About Brian Henderson (television presenter)
Brian Weir Henderson (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 Bandstand. Henderson, who started his career in radio, went on to become a long-serving Australian television newsreader, who served as a presenter for some 46 years, having read the news bulletins for Sydney station TCN-9, either on weekends or weeknights, from 14 January 1957 until retiring from TCN-9 on 29 November 2002. His role as weeknight presenter at the time was subsequently given to Jim Waley. TCN-9 bulletins would eventually be relayed to regional New South Wales through Nine's regional affiliate WIN Television. Henderson was on the shortlist in 2010 when it was awarded, posthumously, to Brian Naylor. Henderson started his professionally career in radio in his native New Zealand working for 4ZB, a local station in Dunedin, when he was 16 years old, initially as a copywriter, before becoming the country's youngest DJ. Henderson won his first TV Week Gold Logie award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 1968.
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