May 19 2008
Perth’s third commercial TV station NEW10 is 20 years old. The launch of the channel on Friday 20 May 1988 marked the end of a twenty-three year wait for Perth to follow its interstate counterparts in gaining a third commercial TV station, and the culmination of a lengthy battle which saw incumbent stations TVW7 and …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/05/the-new-kids-turning-20.html
Apr 04 2008
ABC‘s award-winning series Australian Story will pay tribute to Network Ten newsreader Charmaine Dragun on an episode to air on Monday 28 April. Ms Dragun was a radio and television journalist in her home town of Perth before joining Ten News to read the Perth news bulletin from Ten’s Sydney newsroom. Suffering long-term depression, Ms …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/04/australian-story-remembers-charmaine-dragun.html
Mar 08 2008
Paul Bongiorno is well known as Network Ten‘s chief political correspondent and Canberra bureau chief. But what is perhaps not so well known about Ten’s man in Canberra is that a much younger Bongiorno was heading down a different career path as a priest in country Victoria in the early ’70s. Realising the priesthood was …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/03/youtube-you-gotta-start-somewhere.html
Jan 19 2008
Network Ten‘s Melbourne newsreader Mal Walden is becoming something of a YouTube regular with some recent well ad-libbed spots on Ten News: Plus a vintage clip from the vaults of Channel Seven from the early ’80s: YouTube videos: Moe, Autopenguin, Upweyguy
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/more-of-mal-waldens-youtube-moments.html
Dec 13 2007
For over thirty years, Mal Walden has been a journalist and news presenter on Melbourne television – so he is perhaps justified to speak his mind when something just isn’t right: … referring to an earlier story in the news bulletin about former air hostess Lisa Robertson doing a sexy photo shoot for mens magazine …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/12/the-year-that-was-3-telling-it-how-it-really-is.html
Nov 02 2007
Network Ten newsreader Charmaine Dragun has been found dead today in Sydney. Ms Dragun’s body was reportedly found in Sydney’s The Gap around 4.00pm this afternoon. Originally from Western Australia, Ms Dragun was a radio and television journalist in Perth before moving to the east to co-present Ten’s Perth news bulletin, which is based in …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/11/charmaine-dragun.html
Mar 01 2007
While watching the TV in the waiting room at the GP’s today, i was confronted by what is known as Good Health Television.. basically a “channel” of segments discussing various health topics. While this concept is nothing new, it has apparently been playing in doctors waiting rooms for 15 years, I was surprised to see …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/03/whatever-happened-to.html
Recent Comments