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Alicia Loxley
Alicia Loxley (née Gorey) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Loxley is currently weekend news presenter on ''Nine News Melbourne'' and '' Nine Afternoon News Melbourne''. Career Loxley was born in Melbourne and made her first media appearance on Radio National's ''The Sports Factor''. From there she joined the ABC in Mildura. It was a stint as a reporter on Triple J radio that was the impetus for her move to Perth. Loxley presented her first ''ABC News'' bulletin in late 2003 and in 2005 she was appointed to the position of weekend news presenter on ''ABC News'' in Western Australia. In February 2006, she replaced Paul Lockyer as weeknight presenter of ''ABC News'' in Western Australia. In addition to presenting news each night, Loxley took on a new role at ABC Radio in mid-2007 where she hosted the statewide regional drive program on ABC Local Radio. Loxley resigned in May 2008 to move back to Melbourne and was replaced by Karina Carvalho. In July 2008, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekend Today (Australian TV Series)
''Weekend Today'' is an Australian breakfast television program, currently hosted by Richard Wilkins and Belinda Russell. It has been broadcast live by the Nine Network since 2009 and airs after children's programming and runs from 7am to 10am on weekends. The show is broadcast from the Nine Network studios in North Sydney, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales. History In January 2009, David Gyngell, chief executive of the Nine Network and John Westacott, former head of news and current affairs announced that ''Today'' would begin broadcasting on Sunday mornings. The program entitled, ''Today on Sunday'', competes in the same timeslot as the Seven Network's '' Weekend Sunrise'', which dominates Sunday morning television nationally, except on the east coast. The show launched on 1 February 2009 and the original team consisted of Cameron Williams and Leila McKinnon with the news presented by Amber Sherlock and the sport was presented by Tim Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Current Affair (Australian TV Series)
''A Current Affair'' (or ''ACA'') is an Australian current affairs program airing weeknights and Saturday nights on the Nine Network. The program is currently hosted by Allison Langdon (Monday–Thursday) and Deborah Knight (Friday and Saturday). History 1970s ''A Current Affair'' was first broadcast on 22 November 1971, with Mike Willesee, screening weeknights at 7:00 p.m., and was broadcast for GTV-9. For part of its early run, the comedian and actor Paul Hogan had a comic social commentary segment. Under Willesee, ACA was a Transmedia production for the Nine Network. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0–10 Network (now known as Network 10), journalist Mike Minehan took over presenting ''ACA''. Other hosts included Sue Smith, Kevin Sanders and Michael Schildberger. The original ''A Current Affair'' was cancelled on 28 April 1978 due to strong competition in the 7:00 p.m. timeslot from ''Willesee at Seven'' on Seven Network and Graham Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Grimshaw
Tracy Grimshaw (born 3 June 1960) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She was the host of '' A Current Affair'' between 2006–2022, and was a co-host of ''Today'' between 1996–2005. Career Grimshaw's career began in 1981 when she joined ''Nine News'' in Melbourne as a reporter. In 1985 she began presenting news bulletins and by 1987 had been appointed the presenter of '' Nine Morning News''. Through the early 1990s, Grimshaw reported on overseas events for the Nine Network, as well as reporting for ''A Current Affair'' and hosting the program over the summer non-ratings period. In 1995, Grimshaw appeared as co-host of ''The Midday Show'' with David Reyne. The following year she was host of '' Today on Saturday'' and ''Animal Hospital''. In November 1996, Grimshaw was appointed the co-host of ''Today'' with Steve Liebmann, a position she held for nine years. She finished her role as co-host of ''Today'' on 23 December 2005 and was replaced by Jessica Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hitchener
Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener OAM (born 21 February 1946) is an Australian television presenter. He has been the chief news presenter for GTV-9 of their flagship bulletin '' Nine News Melbourne'' since 1998, and prior to that was the weekend news presenter. Career Originally from Texas in rural Queensland, Hitchener began his media career in 1965 at the Brisbane radio station 4BH where he wrote, edited and presented news bulletins. Hitchener then moved on to ABC Brisbane where he undertook roles as a television news and radio presenter. Still at the ABC, he moved to Sydney in 1973 where he was a relief presenter on the evening news for James Dibble. Hitchener moved to the Nine Network after one year at ABC Sydney, presenting ''National Nine News'' first in Sydney and then in Melbourne as the co-anchor of ''News Centre Nine'', with Brian Henderson co-anchoring in Sydney. In 1977, Hitchener began hosting the breakfast show on 3AW before moving to 3AK in 1979. At about thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight (born 23 November 1972) is an Australian television and news presenter, radio host, and journalist. Knight is currently a radio presenter on 2GB and host of '' A Current Affair'' on Friday and Saturday. Previously she has been a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast program ''Today'' and presented '' Nine News Sydney'' on Friday and Saturday. Career Knight studied at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, where she earned a degree in journalism, graduating in 1993. She began her career in the media working for the radio station 2WG in Wagga Wagga and then moved to Mix 106.5 in Sydney before accepting a position with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Network 10 Later on, she moved to Network 10 and in 2001 was appointed the US correspondent on ''10 News First'', during which she covered major world events such as the September 11 attacks. Upon her return to Australia, she became co-host of the flagship Sydney bulletin in January 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Hall
Jo Hall (born 25 June 1958) is a former Australian retired television presenter. Hall currently presents '' Nine News Regional Victoria'' and is a reporter for ''Nine News''. Career Hall began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined ''Nine News'' in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism. She presented '' Nine News Melbourne'' on weekends for 13 years and has filled in for Peter Hitchener. Hall also presented national ''Nine News'' late news update on weekends. She also works with the Variety Club Variety, the Children's Charity is a charitable organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1927. History On October 10, 1927, a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club". On ... on McHappy Day and is a patron of Bonnie Babes, a research organisation. In November 2011, it was announced that Hall wanted to scale bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa Wilkinson (born 19 December 1959) is an Australian television presenter and journalist. Wilkinson currently narrates ''Ambulance Australia'' and has previously co-hosted the Nine Network's breakfast television program, ''Today,'' with Karl Stefanovic (2007–2017), '' Weekend Sunrise'' on the Seven Network (2005–2007), and '' The Project'' on Network Ten (2018–2022). Career Magazines ''Dolly'' Wilkinson was born in Wollongong, but grew up in Campbelltown, in Sydney's Western Suburbs and attended Campbelltown High School (now Campbelltown Performing Arts High School). She began her career working for the magazine '' Dolly''. At age 21, she was offered the job as its editor. During her time there she became known for discovering young female talent, including a then-unknown Nicole Kidman. ''Cleo'' After tripling the magazine's circulation, she was personally approached by Kerry Packer to become editor of Australian Consolidated Press women's lifestyle magazine, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila McKinnon
Leila "Lennard" McKinnon (born 28 September 1972) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is a reporter and fill in presenter for '' Nine News'' and '' A Current Affair''. She is currently co-hosting '' Australian Ninja Warrior'' and has previously been co-host of ''Weekend Today''. She subjected Corey Worthington to a weak interrogation in 2008. Personal life McKinnon was born in Iran to an English mother and a New Zealand father, while her father was working as service manager to the late Shah of Iran's fleet of vehicles. She grew up in Brisbane, where she attended MacGregor State High School. In 2012, McKinnon gave birth to her first child. McKinnon's second child was born in 2014. Career McKinnon began her career reporting part-time for '' The Sunday Telegraph'' in Brisbane, while finishing a journalism degree at Queensland University of Technology. In 1993 she accepted a cadetship at WIN Television in Rockhampton, Queensland, before moving to WIN's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerri-Anne
''Kerri-Anne'' was an Australian morning television program shown on the Nine Network, hosted by Kerri-Anne Kennerley. It was broadcast on weekdays at 9am for two hours. The final episode of the series was on 25 November 2011. It was replaced by ''Today Extra'', hosted by Sonia Kruger and David Campbell. History The program debuted on 28 October 2002 on the Nine Network to compete against Network Ten's '' Good Morning Australia'' with Bert Newton. The show began as a one-hour program from 9:30 to 10:30 am five days a week. In the program's second season in 2003, the show progressed to an hour and a half from 9:30 to 11:00am. After the network's decision to rest '' Here's Humphrey'', which had been broadcast since 1965, the show began its third season as a two-hour program from 9:00 to 11:00am. ''Mornings'' proved to be a success against ''Good Morning Australia'' and, by the end of 2005, Newton announced that he would be returning to the Nine Network. As a result, Network Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaynie Seal
Jaynie Seal (born 18 May 1973) is an Australian television presenter. Seal is currently a weather presenter on Sky News Weather Channel, news presenter on ''Saturday Edition'' and '' Sunday Edition'' on Sky News Live and advertorial presenter on '' Today Extra''. Career Seal was part of the original team for the Weather Channel when it launched in 1999 and she found a passion for weather and live television. In 2004, Seal joined the Nine Network as weather presenter for '' National Nine News'' in Sydney along with '' Nine Morning News'' and ''Nine Afternoon News''; she remained in this position for 7 years. Seal has also worked on '' The Footy Show, Fresh, Today, Abbamania, Hole in the Wall and Kerri-Anne'' where she also co-hosted for a week. In late 2012, she rejoined Sky News Weather Channel as a weather presenter while also remaining with the Nine Network as an advertorial presenter on ''Today Extra''. In 2016, Seal added a role as news presenter on Sky News Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian television presenter and reporter. Usher presents ''Seven News Sydney'' on Friday and Saturday with Angela Cox and ''The Latest: Seven News''. Career Usher graduated from All Saints' College, Perth in 1987. He went on to study media in 1989 at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and graduated with an Associate Diploma in Media Studies. Nine Network Usher's television career began in 1990 at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury, as a final year cadet journalist. He was then posted to Kalgoorlie before beginning the following year at STW-9, Perth. In 1993, Usher moved to Sydney and to TCN-9 news. Three years later he was appointed to the role of Nine Network Olympics reporter, leading the Network's coverage of the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He also went to Lausanne to cover the corruption scandal that engulfed the International Olympic Committee. He was the Nine Network's correspondent in New York when the Twin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
