Mike Smithson (Australian Journalist)
Michael Grant Smithson (born 26 November 1956) is an Australian political reporter and journalist. He is a presenter for ''Seven News'' in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia and can be heard on Adelaide radio station FIVEaa discussing political events with Leon Byner. Career Smithson started his career in print media with Messenger Newspapers in the mid-1970s. He later moved to television joining the ''Seven News'' in Adelaide, later becoming the senior police reporter with ''Seven News'' in Melbourne. Mike returned to Adelaide and became Network Ten's first weekend newsreader before becoming a bureau chief with the Hinch and Real Life programs. He has previously been brief host of ''Today Tonight'' Adelaide and European Correspondent. Some of his biggest reporting stories have included the Skase Chase, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the War on Terror in Afghanistan. In 2007, Smithson won 3 awards at the SA Media Awards: the inaugural award for Commentary, Analysis, Opinio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mike Smithson
Mike Smithson may refer to: * Mike Smithson (British journalist) (born 1946), British journalist, Liberal Democrat politician, and political betting expert *Mike Smithson (Australian journalist) Michael Grant Smithson (born 26 November 1956) is an Australian political reporter and journalist. He is a presenter for ''Seven News'' in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia and can be heard on Adelaide radio station FIVEaa discussing politic ..., Australian news reporter * Mike Smithson (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball player * Mike Smithson (make-up artist), American make-up artist {{hndis, Smithson, Mike ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seven News
Seven News (stylised 7NEWS) is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high definition studios in South Eveleigh, Sydney, while its flagship 6pm statewide bulletins are produced in studios based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces local news bulletins for regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC, CBC, CNN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. History ''Seven News'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'' and ''Seven Nightly News'' — is one of Australia's longest-running television news services, founded in 1958, along with '' Nine News'' on the rival Nine Network. In 2003, former Nine Network news and current affairs chief Peter Meaki ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FIVEaa
FIVEAA (pronounced ''Five Double A'') is Adelaide's only commercial talkback radio station. The station has a range of programs including news, sports, current affairs, social issues, football calls, gardening, lifestyle, cars, travel and health. It is owned by Nova Entertainment. History 5AA commenced service in Kent Town on 14 March 1976 on the frequency 1390 AM. It was moved to 1386 AM with the introduction of 9 kHz spacing on the AM dial in 1978. The station now broadcasts on 1395 AM. 5AA commenced its life with a "Beautiful Music" format and quickly became Adelaide's number-1-rated radio station. In 1976, the only FM competition was ABC Classic FM. AM stations were ABC Radio, 5DN and music stations 5KA and 5AD. In the 1980s, 5AA was sold to the State Government owned TAB betting agency, ditching music to begin broadcasting horse and dog racing, with talkback in between race calls. The station shifted to the TAB headquarters in Pulteney Court, Adelaide, with " ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leon Byner
Leon Byner (born 17 September 1948) is a retired Australian broadcaster who started his radio career in 1966 in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. Leon has worked successfully in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Hobart. Byner had been at 5AA for over 2 decades hosting a top rating morning talk show on radio station 5AA Adelaide and 9 radio Macquarie affiliates in country SA. Career During his career Byner has worked on radio in every Australian state capital since. Byner switched from music presentation to talk radio in 1996 and has even done a couple of stints on Los Angeles talk stations in California. Byner has also presented segments for Adelaide, Brisbane local television and satellite TV Europe on Australian and international celebrities. He has been nominated 13 times for ACRA awards (best talk and current affairs) and Australian of the Year three times. This is because his radio programme is known for helping many people in the community. Byner retired from 5AA ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Network Ten
Network 10 (commonly known as the 10 Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's Paramount Networks UK & Australia, UK & Australia division and is one of the five national free-to-air networks in the country. As of 2024, Network 10 is the fourth-rated television network and primary channel in Australia, behind the Seven Network, Nine Network and ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV and ahead of SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. History Origins From the introduction of TV in 1956 until 1965, there were three television networks in Australia, the Nine Network, National Television Network (now the Nine Network), the Seven Network, Australian Television Network (now the Seven Network), and the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC National Television Service (now ABC TV (Australian TV network), ABC TV). In the early 1960s, the Government of Australia, Australian Government be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Today Tonight
''Today Tonight'' was an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network. It aired from January 1995 to November 2019 in Adelaide and Perth. Editions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were previously produced before being cancelled in February 2014. History Following the cancellation of ''Real Life'', presented by Stan Grant late in 1994, ''Today Tonight'' was launched in January 1995 to replace it, with separate editions for each main metropolitan market (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth). Over summer, it was usual for ''Today Tonight'' to present a single edition broadcast across the entire east coast of Australia (that is, combining Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane). ''Today Tonight'' nationally was the last program to win the Logie for Most Popular Public Affairs Program before that award was discontinued. South Australia The South Australian edition was hosted by Rosanna Mangiarelli. Since the program's inception in So ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christopher Skase
Christopher Charles Skase (18 September 1948 – 5 August 2001) was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca, Spain. Early life Skase was born into a wealthy Melbourne family. His father was Charles Skase, 1948 winner of the Melbourne Sun-Aria, and prominent on-air personality on radio station 3DB, including his role as star of the live-to-air program, ''The Happy Gang'', in the 1950s. Skase was educated at Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools. Career Skase began his career as a stockbroker, but soon became a finance journalist instead, working at '' The Sun News-Pictorial''. In 1975 he purchased Qintex, a small Tasmanian company. By 1980 he was executive chairman of Hardy Brothers jewellers. Skase slowly developed Qintex and, over several years, turned it into one of Australia's larger corporations. In March 1981 as chairman, Skase announced that the com ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It marked the second time the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and in the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, in 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956. Teams from 199 countries participated in the 2000 Games, which were the first to feature at least 300 events in its official sports program. The Games were estimated to have cost Australian dollar, A$6.6 billion. These were the final Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee, IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch before the arrival of his successor Jacques Rogge. The final medal tally at the 2000 Summer Olympics was led by the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, United States, followed by Russia at the 2000 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
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Australian Television Journalists
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