| Dates |
History Items |
| 15 April 1992 |
Melbourne's Deaf Children TV Workshop (DCTVW) was established by a group in Petrie Street, Frankston, the outer Melbourne suburb. It was a first deaf TV organisation in Australia. |
| 15 Oct 1992 |
DCTVW was changed to Deaf TV Network (DTN) which became incorporated. |
| 24 Oct 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. |
| Nov 1993 |
DTN broadcasted the second program on Melbourne Channel 31. |
| Dec 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 Dec 1993 |
DTN's same Christmas program - the third - became Australia's first deaf program broadcasting nationally when it was shown on SBS Channel 28 in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Some of the participants in the 1993/94 Australian Deaf Games in Adelaide watched the programs in their motels. |
| Feb 1996 |
National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language Research (NIDS) at Latrobe University, Melbourne, became the second deaf TV organisation in Australia when they ran 26 programs of SIGN ON on SBS Channel 28. |
| 27 Feb 1998 |
DTN was disbanded. |
| 1 March 1998 |
National Deaf TV Project (NDTV) was established in Sydney and it was run by a sub-committee of Australian Association of the Deaf (later Deaf Australia). It became the third deaf TV organisation in Australia. |
| 15 July 2002 |
Melbourne's Deaf TV was established by a young deaf group on the Jolimont premises of Victorian Deaf Society. It became the fourth deaf TV organisation. |
| 17 Dec 2002 |
Melbourne's Deaf TV (DTV) became the third deaf organisation to broadcast in Australia when their first DEAF TV program was screened on Channel 31 in Melbourne and Geelong. |
| 24 Dec 2002 |
DTV ran the second DEAF TV program. |
| 1 April 2003 |
DTV began their second DEAF TV series. |
| 30 June 2003 |
DTV's second DEAF TV series ended. |
| 3 Oct 2003 |
DTV began their third DEAF TV series. |
| 31 Dec 2003 |
DTV's third DEAF TV series ended. |
| 3 Jan 2004 |
DTV launced their fourth DEAF TV series. |
| 6-16 Jan 2005 |
DTV's three-man crew attended at the 2005 Melbpurne Deaflympics every day and night with their knowledge in who's who in sports and they filmed the elite competitions. It was a longest deaf document assigment in deaf history. The 6-TV program Deaflympics were broadcasted for six weeks in February/March. |
| May 2005 |
Deaf TV's first deaf foreign film - Japanese drama by a deaf Melbourne director - was screened on TV as Australia's first-ever deaf foreign segment on TV. The deaf Japanese films were shown in the following weeks. |
| 7 Sept 2005 |
DTV's first interstate programs were shown on Adelaide Channel 31. It was run foe 12 months. |
| 8 April 2006 |
NDTV - now SIGNPOST - became the fourth deaf organisation to broadcast in Ausytralia when it was shown on TV Sydney (TVS). It was the first of six programs shown in the year. |
| 30 Sept 2006 |
DTV ended the fourth DEAF TV series. |
| 1 Jan 2007 |
DTV started the fifth DEAF TV series. |
| 19 Oct 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's (C31) website launched the screens of many clients including Deaf TV. C31 ran three DEAF TV videos from previous programs shown on TV. |
| 30 Dec 2007 |
Deaf TV announced a launch of their new website -www.deaftv.org.au - and the launch was embedded in YouTube in which 1000 hits were scored in next two weeks. |
| 31 Dec 2007 |
DTV ended the fifth DEAF TV series. |
| 7 Jan 2008 |
DTV began the sixth DEAF TV series. |
| 2 Sept 2008 |
DTV launched the second DEAF TV series in Adelaide. |
| 29 Sept 08 |
Deaf TV screened its first deaf European sequence import - Finnish Deaf Opera. |
| 29 Dec 08 |
DTV ended the sixth DEAF TV series. |
| 5 Jan 2009 |
DTV started the seventh DEAF TV series. |
| 1 May 09 |
Deaf TV joined Facebook as a club. Within one month, it attracted 4000 fans. Deaf TV owns Deaf Television in the Facebook. |
| 31 Aug 09 |
DTV ended the seventh DEAF TV series. |
| 8 March 10 |
DTV started the eight DEAF TV series - - three-month run. |
| 5 April 10 |
DTV started the 3-month third DEAF TV series in Adelaide. |
| 19 April 10 |
A first deaf British film, produced by a young deaf director, called Death by Deafness was screened in the DEAF TV program on Channel 31. |
| 6 Sept 10 |
DTV began the ninth DEAF TV series - - three-month run. |
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1 Nov 2010
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DTV resumed the 3-month fourth DEAF TV series in Adelaide |
| 7 March 11 |
DTV resumed the tenth DEAF TV series - three-month run. |
| 3 May 2011 |
DTV resumed the 3-month fifth DEAF TV series in Adelaide |
| 6 Sept 2011 |
DTV to resume the tenth DEAF TV series - three-month run. |
