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TV Tonight turns 3!

Tuesday marks the third birthday of this website. Happy Birthday to all and thankyou for your continued support.

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Happy-3rd-BirthdayToday this site notches up its third birthday.

In 2007 when I first started this blog it was to complement the TV commentary I was already doing in various forms on radio, print and online. At the time Australian television sites on the internet were largely confined to messageboards, Guides and fansites. When the site launched there were a handful of visitors who welcomed the news, the updates and answers to TV questions.

Three years on the site has published over 9,700 stories and now pulls in up to one million hits a month around the country. The TV Tonight brand has become widely recognised in the industry and whilst it is still very much a personal blog, I am often reminded by others of how it champions the viewing audience.

Significantly, your comments are noted by the highest powers.

As an independent source of news and information the blog is frequently consulted by media. In the last year stories, quotes and information have appeared in The Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Herald Sun, The Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Tasmanian, MediaWeek, ABC, 3AW, 2UE, Sky Business, and more. Stories broken last year included GO! as Nine’s new channel, Hayley Lewis to host The Biggest Loser, Hey Hey‘s midweek specials, Hungry Beast title change, Ashes to Ashes to end, Cops LAC, the “news-based” format of The 7PM Project, Shaun Micallef’s New Year’s Rave, the end of The Fugly Awards and more.

Last year’s extensive Audience Inventory survey was widely reported in mainstream press and picked up in the UK.

In October there were back to back interviews with executives from all five networks: Kim Dalton, Tim Worner, David Mott, Michael Healy and Matt Campbell.

Other interviews in 2009 included leading Aussie & international actors, writers, producers and personalities including Adam Hills, Amanda Keller, Andrew Denton, Adam Zwar, Andrew O’Keefe, Ashley Pharoah, Bernard Curry, Bill Collins, Brian Nankervis, Cariba Heine, Carla Bonner, Catherine McClements, Chelsea Handler, Colin Morgan, Craig Campbell, Daniel Nettheim, David Field, Dustin Clare, Ed Kavalee, Eve Myles, Fiona Spence, Gary Mehigan, George Negus, Henry Roth, Ian Smith, James Morrison, Jan Russ, Jane Lynch, Jason Stephens, Jenny Brockie, Jess McNamee, Joel McHale, John Blackman, Johnny Capps, Jon Olb, John Safran, Jonathan Holmes, Judith McGrath, Julian Morrow, Julie McCrossin, Justine Clarke, Justine Schofield, Kat Stewart, Kelly Lefever, Kristian Schmid, Lawrence Leung, Les Sampson, Madeleine West, Marena Manzoufas, Margaret Pomeranz, Mark Bouris, Matt Day, Matt Lee, Matt Passmore, Matt Preston, Merrick Watts, Michael Cordell, Michael Harvey, Mick Molloy, Mikey Robbins, Molly Meldrum, Nadine Garner, Pam Anne, Paul McCarthy, Paul Robinson, Peter Ford, Peter Hitchener, Peter Moon, Peter O’Brien, Peter Phelps, Peter Rowsthorn, Poh Ling Yeow, Rob Carlton, Robyn Butler, Robyn Parkes, Rodger Corser, Rodger Monk, Rove McManus, Russell T. Davies, Ryan Moloney, Shane Bourne, Shelley Craft, Steve Knapman, Tabatha Coffey, Talia, Tim Campbell, Tom Steinfort, Toni Collette, Tony Ayres, Tony Tilse.

In the recent TV Tonight Awards readers delivered a whopping 87% vote for Excellent (57%) and Very Good (30%) in the question on site satisfaction -just 1% voted Disappointing. 72% of readers visit the site daily or more than once a day. The flood of compliments by readers was truly humbling (some even thanked the TV Tonight “team!”). Your continued support and site interaction is invaluable. Thankyou.

While there are some may be some who no longer love television, I still find myself delighted, outraged, informed, entertained, sceptical and surprised. And occasionally as mad as hell.

There are new features planned for 2010. Watch this space.

David.

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  1. congratulation on a great site , there is no other site about australia tv that even comes close to being as informing and up to date as tvtonight, when i first discovered your site i thought there was a tv tonight team too.

  2. happy 3rd birthday tv tonight and especially you david you are the hardest working man in in tv land bringing us up to date everyday of the year and always hear it first from tvtonight congratalations with the site and hears to the future of tv blogging tvtonight!

  4. Congratulations David! I appreciate the enormous amount of work that you put in and thank you for all the information you give the readers. Keep up the amazing work! Enjoy.

  5. Congratulations on 3 years of a true labour of love which has kept TV lovers informed and entertained on a daily basis. David, you’re a legend, and huge thanks also to your support of Australian television, and particularly The Circuit.
    Happy Birthday!

  6. Given the overwhelming success of this site, it is hard to believe that it is only 3 years old. Congratulations David on having such a great site. I know I visit this place whenever I have a spare moment.

  8. I am a hard core TV watcher (Free to Air, Foxtel and lots more on online) and have struggled for years to find a high quality blog that calls the networks on their BS and kept me informed about what is coming around the corner. I have been reading this blog for the last year and it is well and truely on my daily routine.

    Congratulations and keep the standards up!

  14. David, This site is truly a superlative labour of love by your good self.
    It remains my first ‘port of call’ every morning.
    Congratulations on three years and here’s to many more.

  15. Congratulations David, a fantastic site and a daily (sometimes more than once) stop for me, loved the interview series with the executives from all the networks last year, definately a highlight amongst many.

    Continued success for the next year and beyond.

  16. Congratulations David on TV Tonight’s 3rd birthday, I still remember the days when the website started out as a Blogger blog using a template of theirs & there was only a handful of people who knew about this ‘gem’. Now look where it has become & yet the website continues to evolve & keep many many visitors up to date on what’s going on in the ever changing Australian TV landscape.

    Keep up the fantastic work of the site & wishing TV Tonight many happy birthday’s to come!

  20. Happy Birthday TV Tonight and to u David, for putting in so much effort into the website. This is the first website I log onto when I go on the net. When your tired of it u might give the reins to me???????

  21. Happy Birthday =) Ever since I discovered this website I always make sure to visit every day, it’s where I get all my breaking news about TV and my favourite actors, thanks so much for being the best there is!

  23. Wow didn’t realise I have been here since very close to the beginning! If you keep out the same Great news/reviews/your’re own sly comments (:P) this site can only go higher.

    Congrats David on 3 awesome years.

  24. David, congrats on 3 great years of TV blogging. As far as I am concerned this is the #1 authoritative Australian TV site, and I find myself checking my RSS feeds a lot just to see if there are new stories here. Thank you!

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