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Sports Talk

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This is an early Australian TV series that reported sports news and interviewed sports figures. It originally ran weekly from 1956 to 1958 before returning in 1959 with a new format focused on football.

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Sports Talk is an early Australian television series. Debuting on 9 November 1956, it aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 on a weekly basis until 1958, but was revived for a while in 1959 with a different format. Hosted by Bill Collins and Harry Gordon, the first version of the series presented sports news and personalities. The 1959 version aired at 11:00PM, was hosted by Lou Richards and focused on football. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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