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The Morning Show (1992 TV Program)
Good Morning Australia (or ''GMA''), also known as GMA with Bert Newton, originally titled ''The Morning Show'', was an Australian breakfast television variety program on Network Ten hosted by Bert Newton between 20 January 1992 and 16 December 2005 featuring regular segments and celebrity guests The program aired from 9:00am – 11:00am (9:00am – 11:30am for most of its run). The show was a lead in to the 11:30 News. Program history Good Morning Australia (GMA) debuted on Network Ten on 20 January 1992 with the title ''The Morning Show'', changing its name the following year from 1 February 1993 to ''Good Morning after the breakfast news program with the same name on the same network had previously aired between 1981 and December 1992. ''Good Morning Australia'' itself replaced the long running Sydney based Til-Ten which was presented by Joan McInnes. ''GMA'' was Australia's first national morning talk program, unchallenged ratings wise until October 2002, until the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Burchmore
Rhonda Suzanne Burchmore OAM (born 15 May 1960) is an Australian entertainer. Career Burchmore appeared as Kate in the 1982 film, '' The Pirate Movie''. Burchmore gave her first Australian theatre performance in the 1988 production of '' Sugar Babies'' opposite Garry McDonald and Broadway performer Eddie Bracken. Later that year, she had a role in the West End production of ''Sugar Babies'' opposite Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller. Whilst in the U.K, Burchmore was cast in the revival of ''Stop the World – I Want to Get Off'' as well as a role in ''Hot Shoe Shuffle''. In 1997, Burchmore opened Melbourne's Crown Casino starring in ''Red Hot & Rhonda''. Burchmore had a role of Nadine Hale in Tommy Tune's stage version of Irving Berlin's '' Easter Parade'', slated for Broadway but eventually the project stalled. Burchmore later appeared in another show, Stephen Sondheim's ''Into the Woods'' with the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). Burchmore released her first album in 1998, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born 26 October 1981) is an Australian singer and songwriter who was the winner of the first '' Australian Idol'' in 2003, judge on Australia's ''The X Factor'' from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2016, and coach on ''The Voice Australia'' since 2019.Moran, Jonathon (2 May 2015)Chris Isaak and James Blunt: Meet the new X Factor guys Perthnow. Archived frothe originalon 3 May 2015. He represented Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in fifth place.Idato, Michael (24 March 2015Eurovision 2015: Sweden's Mans Zelmerlow wins; Australia's Guy Sebastian fifth Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 December 2015. Sebastian has released ten top ten albums, including three number ones. The first seven all gained either platinum or multi-platinum certification. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Arena
Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish. Arena has earned several international and national awards, including a BRIT Award, seven ARIA Awards and two World Music Awards for Best-selling Australian Artist (1996, 2000). In 2001, she was awarded a BMI Foundation Songwriting Award (Broadcast Music Inc) by the American performance rights organisation for co-writing "Burn" with Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel. In 2011, Arena became the first Australian to be awarded a knighthood of the French National Order of National Merit, presented by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, for her contributions to French culture, and ceremonially awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, the Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Lamond
Patricia Lamond Lawman AM (born 29 March 1932), professionally known as Toni Lamond, is an Australian vaudevillian, cabaret performer, singer, actress, dancer, and comedian. She has had a successful career spanning some 80 years, both locally and internationally, including in the United Kingdom and United States She was given the nickname of "Lolly-Legs Lamond" by actor Noel Ferrier, after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while appearing on TV show ''In Melbourne Tonight''. Lamond started her career as a variety entertainer at only ten and was the first woman in the world to host a midday show. The second was her younger half-sister Helen Reddy. She appeared in the series ''Number 96'' as Karen Winters in a controversial "Black Mass" storyline Alongside contemporaries Jill Perryman and Nancye Hayes, she has been called one of the three grand dames of Australian musical theatre, and in her prime a talent that could rival Doris Day Biography E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seekers
The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were especially popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration of Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo and vocals; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals. The group had Top 10 hits in the 1960s with "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "Morningtown Ride", "Someday, One Day", "Georgy Girl (song), Georgy Girl" and "The Carnival Is Over". Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as "concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock". In 1967, they were named as joint "Australian of the Year, Australians of the Year" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Foreman (musician)
John Gregory Foreman OAM (born 24 April 1972) is an Australian musician and television personality. In 1992, he joined the Network Ten team for '' Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton'', serving as Music Director until retiring in 2004. During 2003–2008 he was Musical Director of ''Australian Idol''. Early life Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Newcastle, New South Wales, and studied at Kotara High School in Newcastle, before moving to the Conservatorium High School and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Career Compositions and albums Foreman released ''No Jivin in 1993 on the BMG label which received an ARIA Award nomination for Best Jazz Album. In 2000, Foreman wrote the Olympic Flame song, ''The Flame'', performed by Tina Arena for the 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. Foreman wrote ''Melbourne Girl'' for the Closing Ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK which was performed by Vanessa Amorosi. In 2004, he produced, orchestrated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Foreman
John Foreman may refer to: * John Foreman (musician) (born 1972), Australian musician * John Foreman (producer) (1925–1992), American film producer * John Foreman (footballer) (1913–1964), English footballer See also * Jon Foreman (born 1976), lead singer of the band Switchfoot * Jonathan Foreman (journalist) Jonathan Foreman (born 1965) is an Anglo-American journalist and film critic. Biography He is the son of Academy-Award winning screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914–1984), who moved to England to work after being blacklisted by Ho ... (born 1965), Anglo-American journalist and film critic * John Forman (other) * Jack Foreman Mantle (1917–1940), English recipient of the VC {{human name disambiguation, name=Foreman, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9am With David And Kim
''9am with David & Kim'' is an Australian morning show which premiered on Monday 30 January 2006 on Network Ten. It aired live from 9am - 11am weekdays, and was hosted by musician and former '' Getaway'' reporter David Reyne and former ''National Nine News'' presenter and journalist Kim Watkins. Fill in presenters have included Ann-Maree Biggar, Christi Malthouse, Corinne Grant, Kathryn Robinson, Stephen Quartermain and music mogul Ian Dickson. The program replaced long time morning program '' Good Morning Australia'' with Bert Newton, which finished in late 2005, after Bert Newton returned to the Nine Network. Sandy Paterson was the executive producer of the program. Throughout its run the show had struggled behind competing programs '' The Morning Show'' and ''Mornings with Kerri-Anne'', averaging around 50,000 viewers an episode. Demise In August 2009, Reyne announced that he will be leaving 9am at the end of the year, after 4 years with the show and Ten. On 7 December 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Venuti
Maria Francesia Anna Venuti (born 7 March 1941) is an Australian actress, entertainer and author, who has appeared in numerous stage, television shows and film productions, over 50 years. Venuti is a singer, as well as an accomplished pianist who is noted for her work in cabaret and supper clubs, including working throughout Asia. Biography Venuti's father was from Sicily, and came to Australia in 1926 and her mother, Bella who was 18 years younger than her father, was from Cairo, Egypt and came to Sydney in 1939. She has a daughter named Bianca by her previous husband, Tony; they are now divorced. She has a half sister, Gina and had a half brother Francesco, who died of Diphtheria. Venuti has written a memoir, called ''A Whole Lot of Front''. Her early life was unsettled and when she was in kindergarten, she moved schools four times because of bullying due to her descent. Stalking and intruder incident In November 2016, Venuti was hospitalized after suffering a stroke, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Elelman
Susan Elelman (born 25 June 1954) is an Australian television presenter, model, and author, most famous for her appearances on daytime television in Australia. From 2007 to 2008, she hosted her own talk show, titled '' Susie''. She is best known as the advertorial host and roving reporter on '' Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton'', a position she held for eight and a half years. Career According to records at the National Museum of Australia, Elelman was a participant in the Miss Northern Beaches and Miss New South Wales beauty competitions, and was in the national final of the Miss Australia Quest of 1973. From 1992 – mid-1999, Elelman was the roving reporter for Bert Newton and advertorial presenter on '' Good Morning Australia'' on Network Ten. In mid-2007, Elelman hosted her own daily talk show, titled ''Susie'', which was broadcast on the WIN Television network. The network's chief executive at the time, David Butorac, axed the show in 2009. Butorac says that he hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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