS Channel 28 in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Some of the participants in the 1993/1994 Australian Deaf Games in Adelaide watched this program in the motels. |
February 1996 | National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Lanuage Research (NIDS) at La Trobe University, Melbourne, became the second Deaf TV organisation in Australia to broadcast when they ran 26 programs of SIGN ON on SBS Channel 28. |
27 February 1998 | DTN was disbanded. |
1998 | National Deaf TV Project (NDTV) was established in Sydney and it was run by a sub-committee of Australian Association of the Deaf (AAD). It became the third Deaf Deaf TV organisation in Australia. |
July 2002 | Melbourne's Deaf TV was established by a young Deaf people group on the Jolimont premises of Victorian Deaf Society. It became the fourth organisation in Australia. |
17 December 2002 | Melbourne's Deaf TV (DTV) became the third Deaf organisation to broadcast in Australia when its 1st DEAF TV program was screened on Melbourne Channel 31. |
24 December 2002 | DTV ran its second DEAF TV program. |
1 April 2003 | DTV started its 2nd DEAF TV series |
30 June 2003 | DTV's 2ndDEAF TV series ended. |
3 October 2003 | DTV resumed the 3rd DEAF TV series. |
31 December 2003 | DTV's 3rd DEAF TV series ended. |
3 January 2005 | DTV launched its 4th DEAF TV series. |
6-16 January 2005 | DTV's three-man crew attended at the 2005 Melbourne Deaflympics every day from 7 am to 10 pm and, with their knowledge of who's who, they were able to film the elite athletes. It was the longest Deaf documentry assigment in history. The Deaflympics was later broadcasted for six weeks in February/March. |
May 2005 | Deaf TV's first Deaf foreign film - Japanese drama by a Deaf Australian director in Japan - was screened on TV - Australia's first-ever Deaf foreign segment on TV. Three Deaf Japanese segments followed it. |
7 September 2005 | DTV's first interstate programs were shown on Adelaide Channel 31. It ran the 1st DEAF TV series for twelve months. |
8 April 2006 | NDTV - now Signpost - became the fourth Deaf organisation to broadcast in Australia when it was shown on TV Sydney (TVS). It was the 1st of its six programs shown in 2006. |
30 September 2006 | DTV ended its 4th DEAF TV series. |
1 January 2007 | DTV resumed the 5th DEAF TV series. |
8 June 2007 | Sydney's Signpost became the first Deaf organisation to win Channel 31's Antenna Award - "Program of the Year". |
19 October 2007 | DTV's first assigment was recorded overseas when the DTV crew filmed New Zealand Deaf Games in Auckland, NZ. |
October 2007 | Melbourne Channel 31 (C31)'s website - www.c31.org.au - launched the screenings of many clients including Deaf TV. C31 ran three Deaf TV videos from previous weeks. |
30 December 2007 | Deaf TV announced a launch of our new website and the launch was embedded into YouTube in which 900 hits were scored in next two weeks. |
31 December 2007 | DTV ended the 5th DEAF TV series. |
7 January 2008 | DTV began its 6th DEAF TV series |
2 September 2008 | DTV resumed its 2nd DEAF TV series in Adelaide. |
29 September 2008 | Deaf TV screened its first European deaf sequence import - Finnish Deaf Opera. |
29 December 2008 | DTV ended the 6th DEAF TV series. |
5 January 200 | DTV began its7th DEAF TV series. |
1 May 2009 | Deaf TV joined Facebook. Within one month. 4000 fans joined Deaf TV's "Club". |
31 August 2009 | DTV ended the 7th DEAF TV series. |
8 March 2010 | DTV began the 8th DEAF TV series. In Adelaide - 5th April - 3rd DEAF TV series |
19 April 2010 | A first Deaf British film, produced by a young Deaf director, called Death By Deafness was broadcasted in Australia when it was shown in the Deaf TV program. |
