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On the news. This site has attracted a lot of international media attention since 2008, and it has now been featured on television or news programs in 17 countries from a total of 16 shoots. There has been coverage in 9 newspaper articles, 28 magazine or book articles and 8 radio interviews.

Australian TV

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Australian TV. Filming Xmas bike lights with Dean Lomax.

Here are 11 Australian TV segments about my stuff:
GWN News, Ch 7, April 25 2013 – Sword swallowing and sparks 
ABC Open, Oct 12 2013 – A shocking passion
Australia’s Got Talent,  Ch 7, 2011
GWN News, Ch 7, Dec 25 2010 – Worlds Brightest Bike lights.
Ten News, Ch 10, 2009 – Cosmology Gallery Opening
A Current Affair,  Ch 9,  Sept 21 2009 – High voltage power lines.
Today Tonight, Ch 7, May 2009 – Modern Thinker
Today Tonight, Ch 7, Jan 2009 – Tesla coil effects
WIN News Ch 9, Feb 21 2009 – Xmas tree.
WIN News Ch 9, Dec 23 2008 – Australia and 16 other countries “Elec-trickery”
Sunrise, Ch 7, Nov 4 2011 – Ripley’s believe it or not!

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Media that didn’t happen (yet)

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Media that didn't happen yet

Supercharged media (nearly) 2008

Creative Differences is a media production company in the US that raised the possibility of a TV series. This was their “Dr Shock” promo pitched to US Discovery Channel. The plan was for 13 half hour episodes.
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Elec-trickery 16 countries

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“Elec-trickery” WIN TV Australia had a news item on 23/12/08 for 90 seconds. Reported and filmed by Tiffany Wertheimer. Also screened on Channel 9 news and A Current Affair to give wide coverage in Australia. This eventually went international to 16 countries including in the USA on MSNBC

Tesladownunder in the media The site has attracted a lot of international media attention since 2008 and has now been on TV programs or news in 17 countries from a total of 16 TV shoots. There has been coverage in 9 newspaper articles, 28 magazine or book articles and 8 radio interviews. Discovery USA TV “Is it possible?” 2010 USA  WIN TV Australia and 16 other countries “Elec-trickery” Discovery Channel TV episode 1 Canada Discovery Channel TV episode 2 Canada Discovery Channel TV episode 3 Canada Discovery Channel TV episode 4 Canada “Elec-trickery” WIN TV Australia had a news item on 23/12/08 for 90 seconds. Reported and filmed by Tiffany Wertheimer. Also screened on Channel 9 news and A Current Affair to give wide coverage in Australia. This eventually went international to 16 countries including MSNBC in the USA

Above, are  a few pictures from the Win TV shoot. The 5kJ capacitor bank explosion of some steel wool and aluminum actually started 2 small grass fires which were caught on camera.

The sources of the jukebox clips above are here: Reuters Dec 2008 (a large international news service) had this version of the WIN TV segment which they titled: “Zapping for Elec-trickery man” . Reuters is also the source of these: Reuters (article),    Reuters (Video rough cut, no narration),  Blinkx Video USA TV news Dec 2008. Made it to the  MSNBC Editors Picks UK TV news Dec 2008, on ITN TV. (…isn’t a Timelord..) Meet Australia’s Electro-man. China TV News (in Chinese) Dec 2008. The site and details are here.  Another Chinese report shows a newspaper article. Details on the Youtube report. China TV News  here New Tang Dynasty TV in English and French. Italy TV News here, Turkey TV news here, Holland TV news here, Brasil TV news here, Romania TV news here

A few other countries whose clips I couldn’t capture for the jukebox above are:  Norway TV news here, Denmark TV news here, Indonesian TV news here,  Croatian TV here Switzerland TV news here. 

Also was seen in Pakistan, Vietnam, Peru, Bulgaria and Singapore.