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ABC Innovation

In March, 2007 ABC Innovation led the corporation's establishment of an 'ABC Island' in virtual world Second Life, launched with a live simulcast of a Four Corners program on virtual worlds titled You Only Live Twice.

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The Seven Network followed suit with a show starring Denise Drysdale called Denise before the debut of The Morning Show in 2007.

Ann Sanders

Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and she also presents hourly news updates through The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.

Sanders is a regular fill in presenter on Seven Afternoon News and she has also filled in for Natalie Barr on Sunrise.

Audra Levi

Later in her career, Audra conducted television program syndication sales for Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in the Western Region, including The People’s Court, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra and Friends.

Australian Industry Greenhouse Network

According to a Four Corners report with the same name, and author and whistleblower Dr Guy Pearse, a group of core members of the AIGN describe themselves as the Greenhouse Mafia and have been highly successful at lobbying the Australian Government.

Chris Reason

In 2002, Chris was announced as co-host of the revamped Sunrise alongside Melissa Doyle.

Ciaran Gribbin

Ciaran recently announced on The Morning Show on the Seven Network that his new single 'My Killer My King' will be released and available for download on iTunes on Friday, 16 August 2013.

Colin Lane

In 2011, Lane was a fill in host on The Circle for both Gorgi Coghlan (early 2011) and Chrissie Swan (late 2011) while they both took maternity leave.

Countdown to the Closing Bell

This program replaced the 3-4pm ET hour of the Fox Business daytime business block (which Claman co-anchored with David Asman).

Edwina Bartholomew

Her stories with Sunrise and The Morning Show have taken her from the Queensland floods and Christchurch Earthquake to the Camel Cup in Alice Springs and Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Eighth Day Slice/Fiddlin on Ya Roof

It includes a cover of Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" and the track "Since I Bothered You" which both received play on Triple J as well as its counterpart music video show Rage.

Emmy Kubainski

In October 2009, Emmy filled in as a news presenter on Sunrise while Natalie Barr was co-hosting as Melissa Doyle was on holidays.

Fifi Box

Box is perhaps best-known on television for her standout performance on Dancing with the Stars on the Seven Network in 2007 and regular guest appearances on Sunrise and Thank God You're Here.

Fox Business Happy Hour

Eric Bolling, who was previously a panelist on CNBC's Fast Money and is now a co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five and a host of Fox Business Network's Follow The Money, joined the show as a panelist in August 2008 until he became the show's third co-host in November of that same year.

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

It is the second Frosty special and is a sequel to the 1969 Frosty the Snowman special, also written by Romeo Muller, with narration provided by Andy Griffith.

Gorgi Coghlan

In 2010, Network Ten announced Coghlan as host of the new morning show The Circle alongside Denise Drysdale, Yumi Stynes and Chrissie Swan.

John Henshaw

John Henshaw (born 1951, Ancoats, Manchester, Lancashire) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Ken the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops.

Malcolm Farr

Malcolm regularly appears on the political current affairs programs Meet the Press on Network Ten, and ABC TV's Insiders.

Melissa Doyle

Doyle returned to Seven from maternity leave in a variety of news and presenting roles before being asked to front a revamped Sunrise program with Chris Reason.

Mohammed El-leissy

He has appeared on Sky News, Sunrise, The Project on Network Ten, SBS’s Insight as well as a regular contributor to ABC’s News Breakfast.

Naomi Robson

In September 2009, Robson appeared as a presenter with Larry Emdur on Seven's The Morning Show, standing in for Kylie Gillies, who was taking a week off.

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Real Life continued until 1995, when it was replaced by state-based editions of the current program Today Tonight.

Nick Etchells

In December 2011, Etchells returned to the Seven Network and replaced his girlfriend Nuala Hafner as Melbourne Correspondent on Sunrise as Hafner returned to University to complete her Psychology degree.

Etchells is currently Melbourne Correspondent on Sunrise and a reporter for Seven News.

Paul Kadak

Kadak was on the ground just hours after the 2002 Bali Bombings, and spent a further two weeks in Bali, where he reported live to Sunrise and Seven News.

Penny Flanagan

In 1997, she contributed an offbeat cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Better the Devil You Know' to the soundtrack of the Australian film, 'Dust Off The Wings' and released a music video for the song that aired on MTV and Rage.

Peter Everitt

Everitt has been criticized for comments made on Twitter and Sunrise in response to the alleged rape of a woman by two Collingwood players.

Peter Helliar

On 7 December 2013, Helliar was appointed as one of the co-hosts of The Project from 2014, replacing Dave Hughes, who had resigned to concentrate on stand-up comedy.

Richo

Richo, a television program hosted by Graham 'Richo' Richardson, which airs on Sky News Australia.

Robin Bengtsson

In 2010, Robin took part in the charity song "Wake Up World" for "Hjälp Haiti" with Karl Martindahl and Daniel "The Moniker" Karlsson and also performed the song "Long Long Night" with Kim Fransson (known from the TV reality program Made in Sweden.

RUOK? Day

In 2009 Yahoo!7's Sunrise reported that 650,000 conversations took place as a result of the campaign, which statistically is proven to help stop little problems turning into big ones.

Sahara Sunday Spain

Spain was featured in a variety of international news media including: The Early Show with Bryant Gumble, The PBS affiliate KQED's Spark, To Tell the Truth, and the French station TF1, Drôle de petits champions.

Southern Cross Television

Hook, Line and Sinker is a fishing show hosted by former news journalists Andrew Hart and Nick Duigan.

Steve Kornacki

He co-hosted The Cycle on MSNBC with political strategist Krystal Ball, pop-culture commentator Touré, and conservative columnist S.E. Cupp from the program's inception through March 20, 2013.

Switch 3

Switch 3 have also had their songs played on local and national radio stations within Australia, as well as appearing on television shows Video Hits, Rage and Saturday Disney.

Teen Queens

All three formed the group in 1990 with the intention of getting a TV program off the ground about a girl group in 1960s Sydney.

The Friendly Traveler

Being a self-taught DJ caught the attention of Kevvy Kev, the host of KZSU's hip-hop show, The Drum.

The NightCap

The show was hosted by Seven News sports anchor Matt White alongside a panel that included former Ten News and Today host Jessica Rowe, former Sunrise weather presenter Monique Wright and Triple M radio host Paul Murray.

Tiffiny Hall

In 2010, she joined morning television show The Circle as a regular health and fitness presenter and weightloss coach to host Chrissie Swan.

Todd McKenney

On 19 May 2010, and later on 27 December 2010, McKenney guest co-hosted The Morning Show alongside Kylie Gillies, while regular male presenter Larry Emdur was on holidays.

Triple J Magazine

It features presenters, the Triple J Hottest 100, Unearthed profiles, as well as reviews for music, DVDs and TV such as Rage and other ABC TV programs including digital channel ABC3.

Wayne Coles-Janess

Coles-Janess has also worked as producer and director for the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes and ABC’s flagship program - Foreign Correspondent, as well as revamping SBS’s 13-part series front up, and The Movie Show.


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Aha!

AHA!, an information and education TV program in the Philippines

Ain Mosni

On a TV program called 'Music Makers' that aired in 2005 on the Nigerian Television Authority Abuja, the host asked him what the name 'Rogueman' meant.

Akdong Musician

After nine months of winning K-pop Star 2, SBS Variety Department’s Nam Seung Yong CP revealed to Star News on January 7 that Akdong Musician will make their long awaited debut through SBS's Good Sunday TV program K-pop Star 3 by the end of February.

At Boshoff

His TV program, Discover Life, is also broadcast on major South African networks i.e. Rhema TV, TBN (an international satellite Christian broadcaster) and on CTV.

Bouillon de culture

Among the guests invited for the series finale, Bernard Pivot invited James Lipton, the host of the U.S. TV program Inside the Actors Studio, to participate with him in answering the Proust Questionnaire that Pivot had made famous.

Bruce R. Lang

Lang was a regular panelist on the Violet Round Table, a weekly public affairs TV program on WPRI-TV, hosted by Arlene Violet.

Buster Bailey

He also appeared in 1958 in the DuMont TV series Jazz Party and in 1961 on the TV program The DuPont Show of the Week in an episode entitled "America's Music - Chicago and All That Jazz".

Claudio Bermúdez

In 1991, Timbiriche celebrate their 10 years as band in TV program "La movida" hosted by Verónica Castro.

Clickpop Records

Bands who have achieved this goal to some degree include Idiot Pilot (who signed with Reprise Records very shortly after releasing the first CD), and The Trucks who have gained a nationwide audience and been featured on the cable TV program The L Word.

Connie B. Gay

He would discover Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline soon after, and both became regular cast members of the TV program.

Don't Wanna Fall in Love

In the UK, the single peaked at a low #22, because Child refused to appear on the popular British TV program Top of the Pops while the single was climbing the charts due to considering appearing on that program a "sellout".

Eraldo Isidori

In 2013, interwieved by journalists of the TV program Le Iene, he made another poor showing, ignoring the word eutanasia (in English euthanasia), declaring that Mozart and Beethoven were Latin American music's composers and affirming that in the Gaza Strip there is a conflict between Christians and Buddhists.

Fernando Schwartz

He has been professor of Opinion in UAM journalism department and conductor of TV program Lo más Plus in Canal Plus.

Flavio Gioja

This study was cited and confirmed by the historian Alessandro Barbero in a popular Italian scientific TV program, Superquark (transmission of 7 August 2008).

Forecast: Tomorrow

The 4th disc in the package is a 2-hour DVD of a concert in Offenbach am Main, on September 29, 1978 for the German TV program Rockpalast.

Full Circle – The Photographs

Full Circle – The Photographs is a large coffee-table style book containing pictures taken by Basil Pao, who was the stills photographer on the team that made the Full Circle with Michael Palin TV program for the BBC.

Fútbol de Primera

Fútbol de Primera was an Argentine TV program that broadcast the football matches of the Argentine Primera División.

George Mainwaring

Captain George Mainwaring, fictional character in Dad's Army TV program

Gérard D. Levesque

The name of the fictional character Gérard D. Laflaque, protagonist of the satirical TV program Et Dieu créa... Laflaque, is a variation of his name.

Gli incubi di Dario Argento

'Gli incubi di Dario Argento' is a TV series created for RAI's TV program “Giallo” by Enzo Tortora.

Harald Eia

In 2010, he introduced a television show called Hjernevask ("Brainwashing") which contrasted cultural determinist models of human behavior (also referred to as the Standard social science model) with nature-nurture interactionist perspectives.

Heartland Wrestling Association

HWA aired a weekly TV program "Adrenaline" nationally on the America One television network.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

NHK introduced this version of the song in 1967 in a TV program called Minna no Uta ("Everyone's Songs").

Inside Himalaya

Inside Himalaya is a large coffee-table style book containing pictures taken by Basil Pao, who was the stills photographer on the team that made the Himalaya with Michael Palin TV program for the BBC.

Inside Sahara

Inside Sahara is a large coffee-table style book containing pictures taken by Basil Pao, who was the stills photographer on the team that made the Sahara with Michael Palin TV program for the BBC.

Intruso

Intrusos en el espectáculo, Argentine TV program, usually shortened as "Intrusos"

Irina Ponarovskaya

In the mid 1990s, she was a co-host of a TV program about fitness "Fitness class of Irina Ponarovskaya", for which she developed her own method of gymnastics and nutrition.

Joanell Dyrstad

Though certainly an underdog in her 1994 attempt for the U.S. Senate, she ran an aggressive campaign in the Republican primary against Congressman Rod Grams, comparing Grams, a former news reporter, to bumbling fictional TV anchor Ted Baxter from the Minnesota-based TV program The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Joe Redner

He is a host of a weekly, live call-in TV program entitled First Freedom TV on Tampa Bay Community Network (TBCN.org), a local Tampa Bay area Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv channel.

José Ortega Cano

He participated on a weekly TV program called Mira quién baila (Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars), where he showed no talent for dancing.

Kev Adams

From September 2010 to February 2011, he was a candidate for the TV program On n’demande qu’à en rire ("We just want to laugh at it") presented by Laurent Ruquier.

Matthew Chamberlain

Chamberlain previously co-starred in children's TV program Johnson and Friends as Diesel.

Michael Francke

In February 1991, prior to Gable's conviction, the Michael Francke story was featured on an episode of the TV program Unsolved Mysteries.

Mount Mary University

Donna Ricco, a fashion designer whose designs are distributed in department stores such as Nordstrom and Macy's, and who is noted for designing a dress worn by First Lady Michelle Obama on The View TV program during the U.S. presidential race.

Nial Tanvir

Tanvir has featured in various TV programs, including The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, which is an astronomically focused TV program, and a BBC Horizon documentary about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

Owings Mills, Maryland

The TV program Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser was produced by Maryland Public Television at its studios in Owings Mills; many viewers became familiar with the town as the mailing address of the program.

Pepper and vanilla

Pieprz i wanilia (en. Pepper and Vanilla) was a popular TV program broadcast by TVP, created and presented by Tony Halik and Elżbieta Dzikowska.

Pinto Colvig

Colvig was the father of the character and voice actor Vance Colvig, who was the first actor to play Bozo the Clown on a live TV program.

Pole to Pole – The Photographs

Pole to Pole – The Photographs is a large coffee-table style book containing pictures taken by Basil Pao, who was the stills photographer on the team that made the Pole to Pole with Michael Palin TV program for the BBC.

Pontus Gustafsson

2002–2004 he played the teddy bear Björne in the popular children's TV program Björnes magasin.

Realms of the Haunting

Notably, David Learner, who portrayed Belial, is better known for his role as Marvin the paranoid android from the BBC series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and also as Pickle in the cult children's TV program Knightmare.

Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

Children's Television Workshop (CTW) produced the Sesame Street TV program and published a related magazine, Sesame Street Magazine.

Sábado Al Mediodía

Sabado Al Mediodia, a variety and entertainment show that was the number-one-rated local Spanish TV program on Univision's New York affiliate, WXTV-41, from 1995-2000.

Stefan Gunnarsson

Stefan Gunnarsson, born October 24, 1968 in Boden, Sweden, is a Swedish musician, known as team captain in the Swedish TV program "Så ska det låta".

Talent Party

Talent Party was a Southern teen dance TV program that aired between 1964 and 1973 featuring many of the popular artists in Rhythm and blues, rock and pop music of the day.

Zhao Benshan

Jiang Kun, a Xiangsheng artist, recommend him to the 1987 CCTV New Year's Gala, a TV program broadcast all around China.