50 Years Of TV

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50 Years Of ABC TV…

November see’s ABC TV turn 50, and to celebrate the ABC will be running three specials.
The first will be aired on November 5 at 8:30pm titled The ABC of Our Lives - 50 Years of Television. The next two specials are NEWS related and airing on November 6 at 8:30pm is Celebrating 50 Years - [...]

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October 26th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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50 Years of Television News…

As part of the 50 year celebrations, channel nine broadcasted another special titled 50 Years of Television News, hosted by Brian Henderson.

The show had a look back at the main news items from over the last five decades.

Overall a very interesting look at the events that shaped the world over the last 50 years.
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September 19th, 2006 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
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[TV TURNS 50]

Channel Seven celebrated 50 years of TV with [TV TURNS 50] the events that stopped a nation. It was a live even hosted by David Kosh and Melissa Doyal from Star City Casino in Sydney.

The night was full of performances and guest presenters from all decades of television, and in-between counted down the top twenty [...]

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September 18th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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The Day TV Turned 50… Channel Nine’s 50th Birthday…

Saturday 16 September 2006, Channel Nine turned 50.
TCN9 in Sydney was officially opened as Australia’s first TV channel, however unofficially GTV9 in Melbourne was on air first still in test transmission mode and had a special licence so it could broadcast the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Channel Seven has been running special station promos from the past [...]

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September 17th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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50 Years 50 Shows…

Channel nine screened their 50 Years 50 Shows last night presented once again by Mike Munro.

I will admit i’m a bit too young to know what most of these shows are so feel free to post your thoughts on if you agree or disagree with the top 50 as follows…
1. I.M.T./The Graham Kennedy Show
2. The [...]

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September 12th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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50 Years 50 Stars…

Last night was the first special by channel nine celebrating 50 years of TV, titled 50 Years 50 Stars. Although this was also shown last year it’s still a nice program to watch to stroll down memory lane.

The show is hosted by Mike Munro who also hosts the other 50 year celebration shows by nine.

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September 11th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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Seven Celebrates 50 Years…

Here is a media release from channel seven, about their up-coming event to celebrate 50 year’s of TV…
ALL STAR LINE-UP FOR TV TURNS 50:
THE EVENTS THAT STOPPED A NATION
30 August 2006
Channel Seven will celebrate television’s 50th birthday on the actual anniversary weekend, Sunday September 17, with a
three hour live black tie event at Star City [...]

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September 7th, 2006 | Danny | 2 comments | Continued
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Happy 50th Channel Nine…

September is when TV in Australia turns 50 years old. Over the next month we will be bombarded with specials from both nine and seven, i don’t know about the ABC, but i doubt the others will because they haven’t been around for 50 years.
Here is the end of the new channel nine promo with [...]

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September 4th, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued