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2004 Antenna Awards
The 2004 Antenna Awards ceremony honoured the best in Australian community television in 2003, and took place on February 28, 2004, at Storey Hall, RMIT City Campus, Melbourne, beginning at 7:00 p.m. AEST. The ceremony, the first of its kind in Australia, was announced on December 29, 2003. Produced by Kristy Fuller and directed by Craig Young, the ceremony was hosted by Esther Makris and Gary Mitchell. Antennas were presented in 31 categories. ''Radio Karate'' won four awards, including Best Comedy Program and Best Editing, the most for the evening. Other winners include ''Dawn's Creek'' and ''Pluck'' with two awards, including Program of the Year for ''Pluck''. The ceremony was televised live by Channel 31 Melbourne, Channel 31 Sydney, Briz 31 Brisbane, C31 Adelaide, and LINC TV Lismore, and on a one-week delay to Access 31 Perth. On 19 March 2015, the ceremony was made available to stream on YouTube. Awards Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storey Hall
Storey Hall, located at 342–344 Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia, is part of the RMIT City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University). It consists of a grand meeting hall constructed in 1887, extended and renovated in 1996, providing a large upper hall, the lower hall as home to RMIT Gallery First Site, and a range of lecture theatres and seminar rooms. The 19th century hall was built by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and known as Hibernian Hall. In the early 20th century it was put to a range of uses, until it was acquired by RMIT in 1957 The hall was named after the Storey family; John Storey (Junior), who founded the RMIT Student Union in 1944, and Sir John Storey (Senior), who left a large bequest to RMIT in order to found the John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarships in memory of his son, whose studies were cut short in 1947 when he died of leukaemia at age 22. A major refurbishment and addition was completed in 1996 to the design o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Lee (comedian)
Andrew Thomas Lee (born 24 May 1981), known professionally as Andy Lee, is an Australian comedian, television presenter, musician and children's writer. He is known for working alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy. Personal life Andy Lee is the middle child of Michael and Margaret Lee. Lee has a younger sister, Alex Miles, who writes pantomimes and stars in the comedy stage show ''Porky Pies''. He also has an older brother, Cameron, with whom Lee started the band Zoophyte. Lee attended Balwyn Primary School and Camberwell Grammar School. He was also a member of the Scouting Movement, performing in Camberwell Showtime and Melbourne Gang Show. He then went on to study Commerce at the University of Melbourne, where he met comedic partner Hamish Blake in 2001. In 2006, Lee was announced as Cleo's Bachelor of the Year. Lee previously dated Megan Gale. They ended their relationship in 2010. In January 2015, it was announced that Lee was dating model Rebe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brennan (comedian)
Scott Brennan is an Australian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Australian television program ''skitHOUSE''. In 1990, he went to University of Melbourne to complete B. Ed (Sec) Arts. He has been a regular performer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival since 1999. Past shows include ''Spontaneous Broadway'', ''Life - Get it up ya'' (which was also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe), ''Code Beige'','' Glen Bush; Teenage Superstar'' (for which he received a Moosehead grant) and ''Very Very Scary''. In 2006, he joined the cast of the popular late night sketch comedy show '' Comedy Inc - The Late Shift'', airing in Australia on the Nine Network. He also appeared on Foxtel's comedy show ''Stand Up Australia'', where he performed a comedy routine on the fact that he is gay. In 2006 he also appeared as Dylan in the gay-science-fiction-fan-club short comedy film ''Outland''. His other television credits include ''The Edge of the Bush'', ''Upper Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Burt (comedian)
Daniel Burt is a writer and comedian from Australia, and co-host of morning radio program breakfasters on community radio station 3RRR. Biography Early in his career, Burt presented programs on SYN and Channel 31, including ''Pluck'', ''The Reviewers'', ''Raucous'', and ''3 Day Growth''. In 2002, he won National TREV Campus Comedy Competition. In 2005, Burt lived in New York where he interned as a writer for the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. He spent all his savings and borrowed money from his parents just to get to New York for the interview. He returned to Melbourne in 2006 and since then has written for ''skitHOUSE'', '' The Glass House'', '' The Sideshow'', ''Good News Week'', ''The Einstein Factor'', '' National Bingo Night'', '' Hole in the Wall'', ''Taken Out'', and ''The Biggest Loser''. and The 7pm Project. As a corporate speaker, he has entertained companies such as Vulcan Steel and BHP Billiton. He has been a frequent columnist for ''The Age''. and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili Kanidiadis
Vasili Kanidiadis is a Greek-Australian television personality, best known as the host of the Channel 31 and SBS TV and Channel 7Two's gardening show, ''Vasili's Garden''. Kanidiadis grew up in Coburg in Melbourne's north. He began broadcasting on Greek radio station 3XY for 7 years before moving to Channel 31 He has studied structural engineering, classical piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ... and horticulture. He is the owner and operator of Munro Street Nursery in Coburg. ''Vasili in Greece'', commissioned by the Greek National Tourist Organisation, was screened on Channel 31 in 2008. References Australian television personalities Australian people of Greek descent Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Coburg, Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanveer Ahmed (psychiatrist)
Tanveer Ahmed (born 1975) is a Bangladeshi born Australian psychiatrist, journalist and television presenter. Early life Ahmed was born in Bangladesh in 1975. He and his parents moved to Australia in 1981, and settled in Toongabbie, in the western suburbs of Sydney. He won a scholarship to Sydney Grammar School and went on to the University of Sydney, where he studied medicine, graduating in 2000. He also had a stint writing for the university's ''Honi Soit'' magazine. He represented the Australian Medical Association as the national representative for training doctors in 2006–07. Media career Besides being a doctor, Ahmed has also been a journalist for SBS TV and appeared regularly on radio and television discussing issues pertaining to multiculturalism and mental health issues. He was a regular contributor to major newspapers, most commonly the '' Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2007, Ahmed appeared as the Bingo Commissioner in Seven Network's game show, '' National Bingo Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Parks
Amy Parks (born 10 June 1982 ) is an Australian journalist and broadcaster. She is a reporter for ''Seven News Melbourne'' from Melbourne. Parks was one of the original hosts of Nine Network's late night interactive quiz show, ''Quizmania'' (2006–2007). She was a reporter on ''Nine News Melbourne'' in 2008, before switching to rival network, Seven. Early years Parks was born on 10 June 1982. She was raised in Horsham, Victoria until 13 and then moved to the Bellarine Peninsula. She joined a junior Geelong theatre society and Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College' jazz group. Parks was a singer in the school-based band, Sweethearts of Swing, and toured overseas. Television After being accepted to RMIT's Bachelor of Journalism course, Parks became very involved in community television, taking on the hosting role for three seasons of ''Raucous'' (a live-to-air music show), was the TV reporter on Darren & Brose, and also became both producer and presenter of ''Newsline'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Ives
Bryce Ives (born 11 November 1983, in Ballarat) is Artistic Director of Theatre Works in St.Kilda, Artistic Director of the Fairfax Festival in the Murray Mallee region of North West Victoria, and Co-Artistic Director of the Present Tense Ensemble alongside long-term collaborator Nathan Gilkes. In 2019, Ives joined Laureate International Universities as the Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for Torrens University Australia and the Media Design School in NZ. Ives has made a significant contribution to youth generated media in Australia, as a former Executive Producer of the ABC Radio project Heywire and former General Manager and President of the Student Youth Network in Melbourne. Ives facilitates the annual ABC Radio Heywire Regional Youth Summit in Canberra, in 2018 he facilitated his eleventh Heywire Regional Youth Summit. Ives is a previous Director of the Arts Academy Ballarat and the Gippsland Centre of Art & Design, the creative art schools Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Post (radio Presenter)
''The Christian O'Connell Show'' is a multi award winning radio show, hosted by Christian O'Connell. The show was originally produced in the United Kingdom, starting as ''The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show'' on a local station in Bournemouth in 1998, going national in 2001, then moving with O'Connell to Australia in 2018. Though still broadcast live as a morning show, the word "Breakfast" has been dropped from the title to reflect the various times it airs in different Australian markets. The show airs between 6am and 9am on weekdays on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne and between 7pm and 8pm on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne, WSFM in Sydney, 97.3 FM in Brisbane, Mix 102.3 in Adelaide and 96FM in Perth. A daily podcast of the previous morning's show is also produced. History O'Connell's started ''The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show'' in 1998, broadcast to the local Bournemouth, England market on station 2CR FM. In January 2000, the show moved to the larger, but still local, Liverpoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Young
Stella Jane Young (24 February 1982 – 6 December 2014) was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist. Early life and education Young was born in 1982 at Stawell, Victoria. She was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, and used a wheelchair for most of her life. At the age of 14 she audited the accessibility of the main street businesses of her hometown. She held a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Relations from Deakin University, Geelong and a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Melbourne. After graduating in 2004, she worked for a time as a secondary school teacher. Career Young served as the editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online magazine ''Ramp Up''. Before joining the ABC, she had worked as an educator in public programs at Melbourne Museum, and hosted eight seasons of ''No Limits'', a disability culture program on community television station Channel 31. In a ''Ramp Up'' editorial published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Drysdale
Denise Anne Christina Drysdale (born 5 December 1948) is an Australian television presenter, variety entertainer, actress, singer, dancer and comedian. She is often affectionately known as ''Ding Dong'', a nickname invented by fellow performer Ernie Sigley. She is currently a co-host of the morning show ''Studio 10''. Early life Childhood Born in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, Drysdale and her family moved to Port Melbourne when she was three-and-a-half, where her parents ran the Fountain Inn Hotel. They lived there for eleven years, during which time Drysdale attended Kilbride Ladies Convent, South Melbourne. Career beginnings Drysdale's career began soon after the move to Port Melbourne. Referring to the (then) regulations for public bars to cease serving alcohol at 6pm, she observed: "During that time it was the 6 o'clock swill, and Mum didn't want her little girl seeing all that drinking, so she sent me to dancing, to May Downs. May Downs was an amazing woman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili's Garden
''Vasili's Garden'' is an Australian television gardening program. Hosted by Vasili Kanidiadis, each episode of the show, which is unscripted, focuses on the plants and produce from home gardens in Melbourne and surrounding areas, with emphasis on traditional and organic methods of gardening and healthy eating. The show has become known for Vasili's lively and sometimes outlandish methods of presentation of the show, his piano accordion playing at the end of the show and his use of the Greek phrase 'maresi' (translating to 'I like it' in English) throughout the show. The show first aired on community television station Channel 31 in 2002 and was produced by Vasili's and Peter Deskes own production company, Maresi Productions. In 2007, after two years of negotiations, the show moved to SBS, collaboratively produced by I Like It Productions (a partnership between Maresi Productions and Renegade Films), with the main appeal being the reach of a national audience, unavailable up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
