Tim Gilbert (born 29 October 1967) is an Australian journalist and radio and TV personality

Career

Gilbert's media career began at Radio 2GN in

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and

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. In 1996, he joined the

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and since then has been a sport presenter, commentator, reporter and producer on the network. He has presented sport reports on ''

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'' and was also a reporter on ''

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'' and ''

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''. Gilbert has covered a number of sporting events both in Australia and around the world including the

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and the

2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May Doan Nancy GreeneWayne Gr ...

. In February 2009, Gilbert was appointed weekend sports presenter on ''

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''. Gilbert has also been a fill-in host on Friday Night NRL if

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is away. In September 2014, Gilbert was announced as

Ben Fordham Ben Fordham (born 29 November 1976) is an Australian journalist, sports reporter and radio presenter. Fordham currently hosts ''Ben Fordham Live'' on Sydney radio station 2GB. Career Fordham began his career on Sydney's 2UE radio station, for ...

's replacement on ''

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''. He commenced his new role in November. In January 2019, Tim announced that his last day with the ''

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'' is 12 January 2019 after working with Nine Network for 22 years. Tony Jones would replace Gilbert as sport presenter on ''Today''. Gilbert is now a presenter on

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's show ''The Business of Sport''.

Personal life

Gilbert is married with children. His brother is

presenter

Kieran Gilbert Kieran Gilbert is an Australian journalist currently serving as chief political reporter for Sky News Australia. Career Gilbert holds a Master of International Studies from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) f ...

References

External links

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