October 2022 archive

Out on a Limb on 26 Hill Street

In the 1960s, Bobby Limb was one of Australia’s most popular entertainers and TV personalities, winning the TV Week Gold Logie in 1964. His variety show The Mobil-Limb Show was one of Australia’s first “national” variety shows and his later production, Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music was a long-running and multi award-winning series for the …

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Nine News Darwin turns 40

Earlier this week, Nine News Darwin celebrated 40 years of news reporting. Although Nine (then NTD8) had been providing a limited news service in its early years, it ceased to do so after 1974, when Cyclone Tracy decimated Darwin and left the channel off the air for ten months. It was 1982 before the channel …

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