This is a list of Australian produced music television shows.
Early days of music television pre-dated video clips, and included variety style series, miming series, and pop series, and with the advent of music videos, shows gave way to slickly prepackaged film clips with a host compère mixing live local acts (e.g. Countdown). The most recent trend has been towards near and complete compère-free shows which show music videos exclusively (e.g. Rage and AMV).
Talent quests and competitions are shown in the second table below.
Music television
Music-oriented talent quests/shows
Talent quest shows have been popular throughout Australia's television broadcasting history. A typical format is a selection of unknown singers or musicians (as opposed to established recording artists) performing before a panel of judges who award points with the winner receiving a cash prize or a recording contract. More recent incarnations have had the heats and eliminations running over several months with public votes included (e.g. Australian Idol).
Young Talent Time was one of Australia's longest running talent quest shows (1971–1988) and included a mix of regular in-house performers with a weekly talent competition.
See also
- Music of Australia
- List of Australian television series
Beat Club was a series of 30-minute episodes which aired on SBS during 1986 each Wednesday at 6 pm. It showed video clips from the 1960s German TV music show of the same name. It was presented by Annette Shun Wah with expert commentary by Glenn A Baker. The Noise replaced this series, which Annette presented solo.
References
External links
- Top 40 TV
- MILESAGO – Media - Television - "Countdown"
- powerhousemuseum
- Countdown at Nostalgia Central
- Bandstand at Nostalgia Central
- Kommotion at Nostalgia Central
- Go!! at Nostalgia Central
- Sound Unlimited/Sounds at Nostalgia Central
