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Television station HSV 7 Melbourne began broadcasting on 4 November 1956

TCN 9 Sydney produced the first official Australian television broadcast on 16 September 1956. In 1956 there were fewer than 100,000 televisions, there are now more than 18 million operating across Australia.

Source

National Archives of Australia A12111, 1/1958/16/89

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