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Obituary: Doug Mulray

Doug Mulray, radio veteran and frontman for the controversial Australia’s Naughtiest Home Video Show, has died at the age of 71 after a long illness. His radio career began back in the 1970s, at 2AD in Armidale, before making his way via Melbourne (at 3AW) to land at ABC‘s youth station, 2JJ (now Triple J). …

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TV At 60: Viewing’s fine on GTV9

In his book Compulsive Viewing, Gerald Stone wrote that Australian television “started first in Sydney, but best in Melbourne.” He was no doubt referring to GTV9, which actually considered itself the underdog when it was the third channel to launch in Melbourne. It would go on to become one of the biggest successes in Australian …

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What we watched: June 2000

Another random snapshot of what we were watching on TV. This time it’s the week ending 3 June 2000. We’d fought off the Y2K bug and the GST was just around the corner. The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad in Sydney were a few short months away. And we were still watching analogue TV. The Nine …

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