Aug 14 2010
Prime newsreader Doug Hogan last night presented the final edition of Prime News to be produced from the Wagga Wagga studios, ending 46 years of television production what was previously home to local station RVN2. Since the late 1980s, RVN has been part of the Prime television network. From Monday, Hogan will present the Wagga …
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Aug 13 2010
‘Whatever happened to old-fashioned romance?’ Being an actress since the age of nine, 16-year-old Rebekah Elmaloglou (pictured) has not had the most normal of childhoods and often yearns to be ‘just an average teenager’. Although while she let go of her childhood earlier than most, she believes young people should not rush to reach adulthood. …
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Aug 08 2010
ABC’s new high-definition news channel ABC News 24 has clocked up over a million viewers in its first ratings survey. The channel, which launched on 22 July, only started reporting ratings data from last Sunday. The first week of the channel’s ratings data shows that 1.3 million viewers in the five capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, …
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Aug 07 2010
Ray Martin makes a return to the 6.30pm timeslot in a couple of weeks – but it’s not on A Current Affair, the show that he hosted for many years, but rather as a guest on ABC’s Talking Heads. Martin talks candidly to host Peter Thompson about his early childhood life – a life of …
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Aug 07 2010
I won’t be back! The producers of Hey Dad! are about to face a crisis with the departure of one the show’s key cast members. Simone Buchanan, who plays Debbie Kelly in the Seven Network series, is openly telling friends that she is definitely leaving the popular comedy. However, show producer Gary Reilly has told …
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Aug 06 2010
Almost three quarters of Australian households have converted at least one television set to digital, according to the latest Digital Tracker survey released by the Federal Government. The survey, covering the period of April to June this year, found that 74 per cent of households have converted to digital – an increase from 68 per …
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Aug 02 2010
Is it goodbye to the Valley? A Country Practice star John Tarrant (pictured, with co-star Georgie Parker) has flagged the possibility that it may soon be time to move on from the popular drama. “At the moment I don’t know if I could do another year,” he told TV Week. “There are a lot of …
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Aug 01 2010
The occasion of Johnny Lockwood’s 90th birthday was as good a reason as any to bring together some of his former Number 96 co-stars and to assemble at the real-life apartment building that posed as Australia’s most famous address in the 1970s. “It’s so special celebrating my birthday in the original Number 96,” he told …
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