Jan 30 2013
It is well known that Swedish pop group ABBA got their big break as winners of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, but in many respects they only gained the attention of the recording industry and pop music fans worldwide after their subsequent popularity in Australia. Although they had some chart success in Europe following …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2013/01/how-australia-made-abba.html
Jan 26 2013
Journalist, media identity and ambassador for various social and health issues, Ita Buttrose was last night (Friday) named Australian Of The Year for 2013. Her media career was predominantly in magazines and newspapers — most notably as the founding editor of women’s magazine Cleo in the 1970s and later editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2013/01/ita-buttrose-australian-of-the-year.html
Dec 25 2012
Television.AU wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas! Here’s a happy snapshot (or at least a collage) on TV Week‘s Christmas edition of 1961 — featuring (l to r) Lorrae Desmond (The Lorrae Desmond Show), Brian Henderson (Bandstand), Tommy Hanlon Jnr (It Could Be You), Bob and Dolly Dyer (Pick A Box), Bobby Limb and wife …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/12/merry-christmas.html
Dec 13 2012
Retired Sydney newsreader Brian Henderson (pictured) is returning to TV after ten years… but don’t expect to see him on screen. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the 81-year-old is coming out of retirement to narrate a documentary for Foxtel based on the 1977 Granville train disaster. It is a news story he remembers well, not …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/12/foxtel-scores-brian-henderson-return.html
May 23 2012
Another half-century celebration for regional television this week with Launceston-based TNT9 having commenced official transmission on Saturday, 26 May 1962 for viewers across north and north-western Tasmania. It was Tasmania’s second commercial television station, two years after TVT6 launched in Hobart. The licence to operate the new channel was granted in 1960 to Northern Television …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/05/50-years-of-tnt9-launceston.html
Apr 15 2012
Tommy Hanlon Jnr (pictured), the American-born host of the daytime game show It Could Be You, and entertainer Lorrae Desmond were the winners of the Gold Logies at the 4th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Chevron Hotel on Saturday, 31 March 1962. It was the first time that the Gold Logie was …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/04/tv-week-logie-awards-50-years-ago.html
Mar 11 2012
Australian showbusiness has lost one of its true veterans with reports that Ian Turpie has died from cancer at the age of 68. Born in Melbourne in 1943, his career started as a child actor back in the 1950s working in radio and theatre productions. He later moved to television as a performer on variety …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2012/03/obituary-ian-turpie.html
Dec 23 2011
Saturday, 23 December, 1961 – fifty years ago today – brought an early Christmas present to residents in the Goulburn Valley and central Victorian regions with the respective areas receiving their first TV stations. Just two weeks after the debut of GLV10 in Gippsland, BCV8 was opened in Bendigo and serving central and north west …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2011/12/bcv-television-centre-of-victoria.html
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