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.
1956 Summer Olympics
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The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956.
Torch relay monument, Cairns
The heritage registered former Olympic Pool (now the Holden Centre), viewed from the Yarra River