'Good evening, and welcome to television.' At 7pm on September 16, 1956, Bruce Gyngell became the first person seen and heard on mainstream Australian television. 9News
Gyngell ushered in the historic broadcast on TCN-9 with the words: "Good evening, and welcome to television."
But the moment was somewhat lost to time and had to be recreated a year later, as seen in the video above.A silent version of the original 1956 broadcast does exist."Television will bring about considerable changes in the Australian economy and national way of life," the Sydney Morning Herald wrote in the week of that first broadcast.
"Traders estimate that between 3,500 and 4,000 T.V. sets have already been installed in New South Wales homes; and demand has risen steeply since the transmission on Sunday.
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