This weekend marks the shift of Nine‘s Sydney operations to a new address in North Sydney — ending 64 years at Artarmon Road, Willoughby. The move comes five years after Nine sold the Willoughby site for $147.5 million, with Nine holding a lease while it prepared to move to the new address. The Willoughby studios …
Tag: 60 Minutes
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2020/11/nine-farewells-willoughby-studios.html
Nov 06 2020
Obituary: Gerald Stone
Gerald Stone, the American-born journalist who launched 60 Minutes in Australia, has died at the age of 87. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he came to Australia with his wife Beth and two daughters in 1962. After three years as a Vietnam correspondent for The Daily Mirror and The Australian newspapers, he made the move to …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2020/11/obituary-gerald-stone.html
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2020/08/what-we-watched-august-2003.html
Jan 26 2020
TV names in Australia Day Honours List
Nine Network newsreader Peter Overton (pictured), veteran performer Noeline Brown, transgender actor and activist Georgie Stone and TV presenter Johanna Griggs are among television identities to feature in this year’s Australia Day Honours List: Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO): Ian Healy (AO) — “For distinguished service to cricket at …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2020/01/tv-names-in-australia-day-honours-list.html
Nov 30 2019
The end for Today Tonight… again
Viewers on the east coast may have thought that Seven‘s Today Tonight ended years ago — but in Adelaide and Perth, local editions of the show have continued up until this week. The Adelaide version, fronted by Rosanna Mangiarelli, wound up on Thursday night. The Perth edition, hosted by Monika Kos, finished on Friday. It …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/11/the-end-for-today-tonight-again.html
Jul 23 2019
30 years since 10 TV Australia
The year 1988 was one of the best for the Ten Network. Ratings were high on the back of the Olympic Games, Ten News, hit shows Neighbours and The Comedy Company, Sydney rugby league and a strong line-up of movies. It also marked the network’s expansion into Perth, and in Brisbane the conversion from the …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/07/30-years-since-10-tv-australia.html
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/05/tv-week-logie-awards-nominations-7.html
Feb 19 2019
Nationwide running towards the ’80s
Nineteen Seventy-Nine marked something of a shift in current affairs on television. The Eighties was approaching and something different was going to be needed to help us keep up with the modern decade. Both ABC and Nine had just axed their long-running nightly current affairs programs This Day Tonight and A Current Affair respectively. The new …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/02/nationwide-running-towards-the-80s.html
Dec 31 2018
2018: Switches, surprises and goodbyes
There were lots of big TV news stories this year, but the news that will have had the biggest impact on viewers comes down to sport. And there has been a lot of movement and dollars splashed around in that department this year. The swapping of Australia’s two biggest summer sports between networks has brought …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2018/12/2018-switches-surprises-and-goodbyes.html
Nov 30 2018
60 Minutes turns 40
(This is a revision of the post “Ticking away for 30 years“, published for 60 Minutes’ 30th anniversary in 2009) Beginning on 11 February 1979, 60 Minutes marked a new era for current affairs on Australian commercial television. Before then, current affairs on commercial television was limited to early evening programs, such as Willesee At Seven and the original A Current …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2018/11/60-minutes-turns-40.html
Recent Comments