Rage (TV program)
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| Genre | Music, Arts |
| Created by | Mark FitzGerald, Stephanie Lewis |
| Presented by | List of Rage guest programmers |
| Opening theme | "Real Wild Child" by Iggy Pop |
| Ending theme | "Speed Your Love to Me" by Simple Minds |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 30 |
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| Location(s) | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Running time | 60 minutes (Monday-Thursday) 12 hours (Friday-Saturdays) 6.5 hours (Saturday-Sundays) |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 17 April 1987 – present |
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Rage (styled as rage) is a popular all-night Australian music video program broadcast on ABC on Friday nights, Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. It was first screened on the weekend of Friday, 17 April 1987. With Soul Train and Video Hits no longer being produced, it is the oldest music television program currently still in production as of April 2017. On Friday and Saturday nights, Rage typically starts between 11pm and 1am. The program is classified 'MA 15+' until 5am Saturdays, and finishes at 11:30am on Saturdays and at 7am on Sundays.
Rage has a good reputation among viewers for its minimalist format which has remained largely unchanged for more than two decades. The program was originally created by executive producer Mark FitzGerald in early 1987 under the working title 'rage til you puke'. This was later shortened to rage, as this was deemed more likely to be acceptable to the ABC board. It was then given an idiosyncratic and alternative flavour by music programmers and producers Stephanie Lewis (1988 to 1995) and Narelle Gee (1995 to 2008).
Prior to 1989, rage frequently dedicated large chunks of airtime to individual artists and musical styles, often playing an artist's entire catalogue of videos. In 1989, Saturday night specials were introduced, with rage showing every video from a nominated artist each Saturday night in chronological order. The first artist featured was Madonna, on 6 May 1989. Other early specials included Midnight Oil, The Cult, The The, Public Image Ltd., Tears for Fears, Scrap Metal, Mental As Anything, Crowded House, Paul Kelly, The Beatles, Hoodoo Gurus, Eurythmics, INXS and Split Enz, plus heavy metal and country music specials. Guest programmers, who choose the videos aired for an episode, were introduced in January 1990 (Mark Fitzgerald and then-programmer Stephanie Lewis came up with the idea along with musician Damian Lovelock), with ABC presenter Andrew Denton being the first guest programmer. With Saturday nights being dedicated to specials and guest programmers, Friday nights became increasingly devoted to new releases. Friday night rage has been almost exclusively dedicated to current releases since 1995, featuring a range of music genres. The only time a host is seen on rage delivering dialogue to the camera is when guest programmers appear on the Saturday night edition. Otherwise, the videos are run end-to-end with the occasional quick branding clip or the rage logo accompanied by a voice that simply says "Rage!" to break them up. A "crawl" is also used at times during the program, with details of upcoming Specials and Guest Programmers printed in text at the bottom of the screen during a short snippet of a selected clip. The titling on the videos is also very simple, with the artist and song name displayed briefly after the rage logo near the beginning of each video (originally only the artist was identified). Historically, no other logos or watermarks appear over the clip as it played, but as of 25 June 2010, Kath Earle, Executive Producer with ABC Arts & Entertainment, stated that the Director of Television and Head of Marketing have decided to watermark rage to 'maintain consistency across the network' as all other programs are watermarked.
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