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The Shirley Abicair Show
''The Shirley Abicair Show'' is an Australian television variety series which aired in 1958. The series was produced with the intention of running for nine episodes. Two of the episodes were produced and aired live in Melbourne by station GTV (Australia), GTV-9, the other seven were produced in Sydney by station ATN, ATN-7. In Melbourne it occupied the time-slot previously held by ''The Astor Show''. Apart from Abicair, other performers who made appearances during the run of the series included singer Jimmy Parkinson, singer Bill McCormack, singer Toni Lamond, singer Ted Hamilton, harmonica group The Three Winds, vocal group The Moontones, violinist Maurice Stead, Arthur Duncan, singer Bill French, The Tunetwisters, Graeme Bell and Bill Newmanhttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6gFQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4532%2C5010215 References External links''The Shirley Abicair Show'' at IMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:Shirley Abicair Show Seven Network original programming Nine Network ... [...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] |
