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
was the first ever Japanese show to be ever screened in Australia. This built up a very large fan base. Star Trek is a science fiction show created by Gene Roddenberry. The franchise began as Star Trek but it was then later known as "Star Trek Origins" There are so many movies and series of Star Trek, but many individual Star Trek episodes and films have won awards and honours including Emmy Awards, Hugo Awards and an Academy Award. There are currently twelve different movies. The reason why these shows were so popular in Australia, is because Australia has never seen that kind of show before. These shows were so new and different, the Australians didn’t even know what a Samaria was till the show came out. The reason why Star Trek was popular in Australia was because it commercialised everywhere the Australians had never seen a sci-fi commercial like that. Reality TV is huge in Australia. Since the first ever reality TV show big brother us Australians have been hooked onto reality TV shows. Some magnificent reality TV shows that are currently playing today that have huge ratings are The Voice, Masterchef, Biggest loser, The Block and X-factor. All these shows have gone national which has made the ratings even better. The reason why there are so many reality TV shows is because it's easy to make. All you need is a little bit of money and some people that will do the show. Another great reality show was Survivor which went Viral. Reality TV I think has become the most popular TV shows in history because majority of the TV shows that was on in the 1950's was the news, but now what ever channel you put on, it will probably be a reality TV show. Although Australian TV shows might not be as popular as they were back when the television first came out, but there are still pretty good shows that are currently playing like Home And Away and Neighbours, but if you look into the past you have some great shows with amazing ratings like Hey Hey It's Saturday which went on for 29 seasons!
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
years. SBS is a very multicultural channel, which televised a variety of different shows from many different country's and it also televised many cultural shows. This channel is known for its multicultural programs. This made many people that had different nationality's, or who moved to Australia feel welcomed as people have given up there time to make a channel where many immigrants could watch TV that came from there heritage. In the producing a TV channel that broadcasts shows in different languages allowed immigrants to watch and enjoy, which meant they could still hold onto their original culture, as well as integrating into the Australian community. In conclusion, as you can see TV over the past years has changed significantly. If it wasn’t for Philo Farnsworth and Charles Francis Jenkins, we wouldn’t have the television technology we would have today, life Foxtel, T-Box and so many other boxes. Reality TV may be the main types of shows today, but Australian is still around and it does get good ratings. Overall if it wasn’t for television, we wouldn’t have the education and the entertainment we would have today.