“Good evening and welcome to television.”
With those words Bruce Gyngell entered the history books as the first person to appear on television in Australia.
TCN9’s opening night on 16th September 1956 is widely documented, not just for its pioneering milestone, but for the ensuing conjecture around what transpired.
St. David’s Hall in Surry Hills also played a part in Sir Frank Packer’s TV launch -but was Gyngell at the hall or at the Willoughby site in a basement?
Pat Condon was audio engineer in Master Control at TCN9 on the opening night. Now 86 years old, he recalled the event to