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Obituary: Roger Cardwell
Former Adelaide newsreader Roger Cardwell has died at the age of 85. He was surrounded by family when he passed away at a nursing home on Saturday morning. He had long suffered from lung cancer. Cardwell was a newsreader at NWS9 from the early 1960s, hosted the national Country And Western Hour and appeared in …
Country Style, Here's Parry, Nine News, Obituary, Seven News, Ten News, The Country And Western Hour, This Day Tonight
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2019/10/obituary-roger-cardwell.html
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. …
Adelaide Tonight, C'mon Kids, Here's Humphrey, Postcards, The Channel Niners, The Country And Western Hour, The Curiosity Show, The Jackpot Game
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2018/09/former-nine-adelaide-studios-being-demolished.html
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. …
Adelaide Tonight, Here's Humphrey, The Channel Niners, The Country And Western Hour
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2016/04/adelaides-tv-history-on-show.html
Seven Adelaide turns 50
Adelaide's SAS Seven today turns 50. The station has a history that has spanned two networks, initially launching as SAS10 — part of the Independent Television System (what is now Network Ten). SAS10's arrival marked the completion of the roll-out of an additional TV station to each of the five major capital cities. The licence for the …
10 Out Of 10, Adelaide Tonight, AM Adelaide, Birdman Rally, Children's Channel Ten, Crackerjack, Earlybirds, Fat Cat And Friends, In Eucla Tonight, In Time, Junior Jury, Movie Scene, Network Ten, New Faces, Number 96, Out Of The Blue, Romper Room, SA Life, Seven Network, Seven News, Simulrock, Ten News, The Bobo Show, The Book Place, The Country And Western Hour, The Saturday Tonight Show, The Today Show, Today Tonight, Touch Of Elegance, Trax, Wheel Of Fortune, You Don't Say
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2015/07/seven-adelaide-turns-50.html
TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago
Jimmy Hannan (pictured), host of teenage music program Saturday Date, was awarded the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the 7th annual TV Week Logie Awards. The awards were held on Friday 26 March 1965 at the Palais de Danse, Melbourne and hosted by Gerald Lyons. Crowds of fans queued outside …
Bandstand, Homicide, In Melbourne Tonight, Project 64, Saturday Date, Sound Of Music, The Country And Western Hour, The Mavis Bramston Show, Theatre Royal, Top Pop Of The Day, TV Week Logie Awards
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2015/05/tv-week-logie-awards-50-years-ago-5.html
Bobby Limb (pictured), compere of the variety show Sound Of Music, was awarded the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian TV at the 6th annual TV Week Logie Awards in 1964. The awards were held on the cruise ship Marconi Liber, docked in Sydney, but did not receive TV coverage. Even TV Week's own …
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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 …
Adelaide Today, Adelaide Tonight, C'mon Kids, Here's Humphrey, The Channel Niners, The Country And Western Hour, The Curiosity Show
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2014/02/adelaide-fringe-comes-to-channel-9.html
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 …
Adelaide Tonight, Here's Humphrey, Nine Network, Obituary, The Channel Niners, The Country And Western Hour, The Curiosity Show
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/10/rex-heading.html
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