NEW FLASHBACK #55:
For over thirty years Peter Hitchener has been a trusted face of news at GTV9, Melbourne. Starting his career in Brisbane in the 1960s, Hitchener then moved to Sydney’s TCN9. But then when he went further south to Melbourne in 1974, Hitchener was hosting a game show, Gambit, based on the card game Blackjack. Here he is, with Gambit hostess Ros Wood, making a guest appearance on GTV9’s Cartoon Corner, with host Daryl Somers. Picture: TV Week, 16 March 1974
CLASSIC TV GUIDES 
Melbourne:
1959 (First Sydney-Melbourne telecast)
1962 (Station affiliations change for GTV9 and HSV7)
1973 (The Mike Walsh Show begins)
1974 (Class Of ‘74 begins)
1974 (First colour test patterns)
1974 (Countdown begins)
1975 (Number 96’s ‘bomb-blast’ episode)
1983
Sydney:
1959
New South Wales:
1962
Brisbane:
1972 (Number 96 debuts. BTQ7’s The Big News extends to one hour)
Perth:
1986 (SBS expands to Perth)
TELEVISIONAU – THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION
https://www.televisionau.com
http://blog.televisionau.com
http://www.twitter.com/TelevisionAU
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/televisionau
http://au.youtube.com/user/TelevisionAU
Recent Comments