67-421: " Pardon Miss Westcott! " is a 1959 Australian TV play by the Seven Network as part of drama anthology series Shell Presents . It was a musical set in colonial Australia and was broadcast live. It was Australia's first commissioned for television musical comedy. "Pardon Miss Westcott" aired on 12 December 1959 in Sydney and on 19 December 1959 in Melbourne. It ran for 75 minutes and featured eight new songs and
134-545: A 14.9% share of the company later in the same year. The 1980s saw the introduction of stereo sound, as well as a number of successful shows, most notably A Country Practice in 1981, and Sons and Daughters , which began in 1982. Wheel of Fortune began its 25-year run in July 1981, produced from ADS -7's studios in Adelaide . The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were shown live on
201-405: A cast of nineteen. It is 1809 and Britain sends its convicts to the penal colony of New South Wales. On a convict ship travelling to Sydney, the convicts, notably three men, Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark, sing "He-ho, you'll never go back". Elizabeth Westcott is being transported after being given a five year sentence for killing a pig and serving it to a pompous magistrate at her father's inn. On
268-564: A digital channel owned by the Prime Media Group , in December 2011 on channel 64 in Prime7 and regional areas and channel 74 in other areas. In September 2011, Seven broadcast a report featuring journalist Tim Noonan and writer and adventurer Paul Raffaele visiting Brazil's Suruwaha tribe and describing them as child murderers, "Stone Age" relics, and "one of the worst human rights violators in
335-552: A high definition simulcast on channel 70 on 10 May 2016. Initially, the Melbourne and Adelaide markets received 7HD as a HD simulcast of Seven's primary channel, while the Sydney, Brisbane and Perth markets received 7HD as a HD simulcast of 7mate; this was to allow Australian Football League (AFL) matches to be broadcast in HD in those markets. Sydney, Brisbane and Perth temporarily received 7HD as
402-702: A massive hit in Australia and abroad, with the screenplay nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1986. In the late 1980s Ken Shadie wrote the first draft of the movie version of The Phantom . Shadie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2015, for service to the film and television industries as a writer, and to veterans (for his community work as president of
469-485: A new look for programme advisory ratings, programme listings and programme advertisements and promos. As of 10 December 2013, Seven no longer broadcasts on analogue TV and is now only available through digital TV or digital set-top box. On 26 June 2015, Racing.com began broadcasting on channel 78 as a joint venture between Seven West Media and Racing Victoria following a blackout of Victorian horse racing by Sky Racing . Initially broadcasting an interim live feed from
536-445: A number of Bramston colleagues. In 1974, he contributed scripts for the groundbreaking soap opera Number 96 . In the late 1970s he was writing a revue for comedy actor Ron Frazer . This was seen by Paul Hogan who loved the writing and asked to meet Shadie. The two of them started writing together on The Paul Hogan Show . Hogan, Shadie and Cornell co-wrote the script for the film Crocodile Dundee , which went on to become
603-415: A number of timeslot changes, was moved in 1998 to Wednesdays. This was to make room for a new series, medical drama All Saints . Both dramas rated quite highly, and along with new lifestyle shows Better Homes and Gardens and The Great Outdoors , resulted in a stronger ratings position for the network. In 1995, Sunshine Television , a Seven Network affiliate in regional Queensland, was purchased by
670-400: A page of dialogue in an earlier scene. The other actors continued because it was live, but it meant later plot points would be confusing. After the show went to air, they re-shot the scene and re-inserted it into the tape and kine. The Beacon Research Company estimated that 250,000 adults and 10,000 children watched the broadcast. More than 100 people rang in to congratulate on the broadcast on
737-585: A purpose-built high-definition television production facility at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh . The present Seven Network began as a group of independent stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane , Adelaide and Perth . HSV-7 Melbourne, licensed to The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd (owners of two local papers at the time, The Herald and The Sun ), was launched on 4 November 1956,
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#1733094315534804-587: A share in the network, and continued to produce news and current affairs programming for it. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, a state-of-the-art high definition national broadcast facility was constructed in Docklands, Melbourne , replacing the previous facility in Epping, Sydney . This new facility would also house HSV-7 's Melbourne offices and studios. The year 2000 saw former Nine executive David Leckie appointed as head of television operations, re-launching
871-411: A simulcast of the primary channel for the duration of the 2016 Summer Olympics before the change was made permanent during and after the 2017 Australian Open tennis. Up until 16 January 2020, breakaway programming was used to show further AFL matches and Australian cricket matches in HD. In June 2017, following the acquisition of Yahoo! by Verizon Communications , Seven announced plans to launch
938-511: A subsidiary of West Australian Newspapers , publisher of The West Australian , began broadcasting almost two years later, on 16 October 1959, as the city's first television station. BTQ-7 Brisbane followed on 1 November 1959, signing on as Brisbane's second television station. ADS-7 Adelaide was launched on 24 October 1959 as the final capital city VHF7 station. The station later swapped frequencies with SAS-10 on 27 December 1987 as ADS-10 and SAS-7 . HSV-7 began its relationship with
1005-465: A warehouse in Sydney. The exact location is North Head Sanctuary, also known as The Barracks. On the night Big Brother premiered, Seven also changed their on air theme. On 19 June 2020, it was announced that The Daily Edition had been cancelled by the Seven Network after 7 years with hosts Sally Obermeder and Ryan Phelan leaving the network. The final episode aired on 26 June 2020. In July 2020,
1072-752: A wholly owned standalone service to replace PLUS7 . In September 2017, Seven announced the new service would be known as 7plus and would launch in November 2017. As of September 2017, Seven's live streaming service, now named 7Live , is no longer accessible from within the PLUS7 and the Yahoo7 portal. Seven announced 7food network , a new digital channel, which launched on Channel 74 on 1 December 2018. The announcement with Discovery network follows SBS Food Network losing its deal with Discovery-owned Scripps Network . The channel ceased broadcast on 28 December 2019, just over
1139-458: A year since it launched, though Seven continues to utilise the Food Network branding elsewhere In June 2020, Big Brother Australia made a return on the Seven Network with a rebooted program. Hosted by Sonia Kruger , the series was pre-recorded and not live as in previous series, with the new version of Big Brother described like a "Survivor in a warehouse", with producers opting to film at
1206-481: Is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network . It is owned by Seven West Media Limited , and is one of the 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 programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011,
1273-463: Is convinced that Elizabeth and her husband are having an affair. The convicts have broken out of prison again. Elizabeth insists she loves Richard. Elizabeth and Richard sing a love duet, "You Walked By". The convicts arrive, having recaptured Paterson's rabbits. Paterson tells Richard that the NSW Corps is being disbanded, Paterson is going home and Richard is out of the army. Elizabeth has to serve out
1340-437: Is upset and sends the convicts home. Paterson also tells Elizabeth she and Richard must not see each other, as she would be bad for his career. She briefly reprises "Send for Me". Paterson tells Richard to not see Elizabeth and he reluctantly agrees. Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark escape, taking Paterson's rabbits. Sent to find the convicts, Paterson sneaks out to see Elizabeth and they sing a song, "So Much More". Paterson catches
1407-483: The Australian Television Network in 1963. The new grouping was soon joined by other capital-city channel 7 stations, ADS-7 Adelaide and BTQ-7 Brisbane. The new network began to produce and screen higher-budget programs to attract viewers, most notably Homicide , a series which would continue for another 12 years to become the nation's longest running drama series. However, it was not until 1970, after
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#17330943155341474-465: The Nine Network 's A Current Affair , was launched in 1992 but was later replaced by the more successful Today Tonight . The network was listed on the stock exchange in 1993, soon after the entry of subscription television provider Australis . One of Seven's most popular series, A Country Practice , ended in 1993 after 1058 episodes. 1993 saw the introduction of Blue Heelers , which after
1541-521: The Seven Media Group and Foxtel officially signed an agreement allowing Seven's digital signal to be transmitted via Foxtel 's cable and satellite services. Seven became available on Foxtel in early 2009. On 25 September 2009, Seven announced its new digital channel, 7two , which officially launched on 1 November 2009. On 18 January 2010, Seven launched the online catch-up TV website called PLUS7 . On 25 September 2010, in conjunction with
1608-402: The Seven Media Group announcing their intention to start a high definition multichannel, that was initially expected to launch in December 2007. However, 7HD became the first free-to-air commercial television channel introduced to metropolitan areas since 1988, when it launched prior on 15 October 2007, with 25th Hour being the first programme broadcast at 10:30 pm. On 14 February 2008,
1675-457: The 2010 AFL Grand Final, Seven launched its second multi-digital channel 7mate . In January 2011, the big red 7 logos were expanded to GWN7 and Prime7 's rebranding respectively. The news bulletins were renamed as GWN7 News and Prime7 News . GWN and Prime relaunched on 16 January 2011 at 6:00 pm, digital channels are branded as 7two and 7mate . Seven announced its intention to expand into digital datacasting known as 4ME ,
1742-547: The Federal Court upheld the ruling. In October 2012, Seven began cost cutting shedding a number of behind the scenes technical positions and reducing their SNG transponder link capacity on Optus D1 from three (at 12.661,12.671&12.681 GHz) to two (at 12.644&12.653 GHz) which are used by ATN Sydney for Sunrise and national news location uplinks as well as for other local station location uplinks. In November 2012, Seven changed its on-air theme. This included
1809-543: The Governor's wife, Lydia, to become jealous and demand the convict leave. Paterson decides to grant Elizabeth a ticket of leave and loans her five pounds to set up an inn. Elizabeth sings "I'm on My Way". Elizabeth runs the inn, called the Silver Bottle, along with a servant girl, Mog. It is popular but they have trouble with the local soldiers. She decides to gate crash a party held by Paterson and his wife, in order to talk to
1876-429: The Governor. At the party, Lydia sings a song to her guests, "Our Own Bare Hands". Elizabeth arrives to make an appeal to Paterson, but upsets Lydia. Richard arrives at the party and dances with Elizabeth; he sings her a song, "Sometimes". At the Silver Bottle, the customers, including Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark, sing and dance a number, "The Grog Song". The convicts mock Lydia, when Paterson arrives and overhears. He
1943-561: The Prime branding after 33 years in favour of Seven Network's branding, and would see all news bulletins carry the Seven News brand. Prior to this, Prime7 (and sister GWN7 in regional and remote Western Australia) was the only network not to fully use its metro affiliate branding despite carrying Seven branded promos, since WIN Television (except for WIN News) and Southern Cross Austereo use full Nine and Ten network branding on their stations. It
2010-632: The Prime7 and GWN7 logos transition into the national Seven branding. Seven announced in October 2022 it would launch a new free-to-air channel, 7Bravo on 15 January 2023, on LCN 75 in metropolitan areas and LCN 65 in regional areas. As a result ishop TV moved from LCN 65 to LCN 67 in the former Prime7 areas. 7Bravo shows reality shows and true crime . The launch is a partnership between Seven Network and NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct-to-Consumer. On 30 November 2022, various channel changes on
2077-492: The Racing.com website, the channel was officially launched on 29 August 2015. In January 2016, Seven changed its on-air theme. This included a new look for program listings, program advertisements and promos. On 7 February 2016, during the ad-break of Molly , after months of speculation, Seven officially announced their new channel as 7flix on channel 76. 7flix was launched at 6 am on 28 February 2016. 7HD returned as
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2144-792: The Seven Network happened to accommodate for the new 7Bravo channel, including a 7mate SD (Channel 73) switch-off. On the same day, 7Bravo on channel 75 appeared on the Seven multiplex, and ishop TV moving to channel 67 placeholder in Seven regional areas. In June 2023, 7NEWS moved their operations from Martin Place to their new purpose-built studios in Eveleigh . In July 2023, Sunrise hosted its first broadcast at its new studios. The first edition went to air live at 5.30am on 24 July 2023, with hosts Natalie Barr and Matt Shirvington , newsreader Edwina Bartholomew and sports presenter Mark Beretta , followed by The Morning Show 's Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies . For
2211-504: The Seven Network unveiled new logos, for its multichannels, beginning with 7mate then 7two and 7flix respectively. The change in logos also included their on demand platform 7plus now stylised as ″ 7+ ″ as part of a major branding overhaul of its multi channel stations. In March 2021, it was announced that the Seven Network would move out of Martin Place to Eveleigh by the end of 2022 after almost two decades. On 1 November 2021, Seven West Media announced that it would acquire all
2278-652: The Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League ) in April 1957, when the station broadcast the first live Australian rules football match. Throughout this time, the stations operated independently of each other, with schedules made up of various simple, and relatively inexpensive, programs, such as Pick a Box and spinoffs of popular radio shows. In the early 1960s, coaxial cable links, formed initially between Sydney and Melbourne, allowed
2345-527: The boat over she meets Richard Soames, an army officer being transferred to the NSW Corps . Elizabeth befriends Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark after she refuses to report them for theft; they sing "Send for Me" together. The ship arrives in Sydney. Richard meets the new, temporary Governor, Colonel Patterson, who has taken over from Governor Bligh (the Rum Rebellion has just taken place). Paterson complains about
2412-569: The cast completely commits, particularly the supporting players, the production values are impressive, and the script even makes vague political points (about how laws should be just, and you shouldn't keep stealing things). It's very well directed... Admittedly, the script feels as though it could have done with another draft just to tighten the subplots, but there is some lovely comedy, bright tunes, as well as thrilling high-octane dance numbers (with spectacular high kicks courtesy of ballerina Joy Hill). A studio cast album, with different performers from
2479-565: The first television station in the country to use the VHF 7 frequency. ATN-7 Sydney, licensed to Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax , was launched on 2 December 1956, signing on as Sydney's third television station. The two stations did not immediately share resources, and instead formed content-sharing partnerships with their VHF 9 counterparts by 1957: ATN-7 partnered with Melbourne's GTV-9 , while HSV-7 paired up with Sydney's TCN-9 . TVW-7 Perth, licensed to TVW Limited,
2546-604: The first time in 1998. Between 1995 and April 2001, Alan Jackson of Nylex was the non-executive director of Seven, after being asked by Stokes to lead the company. A successful $ 1.3 billion bid for United Artists was made in conjunction with Kirk Kerkorian in 1996; the network sold its stake two years later for $ US389 million. Seven took control of Australia Television , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's Asian satellite channel, in 1997. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation still maintained
2613-477: The first time in more than 40 years, the whole Seven Sydney operation, including all staff, were under one roof. The new space offers space five times larger than the previous Martin Place location, with permanent sets for all programs. In July–August 2023 when the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was hosted by Australia and New Zealand, there was some controversy worldwide about broadcasting rights to it , when broadcasters' offers were very low, and FIFA's handling of
2680-418: The lack of decent servants and Richard recommends Elizabeth but Paterson is reluctant to employ a former convict. Elizabeth arrives to track down Richard and impresses Paterson, who offers her the job of managing Government House. She persuades Richard to let Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark join her as servants. Richard sings "You Walk By" to Elizabeth. Elizabeth runs the house with great success but this causes
2747-570: The network adopted the Network 7 name, that a national network logo was adopted, albeit still with independently owned and operated stations with local advertising campaigns. Colour television was introduced across the network in 1975, when a new colour logo was adopted. Rupert Murdoch made an unsuccessful bid for the Herald and Weekly Times , owners of HSV-7 , in 1979, later going on to gain control of rival ATV-10 . Fairfax, however, successfully bought
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2814-527: The network returned to the "Australian Television Network" branding. The next year, another new logo was introduced along with evening soap Home and Away and a relaunched Seven National News , now known as Seven News . The network became truly national in 1988 when Skase bought TVW-7 for $ 130 million. In 1991, the network changed its name once again to the Seven Network , though it had been unofficially using that name for some time before then. Despite
2881-466: The network the year before. Neighbours began on Seven in 1985, but low ratings in Sydney led to the cancellation of the new series at the end of the year, which later moved to Network Ten and went on to achieve international success. Perth based businessman Robert Holmes à Court , through his business the Bell Group, bought TVW -7 from its original owners, West Australian Newspapers in 1982. It
2948-411: The network with an updated logo, and a new advertising campaign timed expressly for the network's coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The opening ceremony was one of the highest-ever rating television programmes in the country, with 6.5 million viewers, contributing to the network winning the ratings year for the first time in twenty-two years. Digital television was introduced to most of
3015-672: 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 2023, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network , ABC TV , Network 10 and SBS . Seven's administration headquarters are in Eveleigh , Sydney, completed in 2003. National news and current affairs programming are based between flagship station ATN-7 in Sydney and HSV-7 in Melbourne. In 2009, Seven moved its Sydney-based production operations from Epping to
3082-414: The network's coverage area on 1 January 2001. This was soon followed by the gradual introduction of wide screen and high definition programming. In January 2006, the Seven Network, Pacific Magazines and online portal Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand combined in a joint venture to form Yahoo!7 , representing all three companies' online assets. 7HD was officially announced on 15 September 2007, with
3149-456: The network's parent company, Seven Network Limited . Sunshine Television 's regional stations effectively became a part of the Seven Network, identical in appearance and programming to the rest of the business' stations. Australian Gladiators Series 1 and Series 2 in 1995-1996 filmed in Brisbane, and Series 3 filmed in Sydney proved popular. Seven Queensland won the annual audience ratings for
3216-470: The network's successes, a failed $ 1.5 billion bid for MGM Studios in the same year sent Qintex into receivership. Christopher Skase fled Australia in 1990 to escape extradition. The business' assets were bundled together by receivers and made into a new company, the Seven Network Limited , in 1991. Real Life , a national current-affairs programme hosted by Stan Grant , similar in format to
3283-552: The night it aired. The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote the musical "had an entertaining and beguilingly tuneful premiere in a smoothly organised live production" despite "the lack of colour and space in which create spectacle and the effects which properly, and uniquely-belong to the stage." However: Nine numbers in a 75-minute show is pretty fair value, and the... tunes and lyrics were fluent, neatly turned and literate. Equally important. they arose naturally from
3350-603: The press regulator of serious violations of the broadcasting code. The ACMA ruled that the Channel was guilty of breaking its racism clause – having "provoked or perpetuated intense dislike, serious contempt or severe ridicule against the Suruwaha people on the grounds of ... national or ethnic origin ... race [or] religion". It also ruled that the Channel was guilty of broadcasting inaccurate material. Seven sought judicial review, but in June 2014
3417-602: The program. Ken Shadie Kenneth George Shadie OAM (8 December 1935 – 29 June 2020) was an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and John Cornell . Shadie was born in the Sydney suburb of Bondi and raised in Lane Cove . He was the son of Albert Nicholas Shadie, who was of Lebanese Christian descent, and Edith (née Rayner) from Manchester, England. He started in
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#17330943155343484-464: The proper strength of character... but was not entirely at ease with her songs. Nigel Lovell.. was engaging and sympathetic, and Queenie Ashton, his snooty hypochondriac wife, was nicely acid. Chris Christiansen, Nat Levispn and Michael Walshe made a usefully funny convict trio, and Joy Hill danced with considerable verve and enthusiasm. Reviewing it years later Filmink called it "charming... full of life and energy, with enjoyable tunes and dance numbers;
3551-411: The remaining four years of her sentence. Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark are given an extra five years of service, but are assigned to Richard as servants. Mog, the convicts, Elizabeth and Richard sing a final song. The film was commissioned and broadcast live by the Seven Network's ATN-7 Sydney studio's from the writers of the musical Lola Montez , which had enjoyed a successful run on stage. The brief
3618-456: The rights was also criticised. The Seven Network won the rights to broadcast 15 of the matches. These included four round of 16 games, two quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and the final, along with all of the Matildas games. The pay channel Optus Sport has rights for every game in the tournament. This raised public criticism, with many arguing that the entire tournament should be free-to-air, as
3685-416: The shares and subsidiaries of Prime Media Group . This was Seven West Media's second attempt at purchasing Prime, after its previous attempt in 2019 was thwarted by Australian Community Media boss Antony Catalano and rival WIN Corporation owner Bruce Gordon , who cited Seven's debt problems at the time and its poor ratings performance as their reason for their refusal. This development would mark an end to
3752-597: The sharing of programmes and simultaneous broadcasts of live shows. In 1960, Frank Packer , the owner of Sydney's TCN-9 , bought a controlling share of Melbourne's GTV-9 , in the process creating the country's first television network (unofficially called "the National Nine Network ") and dissolving the ATN-7 / GTV-9 and the HSV-7 / TCN-9 partnerships. Left without their original partners, ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to form
3819-402: The situations arranged by the... book, and always took the story-line, and characterisation, a step further. And at least one song, "Bells Suddenly Ring" is a possible hit tune. Moreover, the show proved that for those who are willing to use their imagination, there is plenty of theatrical material in our early history... Michael Cole acted and sang very attractively indeed: Wendy Blacklock brought
3886-453: The sound department of ATN 7's studio, working on Pardon Miss Westcott (1959), which was Australia's first original TV musical film. From 1964 to 1968, he was chief writer and script editor of The Mavis Bramston Show . He worked on its less successful follow up News Revue , as the co-producer with Michael Pate . Shadie served as a producer and writer for the 1972 rustic comedy Snake Gully with Dad and Dave , which reunited him with
3953-406: The television version (apart from Queenie Ashton), was released in December 1960. The show was repeated on Channel 7 in November 1960. The Bulletin called it "bright and tuneful". The Sydney Morning Herald said "it came through even better on the second run than the first." Seven Network The Seven Network (stylised 7Network , commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven )
4020-412: The time). Cross-media ownership laws introduced in 1987 forced Fairfax to choose between its print and television operations – it chose the former, and later sold off its stations to Qintex Ltd., owned by businessman Christopher Skase . Qintex had previously bought, and subsequently sold off, stations in Brisbane and regional Queensland before taking control of the network. It was also in 1987 that
4087-543: The two of them together and demands Richard's resignation; he also orders Paterson to spend the night in prison with the three recaptured convicts. In prison, Mansfield, Harbutt, and Snark sing "The Whole Shebang", watched by Richard. The convicts escape, during which Richard is knocked out. The convicts deposit Richard and Elizabeth's inn. When Richard wakes up he insists they go back to prison. He and Elizabeth sing "The Argument" along with Mansfield, Harbutt and Snark. The convicts eventually agree to return to their cell. Lydia
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#17330943155344154-476: The world". Survival International , the global movement for tribal people's rights, sent a complaint to Seven outlining the many errors and distortions in the report. After the channel refused to correct the inaccuracies in the program, Survival filed a complaint at the Australian Communications and Media Authority , who opened a formal investigation. In September 2012, the network was found guilty by
4221-433: Was also announced that Seven would look to expand its investment in local news following the merger. Majority of Prime's shareholders voted in favour of the deal on 23 December, with the sale completed on 31 December. Commencing June 2022, Seven moved to a national brand in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games across all of its regions. Introduced to regional audiences on 6 June 2022, viewers in those markets began to see
4288-473: Was in 1984 that the network proceeded to drop the "Network 7" branding. The Herald and Weekly Times , owner of HSV -7 and ADS -7, was sold to Rupert Murdoch in December 1986 for an estimated A$ 1.8 billion. Murdoch's company, News Limited , sold off HSV-7 to Fairfax soon afterwards, for $ 320 million. Fairfax went on to axe a number of locally produced shows in favour of networked content from its Sydney counterpart, ATN -7 (also owned by Fairfax at
4355-409: Was operations manager. Ken Shadie supervised audio. Betty Pounder was borrowed from J.C. Williamsons to direct the choreography. Michael Cole had been fired from Lola Montez and was hired by the writers for this to make it up to him. According to Ailsa McPherson, who worked on the show as a script assistant, during the live broadcast the actor who played Colonel Patterson accidentally omitted over
4422-487: Was the 2022 (men's) World Cup in Qatar , on SBS Television . In September 2023, a female Queensland contestant in an upcoming Seven Network reality show was charged with multiple counts of indecent treatment of children aged under 16, multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, torture and assaults over a 15-year period. Her partner was also charged with a number of assaults. Seven refused to confirm whether it will cancel or alter
4489-546: Was to create a family musical for Christmas. The budget was £5,000 The book was by Alan Burke and Peter Benjamin, Benjamin also wrote the lyrics and the music was by Peter Stannard. Burke appeared "by courtesy of the ABC" who were employing him as a director. The music was conducted by Tommy Tycho , leading a full ATN Studio Orchestra (rather than show band). Kevin Cameron designed the sets, Bill Robinson prepared wardrobe and Vernon Best
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