Bruce Gyngell
(1929-2000)
Australian television executive
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Bruce Gyngell (AO) (8 July 1929 – 7 September 2000) was an influential Australian television executive, prominent for 50 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9, the first commercial TV station in Australia. He is credited with introducing the sofa format of breakfast television and in later life, for expressing his attraction to eastern ideas which ranged through Zen Buddhism, meditation and Insight philosophy.
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8 July 1929 Melbourne, Victoria Australia
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7 September 2000 (aged 71)
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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