Dec 31 2022
It seems that 2022 will be best remembered for holding a giant re-set of some of our biggest TV names and shows, as some of our highest-profile presenters have decided to call it a day — either temporarily or perhaps longer term. It is hard to recall a year where so many key personalities have …
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Oct 21 2022
Earlier this week, Nine News Darwin celebrated 40 years of news reporting. Although Nine (then NTD8) had been providing a limited news service in its early years, it ceased to do so after 1974, when Cyclone Tracy decimated Darwin and left the channel off the air for ten months. It was 1982 before the channel …
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Sep 14 2022
The Nine Network has announced that it will launch a Tasmanian-based news bulletin in 2023. Nine News Tasmania, to air nightly at 6.00pm, will be produced from a new Hobart-based studio and broadcast statewide on Nine’s affiliate broadcaster WIN. The new bulletin replaces WIN’s current 5.30pm half-hour local news and relay of Nine News from …
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Jun 19 2022
Comedian Hamish Blake was awarded the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 54th annual TV Week Logie Awards. He had polled ahead of Adam Hills, Asher Keddie, Carrie Bickmore, Esther Anderson and Karl Stefanovic — with the short-listed nominees subject to an SMS vote that closed just as the Logies …
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Mar 19 2022
Former Brisbane reporter and newsreader Rob Readings has died at the age of 79 after a long illness. Over the course of his career, he worked in radio and at all three Brisbane commercial channels, but most notably as newsreader on Eyewitness News at TVQ0/10 in the 1980s and as newsreader for Nine‘s Gold Coast …
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Dec 25 2021
Television.AU wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas . This year’s Christmas flashback takes a trip down memory lane to some of the TV magazine covers that have marked this very special day… Sue Donovan from Adventure Island. TV Times, 1971 Mickie de Stoop, National Nine News (Melbourne). Observer TV, 1976 John Ewart, Rosemary Paul and …
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Aug 05 2021
Brian Henderson, for so many years the face of National Nine News in Sydney, has died at the age of 89. Having already beaten melanoma, prostate, bowel and throat cancer over the years, in 2020 he revealed that he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer and chose not to undergo major surgery and to let …
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Jun 21 2021
Mike Bailey, former ABC and Seven Network weather presenter, has died in hospital, surrounded by family, after a recent illness. He started as a cadet journalist at ABC in 1968 before leaving in 1972 for ATN7, Sydney, as news reporter and weather presenter. He returned to ABC as weather presenter in Sydney in 1985. He …
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May 11 2021
Former television newsreader Russell Goodrick has died after a short illness. His sons Tom and Rodney issued a statement on Facebook, stating that Goodrick had fallen ill to severe form of pancreatitis in January. Despite a recovery from surgery, he was soon admitted back to hospital. Goodrick’s media career began at Sydney radio station 2GB …
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May 11 2021
Frank Warrick, veteran Brisbane television presenter, has died at the age of 76. He was surrounded by family when he died early Tuesday morning, following a five-year battle with dementia. His career started in radio in Toowoomba in 1963. He then became a familiar face with Brisbane viewers, from the time he started at BTQ7 …
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