34-477: Your Home was an early Australian television show that aired on Sydney station ATN-7 from 3 December 1956 to circa 3 September 1964. It was one of the first series produced by the station. Hosted by Del Cartwright, the series was aimed at housewives of the period. Originally broadcast five days a week, it was eventually cut back to four days. Running time was originally thirty minutes but eventually became sixty minutes. The episode aired 10 September 1957 featured
68-516: A Flower (1970), Massacre at Central High (1976, starred stepdaughter Beck) and She Came to the Valley (1979). He also co-wrote (with Jill Williams) and sang "Cross Roads" for Massacre at Central High . TV music included: The ABC Weekend Special episodes 1.2 "The Ransom of Red Chief", 1.9 "Soup and Me", 2.5 "Little Lulu" and 2.6 "Soup for President". Leonetti died in 1979 in Houston , Texas after
102-588: A demonstration of judo, while Cartwright and Marjorie Long discussed various uses of vegetables. In the episode broadcast 8 October 1957, there was an appearance by the cast of Pajama Game , an interview with choreographer Betty Pounder, and tumbling act by the Flying Garlands. In the 12 November 1957 episode, Cartwright interviewed dancers George and Mavis Weiss, interviewed Cedric Ashton of the Rockdale Opera Company, while someone named Mr. Cordony created
136-560: A film role in The Human Duplicators (1965) a science fiction alien invasion movie. "Free", Leonetti's 1956 single, has been described as a US one-hit wonder peaking at number 23 on Billboard magazine's pop charts . He also had a minor hit with his version of " I Cried " which reached number 30 in 1954. Your Hit Parade (1957–1958), The Steve Allen Show (1958–1959) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1973) featured performances by Leonetti. He also hit in
170-443: A hairstyle for teenagers. In the 10 December 1957 episode, Dawn Anderson showed holiday wear, Ted Maloney cooked a fish mousse, plus there was Scottish and Irish dancing. Five 1960s-era episodes are listed as being held by National Film and Sound Archive . One of the episodes has a listed running time of 22 minutes and 55 seconds, which is consistent with daytime series historically having more minutes of ads than prime-time series. It
204-456: A makeshift studio miles from the site, with additional coverage from other stations nationwide), Seven News Sydney became the 2015 Logie Awards winner for Most Outstanding News Coverage. In June 2020, Jim Wilson left Seven after 28 years with the network, to become a new host of 2GB's Drive program. His last sports bulletin was 27 June 2020. It was later announced that Matt Shirvington would replace him. On 5 November 2020, David Brown left
238-692: A result the stations switched their previous affiliations. ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to create the Australian Television Network , which later became the Seven Network . ATN-7 is the home of the national level Seven News bulletins. ATN-7 began broadcasting on 2 December 1956 and became the third television station in Sydney to begin regular transmissions. The station opened in 1956 with principal offices and studios located at Mobbs Lane, Epping . The initial black and white cameras and other equipment
272-585: Is at a purpose built studio at Eveleigh headquarters. The new space is five-times larger than Martin Place, allows for permanent sets for all programs, with two complete control rooms and more than 40sq m of LED screens, while all newsroom operations will now be located on a second entire floor. Seven News Sydney is directed by Sean Power and presented by Mark Ferguson and Angela Cox from Sunday to Thursday and Michael Usher and Angie Asimus on Friday and Saturday from Seven's headquarters, located at Eveleigh . Sport
306-785: Is not known if any additional episodes exist of the series. ATN ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia . The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services , a subsidiary of John Fairfax & Sons , was one of the first four licences (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne ) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9 , so as
340-638: Is now known as actress Kimberly Beck . Leonetti's rendition of "My City of Sydney" (written by Leonetti and Bobby Troup , was used by ATN7 for nightly sign-off can be viewed on Video on YouTube . Sydney punk rockers XL Capris (with lead vocalist Johanna Pigott ) provided their version in 1979 (also on Video on YouTube ), this promo includes blue-tinged portions from Leonetti's TV sign-off. Other versions were performed by yodeller Mary Schneider , 1990s punk rockers Frenzal Rhomb and James Valentine on his radio show in February 2008. "My City of Sydney"
374-429: Is presented by Mel McLaughlin from Sunday to Thursday and Matt Carmichael on Friday and Saturday. Weather is presented by Angie Asimus from Sunday to Tuesday and Sally Bowrey on Friday and Saturday. News updates for Sydney are presented throughout the afternoon and the early evenings, with news updates during the night being shown nationally, they can be seen on Seven , 7two and 7mate , as well as 7flix . At
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#1733092904177408-530: The Australian Technology Park , the Seven Network's Martin Place studios, once referred to on-air as News Central and based on the first five floors of The Colonial Building in Sydney were the main news presentation studios for, Seven News Sydney , Sunrise , Weekend Sunrise , and The Morning Show . Comprising 3,000 square metres, viewers and tourists can see programs being broadcast from
442-602: The Eveleigh studios. ATN's engineering staff received two Emmy Awards – making ATN the first Australian company to receive such an award – for the technology, invention and further development of RaceCam , live mobile point-of-view TV cameras which were initially developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the station's coverage of the Bathurst 1000 . Visiting commentators from the United States organised for ATN staff to supply
476-412: The 6pm ratings leader from February 2005 until 2010. Ross presented his final bulletin for Seven News Sydney on Friday 27 November 2009 with Bath taking over as main weeknight presenter on Monday 30 November 2009. Former Nine News presenter Mark Ferguson took over from Bath as weekend news presenter from Saturday 28 November 2009. The bulletin retained its ratings lead until it was overtaken again by
510-620: The American actress Cindy Robbins on November 27, 1965, in Beverly Hills, California. Married in 1958 to Patricia Quinn (later "Alice" in the 1968 film Alice's Restaurant ) and divorced in 1964 (no children). Leonetti acted in minor roles in American TV series: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964–1965 as 'Corporal Nick Cuccinelli'), I Spy (1966), Hawaii Five-O (1977), The Waltons (1978) and The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978). He also had
544-406: The Sydney newsroom to return to Melbourne with Angie Asimus promoted to weeknights weather presenter. In December 2020, it was announced Angela Cox would be joining Michael Usher as co-host of the weekend news bulletin from January 2021. In June 2023, Matt Shirvington stepped down from his role of weekend sports presenter, to take up his new role as co-host of Sunrise . Matt Carmichael
578-709: The Time and again on 7/27/68 with All the Brave Young Faces of the Night. On 1/4/64 Tommy's recording of Soul Dance (RCA) hit the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 at No. 105 where it remained for 5 weeks (all info from Across the Charts 1960s Joel Whitburn, Record Research, Menomonee Falls, WI. While in Australia, Leonetti hosted his own talk-show from 1968 to 1970 for ATN-7, and provided the basis for
612-710: The US with the only charted version of the spiritual "Kum Ba Yah" in early 1969 which hit No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 while topping at No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart (Billboard Hot 100 January 1, 1969, and the Adult Contemporary Chart on 12/18/68 (both from Joel Whitburn presents Across the Charts The 1960s). Tommy also hit the Adult Contemporary charts on 12/16/67 with his Columbia single You Knew About Her All
646-555: The camera and transmission systems for CBS ' coverage of NASCAR races. A variant of RaceCam was also developed for yachts in the 1987 America's Cup off the coast of Fremantle . Later in the mid-1980s, the American Broadcasting Company asked ATN staff to develop aerofoil-designed cameras suitable for Formula One cars, and these were subsequently used at the Indianapolis 500 . Prior to their Eveleigh Studios at
680-461: The centre became the largest producer of Australian produced TV content, including Wheel of Fortune , Sons and Daughters , A Country Practice , Hey Dad..! , All Saints , Terry Willesee Tonight and Home & Away . The Epping studios closed in early 2010 when new studio facilities serviced by Global Television , opened at the Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh . News and live telecast programs are presently broadcast from
714-568: The early 2000s, on-air programs were sent by digital link from the Seven Network's national program play-out centre at Docklands in Melbourne where the Master Control Room was located for all metropolitan and regional feeds to be controlled. Programming line-up, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring and national transmission output was previously delivered here. All Seven Network owned and operated studios used to have their live signals relayed here: for instance, ATN's output
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#1733092904177748-480: The end of 2003, a year before all of the Seven Network's News and Current Affairs moved to Martin Place, the ill-fated dual presenter format of Ross Symonds and Ann Sanders came to an end after the pair failed to make an ratings impact in the Sydney market, losing viewers to competition winner Nine News Sydney (then National Nine News), which had led in the ratings for decades. After Ian Ross took over from both Symonds and Sanders in 2003, Seven News Sydney became
782-715: The first time in 30 years, combined with the old "Mother kangaroo putting her baby joey to bed" animation, which was played during the channel closedown sequence until the network began 24-hour service in 1993. In June 2023, 7NEWS moved their operations from Martin Place to their new purpose built studios in Eveleigh . In July 2023, Sunrise hosted its very 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 . Joining 7NEWS, 7NEWS Spotlight, The Latest and 7NEWS.com.au, for
816-518: The first time in more than 40 years, the entire Seven Sydney operation and all broadcast and operational staff (across all departments) are now under one roof. The new space cover two floors of Seven’s head office and are five times larger than the previous Martin Place location, with permanent sets for all programs. It brought to an end 19 years of Sunrise and Seven News, and 16 years of The Morning Show broadcasting at Martin Place. The Epping facilities were expanded to provide five operational studios and
850-554: The parody character Norman Gunston (according to creator Garry McDonald ). His final US chart record was "When I Needed You Most Of All", which, in 1974, reached Record World No. 120 in a 6-week chart run. He had a number 4 hit in Melbourne in 1968 with "Let’s Take a Walk" (In a recent interview his step daughter Kimberly Beck claimed she wrote "Let's Take a Walk" when she was 9 years old and recorded it with her stepfather Tommy at age 11 while residing in Sydney Australia. Kim
884-625: The rival Nine News bulletin in the ratings in 2011 – Seven's 6pm bulletin won 14 out of 35 ratings weeks. In January 2014, Mark Ferguson was appointed weeknight presenter, replacing Chris Bath due to poor ratings. Bath became weekend presenter and continued to host Sunday Night until her resignation in July 2015, after which Melissa Doyle took over. More changes to Sydney's news presenting team in subsequent months saw former Melbourne weather presenter David Brown replace Sarah Cumming as Sydney's weather presenter and Mel McLaughlin replace Jim Wilson as
918-427: The sports presenter. In August 2016, it was announced that Michael Usher would replace Melissa Doyle as Friday and Saturday presenter. Doyle will move into a new expanded role as senior correspondent and host of Sunday Night . For its efforts in bringing news of the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis to the whole of Australia (ATN's Martin Place news rooms and facilities were evacuated and news operations shifted to
952-477: The station included variety series Sydney Tonight (1956–1959), Captain Fortune Show (1956–1960) for children, soap opera Autumn Affair (1958–1959) and talent program TV Talent Scout (1957–1958). Tommy Leonetti Tommy Leonetti (September 10, 1929 – September 15, 1979) was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song
986-477: The street level studio. 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. The decision is understood to be a cost-saving move away from CBD property leasing. This then got delayed to mid-2023. On 25 June 2023, Seven News Sydney signed off its final bulletin at Martin Place studios, wrapping 19 years and 6,873 days of broadcast. From 26 June 2023, its new broadcast home
1020-566: Was "My City of Sydney" (written by Leonetti & Bobby Troup ) and was used by the Australian television station ATN 7 in Sydney for its identification into the 1980s and used in the last day of analogue television broadcasting in Australia on 3 December 2013. In America he achieved greater success as a songwriter for movies and Broadway plays. Tommy Leonetti was born Nicola Tomaso Lionetti in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1929. He married
1054-948: Was announced as his replacement. In September 2024, Seven News announced further presentation changes with Sydney anchor Mark Ferguson would be joined by Angela Cox from Sundays to Thursdays bulletins. In October 2024, it was announced Angie Asimus would join Michael Usher at the 7News Sydney on Friday and Saturday evenings. Asimus would also continue her role as Sydney weather presenter alongside Mark Ferguson and Angela Cox, Sundays to Tuesdays. Fill-in presenters include Michael Usher , Chris Reason and Angie Asimus (News), Matt Carmichael and Jelisa Apps (Sport), and Sally Bowrey and Amber Laider (Weather). Afternoon news updates Nightly news updates Reporters Fill-In Presenters News Sport Weather Sunrise / Weekend Sunrise correspondent The Latest: Seven News correspondent Early efforts by
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1088-507: Was fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optics to the towers around metropolitan Sydney. In 2019 however, this function was transferred to a new play-out centre in Sydney as part of a joint venture with the Nine Network. The analogue signal for ATN-7 was turned off at 9:00 a.m. on 3 December 2013 by using a special five-minute retrospective clip of the local station and the song "My City of Sydney" by Tommy Leonetti , used for
1122-982: Was supplied by the Marconi Company of England. Conversion to PAL colour occurred on 1 March 1975. Digital DVB-T commenced on 1 January 2001. The initial transmission tower in 1956 was located near the ABC tower at Gore Hill , Sydney. This was eventually demolished after ATN was invited to share a new site at Artarmon which was built by a new 3rd, commercial broadcaster TEN-10 . ATN-7 commenced digital television transmissions on 1 January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 6 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 7. ATN-7's Sydney transmissions are broadcast from masts operated by Transmitters Australia (TXA) at Artarmon and/or Willoughby . Retransmission translators to UHF channels service Sydney viewers from Kings Cross and North Head at Manly and north of Sydney at Bouddi , Gosford and Forresters Beach . Beginning in
1156-615: Was usually followed by a cartoon of a kangaroo putting its joey to sleep on a bed made from the words "ATN Channel 7," and was in use as late as 1984, when it was replaced by animator Debbie Glasser 's cartoon about Sydney. According to Garry McDonald, the character of Norman Gunston and his television show were initially devised as a parody of Leonetti's late-night Sydney TV variety show, "The Tommy Leonetti Show", hosted by Leonetti from 1969 to 1970. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) lists 49 works credited to "Tommy Leonetti". Music for films included: Squeeze
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