Regional WA’s new channel, Ten West, is ready to start its rollout across WA – with viewers in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Mawson, Mingenew and Karratha able to receive programs from 9.00am today, 10 June. Viewers in these areas with digital tuners will be able to access the full range of Network Ten programs, including Ten News, The …
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May 10 2010
TelevisionAU Update 10-May-10
https://www.televisionau.com NEW FLASHBACK #54: The behind-the-scenes workings of a fashion magazine formed the basis of the Seven Network’s 1972 drama Catwalk, a 13-part spin-off of the former ABC series Dynasty. Heading the cast was British actor John Forgeham as the magazine’s fiery-tempered editor. The cast line-up also included John Wood (pictured), Cecily Polson, Cornelia Frances …
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Mar 01 2010
South Australia next to go digital
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has announced that Regional South Australia and Broken Hill will be the second region in Australia to switch off analogue television transmission. In a media release issued today, the affected areas will lose analogue television transmissions on 15 December 2010, two weeks before the …
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Jan 25 2010
SBS starts up STVDIO
SBS has announced the launch of its new pay-TV channel, STVDIO, dedicated to entertainment and the arts. The new channel will debut on 1 April as a replacement for the Ovation Channel which is to close after not being renewed by Foxtel and Austar in favour of the new channel to be run by PAN …
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Jan 14 2010
Mildura: Six months to go
The Government has started playing commercials, specific to the Mildura/Sunraysia area, to remind viewers that local analogue signals will be shut down in less than six months – 30 June to be exact: Viewers will notice a couple of familiar names in the campaign – Rebekah Elmaloglou, best known from Home And Away, and David …
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Dec 30 2009
Going to party like it’s 1990…
Each week for the past two years we’ve been documenting the events of Australian TV during the corresponding week of thirty years ago – 1978 and 1979 – as reported in TV Times magazine. Now, sadly, we have to bring that sequence of posts to an end as we do not have a weekly archive …
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Jul 19 2009
1979: July 21-27
TV’s bravest star Being confined to a wheelchair has had little effect on the enthusiasm of actress Louise Philip. Since her car accident, in late 1972 while on a break from the long-running series Bellbird, Philip has been paralysed from the waist down. In a recent national magazine poll, Philip was ranked third as one …
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May 18 2009
SBS2 ready to roll in June
Back in February, Seven Network chief David Leckie promised that they were soon – within a month, apparently – going to tell us about their exciting new plans for a new digital channel to sit beside its existing primary channel and 7HD. The following month, SBS chief Shaun Brown announced that they were moving ahead …
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May 12 2009
Community TV not invited to the budget party
Tonight’s announcement of the Federal Budget for 2009-10 has promised a windfall for our national broadcasters, ABC and SBS, but the community TV sector – again – appears to have been left out in the cold. ABC has been allowed an additional $151.7 million in its budget allocation to fund the launch of its new …
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