Mar 14 2010
TV Week is expected to announce Bert Newton as the host of this year’s TV Week Logie Awards. The TV legend, a four-time Gold Logie winner and inductee into the Logie Awards’ Hall of Fame, has hosted the awards a record-breaking 18 times already – the last time he hosted the awards was in 1993 …
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Mar 13 2010
With today marking the 38th anniversary of ‘the night Australian TV lost its virginity’ and the release of the third DVD of Number 96, here’s a brief look at how the Americans adapted Australia’s hit show of the ‘70s for their own market. Envious of the success of super soap Dallas on rival network CBS, …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/the-series-they-tried-to-ban-in-australia.html
Mar 10 2010
While the Community TV sector was successful (finally!) in gaining access to Digital Television, now comes the hard part where they have to now make the actual transition. So while Melbourne’s C31 acknowledges that it received a donation from the Federal Government to help facilitate its move to digital, they claim it is not enough, …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/c31-seeking-dollars-for-digital.html
Mar 08 2010
‘Stay out of my life!’ While actress Simone Buchanan (pictured) is often portraying the unlucky-in-love tales of the elder daughter Debbie in Hey Dad, she says her real-life romances have been less than comical. Even though she is in a happy relationship at present, Buchanan’s past has been tainted with a number of unhappy romances …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/1990-february-24-march-2.html
Mar 08 2010
Cover: Johnny Depp, Dannii Minogue Fast lane to death After 20 years in the industry, journalist John Budd recalls the last 18 months have been a nightmare. “When the industry collapsed it left a lot of people without jobs,” he says. Facing unemployment following the axing of Network Ten’s Public Eye current affairs program, Budd …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/1990-february-17-23.html
Mar 04 2010
Regional network Prime Television is set to wind back its local news production with news that its various local bulletins, covering parts of NSW and North East Victoria, are to be centralised to the network’s main programming hub in Canberra. From 1 July, production will begin to be phased out from local studios, in towns …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/prime-news-goes-less-local.html
Mar 01 2010
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/south-australia-next-to-go-digital.html
Mar 01 2010
The Australian’s media columnist Amanda Meade has leaked an “unauthorised” list of names being considered for this year’s TV Week Logie Awards’ Hall of Fame. Normally the award is nominated and voted in private by an industry panel, with the winner announced prior to the awards ceremony. According to Meade the following names are on …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/03/logies-hall-of-fame-names-leaked.html
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