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![Bruce Gyngell chairman and Managing Driector of TV AM outside the TV AM building announcing to the press that his company have not won the franchise Stock Photo - Alamy Bruce Gyngell chairman and Managing Driector of TV AM outside the TV AM building announcing to the press that his company have not won the franchise Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/9/8aacd06244e048cb91e24a8c4c0aa9ef/2f5b15p.jpg)
Bruce Gyngell chairman and Managing Driector of TV AM outside the TV AM building announcing to the press that his company have not won the franchise Stock Photo - Alamy
60 YEARS | "Good evening, and welcome to television." 60 years ago today, Bruce Gyngell said those immortal words on Channel 9. #FlashbackFriday... | By 9 News Sydney | Facebook
![Library picture dated 16.10.1991 of Bruce Gyngell, then the chairman of TVAM, but who is now the managing director of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, who warned a Royal Television Society dinner in London Library picture dated 16.10.1991 of Bruce Gyngell, then the chairman of TVAM, but who is now the managing director of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, who warned a Royal Television Society dinner in London](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2D2X6FP/library-picture-dated-16101991-of-bruce-gyngell-then-the-chairman-of-tvam-but-who-is-now-the-managing-director-of-yorkshire-tyne-tees-television-who-warned-a-royal-television-society-dinner-in-london-wednesday-night-that-television-was-in-danger-of-slipping-into-a-mire-of-sleaze-see-pa-story-tv-sleaze-2D2X6FP.jpg)