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Brian Henderson will be remembered for the velvet voice and easy charm with which he delivered Channel Nine’s nightly news and hosted the music show Bandstand – a charm that defined him equally off screen as on. But there was also a quiet determination in his make-up. When Bandstand’s ratings halved from the 1960s into the ’70s, Henderson went to the network’s joint managing director, Clyde Packer, whom he said he “truly disliked” and who “returned the dislike”, and asked for a budget increase to help restore the show’s popularity. Questioned as to what he would know about such matters, Henderson gently reminded his boss that he had been involved since Bandstand’s inception. Packer told him to send someone more conversant with the show, and Henderson walked out thinking, “Go to hell.” With no further investment, the show folded in 1972.
No Australian anchored a TV news bulletin longer than Henderson, who clocked up over 40 years before retiring in November 2002. Famously ending each bulletin with a winn
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Fotheringham Gallery
Brian Henderson
Biography:
Born Edinburgh 1952
Edinburgh College of Art 1971 - 75
Post-Graduate Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art 1975 - 76 (Distinction)
Moray House College of Education 1978 - 79
Elected Professional member, Society of Scottish Artists 1978
Taught Art and Design at Scalloway JH School, Shetland, 1979 – 2011.
Lived in Huntsville, Alabama for 13 months on Fulbright teaching exchange, 1984 - 85
Moved back to Edinburgh from Shetland 2014
Awards:
First Prize: Winsor and Newton National Painting Award, Mall Gallery, London 1975
Andrew Grant Travel Scholarship, Paris, 1975
Runner-up Pernod Scottish Painting Award 1976
Best painting, Bonhoga Open Exhibition, Shetland, 2001, 2004 and 2005
Macintyre Jewellery Purchase Prize (at Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition) October 2003
Henderson’s Art Shop Travel Prize (at Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition) October 2005
Exhibitions include:
Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh, 1976
Blue and White Gallery, Jerusalem, 1976
Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh Universit
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Brian Henderson (television presenter)
Australian television presenter (1931–2021)
Brian Henderson AM | |
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Henderson hosting Bandstand picture with Trisha Noble | |
| Born | Brian Weir Henderson (1931-09-15)15 September 1931 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 5 August 2021(2021-08-05) (aged 89) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Other names | Hendo |
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| Years active | 1946–2002 |
| Employer | Nine Network at station TCN-9 from 1957–2002 (retirement) |
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| Spouse | Mardi Henderson (m. 1966) |
| Children | 4 |
Brian Weir HendersonAM (15 September 1931 – 5 August 2021) was a New Zealand-born Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his association with the Nine Network as a television news anchor in Sydney, as well as a variety show presenter and host of music program Bandstand, the local version of the US music program American Bandstan
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