Weekend Magazine

Weekend Magazine was a long-running television show, shown by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Its original producer was , with subsequent producers including Ivan Chapman.^[1] This short format show was typically filmed by the ABC's news correspondents in their spare time, the diversity of its subject matter reflecting the diversity of their interests. During the 1970s, Weekend Magazine was run after the Sunday evening news. "Sunspot", the distinctive theme music accompanying its credits, was written by Tony Osborne. The program was terminated by ABC management during the 1980s, in the face of outcry from audience and journalists alike.

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• Bowden, Tim (October 2006), Aunty's Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of ABC Television, ABC Books, ISBN 978-0-7333-1840-5

• "Weekend Magazine – Carnarvon Gorge and the Fighting Highlanders". ABC title number: 138302. National Film and Sound Archive. 1982.

• White, Harold Leslie (3 September 1955). "Talk given by Harold White for the ABC program, Weekend magazine" (audio). National Library of Australia.

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