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2UE ‘Sydney talks on open line’ poster
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Title:
2UE ‘Sydney talks on open line’ poster
NFSA ID
1496025
Year
1967
Courtesy
Nine Entertainment Co.
Just after midnight on 17 April 1967, 2UE announcer Ormsby Wilkins created Australian radio history, reportedly being the first to receive callers live to air.
Until then, talkback radio had been illegal in Australia, as broadcasting telephone conversations was prohibited since 1905.
Today talkback radio remains a key component for the success of many broadcast networks, with the mixture of views about news, sport, politics and other issues an immediate conveyor of its audience’s opinions.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.