Graham Kennedy
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Graham Cyril Kennedy AO was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, as well as a personality and star of radio, theatre, television and film. He often performed in the style of vaudevillian and radio comedy star Roy Rene and was often called "Gra Gra".
Kennedy (right) on screen with Don Lane (left)
Statue of Graham Kennedy at Waterfront City, Melbourne Docklands.
Television in Australia
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Television in Australia began experimentally as early as 1929 in Melbourne with radio stations 3DB and 3UZ, and 2UE in Sydney, using the Radiovision system by Gilbert Miles and Donald McDonald, and later from other locations, such as Brisbane in 1934.
Bruce Gyngell re-enacts his introduction to the first regular television broadcast service to the residents of Sydney on TCN-9.
Melbourne "housewife" Edna Everage (a comic creation of performing artist Barry Humphries), first appeared on Australian television in the 1950s.
Don Lane appearing split-screen with Graham Kennedy via co-axial cable in 1963, live on In Melbourne Tonight.
The Seven Network's telecast of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony was one of the highest-rating programs in Australian television history.