The single vehicle accident involving a Volkswagen Kombi van is believed to have occurred early Saturday morning. While police have not formally identified the victim, the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) have said it is Lovegrove.
A member of the band The Valentines in the 1960s, Lovegrove went on to become a journalist for music magazine Go-Set before progressing to television, working on programs including A Current Affair and The Don Lane Show. He also presented the 1978 documentary Australian Music To The World.
He went on to become manager of the band The Divinyls and tour manager for Jimmy Barnes.
In 1987, Lovegrove produced the award-winning documentary Suzi’s Story, a moving account of his wife Suzi’s battle with HIV/AIDS intended to raise awareness that it was not just a “gay disease”. Suzi died just weeks before the documentary went to air. Their son Troy also contracted the disease and was the subject of a follow up documentary, A Kid Called Troy. He died in 1993 at the age of 7.
Source: Herald Sun, SMH, ARIA, Australian Screen
It started life at the turn of the 20th century as a piano factory, and then a soup factory.
It was where the Victorian governor Sir Dallas Brooks (pictured, above) made his grand entrance on GTV9’s opening night – 19 January 1957 – by entering the studio in a chauffeur-driven limousine. The two-hour variety program that followed, featuring names like Bob and Dolly Dyer, Toni Lamond, Frank Sheldon, Ron Blaskett, Terry Dear and Lou Toppano’s orchestra, certainly set the tone that this new channel was going to have a clear focus on light entertainment and variety – and it certainly delivered that in the decades that followed.
A few months after GTV9’s lavish opening night, a shy radio star named Graham Kennedy made his first TV appearance and shortly after made his TV hosting debut on a variety show, In Melbourne Tonight. The show would continue for over a decade and earned Kennedy the nickname of the King of Australian TV. It is a title that nobody has dared to challenge ever since.
In 1964, with a new rival TV channel – ATV0 – about to debut, GTV9 expanded its premises to a new state-of-the-art studio, Studio 9. It was a studio built specifically for IMT but would go on to host a list of productions in the years that followed – including New Faces, The Graham Kennedy Show, The Don Lane Show (pictured), The Ernie Sigley Show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, The Paul Hogan Show, Family Feud, Sale Of The Century, The Daryl Somers Show, Tonight With Bert Newton, Blankety Blanks, All Together Now, The Price Is Right, The Footy Show, Burgo’s Catch Phrase, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, Starstuck, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Temptation, Bert’s Family Feud and Millionaire Hot Seat.
Eric Pearce (pictured) and American Jack Little formed Melbourne’s (if not Australia’s) first newsreading duo, later making way for others including 
The building at 22 Bendigo Street was purchased by Vivas Lend Lease earlier 
Home And Away actor Ray Meagher (pictured) has been awarded the TV Week Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. Despite Meagher’s lengthy career, including 22 years on Home And Away, it is his first Logie award.
The Ten Network was well rewarded last night with two Logies for its hit show Masterchef Australia (pictured) – including Matt Preston winning the Graham Kennedy Award for Outstanding New Talent – and Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation winning three Logies, including Shaun Micallef for Most Popular Presenter. The 7PM Project also scored a win with Carrie Bickmore winning Most Popular New Female Talent, and Bondi Rescue won Most Popular Factual Program.
The tribute to those in the industry that have passed away in the last 12 months included a performance by PJ Lane, son of 
Newton also presented an excellent introduction to the Hall of Fame presentation, with former Melbourne newsreader Brian Naylor (pictured) posthumously inducted in the 
GOLD LOGIE: 
GRAHAM KENNEDY AWARD FOR MOST OUTSTANDING NEW TALENT: 
The address of 22 Bendigo Street, Richmond, has been one of Australian TV’s most famous and iconic addresses. 
Governor Sir Dallas Brookes (pictured) was chauffeur-driven into the studios, live-to-air, before officially opening GTV9 on 19 January 1957. Less than four months later the channel launched its new nightly variety show, In Melbourne Tonight, featuring a young radio announcer, Graham Kennedy. Two years later Kennedy would be joined by a former HSV7 rival, Bert Newton, and the pair became an unbeatable double act.
With daytime productions, including quiz shows and children’s programs, and IMT’s nightly cavalcade of singers, dancers and performers, the building that was known as Television City became Melbourne’s own “Hollywood on the Yarra”. In 1964 the channel expanded the premises to include a new state-of-the-art studio, Studio 9, specifically for IMT. The new studio opened up the possibilities of large-scale variety performances and productions – hopefully to fend off competition from newcomer ATV0 which had launched from modern studios in suburban 
Game show Family Feud moved its production from TVW7 Perth to GTV9 in the late-‘70s. Host Tony Barber then moved on to Sale Of The Century (pictured, with hostess Victoria Nicolls) from the same studios in 1980, continuing for over 20 years and more recently revived as Temptation. Daryl Somers hosted a revival of Blankety Blanks in 1985, and, a decade later, Tim Ferguson hosted Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush. Other game shows from the studios included Supermarket Sweep, Crossfire and two versions of The Price Is Right. Eddie McGuire hosted Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and it’s current spin-off, Hot Seat. In 2006, twenty years after he was suddenly axed from Nine, Bert Newton was back at Studio 9 hosting a game show, Bert’s Family Feud. 
