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Seb Costello
Sebastian Costello (born 1987 ) is an Australian television and radio journalist. Radio Early radio work Costello began his radio career at Melbourne community radio station SYN in 2007 while studying at RMIT University.(26 February 2007Costello junior more into radio than politics ''radioinfo''. Retrieved 16 September 2019. He then moved into commercial radio, working as an announcer at Max 107.3 in Taree on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, and then at Classic Rock 102.5FM in Echuca on the New South Wales/ Victoria border.(4 February 2015He'd rather read the news than be the news: Triple M's Seb Costello ''radioinfo''. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 3AW Following his stint in Echuca, Costello moved back to Melbourne and began working for 3AW. Firstly, as producer for Derryn Hinch’s drive program, then as a producer and reporter for Neil Mitchell's breakfast program on 3AW. He also became a boundary rider during the station's AFL broadcasts. While working for 3AW i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, science, and technology, in response to the industrial revolution in Australia. It was a private college for more than a hundred years before merging with the Phillip Institute of Technology to become a public university in 1992. It has an enrolment of around 95,000 higher education, higher and vocational education students, making it the largest dual-sector education institution in Australia. With an annual revenue of around A$1.5 billion, it is also one of the List of Australian universities by annual revenue, wealthiest universities in Australia. It is rated a five star university by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and is ranked 15th in the World for art and design subjects in the QS World University Rankings, making it the top ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the Laws of Australian football, laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with 1897 VFL season, its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria (Australia), Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990. The league currently consists of 18 teams spread over five of Australia's six states (Tasmania being the exception). Matches have been played in all states, plus the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, as well as in New Zealand and China to expand the league's au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bachelard
Michael Bachelard (born 1968) is an Australian journalist and author. In 1997, Bachelard wrote ''The Great Land Grab: What every Australian should know about Wik, Mabo and the Ten Point Plan''. Bachelard's '' Behind the Exclusive Brethren'' was published in 2008, which explored the Australian sect of the Exclusive Brethren. For his work as the foreign editor at Fairfax Media, Bachelard was the co-recipient of the 2017 Gold Walkley. Shared with photographer Kate Geraghty, the award was in recognition for their work ''Surviving IS: Stories from Mosul''.Bachelard, Michael; Geraghty, Kate (February 2017Surviving IS: Stories from Mosul ''The Age'', Nine Entertainment Co. Nine Entertainment (registered as Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd) is an Australian publicly listed media company with holdings in radio and television broadcasting, newspaper publications and digital media. It uses Nine as its corporate brandi ... Retrieved 13 April 2019. References 21st-century A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by '' Sports Illustrated'' and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he began training as an amateur boxer at age 12. At 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and turned professional later that year. He became a Muslim after 1961. He won the world heavyweight championship, defeating Sonny Liston in a major upset on February 25, 1964, at age 22. During that year, he denounced his birth name as a " slave name" and formally changed his name to Muhammad Ali. In 1966, Ali refused to be drafted into the military owing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Tonight
TV Tonight is an Australian-based website which features reviews, news and programming information related to television in Australia as well as OzTAM ratings information. The site was started by television critic David Knox in 2007 after listeners of his radio programs asked him for information they had missed. Knox runs the site, publishing his interviews with Australian media actors, producers, directors and programmers. Knox regularly visits the sets of Australian television series and reviews television programs. Knox also served as television critic for Radio National's breakfast program from 2009 to 2015. Dan Barrett is now in this role. Knox has an advanced diploma in screenwriting and was the founding Artistic Director of Screenplay. TV Tonight is also referenced in Australian media, including ''The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Press Club
The Melbourne Press Club, commonly referred to as MPC, is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Press Club provides awards in the State of Victoria for outstanding journalism, presenting the annual Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian journalism. MPC co-hosts the annual Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, named after a celebrated Australian journalist. MPC also presents the annual Grant Hattam Award, in honour of the leading media lawyer who died suddenly in 1998 from cancer. It also hosts The Australian Media Hall of Fame which honours "journalists, editors, publishers, broadcasters, producers, artists, photographers or others who have had a significant impact by working in the media". melbournepressclub.com. Retrieved 30 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. 11,238 athletes from 207 nations took part in the 2016 Games, including first-time entrants Kosovo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kosovo, South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the Games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usain Bolt
Usain St. Leo Bolt, , (; born 21 August 1986) is a retired Jamaican sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He is the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay. An eight-time Olympic gold medallist, Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m titles at three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016). He also won two 4 × 100 relay gold medals. He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory. An eleven-time World Champion, he won consecutive World Championship 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay gold medals from 2009 to 2015, with the exception of a 100 m false start in 2011. He is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Mooney
Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and former television and radio presenter. Radio career Mooney has held various jobs including a cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. He has also been a fill-in host and guest on MTR's Steve Vizard Show and ABC Radio Melbourne and 3AW. In 2016, he regularly appeared on the Triple M impersonating Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the Sydney and Melbourne breakfast shows, and as a guest co-host on ''Merrick & Australia''. He was part of the morning drive show on Triple M Brisbane from December 2017 to December 2018. On 15 January 2019, Lawrence replaced '' The Grill Team'' for Sydney Breakfast on Triple M with ''Moonman in the Morning,'' alongside Gus Worland, Chris Page and Jess Eva. In October 2019, Mooney won an Australian Commercial Radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hot Breakfast
''The Hot Breakfast'' was an Australian breakfast radio show on Triple M Melbourne hosted by Eddie McGuire and Luke Darcy. The show began on Monday, 7 September 2009. Former SBS sports broadcaster Mieke Buchan and comedian Tony Moclair were part of the inaugural team. The show aired from 6am to 9am on weekday mornings and merged sport, comedy and music with a more talkback style of radio. The show finished on 27 November 2020. Format ''The Hot Breakfast'' format is based on the ''Grill Team'' format pioneered by Triple M Melbourne in the early 1990s, merging sport, comedy and music with a more talkback style of radio. AFL football is often a popular topic on the show given that the show is based in Melbourne and that the hosts are all involved with clubs or as AFL broadcaster – McGuire is Collingwood president and an analyst and commentator, while Darcy not only played for the Western Bulldogs but is an AFL broadcaster for Triple M and Seven Network. Former Australian Prime M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple M Melbourne
Triple M Melbourne is a radio station broadcasting in Melbourne, Victoria. Its target demographic is the 18-54 age group. Triple M Melbourne is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M Network and broadcasts on the 105.1 MHz frequency. The station was Australia's first commercial FM station, originally known as Eon FM, broadcasting on 92.3 MHz. Station history Eon FM: The Birth of Commercial FM Radio In late 1979, a consortium, members of which included recording entrepreneur Bill Armstrong, band manager Glenn Wheatley and stockbroker Bill Conn, successfully bid on one of two Melbourne FM licenses and set about creating a commercial FM radio station. Armstrong headed the consortium, having seen the commercial opportunities of FM radio in the US and the UK. Despite what their license application read, they had no blueprint at all with regard to marketing, programming, administration or promotion. The next six months was then spent building a radio station from scratch. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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