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How Did Tv Change Australia
Television in Australia has evolved significantly and it has changed since it first came out in 1956. Channels were very limited like; you only had channel 10, channel 9, channel 7 and SBS. They were your big ones, but over the past 50 years television has changed so much. Instead of having analogue shows, now you have digital, which basically means more channels are opening up like GO, 7mate and heaps more. Another significant thing that has happened for television is Foxtel. This box allows you to watch up to 999 channels. Television shows such as Shintaro and Star Trek has had such a massive impact in Australia as It was very popular and still is today, but what has a massive impact on Australian TV is Reality TV. There are so many current reality shows that have massive Ratings. Australian TV shows aren't so big anymore seeing as most of the shows we watch are American, but there are some pretty good ones still like Home And Away. Multicultural TV however was quit different, they would show different shows. They would be showing clips from the Vietnam war for example or Greek news and so many international news. Shintaro is a Japanese historical film which was produced in the 1960's. The series was premiered in 1962. There are 10 seasons for this show. It lasted for 3 years. This show was only in black and white. This …show more content…
And then you have Prisoner which went on for 8 seasons, but because it was so amazing they made a remake called "Wentworth" They named it Wentworth because in the classic series prisoner the jail where the women stayed at is called Wentworth. Prisoner had 692 episodes and it was televised for seven

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