"A icon has passed".
To understand how deeply the loss of Bert Newton will be felt by Australia, is to understand Australian television's heritage as a whole.
Bert was there when television pretty much began in Australia: and is the last of the three pillars in television variety forged in our industry's early years (the other two being the "King of Television" Graham Kennedy (who passed away in 2005) and American-born Morton Issacson: who performed under the stage name, Don Lane (who passed away in 2009) that shot to long-term popularity with Australian viewers to leave us.
It is fitting to look back at the Bert Newton life story as a tale of three mediums.
