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SoHo (Australian TV Channel)
SoHo was an Australian pay television channel. Originally launched as FX in 1995 and oriented towards classic programming, it was rebranded as W. and shifted its focus to women's programming on 1 November 2003. Later, on 20 August 2012, it was again rebranded as SoHo and shifted its focus to drama television series. The channel closed down on 4 October 2016, and was replaced by Binge (TV channel), Binge. History In 1995, FX, then stylised as fX, was launched in Australia on Foxtel, featuring classic TV series (often branded as "Golden Years of Television"). In late 1998 fX became FX, which at the time was a channel aimed at women, unlike the international FX channels demographic, featuring shows such as The View (talk show), The View and Donny & Marie (1998 TV series), Donny and Marie. The channel became available on Austar in April 1999. In late 2000, FX was again rebranded, officially becoming "Australia's first TV channel for women". It was relaunched as W. on 1 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penne Dennison
Penne Dennison (born 3 September 1969) is an Australian music and television entertainment presenter. Career Dennison's first role as a television presenter was on WIN Television Wollongong. Penne has previously appeared on a national radio program hosted by Barry Bissell, ''Barry Bissell’s Weekly Countdown'' as an entertainment news and reporter for the show. In 1998-1999 she was the original co-host with Jade Gatt on the late night Live Music and News Program ''Ground Zero'', later Joined by Ugly Phil O’Neil and Jackie O, televised live on the Ten Network between 1998 and 1999. She has also worked on ''Hey Hey It’s Saturday'', hosted by Daryl Somers in the late 1990s. More recently, she has worked on Take 40 Australia, and as a presenter on ''Mornings with Kerri-Anne''. She also presents on Foxtel's ''Movie Network Crave (formerly The Movie Network or TMN) is a Canadian premium television network and streaming service owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Dawson
Charlotte Dawson (8 April 1966 – 22 February 2014) was a New Zealand–Australian television personality. She was known in New Zealand for her roles as host of '' Getaway'', and in Australia as a host on '' The Contender Australia'' and as a judge on '' Australia's Next Top Model''. In 2014, her death by suicide attracted Australasian-wide news coverage. Careers Dawson grew up in Auckland, after being adopted at birth. She dropped out of high school at age 16 to model in Europe and with Ford Models in New York City. A decade later she relocated to Australia where she became a familiar face on the Australian fashion scene. In 1997, she became beauty and fashion director for ''Woman's Day'' and soon after became style editor for '' New Idea'' magazine. In 2000, she was the face of the Peter Morrissey fashion label, presenting her own fashion segment weekly on '' Good Morning Australia'' for Network Ten, and featuring in the fashion section of Sydney's Olympic Games opening ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Crawford
Louise Crawford (born 1978 in Queensland, Australia) is an Australian film and television actress, who is a councillor and mayor of the City of Port Phillip. Crawford has appeared in many Australian soaps and dramas, including a role as Sgt. Karen Hatzic in primetime drama series '' City Homicide''. Political career Crawford is a member of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party. Crawford is an activist for climate change action and trained with Al Gore in The Climate Reality Project. She was the unsuccessful Labor candidate for the seat of Brighton for the 2014 Victorian state election. In 2016, Crawford was elected as a Councillor of the City of Port Phillip, Canal Ward. On 29 Nov 2018 Cr Crawford was elected Deputy Mayor of that council. She also ran for the Australian Senate in the 2019 Australian federal election but was unsuccessful. Crawford was re-elected as a Councillor for Port Phillip in October 2020, and served as Mayor from 2020 to 2021. Under her lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyssa-Jane Cook
Alyssa-Jane Cook (born 16 February 1967) is an Australian actress, singer, and TV presenter currently on TVSN. Actress roles She is best known for her regular role as Lisa Bennett on the Australian television soap opera '' E Street''. She played the lead role of Olivia Murray in the series '' Above the Law'', and appeared as Kelli Edwards in ''Home and Away''. As a presenter, she hosted the series ''Sex/Life'', co-hosted ''Australia’s Funniest People'', and was a regular on ''Home Life Style'', ''Beauty and the Beast'', and '' Good News Week''. In the science fiction series ''Farscape'' she appeared as the character Gilina Renaez in the episodes " PK Tech Girl", "Nerve", " The Hidden Memory", and " John Quixote". On stage, Cook played Columbia in ''The New Rocky Horror Show'' 1992 Australian tour, and has appeared in ''The Vagina Monologues''. In 2008, Cook was the face of weight-loss company Bodytrim. She appeared in advertisements on Australian TV for their product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beccy Cole
Beccy Cole (born Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972), also known as Beccy Sturtzel, Rebecca Diane Albeck and Bec O'Donovan, is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released ten studio albums, with six reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40, '' Little Victories'' (January 2003), '' Preloved'' (September 2010), '' Songs & Pictures'' (September 2011), '' Great Women of Country'' (with Melinda Schneider, November 2014), '' Sweet Rebecca'' (April 2015) and '' The Great Country Songbook Volume 2'' (with Adam Harvey, April 2017). Her video album, ''Just a Girl Singer'' (August 2004), peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Top 40 DVD Chart. Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia. During December 2005 to January 2006 she performed for Australian Defence Force personnel in Iraq. Her related single, " Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World)" (May 2016), expresses her support for the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Catterns
Angela Catterns, (born 30 September 1953) is an Australian media personality and broadcaster. Mostly known for her work on Australian radio, she has presented Mornings on Triple J, the National Evening Show on ABC Local Radio, and Breakfast on 702 ABC Sydney. She is also a podcaster, writer, interviewer, MC, facilitator, narrator & voice over artist. She presented with Australian humourist and broadcaster Wendy Harmer a holiday season version of the Breakfast Show on 702 ABC Sydney. During her time at 702 Sydney first presenting 'Breakfast', Catterns temporarily displaced prominent Australian radio broadcaster Alan Jones in 2004 to achieve number one in the listener survey ratings. Catterns has also held broadcasting roles at Australian commercial radio stations 2SM and Vega 95.3 in Sydney, 2UE and at WKYS in Washington DC. Her popularity as a radio broadcaster is often attributed to her "perfectly measured combination of intellect and personality", her listening and interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlotta (performer)
Carlotta (born 2 September 1943) is the stage name of Carol Byron, also known as Carol Spencer and credited briefly on television as Carole Lea, a transgender Australian cabaret performer and television personality. Carlotta began her professional career in 1959 as a Bridgette Bardot-like performer, as an original cast member of the long-running Sydney-based male revue ''Les Girls'' (pronounced ''lay-girls'') cabaret show, which had an international following, in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta performed spot-numbers as a singer and comedian, and eventually became the show's compere and lead attraction. Although best known as a cabaret performer, in 1974 Carlotta appeared on the television series '' Number 96'' as Miss Robyn Ross, in a comedic story line that saw her coming out as transgender to the surprise of her boyfriend Arnold ( Jeff Kevin). Her appearance on the show marked the first time worldwide that a transgender character was portrayed by a transgender actor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ita Buttrose
Ita Clare Buttrose (born 17 January 1942) is an Australian television and radio personality, author and former magazine editor, publishing executive, newspaper journalist and television network executive chairperson. Buttrose was the founding editor of ''Cleo (magazine), Cleo'', a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexuality (and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds) and, later, the editor of the more conventional ''The Australian Women's Weekly''. She was the youngest person to be appointed editor of ''The Weekly'', which was then, per capita, the largest-selling magazine in the world. Buttrose was a panellist on the Network Ten morning program ''Studio 10'' from 2013 until 2018. In 2019, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Buttrose as the new chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She served a five-year tenure and was succeeded by Kim Williams (media executive), Kim Williams in March 2024. Buttrose's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Maree Biggar
Ann-Maree Biggar is an Australian television presenter. Career Biggar's career began in 1988 at World Expo 88 on a show called ''The Breaky Bash'' with Sean James as commander Super K and his robot dog K9 and Brett. In 1989, Biggar began hosting the children's morning program '' Agro's Cartoon Connection''. She remained on the show for a number of years, finishing up at the end of the 1995 season, before being replaced by Terasa Livingstone In 1994 and 1995, she became a reporter on the travel show '' The Great Outdoors''. This was followed by a move to the Nine Network as a regular on a relaunched version of In Melbourne Tonight with Frankie J. Holden. In 2000, she became a reporter on Network Ten's morning show '' Good Morning Australia''. After the program ended at the end of 2005, she joined the replacement show ''9am with David & Kim ''9am with David & Kim'' is an Australian morning show which premiered on Monday 30 January 2006 on Network Ten. It aired live from 9& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
