These days there is little joy to be found in scanning overnight television — the hours between midnight and 6.00am where home shopping and paid programming dominates the commercial networks and channels like ABC2 and ABC3 close down for the night. But it could be said that there was possibly a ‘golden age’ for overnight TV, the …
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Jan 15 2012
NBC Today at 60
On Friday, the American NBC network’s Today show celebrated 60 years of broadcasting. It is the longest-running morning television program in the world. Today began on 14 January 1952, hosted by Dave Garroway with newsreader Jim Fleming and panellist Jack Lescoulie. The concept was created by NBC vice-president Sylvester (Pat) Weaver (father of Hollywood actress …
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Apr 10 2010
TelevisionAU Update 10-Apr-10
https://www.televisionau.com NEW FLASHBACK #53 Production of the mini-series A Town Like Alice, based on Nevil Shute‘s novel of the same name, was first planned in 1979 for the Seven Network on the back of the success of their earlier historical epic, Against The Wind. A Town Like Alice was a hit when it aired in …
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