AUDIO: ABC TV celebrates turning 70 - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michael Charlton hosts the first ABC TV broadcast on November 5, 1956.
Michael Charlton hosts the first ABC TV broadcast on November 5, 1956.
On 5 November 1956, ABC Channel 2 made it's first broadcast from Sydney, hosted by Michael Charlton.
Bridget Griffen Foley is a professor from the Centre of Media History at Macquarie University and co author of The Australian Broadcast Commission and Its Audiences.
She spoke to NewsRadio's Laura Tchilinguirian about that first broadcast.
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