Review
Book Review: "Networking : commercial television in Australia : a history" -- Nick Herd
Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol.8(5), pp.1-2
2014
Abstract
Nick Herd begins his institutional history of Australian commercial television in the early 1890s, when an amateur inventor named Henry Sutton designed the 'telephane' with the intent of watching the Melbourne Cup in his home town of Ballarat. The 'race that stops a nation' was not broadcast live on television until 1960, but Sutton's initiative indicates how closely sport and television were aligned in Australia even before the medium existed. The first licensed commercial stations to begin regular broadcasting went on air in Sydney and Melbourne shortly before the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, although Herd claims that this was 'almost accidental' rather than planned. (49) Only Melbourne viewers were able to see some events live, many via television sets in Ampol service stations following the company's last minute sponsorship of coverage on Melbourne station GTV-9.
Details
- Title
- Book Review: "Networking : commercial television in Australia : a history" -- Nick Herd
- Authors
- Ben Goldsmith (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol.8(5), pp.1-2
- Publisher
- Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Department of History
- Date published
- 2014
- ISSN
- 1750-7871
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 The Author. Reproduced here with permission from the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449148902621
- Output Type
- Review
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