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TV Week marks 60 years

One TV title has managed to outlast them all...

Congratulations to TV Week on its 60th birthday -a remarkable innings, especially given industry changes in the past decade.

To mark the occasion this week’s mag counts down to the 60 biggest stars as well as nostalgic editorial (Gra-Gra at #1 please?).

This image is from the very first edition in 1957 as TV-Radio Week with GTV-9 performers Geoff Corke and Val Ruff. The mag was originally a Melbourne-only publication before being retitled as TV Week in 1958.

Bauer’s Now to Love site has a gallery of covers from over the years (yep, a lot of Home & Away covers there!).

TV Week, synonymous with the Logie Awards, has lasted all contenders including TV Times, Listener-In TV, TV Hits and various industry publications including Encore, Cinema Papers and more. Notably, TV Soap by Next Media has been operating for over 30 years.

This year publishers Bauer Media announced a relocation for the Logies from Melbourne to the Gold Coast and Thomas Woodgate as the first new editor appointment in 15 years.

8 Responses

  1. Every teenager bought TV Week during the 1970s. The publishers even took out ads in the advertising trade papers boasting that they were the only publication to deliver the very hard to reach demographic. The ABC had a mag called TV Times which they sold to Packer in 1978 who then closed it down in a deal with the publishers of TV Week so it would no longer be competition to TV Week.

  2. Well done, TV Week, but it’s a bit of a wonder that it still survives given all of the on-line TV guides and EPGs. Maybe it’s the mag’s stories, but websites – especially tvtonight.com.au – are far more efficient at keeping us up-to-date on TV-land.

    1. Haven’t you heard, video killed the radio star! Its a shame because they still do radio plays in Britain. i remember listening to them in the late 60’s early 70’s.

    1. Yes, but that was 1957. Depending on which calculator one applies, 1/- in 1957 is the equivalent today of $1.50 just in inflation terms – however in terms of relative wages it is much more like $4.90.

      1. 1957 average wage $3,642 = 36,420 copies of TV Week @ 10cents ea
        2016 average wage $78,882 = 15,776 copies of TV Week @ $5 ea.
        Now I remember why I stopped buying it back in 1980.
        2016 wages 21.66 times more than 1957
        TV Week costs 50 times more in 2016 than in 1957.
        Just saying…

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