Don Lane
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- There is also an Australian politician named Don Lane. See Don Lane (politician)
Lane moved to Australia in the 1960s as host of TCN-9's Sydney Tonight which in 1968 included a rare technical feat for the time by featuring a split-screen link with Graham Kennedy on In Melbourne Tonight and both hosts performing a duet almost 1000 kilometres apart - demonstrating the capability of the recently connected coaxial cable link between the two cities.
After the end of Sydney Tonight, Lane returned to the United States but came back to Australia in 1974 to appear at a benefit concert to raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Tracy, and ended up staying for most of the next decade. He is best known for compering The Don Lane Show which ran on the Nine Network from May 1975. Don won a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 1977. After the end of The Don Lane Show in November 1983, Don returned to the United States. However by 1987 he was back in Australia as personality for Network Ten, hosting programs like You've Got To Be Joking, Late Night Australia and the 1987 presentation of the TV Week Logie Awards. In 1993, Don made a guest appearance on the comedy program The Late Show on ABC. He has also hosted American NFL broadcasts for the ABC. He also entered the TV Week Logie Awards Hall Of Fame in 2003. He recorded four gold CDs. Bert Newton took much pleasure in sending up his singing, sometimes by playing the records at half-speed while miming Lane's performance.
He is represented in his live performances by Forte Productions.
The cult Sydney hip-hop group 'Don Lane & The Coffee Tables' bear his name.
Due to his stature, Lane was dubbed "The Lanky Yank" on Australian television.
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