It’s Melissa and Melissa It was three years ago that Melissa Bell and Melissa Tkautz (pictured) were rival competitors in the Miss Teen Australia contest — which Bell ended up winning. Now the two former teen pageant stars are rivals of another sort in Network Ten series E Street, with their characters both keen for the …
November 2012 archive
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Nov 06 2012
Looking sharp for the Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s longest running annual sporting event — this year is the 152nd running of the ‘race that stops the nation’. But the Melbourne Cup isn’t just about the horses… some would say more importantly it’s about the fashions on the field. The occasion of the Melbourne Cup usually gives the TV …
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Nov 02 2012
NITV goes free-to-air everywhere
Australia’s national indigenous broadcaster NITV gets a new lease on life when it begins broadcasting via SBS in December. NITV has been in operation since 2007 with coverage limited to remote free-to-air sites and pay TV in other areas, and its future has never really been assured until this year’s federal budget which allowed for …
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Nov 01 2012
Townsville television turns 50
It is 50 years ago since television came to tropical north Queensland, when TNQ7 launched in Townsville on 1 November 1962. The station, owned by Telecasters North Queensland Limited, was the second regional television station in Queensland — following the launch of DDQ10 in Toowoomba earlier the same year. TNQ7’s studios and transmitter were initially …
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