Where We Heart TV Too, An Australian Television Resource
This will the first in a series of classic television show flashbacks, the first one to be looked at will be that strangely hilarious show Monkey or more commonly referred to as Monkey Magic. This Japanese show first graced television screens back in 1978 in Japan and was dubbed for an English audience by the [...]
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May 29th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Tonight was the premier of a brand new show on ABC1 titled The Gruen Transfer, hosted by Wil Anderson who is making his return to the ABC since having his show The Glasshouse cancelled a few years ago.
The Gruen Transfer is a show all about how advertising works, a little ironic considering it is airing [...]
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May 28th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
With the start of the Nine Network’s Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune this week, Seven has tried to stop its loyal viewers switching over to Nine by offering a double chance at winning $200,000.
In doing so it means that “the monkey” or the 50 cent case has been removed and replaced with the extra $200,000 [...]
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May 26th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Tonight was the start of a brand new innovative show from the ABC titled Q & A hosted by Latelines’ Tony Jones. As the title suggests the show is all about asking questions and receiving an answer for that question, it’s that simple. Anyone can submit a question to be asked, even you via the [...]
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May 23rd, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Well it’s that boring time of the year again, no it’s not time just yet to pay our taxes but it was time for the new Labor government to deliver its first budget in 12 years which happened two nights ago now. So from a television perspective it is a nice occasion to have a [...]
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May 15th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
ABC Media Release: ABC TV To Broadcast Over 15 Hours Of The Landmark Vision 2020 Summit?.
ABC TV will ensure that every Australian has the opportunity to be involved in the Prime Minister’s Vision 2020 Summit next weekend.
ABC1 will cover live (EST) both the opening and closing sessions of the summit, being held at Parliament House, [...]
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April 10th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Well it was the interview everyone was waiting for and there is no doubt that this first episode of Enough Rope with Andrew Denton will rate through the roof for ABC1, as well as cause some controversy in tomorrow mornings newspapers.
Wayne Carey joined Andrew Denton in the hot seat to talk about all of his [...]
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March 31st, 2008 | Danny | 2 comments | Continued
Monday night on ABC1 is the return of the Andrew Denton talk show Enough Rope, with this seasons first guest being controversial AFL football star Wayne Carey.
Tonight Denton was on the Nine Network’s A Current Affair with fill-in host Karl Stefanovic asking Denton his thought’s on where he think Carey is in his recovery and [...]
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March 28th, 2008 | Danny | 3 comments | Continued
The First Tuesday Book Club aired its first show for 2008 last night on ABC1, and if you have not seen the show before it is exactly as the name suggests it is a ‘book club’ who meet on the first Tuesday of every month.
The show is hosted by Jennifer Byrne and she is joined [...]
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March 5th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Today was a historic occasion for Australia with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saying sorry to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders for the Stolen Generations. To mark this occasion all five television networks broadcasted the speech live around the country using the same feed provided by the ABC.
The ABC1 coverage started at 9am with Tony Jones [...]
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February 13th, 2008 | Danny | 4 comments | Continued
As revealed earlier today ABC TV re-launched its on air look and changed its name to ABC1 to fall into line with its other digital channel ABC2. As promised, here is a post dedicated to the ABC2 on air look which takes on the same feel as the main ABC1 channel but distinguishes itself by [...]
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February 8th, 2008 | Danny | 3 comments | Continued
Today was the start of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s new look for its television stations ABC TV and ABC2. As it was leaked last week we already had a glimpse of the new look re-branding of ABC TV to ABC1 making the channel in line with ABC2 and for a future ABC3 children’s channel.
The re-launch [...]
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February 8th, 2008 | Danny | 6 comments | Continued
Despite reports in today’s The Australian newspaper, the ABC’s new ABC1 logo will not be fully replacing the famous ‘worm’ which has become a national identity for much of the 52 year history of ABC television.
As reported earlier, the ABC is re-branding its main channel so that it comes in line with ABC2 and [...]
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January 30th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Could this be the new image of our national broadcaster? Once again thank’s to The ABC Blog an unofficial blog about all things ABC, this is what the blog is claiming the new logo will look like come time for the February 8th re-launch of the network.
The blog has also revealed that the digital channel [...]
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January 29th, 2008 | Danny | 3 comments | Continued
The Australian Broadcasting Corporations main television channel ABC is set for a name change after 52 years. In recognition of the broadcsters other channel ABC2 and soon to be added ABC3, ABC will now be referred to as ABC1. This follows the same style as the BBC in the United Kingdom where the national broadcaster [...]
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January 28th, 2008 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
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