Sep 19 2023
19 September 1987: Kylie Minogue (Neighbours) 19 September 1992: Kym Wilson and Lisa Hensley (Brides Of Christ) 19 September 2009: Tessa James, Todd Lasance, Axle Whitehead (Home And Away) 19 September 1961: ABW2, Perth, presents a screening of Burst Of Summer, a television adaptation of the award-winning play by Oriel Gray, starring Robert Tudawali and …
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Aug 04 2023
4 August 1960: Footballer Ted Whitten and Joy Fountain (In Melbourne Tonight) 4 August 1973: Graham Kennedy (The Graham Kennedy Show) 4 August 1979: Andrew McFarlane (Jovan: The John Sullivan Story) 4 August 1990: Georgie Parker and John Tarrant (A Country Practice) 4 August 2001: Reality TV stars 4 August 2007: Mark Furze and Indiana …
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Jul 29 2023
It was a second Gold Logie in a row for Blue Heelers star Lisa McCune at the 40th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Complex on 19 April 1998. She won the award ahead of her fellow nominees — Midday host Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Logies host Daryl Somers, A Current Affair host …
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Jul 28 2023
Quiz show host Tony Barber was awarded the Gold Logie at the 15th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, on 16 February 1973 and televised on the Nine Network. Bert Newton again hosted the presentation, with overseas guests Glenn Ford (Cade’s County), Loretta Swit (MASH), Gail Fisher (Mannix) and …
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Jan 01 2022
In the early 1970s one of Melbourne’s most popular radio stations was 3AK, which played a pop and rock music format accompanied by the slogan “Where No Wrinklys Fly”. The station’s promotions featured pictures of various radical or pop cultural elements, declaring that anyone that turned their noses up at these images was a “wrinkly” …
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Oct 30 2021
Bert Newton, one of the pioneers and enduring personalities of Australian television, has died at the age of 83. He had been in hospital for several months and went into palliative care recently following complications from recent surgery to have a leg amputated. Born in 1938, Newton started in radio when still a teenager, becoming …
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Jan 26 2021
Actress and performer Lorrae Desmond has been awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List. Her honour is in recognition of “significant service to the performing arts as an actor, entertainer and singer”. Desmond, who was awarded a Member of the Order of …
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Nov 06 2020
Actress Joy Westmore, best known as Officer Barry in Prisoner, has died at the age of 88. Born Joy Grisold, she was a winner on an early radio talent quest and began reading commercials on Melbourne radio station 3UZ while also working in the office at the station. She went on to the theatre, including …
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May 23 2020
The launch of television in Tasmania in 1960 marked the completion of the Government’s second phase in introducing television across Australia — culminating in TV stations operating in each state capital city. The last of the cities from stage two, Hobart was to be served by national broadcaster ABC and one commercial station. Three bidders …
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Mar 11 2019
Division 4 was one of the trifecta of police dramas from Crawford Productions that came to define Australian television drama in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series was born after Crawfords and the Nine Network were in a conundrum over what to do with its popular spy drama, Hunter. The show’s lead actor …
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