TV Week
April 2016
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| Year founded | 1957 |
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| Company | Bauer Media Group |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Website | tvweeklogieawards |
September 2014
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| Editor | Erin McWhirter |
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| Year founded | 2014 |
| First issue | 31 July 2014 |
| Final issue | 29 October 2015 |
| Company | Bauer Media Group |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Website | tvweeklogieawards |
TV Week is an Australian magazine, issued weekly, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in December 1957 (as TV-Radio Week), and bearing a strong affiliation to television station Channel Nine GTV.
The publication is still publishing weekly. In its current format it previews upcoming storylines for popular television programs, particularly soap operas, dramas and reality shows airing in Australia, and reports on some musical acts. As well as featuring interviews and a full weekly program guide with highlights.
The first issue to be published covered the week 5–11 December 1957, with popular GTV-9 performers Geoff Corke and Val Ruff featured upon the cover. In 1958, the title was shortened to TV Week and circulation expanded to Sydney, then the only other TV market in Australia, in June. At the close of that year, Melbourne readers of TV Week were invited to vote for their favourite TV personalities and programmes. Graham Kennedy and Panda Lisner from GTV's In Melbourne Tonight were voted Melbourne's most popular TV personalities. Kennedy then named the awards the Logies, after the inventor of the first working television system, John Logie Baird.
Rival publication Television Preview, produced by the Television Owners Club of Australia, was launched in 1957. By June 1958, TV Week had a competitor, TV News, published by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), and a fortnight later Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) launched its own guide, TV Times. TV Week added a Sydney edition in July 1958 and continued to expand publication as television launched in other capital cities and regional areas across Australia.
It was thought that four television titles in the market was unsustainable, so ACP entered into a co-publishing deal with the ABC, which saw their respective magazines merged to become TV News-Times (soon simplified to TV Times). By the end of the year, Television Preview was incorporated into TV Week, leaving two rival publications in the market for the next two decades.
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