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Brian Naylor (broadcaster)
Brian Norman Naylor (21 January 19317 February 2009) was an Australian television broadcaster and presenter, best known for his longstanding stint as chief news presenter at Seven Network (HSV-7) from 1970 to 1978 and for Nine Network (GTV-9) from 1978 to 1998 and his sign-off line, "May your news be good news, and good-night." Early life Naylor was born on 21 January 1931. He grew up in Melbourne, initially attending Melbourne High School until the onset of World War II, when he was relocated to Camberwell High School, along with all of the students at his school. Completing his schooling in Form 5 (Year 11), his first job was as a production cadet at the Australian Paper Manufacturers. Naylor left APM when his manager started Woodweev Blinds, a blinds manufacturer, for which Naylor produced the original radio advertisement. It was from there that he was to start his career in the media. Radio broadcasting In 1956, when Woodweev Blinds needed someone to provide a voice for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camberwell High School
(Learning to be considerate of others) , city = Canterbury , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Public , established = 1941 , principal = Jill Laughlin , grades = 7-12 , colours = Green and red , yearbook = Prospice , website www.camhigh.vic.edu.au , gender = Co-education , students = Approx. 1200 , grades_label = Years , free_label_1 = Publications , free_1 = Bi-weekly newsletter Camberwell High School is a government-funded, government run, co-educational high school for years 7 to 12, located on Prospect Hill Road in Canterbury, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Camberwell High School is located on a 3.2-hectare site in Canterbury, which lies about twelve kilometres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swallow's Juniors
''Swallow's Juniors'' was a popular Australian radio and television series, which aired on 3DB (Melbourne) at 6.30 pm on a Saturday evening, from the 1950s and into the early 1960s. It was telecast from November 1957 to 1970 on Melbourne television station HSV-7. There was a period of radio/TV simulcasting before it was exclusively telecast. It was a talent contest featuring young performers, and was initially hosted by 3DB breakfast announcer John Eden. However Brian Naylor soon took over as compere. In 1964, the title was changed to ''Brian and the Juniors''. The series was one of several talent shows broadcast on HSV-7 during 1957, the others including ''Stairway to the Stars'' (1956-1958) and ''Swallows Parade'' (1957). Under the ''Swallow's Juniors'' title, it was one of several Australian television series of the 1950s to feature the sponsor's name in the title. Others included ''The Dulux Show'', ''The Astor Show'', ''Astor Showcase'', and ''The Pressure Pak Show''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hitchener
Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener Order of Australia, OAM (born 21 February 1946) is an Australian television presenter. He has been the chief news presenter for GTV (Australia), GTV-9 of their flagship bulletin ''Nine News Melbourne'' since 1998, and prior to that was the weekend news presenter. Career Originally from Texas, Queensland, Texas in rural Queensland, Hitchener began his media career in 1965 at the Brisbane radio station Magic 882, 4BH where he wrote, edited and presented news bulletins. Hitchener then moved on to Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Brisbane where he undertook roles as a television news and radio presenter. Still at the ABC, he moved to Sydney in 1973 where he was a relief presenter on the evening news for James Dibble. Hitchener moved to the Nine Network after one year at ABC Sydney, presenting ''National Nine News'' first in Sydney and then in Melbourne as the co-anchor of ''News Centre Nine'', with Brian Henderson (television presenter), Bria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Pearce (broadcaster)
Sir Eric Herbert Pearce, OBE (5 March 190512 April 1997) was an English-born broadcaster and television pioneer in Australia. Pearce was born in Hampshire, England, and had an early career in radio on the BBC before migrating to Australia, where he was a long-term newsreader on Melbourne television stations HSV Channel 7 (1956–65) and GTV Channel 9 (late 1950s–74, 1976–78). Pearce's catchphrase sign-off of his news reports, "God bless you, and you", was for viewers and his third wife. Biography Eric Herbert Pearce was born on 5 March 1905 and grew up in Hampshire, England. He was the elder son of H. C. Pearce of Ryde, Isle of Wight. He completed his studies at London University. Pearce worked for an insurance company and was transferred to Canada. On 11 April 1933 Pearce married Ella Mary, a sales woman, in Winnipeg and the couple had a son, Royston Gyles Pearce, that same year. Pearce returned to England in 1937. He started his radio career and had worked for the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GTV (Australia)
GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia, owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands. History GTV-9 was amongst the first television stations to begin regular transmission in Australia. Test transmissions began on 27 September 1956, introduced by former 3DB radio announcer Geoff Corke, based at the Mount Dandenong transmitter, as the studios in Richmond were not yet ready. The station covered the 1956 Summer Olympics which Melbourne hosted., the 1956 Carols By Candlelight and the Davis Cup tennis as part of its test transmissions. The station was officially opened on 19 January 1957 by Victorian Governor Sir Dallas Brooks from the studios in Bendigo Street, Richmond. A clip from the ceremony has featured in a number of GTV-9 retrospectives, in which the Governor advises viewers that if they did not like the programs, they could just turn off. The Richmond building, bearing the name ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Redfern
Jamie Redfern (born 9 April 1957) is an English-born Australian television presenter and personality and pop singer. Redfern was an original cast member of children's variety show, ''Young Talent Time'' from April 1971 to early 1972, before leaving the show to tour in the US with Liberace. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, he "possessed a booming, mature voice which belied his tender age... escored four Top 40 hit singles and sold more than $1.3 million worth of records." His equal highest-charting singles were the double-A sided covers of "Rainbow on the River"/"We'll Meet Again" (November 1972), and "Venus" (August 1973), which each peaked at No. 8 on the ''Go-Set'' national charts. Biography Jamie Redfern was born on 9 April 1957 in Liverpool to Sam and Mary Redfern; he has five siblings. The family emigrated to Australia and settled in Melbourne. He took singing lessons with United States-born theatre actor and singer, Evie Hayes. He made his TV de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikki Broughton
Vikki is a given name. It can be a nickname for the given name Victoria. Notable people with the name include: * Vikki, a UK singer in the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, now known as Aeone * Vikki Bunce (born 1983), field hockey forward * Vikki Carr (born 1941), American singer * Vikki de Vries (born 1964), American figure skater * Vikki Hubbard (born 1989), English high jumper * Vikki LaMotta (1930–2005), American model * Vikki McGinn (born 1985), Irish rugby union player * Vikki Moss (born 1962), Canadian singer * Vikki Mongeon (born 1981), American model and television personality * Vikki Petraitis (born 1965), Australian true crime author * Vikki Slowe (born 1947), English printmaker and painter * Vikki Stone (born 1985), English stand-up comedian, actress and musician * Vikki Thorn Vikki Elizabeth Thorn (née Simpson, born c. 1974) is an Australian harmonica player, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter and one-third of the Australian folk rock band the Waifs. Her elder sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Watt
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patti Newton
Patricia Anne Newton (née McGrath; born 4 February 1945) is an Australian singer, actress, dancer, stage performer and radio and television presenter. Life and career Prior to her marriage, Newton worked under her birth name, Patti McGrath, when she appeared on programs such as the ''Tarax Show'' and ''The Graham Kennedy Show''. In 1967, she won the Logie Award for Most Popular Female in Victoria. She has appeared in many stage shows, and has made television appearances on '' Good Morning Australia'' and the Logie Awards. Newton was married to fellow Australian entertainer Bert Newton from 9 November 1974 until his death on 30 October 2021. She often appeared with him and Bert Newton sometimes referred to her as "Patricia Anne Therese Bernadette McGrath Newton". She is the mother of Lauren and Matthew Newton. Newton is a regular on 3AW's ''Nightline'' program with Philip Brady and Simon Owens, Monday nights from 10.15 pm – 11.00 pm AEST. In 2007, Newton was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Doyle (singer)
Peter John Doyle (28 July 1949 – 13 October 2001) was an Australian pop singer who had success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s, then success internationally as a member of the New Seekers in the early 1970s, before resuming a solo career in 1973. Early career He started his career at the age of 9 appearing on a children's television talent show called Swallow's Juniors and appeared as a regular on that show for the next five years. At the age of 10 he made his first recording on a 78rpm acetate, "Lucky Devil"/"If Irish Eyes Were Shining". He was performing in Sunday afternoon pop shows at Melbourne's Festival Hall at the age of 14 and at 16 he was signed to a record contract with Ivan Dayman's Sunshine label (whose roster included top singers such as Normie Rowe and Tony Worsley). This led to regular appearances on Melbourne's teen TV show, "The Go!! Show". Australian pop star From 1965 to 1967, he released ten 45 records in Australia, of which seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Scali
Jane Scali (born 8 August 1959) is an Australian singer and former TV personality. She was one of the original cast members of the long-running TV show ''Young Talent Time'' from 1971 to 1976. Early life Scali was a cast member in the junior variety show '' Brian And The Juniors'', produced at HSV-7 in the late 1960s. In 1971, at the age of 11, Scali joined the cast of a new TV show, ''Young Talent Time''. It was scheduled to run for a 13-week season, but it became very successful and Scali was part of the show for five years. Career Scali was a regular performer on a number of Australian TV shows, such as the ''Rolf Harris Show'', ''The Saturday Show'' and later appeared on shows such as '' Good Morning Australia'', ''Midday'', the '' Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal'' and ''In Melbourne Tonight''. Scali performed in musical theatre for the first time when she was 17, as the lead role in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of ''Cinderella''. Other musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
