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2002 In Australian Television
Events *25 January – Richard Morecroft reads his last ''ABC News'' bulletin. He is replaced the following Monday by Tony Eastley. *4 February – Nine cast members from '' All Saints'' participate in '' The Weakest Link: All Saints Special'' to mark the first and only anniversary of The Weakest Link in Australia. Erik Thomson wins the special, but his winnings are unknown. *11 February – The Nine Network's post-''Sale of the Century'' replacement, ''Shafted'' hosted by former '' Hey Hey It's Saturday'' member Red Symons premieres. After dismal ratings the show is cancelled in April the same year. On the same day the network's post-''Burgo's Catch Phrase'' replacement '' Pass the Buck'', a new game show based on the UK game show containing a word association premieres leading into Nine's most-watched 6pm news bulletin, After dismal ratings the show is cancelled in May the same year. *11 March – The Seven Network's Docklands studios in Melbourne open, with the first ''Seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Morecroft
Richard Morecroft (born 20 January 1956) is an English-born Australian radio announcer, TV newsreader and presenter, and conservationist. He presented the Adelaide News bulletin, before becoming the long-running host of the nightly bulletin of ABC News NSW from 1983 until 2002. Between 2010 and 2012, he hosted the quiz show ''Letters and Numbers''. Early life Morecroft was born in Market Harborough in the English Midlands. His father Peter and mother Phyll moved the family to Adelaide in 1966 for the benefit of his brother Andrew's respiratory problems; Peter set up a dentist's practice there. Broadcasting career Morecroft studied English and Drama at the University of Adelaide with thoughts of becoming an actor or teacher. He became involved in the university radio station and auditioned for the ABC before completing his degree. He was hired as a radio announcer and later transferred to work in television, hosting the 7pm Adelaide bulletin for a couple of years before being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Lane (journalist)
Timothy Lane (born 18 September 1951 in Launceston, Tasmania) is a veteran Australian sports broadcaster and journalist with the Seven Network and Fairfax. He currently calls Australian rules football ( AFL) matches for 3AW radio on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and writes for ''The Age'' newspaper. Additionally, beginning in 2018, he is a lead commentator for the Seven Sport test cricket coverage. Between 2003 and 2011, he was also an AFL commentator for Network Ten. Lane is well known for commentating on a variety of sports for decades—particularly cricket—as well as AFL and as a track-and-field commentator for both the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games. He famously called Cathy Freeman for ABC Grandstand radio at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Early career Born in Launceston, Lane moved with his family to Devonport in 1963 and matriculated from Devonport High School in 1969. Lane then studied at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, where he resided at St. Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frasier
''Frasier'' () is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons. It premiered on September 16, 1993, and ended on May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey (screenwriter), Peter Casey, and David Lee (screenwriter), David Lee (as Grub Street Productions), in association with Grammnet Productions, Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Television (original), Paramount Network Television. The series was created as a Spin-off (media), spin-off of the sitcom ''Cheers''. It continues the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), who returns to his hometown, Seattle, as a radio show host. He reconnects with his father, Martin Crane, Martin (John Mahoney), a retired police officer, and his younger brother, Niles Crane, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), a fellow psychiatrist. Included in the series cast were Peri Gilpin as Frasier's producer Roz Doyle, and Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon, Martin's live-in caregiver. Dan Butler's role a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lachy Reid , ''Lachy'' is a pet form of the name ''Lachlan''
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Lachy may refer to: * Lachy, Marne, a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France * Lachy or Lendians, an ancient Polish tribe * Lachy SÄ…deckie, the Lachy culture of the SÄ…deckie region of Poland * Lachy, Podlaskie Voivodeship, a village in north-eastern Poland See also *Lachlan (name) Lachlan () is a masculine given name, an Anglicised derivative from Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. Origins The name is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic ''Lachlann'', which is in turn derived from the earlier Gaelic personal name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Gossage
Tim Gossage (born 27 February 1965, in Perth) is an Australian sports commentator and Australian rules football coach based in Perth, Western Australia. Media Gossage joined Network 10 in Perth in 1990. During his time at Ten, he'd featured on the network's Melbourne Cup Coverage & an AFL commentator or boundary rider on Ten and Fox Sports, mainly commentating AFL games involving the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles. In 2009, Gossage briefly involved with 3AW Football coverage in place of the recently deceased Clinton Grybas while involved with sister station 6PR Football coverage. He also presents the sport news on the Perth edition of Ten News in addition to hosting a local weekly football show, The Western Front. Gossage was coach of the Subiaco Lions Colts (under 19) team taking over from Scott Watters who became coach of Subiaco's league team. In 2007 Gossage led the Subiaco colts team to the finals for the first time in ten years. Gossage resigned as coach in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained city statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Western Front (television Show)
''The Western Front'' is an Australian rules football television series that has been broadcast on Network Ten in Western Australia in 2002 and ended on 8 October 2011. The show focuses on the two Western Australian teams in the Australian Football League, and , as well as the West Australian Football League. The show has been hosted by Tim Gossage and Lachy Reid from its debut until 2010, but for the 2011 season, Reid will host it with a guest host each week. The show is notable for encouraging people to form a "big 'W'" hand sign in the background of television broadcasts on any show on any network. The sign is created by holding your hands up in front of you with the thumbs touching and only the index fingers extended, to form a " W" shape. Each week the show highlights signs seen at football matches, behind outside broadcasts or posed photos of people forming the W at notable locations around the world. They also encourage celebrities to form the "W" sign, and have fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Australian Television
Events * 1 January – Mildura Digital Television, a joint venture between WIN Television Mildura and Prime Television, goes on air in the Mildura area of Victoria as a Network Ten digital-only affiliate. * 2 January – The Seven, Foxtel and Ten Networks outbid Channel Nine and are awarded the rights to broadcast the AFL from 2007 to 2011 for a record $780 million. Also around this time, Seven announce that they have won the rights to broadcast the V8 Supercars from 2007 to 2014. * 30 January – Channel Nine launches a new logo and major revamp, dropping the famous dots and replacing it with a stand-alone nine in a blue box. * 9 February – The Nine Network announces Eddie McGuire in his new role as the network's new CEO. * 20 February – Television Sydney formally launches after three months of testing, giving Sydney community television for the first time in almost two years. * 1 April – The final season of ''Blue Heelers'' goes to air now on Saturday Nights, pittin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 AFL Season
The 2002 AFL season was the 106th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 28 March until 28 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. The premiership was won by the Brisbane Lions for the second time and second time consecutively, after it defeated by nine points in the AFL Grand Final. AFL Draft ''See 2002 AFL Draft.'' Wizard Home Loans Cup Port Adelaide defeated Richmond 10.11 (71) to 9.8 (62) in the final. Premiership season Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 , - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Home team , Score , Away team , Score , Venue , Attendance , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 3.10 (28) , , 16.15 (111) , Colonial Stadium , 46 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Australian Television
This is a list of Australian television events and premieres which occurred in 2011. This year will be the 56th year of continuous operation of television in Australia. Events * 11 January – Ten Network Holdings and CBS Studios International launch digital multi-channel Eleven, which replaces the standard definition simulcast of One HD. Network Ten also permanently shifts its long-running soap opera ''Neighbours'' to the new channel after having aired the series for 24 years. The first episode on Eleven was its highest-rated program of the night, recording 254,000 metropolitan viewers. * 13 January – The Australian Government lifts restrictions on the anti-siphoning rule to allow the Seven Network to air parts of the Australian Open on its digital multichannel 7Two while ''Seven News'' airs on the primary channel. This practice has continued in subsequent years. * 16 January – Prime Television and GWN Television rebrand as Prime7 and GWN7 respectively, reaffirming th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Ten
Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five national free-to-air networks, 10's owned-and-operated stations can be found in the state capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth while affiliates extend the network to regional areas of the country. As of 2022, Network 10 is the fourth-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV and ahead of SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. History Origins From the introduction of TV in 1956 until 1965 there were three television networks in Australia, the Nine Network, National Television Network (now the Nine Network), the Seven Network, Australian Television Network (now the Seven Network), and the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club was formed in 1892 in the suburb of Collingwood and played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League, today known as the AFL. Originally based at Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and has its training and administrative headquarters at Olympic Park Oval and the AIA Centre. Collingwood has played in a record 44 VFL/AFL Grand Finals (including rematches), winning 15, drawing two and losing 27 (also a record). Regarded as one of Australia's most popular sports clubs, Collingwood has attracted the second-highest attendance figures and television ratings of any professional football team in the nation. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
