Showbiz Veterans. Melbourne, Australia
September 12, 2024
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The Survivors is a group of Victorian showbiz veterans from the worlds of TV, radio, recording and media. Members meet twice a year, normally at South Melbourne in June and November, for Saturday get-together luncheons. The Survivors group was formed in a GTV-9 caravan by Bert Newton, John Proper and Ron Tudor. In this photo,…
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We were delighted to take a phone call this week from Mike Nicholls, part of Melbourne radio royalty. Mike, now 75, is son of the radio legends ‘Nicky’ (Clifford Nicholls Whitta) and Nancy Lee. In the early 1970s, Mike built his own radio career at 3AK, as part of programmer Rhett Walker’s ‘Where No Wrinklies…
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Des Ford has died at age 83 on the Gold Coast. Ash Long shared these details to Facebook on behalf of Des and his family:“Des had worked at stations including 3AW and 5DN Adelaide, where he conducted the breakfast program. At GTV-9, he filled technical roles, including Studio Manager for Jack Little’s World Championship Wrestling….
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The November 19, 2014, edition of the Melbourne Observer newspaper noted that women had been welcomed to the Survivors meetings, followed a vote of its previously men-only membership: For decades, the Survivors group of showbiz veterans have kept their twice-yearlyluncheons as strictly male-only affairs. A vote was taken earlier this year, and it was widely…
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Derham Groves penned this tribute to Survivors pioneer Norman Spencer: Norman “Norm” Spencer, radio and television director, producer, and manager was born on January 21, 1923, at Brunswick to Walter Spencer, carpenter, and Dulcie (née Pink). They had five children, Ernest, Jean, their child Norm, Ella, and Walter. The Spencers lived in Minnie Street and…
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Ash Long writes: Just two weeks after I was born in October 1956, Dan Webb and Eric Pearce were the first two men to go on air for the opening night of new Melbourne television station, HSV-7. That was Sunday, November 4, 1956. ‘Danny’ Webb was a favourite in our household. He had been the…
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