ARIAS broadcast leaves out full In Memoriam
On-air summary of music names we have lost left out an Australian music pioneer.
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The ARIA Awards was forced to pivot to an unusual broadcast this year with a mix of performers at the Star Event Centre and most in virtual acceptance speeches.
In addition to wins by Amy Shark, Tame Impala, Lime Cordiale and Archie Roach, there was a fab tribute to Helen Reddy which stole the show.
In an on-air summary Richard Wilkins acknowledged 5 names of performers we had lost in the past year: Max Merritt, Don Burrows, Bones Hillman, Greedy Smith & Helen Reddy.
But the broadcast opted not to screen the full In Memoriam segment which included legendary Fable Records founder Ron Tudor. This very disappointing.
At the ARIA Awards of 1999 Ron Tudor received a Special Achievement Award, which was shared with Bill Armstrong of Armstrong Studios. He should have been acknowledged in the broadcast.
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I actually thought this was quite disrespectful from ARIA.
They chose to air the segment in the afternoon pre-show though…
Not broadcast on Nine.
I think the full In Memoriam segment should have been shown in the main show rather than the afternoon pre-show.
“Probably the same millennials” … that put two pictures of Melbourne’s GTV9 studio (captioned as TCN9) in a story about the history of TCN9 in the SMH and the Age (and, I’m told in a 9 News story which was also run on Today) …
Peter ford was not happy on the morning show this morning
I wonder who tipped him!
Probably the millenials didn’t care so it was missed
Probably the same millennials that reported last week that “Burt Newtown” was in hospital.