2013 in Australian television

Events

• 17 January – The Seven Network's longest running soap opera Home and Away celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• 18 January – The Nine Network's nightly current affairs programme A Current Affair turns 25.
• 22 February – Network Ten's CEO, James Warburton, is stood down after 14 months in the role, following a string of network ratings failures.
• 21 March – Phil Rankine and Amity Dry win an All-Stars edition of The Block.
• 1 April – SBS revamps SBS 2 with an aim on a youth-oriented audience.
• 7 April – Asher Keddie wins the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 2013 Logie Awards.
• 17 April – The court bans Mel B from appearing on Channel Nine's Australia's Got Talent. Instead she will continue with Channel Seven for an indefinite long run.
• 26 April – Days of Our Lives the US soap opera finishes its long 45-year run on the Nine Network, ending a 4-decade tradition of Daytime Soap operas in Australian Free-to-air Television. After 6 years off free-to-air, the program returns to Nine along with The Young and the Restless airing from 2 September on 9Gem
• 28 April – Dan and Steph Mulheron win the fourth season of My Kitchen Rules.
• 16 May – Cricketer Andrew Symonds wins the first series of Celebrity Splash!.
• 29 May – Robyn and Katie Dyke win the of The Biggest Loser.
• 17 June – Harrison Craig wins the second season of The Voice.
• 1 July – Carly Schulz and Leighton Brow win the first season of House Rules.
• 28 July – Alisa and Lysandra Fraser win the seventh season of The Block.
• 27 August – Nancy Ho wins the first series of The Great Australian Bake Off.
• 24 September – Melissa Juratowitch wins the eighth cycle of Australia's Next Top Model.
• 16 October – Hillal Kara-Ali wins the sixth and final season of The Mole, taking home $180,000 in prize money. Erin Dooley is revealed as the Mole, and Aisha Jefcoate is the runner-up.
• 28 October – Dami Im wins the fifth season of The X Factor.
• 2 November – Channel Seven again bans Mel B from appearing on Channel Ten's The Project in the last minute before it goes to air.
• 6 November – Tim Dormer wins the tenth season of Big Brother.
• 10 November – Music trio Uncle Jed win the seventh season of Australia's Got Talent.
• 26 November – Illusionist Cosentino and his partner Jessica Raffa win the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.
• 10 December – The final analogue signals are turned off in Melbourne and Surrounds as well as Remote Central and Eastern Australia, bringing an end to 57 years of analogue broadcasting in Australia.

  Deaths

• 13 January – Bille Brown, AM, playwright and actor who appeared in numerous television series.
• 26 January – Patricia Lovell, AM, MBE, Australian film producer, best known to a generation as star of children's television series Mr. Squiggle as Miss Pat in the 1960s and 1970s.
• 2 March – Peter Harvey, journalist with the Nine Network for 38 years.
• 27 June – Maureen Duval, host of Good Morning Sydney from 1978 to 1989, and later a panellist on Beauty and the Beast.
• 15 September – Joyce Jacobs, English-born Australian actress who appeared in A Country Practice from 1981 to 1994.
• 10 December – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

• Johnny Lockwood, British Australia actor, star of Number 96
• Brian Moll, British Australian actor The Young Doctors and A Country Practice
• Binny Lum,,, Pioneering radio and television personality

  Channels

New channels

• 28 March – eXtra
• 17 September – Spree TV
• 22 or 25 November – Fresh Ideas TV

  Renamed channels

• 1 January – Foxtel Movies
• 2 April – SBS 2

  Digital television transition

Analogue switch-off

• 2 April – Adelaide
• 9 April – Tasmania
• 16 April – Perth
• 28 May – Brisbane, Gold Coast
• 25 June – Regional Western Australia
• 28 July – Darwin
• 3 December – Sydney
• 10 December – Melbourne, Remote Central and Eastern Australia

  Restack/Retune

Premieres

Domestic series

International series

Telemovies

Miniseries

Documentary specials

Specials

Programming changes

Changes to network affiliation

Free-to-air premieres

Subscription premieres

Endings

Returning this year