September 2014 archive

Obituary: Russ Tyson

Russ Tyson, the first person to appear on ABC television in Brisbane, has died at the age of 94. Tyson was a long-serving presenter for ABC radio in Brisbane, starting as a cadet announcer in the late 1930s. When World War II broke out he went on air in Borneo with the Australian Army’s radio station. After …

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Community TV ordered off the air

Earlier this month Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull pledged his government’s support for community broadcasting: “Committed as we are to Australia’s diversity, we are committed to community broadcasting,” Mr Turnbull told a gathering of politicians and representatives of the community broadcasting sector at a recent Morning Tea event at Parliament House. It seems Mr Turnbull has …

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1994: September 10-16

Cover: Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) ‘It’s time to jump off the cliff again!’ A guest role in this week’s episode of GP has given actor Garry McDonald a chance to stretch his boundaries. “I felt a while ago that I was always working with the same people, that I needed certain people for a safety net,” …

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Prime7 Albury turns 50

The launch of Albury’s first TV station AMV4 — now known as Prime7 — sparked an unusual TV rivalry, albeit a friendly one. Because Albury did not have any local TV station prior to AMV4’s debut in September 1964, local viewers keen to access television had installed large antennas so they could receive Shepparton stations GMV6 and ABGV3 …

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Obituary: Kerrie Biddell

Singer Kerrie Biddell has died at the age of 67 after a long illness. Biddell’s career began singing commercial jingles in the 1960s before scoring the job of backing vocalist for Dusty Springfield in Sydney in 1968. She joined pop group The Affair which went to London after winning a Battle Of The Bands competition in …

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1994: September 3-9

Cover: Deborah Hutton (Looking Good) A marriage of inconvenience Richard Piper and Brandon Burke play divorced guys who share a house in Seven‘s new comedy series Wedlocked. Their characters, publisher Lex Dexter (Piper) and psychologist Chris Gilchrist (Burke), are soon joined by the outrageous Susie Abruzzo (Dina Panozzo) who agrees to pretend to be Gilchrist’s …

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Nine Adelaide celebrates 55 years

NWS9 was Adelaide’s first television station, launching on Saturday, 5 September 1959. Over the next few weeks Nine Adelaide celebrates its 55th anniversary with a photographic exhibition at its North Adelaide studios. The exhibition will display rare photos from NWS9’s early days, including former personalities John Doherty, Kevin Crease, Ernie Sigley, Anne Wills, Rob Kelvin, Humphrey B Bear, Bobo The Clown …

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Remembering TV’s overnight sensations

These days there is little joy to be found in scanning overnight television — the hours between midnight and 6.00am where home shopping and paid programming dominates the commercial networks and channels like ABC2 and ABC3 close down for the night. But it could be said that there was possibly a ‘golden age’ for overnight TV, the …

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