A television elder statesman, Cornish was the first to greet Channel 9 audiences in Queensland when TV first went live.
Hugh Cornish, Queensland's first television star, has died at a retirement village in Brisbane overnight, aged 90.
"I said something like, 'Hello Brisbane, welcome to television' and really, that was it," Cornish recalled in a 1990s interview.Queensland's first TV presenter, Hugh Cornish, has died aged 90. "He'd be running behind the scenes, going out to see his son, looking after his daughter, looking after the family and he was just a stalwart," producer-director and friend John Stainton said.
"Every time I think of Hugh Cornish, I think, I know we had the best days in the television industry because they were pioneering days," former television director Garry Gibson said."This man was interested in television and he wanted to make entertainment and we all chased that."
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