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Prue MacSween
Prudence Gay MacSween is an Australian television and radio presenter, reporter, social commentator, and public relations director. She has made a number of comments considered to be controversial. Career MacSween's extensive career in the media began at Eastern Suburbs Newspapers, as a cadet journalist. during which time she studied at the Sydney Technical College where she completed an Advertising Certificate in 1972.(May/June 2015) [''Sydney Morning Herald'', 9 Jan 1973, p 10; http://www.gwpmedia.com.au/rprgwp/_gwpmagazines_pdf/issue_73.pdf Prue MacSween: Ms Media], Issue #73, ''Business Resource & Lifestyle'', GWP Magazines. Retrieved 21 September 2019. Her first foray into television was after she successfully applied for a job at the locally owned television station TNQ, TNQ-7 in the North Queensland city of Townsville initially working as a reporter before also hosting a children's program. Also while at TNQ-7, MacSween created a weekly talk show at TNQ which she also p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Technical College
The Sydney Technical College, now part of TAFE NSW, is a technical school established in 1878, that superseded the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. The college is one of Australia's oldest technical education institutions. History The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was founded in 1833. In 1878, the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts formed the Working Men's College, which eventually became the Sydney Technical College in 1882. In 1911, the high school operations of the college became Sydney Technical High School. In 1923 Mary Ellen Roberts, who had become a teacher of scientific dresscutting and making at the college in 1900, managed the transfer the courses of women's handicrafts to the East Sydney Technical College. In 1949, the New South Wales University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) was founded on the college's main site, as a separate institution, before moving to its own campus in Kensington. In 1969, part of the college became the New Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Zemanek
Stan Zemanek (29 May 1947 – 12 July 2007) was an Australian shock jock, radio broadcaster, television presenter, radio producer and author who presented a night-time show on The Macquarie Network station 2UE in Sydney and which was networked across parts of Australia via Southern Cross. He was known for trading abusive remarks with some of his callers. He was also the 13th and longest-serving "Beast" on the popular panel TV talk show ''Beauty and the Beast''. Career Zemanek was born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, but began working in radio as a researcher for Radio C-Fun 141 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He worked as a producer on the John Laws program in Australia starting in 1978, before returning to North America for some years, where he covered the 1983 America's Cup. He spent a decade presenting on 2UE late at night beginning in 1987. He spent a year in 2000 presenting the 2GB morning shift. Zemanek moved to Melbourne for a short stint with 3AW's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebrity Come Dine With Me Australia
''Celebrity Come Dine With Me Australia'' is a celebrity version of the Australian television reality cooking series based on the ''Come Dine with Me'' format which premiered on 11 December 2012 on The LifeStyle Channel in Australia, as a spin-off to ''Come Dine with Me Australia''. It is narrated by James Valentine. Series Summary History In 2009, The Lifestyle Channel bought the rights to ''Come Dine with Me'', commissioning Granada Media Australia to produce a version for the Australian market. The first season consists of 20 episodes. A second season was approved before the first season premiered and was broadcast in mid-2010. A fourth season was commissioned in 2012 with a celebrity Christmas special to screen prior to the fourth season. A second Christmas celebrity special was commissioned which aired in December 2013 along with a full celebrity season which aired in 2014. Cancelled Revival The series was set to be revived in 2016 by ITV Studios for the Nine Network. ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Smith
Kris Smith (born 20 August 1978) is an English Australian model, television presenter and former professional rugby league player. Career Rugby league In England, Smith played for a number of British Super League clubs including the Leeds Rhinos, London Broncos, Halifax Blue Sox, Salford Red Devils, Oldham Roughyeds and Swinton Lions.Kris Smith Celebrity Speakers. Accessed 20 September 2019. Modelling Smith has worked extensively as a model after he was signed to an agency in the United Kingdom following his retirement from rugby league. Following his move to Australia in 2008, he was signed as a ambassador - a contract that has subsequently been renewed several times. ...
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Chloe Maxwell
Chloe Maxwell is an Australian model and television presenter who appeared as the "Jeans West Girl" in a Jeans West campaign. She was discovered by chance during an '' A Current Affair'' story, featuring a model recruiter who claimed they could pick a model just by looking at them. Career Maxwell started her modelling career as a "Jeans West girl", after which she transitioned to a career as a television presenter. She shot a documentary in Ethiopia for World Vision Australia called ''Aussie Girl in Ethiopia''. She worked on the TV channel Fox8 and reported on night life for E News Australia. She was a "VJ" on Channel V Australia for four years, interviewing international and national bands. As an entertainment reporter on '' The Matty Johns Show'' on Channel 7, Maxwell interviewed various celebrities. Maxwell starred in the Australian comedy/thriller '' Under the Radar'' (2004) as Jo, a role which earned her a nomination for an AFI Award. She appeared in the 2008 series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Thomas (comedian)
Joshua Michael Thomas is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer. In 2005, he won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition. He has since appeared on television numerous times, including as a regular and Generation Y team captain on Network 10's '' Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation''. In 2013, Thomas created the award-winning ABC2 and Pivot television series '' Please Like Me'', which he also co-wrote and starred in. Early life and education Joshua Michael Thomas was born in Blackwater, Queensland, the son of Rebecca and Mike Thomas. He lived in Chapel Hill and Westlake in Brisbane's western suburbs and attended Kenmore State High School, from which he matriculated in 2004. He studied for a Bachelor of Creative Industries, majoring in television, at the Queensland University of Technology, but dropped out after one year. Career In 2005, he won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's RAW Comedy Award. He made the finals of '' So You Think You' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited (NWN), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Spicer
Tracey Leigh Spicer is an Australian newsreader, Walkley Award-winning journalist and social justice advocate. She is known for her association with Network Ten as a newsreader in the 1990s and 2000s when she co-hosted '' Ten Eyewitness News'' in Brisbane, Queensland. She later went on to work with Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter from 2007 to 2015. In May 2017 Spicer released her autobiography, ''The Good Girl Stripped Bare''. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia "For significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups". Early life and education Spicer was born in Brisbane. From 1980 to 1984, Spicer attended the private Soubirous and Frawley Colleges in bayside Scarborough, north of Brisbane. In 1987, Spicer graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Business (Communications) with a major in journalism. Career Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a Conservatism, conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the American Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a Mergers and acquisitions, merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Bocking
Stuart Lyndon Bocking (born 17 June 1969) is a former Australian radio presenter. Early life He attended Newington College (1981–1986) and after completing the Higher School Certificate obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree from Macquarie University. He later undertook the full-time commercial radio course at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Radio career In 1991, Bocking started radio work on the 7pm to midnight shift at Power FM in Nowra on the New South Wales south coast. When he moved north to Coast Rock FM in Gosford, New South Wales he started presenting music and news. Bocking then returned to Sydney and had newsroom positions at 2GB and 2WS. He commenced at 2UE 2UE is an all-music radio station in Sydney owned by Nine Entertainment and run under a lease agreement by Ace Radio. It currently broadcasts from its studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales. History 1920s 2EU Electrical Utilities applied to the P ... in July 1996. In his early career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio National
ABC Radio National, more commonly known as Radio National or simply RN, is an Australian nationwide public service radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2. History 1937: Predecessors and beginnings From 1928, the National Broadcasting Service, as part of the federal Postmaster-General's Department, gradually took over responsibility for all the existing stations that were sponsored by public licence fees ("A" Class licences). The outsourced Australian Broadcasting Company supplied programs from 1929. In 1932 a commission was established, merging the original ABC company and the National Broadcasting Service. It is from this time that Radio National dates as a distinct network within the ABC, in which a system of program relays was developed during the subsequent decades to link stations spread across the nation. The beginnings of Radio National lie with Sydney radio station 2FC, which air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia’s principal public service broadcaster. It is funded primarily by grants from the federal government and is administered by a government-appointed board of directors. The ABC is a publicly-owned statutory organisation that is politically independent and accountable; for example, through its production of annual reports, and is bound by provisions contained within the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an Act of Federal Parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
