Apr 28 2023
In 2013, Television.AU and TV Tonight collaborated to chronicle the longest-running shows still on-air in Australia. Now, ten years on, we’re revisiting that list, adding new entries and acknowledging those which have since taken their leave. DK: David Knox, TV Tonight AB: Andrew Bayley, Television.AU Australia’s Longest Running TV Shows: Pt 1 Australian Story, ABC …
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Jun 20 2022
After three years, the TV Week Logie Awards made their return, culminating with Hamish Blake winning the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality On Australian Television. For Blake, host of Nine’s Lego Masters, it was his second Gold Logie, having won the first in 2012. In winning the Gold, he had beaten fellow nominees Julia …
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May 27 2022
ABC has announced the special shows that will commemorate its upcoming 90th anniversary. ABC 90 Celebrate! A live two-hour special celebrating ABC’s 90th anniversary. HostsCraig Reucassel, Zan Rowe and Tony Armstrong (pictured) will lead a night filled with festivities, entertainment, and fun. With cast reunions, special guests, and performances from some of Australia’s biggest acts, …
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May 15 2022
TV Week has announced its nominations for the 62nd TV Week Logie Awards, to be presented at The Star Gold Coast Entertainment Precinct at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on 19 June. Due to the pandemic, this is the first Logies presentation in three years. This year brings in a change to the …
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Jan 26 2020
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 …
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Dec 31 2018
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 …
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May 18 2018
ABC‘s children’s current affairs program Behind The News is approaching its 50th birthday. It was long thought that Behind The News began in 1969, until it was realised that it actually began under a different title, Current Affairs, in June 1968. The first program was hosted by Peter Sumner. YouTube: Behind The News To …
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Mar 07 2015
ABC‘s secondary channel ABC2 turns 10 years old today. The new channel came two years after ABC had been forced to axe its previous digital channels ABC Kids and Fly TV due to budget cuts. ABC2 launched in a rather low key manner on the morning of Monday, 7 March 2005. Anyone watching to see the …
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May 14 2014
ABC‘s Asia-Pacific television channel, Australia Network, is set to be scrapped after the handing down of the first federal budget of Tony Abbott’s government. The move to scrap the satellite service, which currently broadcasts to 44 countries and to an estimated audience of millions across the Asia-Pacific region, is of no real surprise as government ministers …
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Jan 20 2014
ABC has announced upcoming changes to its broadcast of children’s programs now that Australia free-to-air television is completely digital. From Sunday 2 February any children’s programs currently broadcasting on ABC1 on Sunday morning (6.30am-9.00am) and weekday afternoons (3.00pm-5.00pm) will be shifted to ABC3 or ABC4Kids (ABC2 daytime). The transmission of schools programs on weekday mornings …
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