Both the earthquake and the tsunami would lead to explosions at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
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I’d been watching the ABC’s coverage that night with anxiety. My parents were on holiday in Hawaii which was on high alert for the oncoming tsunami from Japan. They were not allowed to leave their hotel room, they were on the 36th floor or something like that, but the bottom 3 floors of the building had been evacuated.
They were watching the news on a local channel. As it happened, I was at home in Melbourne and I switched from ABC and found the same local channel they were watching was streaming online so we were watching the same coverage at opposite ends of the world.
As it turned out, the tsunami turned out to be little more than a bit of a ripple by the time it got to Hawaii but one of the other islands did cop a bit of damage to its port.
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13 March 1972: Number 96 debuts on TEN10, Sydney. Described as the night “Australian television lost its virginity”. The first three episodes aired on night one.
Melbourne followed the next night, Brisbane the following week, and Adelaide in April. In Canberra it debuted in June. Perth and Tasmanian viewers finally got to see it from 1973.
Source: TV Week
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… directed a two-day promotional shoot with Pat McDonald and Bunney Brooke in 1976 … just about the funniest two days ever … the two of them together was a scream …
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HSV-7 really went all out when colour television arrived.
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14 March 1980: Bert Newton hosts the TV Week Logie Awards from the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, broadcast on the Nine Network. It was to bring to an end Newton’s and Nine’s run of 14 consecutive Logie awards presentations – with Ten and Michael Parkinson hosting the 1981 awards.
Winner of the Gold Logie was Mike Walsh, and Silver Logies to actors Paul Cronin and Paula Duncan
Source: TV Week
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I’ve never heard of Burn The Butterflies and A Good Thing Going. Both had a stellar cast but it’s a pity those award winning Australian TV movies seem to have been lost in the sands of time. Might have to do some more research on those.
Thought Vera Plevnik might have been a foreign actress. Turns out she died in a tragic car crash near Batemans Bay in 1982. Similar fate to another promising young actress, Jessica Falkholt, who died on the south coast a few years ago.
I don’t really know anything about them other than by name.
This is TV Week’s review of them both on winning their awards
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16 March 1986: SBS commences transmission in Perth and Hobart, completing the roll-out of SBS television to each state capital city.
Source: The Mercury
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SBS needs to go back to showing more programs like the ones in the article.
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16 March 1979 - The Logie Awards are held with Bert Newton winning his first gold logie.
Source: TV Week
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Considering Bert had been on television since 1956 I’m surprised he didn’t win his first Logie until 1979.
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His first Gold Logie. He’d won his first Logie in the 1960s.
Apparently he was like the John Wood of the 70s and got nominated for the Gold about 9 or 10 times before finally winning 
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… 'cos Bert was always the “sidekick” … “second banana” …
Not always. He’d hosted his own shows in the 1970s, like New Faces. Weren’t all of Bert’s Gold Logies won during the time he was Don Lane’s sidekick?
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Yep. Although it also coincided with his hosting New Faces and being Nine’s go-to for hosting the big events.
In Melbourne it probably didn’t hurt his chances that he also had the highest rating radio show in town.
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17 March 1962: CBN8, serving the Central Tablelands based in Orange, opens as NSW’s second regional station. It evolved into forming the Prime Television Network in the 1980s.
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