Dec 11 2013
Alan Coleman, veteran TV producer, writer and director, has died at the age of 76. English-born Coleman started his career as an actor but later moved behind the cameras, eventually becoming director of Britain’s first daily drama series, Crossroads, in the 1960s. It was a series that pioneered the rapid-fire production schedule that is commonplace …
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Oct 23 2010
SBS Television is thirty years old this weekend. An initiative of the Fraser Government, the Special Broadcasting Service was established in the mid-1970s to operate the new multi-lingual radio service that had commenced in Sydney (2EA) and Melbourne (3EA). By the end of the 1970s, the organisation was given the responsibility of operating Australia’s first …
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Jan 14 2010
The Government has started playing commercials, specific to the Mildura/Sunraysia area, to remind viewers that local analogue signals will be shut down in less than six months – 30 June to be exact: Viewers will notice a couple of familiar names in the campaign – Rebekah Elmaloglou, best known from Home And Away, and David …
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