Jul 28 2023
Quiz show host Tony Barber was awarded the Gold Logie at the 15th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, on 16 February 1973 and televised on the Nine Network. Bert Newton again hosted the presentation, with overseas guests Glenn Ford (Cade’s County), Loretta Swit (MASH), Gail Fisher (Mannix) and …
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Jul 28 2023
28 July 1965: Lionel Williams (Adelaide Tonight) 28 July 1971: Johnny Farnham 28 July 1990: Rachel Friend (Neighbours) and Craig McLachlan (Home And Away) 28 July 2001: Jane Allsop, Caroline Craig, Ditch Davey (Blue Heelers) 28 July 2007: Kate Ritchie (Home And Away) 28 July 1978: The Australian Popular Song Festival is presented live from …
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Jul 11 2023
11 July 1962: Panda Lisner (The Happy Show) 11 July 1964: Graham Kennedy (In Melbourne Tonight), Jimmy Hannan (Saturday Date), Gerry Gibson (Tonight, Brisbane), Lionel Williams (Adelaide Tonight) 11 July 1992: Emily Symons (Home And Away) 11 July 2009: Eloise Mignon and James Sorensen (Neighbours)
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Jun 17 2022
Division 4 star Gerard Kennedy won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 14th annual TV Week Logie Awards. The awards were held at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Hotel on 18 February 1972 and hosted by Bert Newton. The Nine Network telecast was shown live to Sydney and Melbourne and for …
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Nov 26 2021
The 62nd annual TV Week Logie Awards were meant to happen this Sunday 28 November. While the awards will not be taking place — for a second year in a row — we continue the annual rundown of past Logies presentations to coincide with what would have been this year’s Logies weekend. Starting with the …
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Aug 16 2021
Ernie Sigley, Gold Logie winner and legend of Australian radio and television, has died at the age of 82. He had been living with Alzheimer’s disease for five years. His career began when still a teenager, working as a turntable operator and announcer at 3DB in the 1950s. He became one of the first hosts …
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Jun 26 2020
The 62nd annual TV Week Logie Awards were meant to happen this Sunday 28 June. While the awards will not be taking place this year, we continue the annual rundown of past Logies presentations to coincide with what would have been Logies weekend. Starting with the 1970 awards — 50 years ago. Sound Of Music …
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Jun 08 2020
Since its inception in 1980, SBS has championed and promoted the world game of football, or soccer, to the domestic audience. The network covered local and overseas competitions and programs like World Soccer brought the game into the Australian mainstream. Before then, soccer was mostly allowed not much more than maybe an hour a week …
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Dec 19 2019
Pardon, Miss Westcott! was billed as Australia’s first locally-written musical production for television. Pardon, Miss Westcott was set in the Rum Rebellion days of the early 1800s and told the story of Elizabeth Westcott, the daughter of an English inn-keeper deported to Sydney for a trivial crime. Playing the lead role was Wendy Blacklock, who …
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Sep 05 2019
After Brisbane‘s official launch of its first television stations, Adelaide became the fourth city in Australia to receive television. Like with other cities, Adelaide was to be served by national broadcaster ABC and two commercial channels. The two successful applicants for commercial licences in October 1958 were Southern Television Corporation Ltd and Television Broadcasters Ltd. …
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