Jan 08 2019
Jimmy Hannan, one of Australia’s leading stars of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, has died at the age of 84 after a short battle with cancer. Sydney-born Hannan made his TV debut in 1956 as a contestant on Name That Tune, Australia’s first TV game show. The prize money he won on the show paid …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/01/obituary-jimmy-hannan.html
Jun 11 2018
Veteran radio and television identity Philip Brady has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Brady, who earlier this year celebrated 60 years in the industry, has appeared across variety shows including In Melbourne Tonight and The Graham Kennedy Show and hosted quiz and game shows Concentration, Everybody’s …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2018/06/philip-brady-in-queens-birthday-honours-list.html
Dec 07 2017
Rosemary Margan, former television and radio presenter in Melbourne, has died at the age of 80. Margan was a water skiing champion, winner of six national titles, when she started her media career as a weather presenter at Melbourne’s GTV9 in the mid-1960s. She presented the weather at Nine for almost a decade — mostly …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/12/obituary-rosemary-margan.html
Jun 26 2017
It is 30 years ago this week that Melbourne’s TV Scene ceased publication after 62 years. It began as a radio magazine, Listener In, in 1925. By 1937 it had converted to a newspaper format. With television arriving in 1956, the Listener In showed it was adapting with the times… by adding “TV” to the …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/06/remembering-listener-in-tv-scene.html
May 06 2017
In Melbourne Tonight, one of the most significant shows in Australia’s early TV history, started 60 years ago today. The program was the brainchild of Norman Spencer, program manager at Melbourne’s new channel GTV9. He had produced a popular variety show, The Happy Gang, on radio for a number of years. He was keen to adapt …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/05/tv-at-60-in-melbourne-tonight.html
Apr 05 2017
The St Kilda Film Festival in association with the National Film And Sound Archive is presenting a tribute to Graham Kennedy. Kennedy, who hailed from nearby Balaclava, of course went on to become of Australia’s most celebrated showbusiness identities. From his early days in radio to conquering the new medium of television — eventually even winning …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/04/st-kilda-film-festival-pays-tribute-to-graham-kennedy.html
Jan 19 2017
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2017/01/tv-at-60-viewings-fine-on-gtv9.html
Jul 18 2016
If people in more recent times wanted to dub Eddie McGuire as “Eddie Everywhere”, then they would find McGuire to be an amateur compared to Bert Newton in July 1973. Newton had less than a year earlier lamented in a newspaper interview that he’d not had a lot of TV work during 1972, with his presenting commitments …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2016/07/classic-tv-guides-bert-newton-around-the-dial.html
Apr 04 2015
Continuing the history of TEN10, Sydney. Part I can be found here. The Seventies began with TEN10 still in a precarious financial situation. Profits were small and both the channel and the renamed 0-10 Network were yet to have a break out hit after over five years on air. The network’s first attempt at serious drama, the …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2015/04/ten10-sex-and-the-seventies.html
Jan 17 2014
Foxtel‘s Arena channel has had to apologise to viewers for a recent incident where episodes of US soap The Young And The Restless were played out of sequence. The programming glitch sparked a reminder of a similar occurrence that happened here no less than 40 years ago. Human error was to blame for an incident …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2014/01/96-mix-up-confuses-viewers.html
Recent Comments