TV Week

TV WEEK is a weekly television magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in 1957 (as TV-Radio WEEK) and bearing a strong affiliation to television station GTV-9.

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In 1958, the title was shortened to TV WEEK and circulation expanded to Sydney, then the only other TV market in Australia.

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At the close of 1958, Melbourne readers of TV WEEK were invited to vote for their favourite TV personalities and programs. Graham Kennedy and Panda Lisner from GTV-9's In Melbourne Tonight were voted Melbourne's most popular TV personalities. Kennedy then named the awards the Logies, after the inventor of television, John Logie Baird. (Although Philo T. Farnsworth is actually the man who invented television as we now know it.)

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TV WEEK expanded publication as television launched in other capital cities and regional areas across Australia.

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In 1959, TV WEEK had a competitior, TV Times, published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

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In 1980, TV WEEK merged with rival publications TV Times and the Australian version of TV Guide. The revamped publication continued to be known as TV WEEK and was now a joint venture between Kerry Packer's Australian Consolidated Press (who had bought out the former TV Times from the ABC) and Southdown Press (later Pacific Publications), with the latter publishing the magazine on behalf of both parties.

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In 2002, Packer effectively bought TV WEEK out of the joint venture. A legal battle over the custody of the magazines Logie Awards followed as both Australian Consolidated Press and Pacific Publications claimed ownership. Pacific wanted to use the Logies to promote their new rival TV listing What's On Weekly. Packer won the battle and the Logies stayed connected to TV WEEK.

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TV Week is also a weekly TV listings magazine in the Vancouver, British Columbia region in Canada.

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Melbourne: Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3.8 million in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 69,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). The city's name ...

1957: 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar....

GTV-9: GTV-9 is the Melbourne, Australia station in the Nine television network and was one of the first two commercial TV stations in Melbourne. It began test transmissions on 27 September 1956, shortly after the commencement of transmission of TCN-9 Sydney. Former 3DB radio announcer Geoff Corke introdu...

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