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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Sep 22 2018
Former Nine Adelaide studios being demolished
The building that was home to NWS9, Adelaide’s first TV station, is being demolished. Former Nine presenters Michael Smyth and Keith Conlon have this week both tweeted images of the building being knocked down. You can hear the ghosts of Humphrey, Winky Dink and Willsy as the old Channel 9 studios are torn down in Tynte Street. …
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Apr 08 2016
Adelaide’s TV history on show
The early days of television in Adelaide are to be rediscovered in two exhibitions being presented by the State Library Of South Australia. “Begin transmission: SA turns on the television” (9 April to 5 June, Treasures Wall) relives the memories of TV’s earliest days in Adelaide and goes back even further to rediscover the long road to get television to Australia. …
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Feb 07 2014
Adelaide Fringe comes to Channel 9
The studios of NWS Nine in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, have been host to a range of productions over the past 54 years — programs including Adelaide Tonight, The Country And Western Hour, The Curiosity Show, Channel Nine Telethon, The Channel Niners, Adelaide Today, C’mon Kids and the once-traditional Christmas pantomimes. Now the studios, named …
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Aug 25 2011
Humphrey and friends for sale
For almost forty years the character of Humphrey B. Bear was the flagship of the Nine Network’s children’s programming portfolio. The character of Humphrey and the accompanying television series, Here’s Humphrey, may have been mothballed by Nine some years ago – it was last broadcast in 2008 – but there could still be some life …
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Oct 28 2010
Rex Heading
Rex Heading, the man who created Humphrey B. Bear in the 1960s, has died from cancer at the age of 81. Heading was working at Adelaide radio station 5KA when he became one of the first staff appointed by the city’s first television station, NWS9 – Rupert Murdoch’s first television station – when it was …
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