Coming out on television in the 1970s was a radical act of protest.
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The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational and Muppetational show was originally rejected by all the big US TV networks.
1975 was a big year, with the end of the Vietnam war and the dramatic dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And finally, Australians could watch it in colour.
Because public access TV was relatively unregulated, shows could talk about sexual health and air racier segments that would have otherwise been censored on broadcast networks.
The American military buildup in Britain –popularly known as the “friendly invasion” – was an unprecedented moment in British history.
The Olympics are usually profitable for broadcasters and show off the future possibilities of media technologies.
From Clint Eastwood to Bert Newton – here’s what Melbourne could watch on that new technology, the television set, to see in the new decade.
When the ABC began screening local wildlife television, it helped create a new environmental nationalism, implicating audiences in the survival of Australian animals.
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Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literature, Adelaide University
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Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, Kenyon College
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of British History, Loughborough University