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Australia's first television broadcast was made at 7:00pm on 16 September 1956.

A regular broadcasting service was only provided in January of the following year, when television station GTV 9 officiallyopened with a regular broadcasting service on 19 January 1957.

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Test transmissions began running in July 1956, on TCN9 (Sydney) and HSV7 (Melbourne). The first regular transmission was on September 16, 1956, at 7pm. Introduced by Bruce Gyngell (July 8, 1929-September 7, 2000), the program was called 'This is Television'.

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