Vassilis Simon, who worked as Lee Simon (born 1954), is a retired Australian TV presenter and radio DJ, programme director and broadcaster. He hosted adult, album-orientated music show, ''Nightmoves'' from 1977 to 1984. As a radio presenter he worked for

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(1975–1979), EON FM (1980–2018, rebadged as Triple M Melbourne in 1988). He retired from radio broadcasting in 2018.

Biography

Vassilis Simon was born in 1954 in Melbourne to Greek immigrant parents. At age five, he changed his first name to Lee, as "it was easier to use." He worked as an

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from 1971 at local radio station, 3AW. His first job as a DJ was for radio 2BE in

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followed by stints at 7HT (

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), 2NX (

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) and

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(Sydney). Simon returned to Melbourne as a DJ and announcer for radio station

(from 1975) and then EON FM (from 1980), where he became their programme director. He hosted '' Nightmoves'', claimed as Australia's first adult and album-orientated music TV program for HSV 7, from 13 May 1977. Initially trialled for six weeks it was subsequently transmitted nationally via the

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for late Friday night programming from about midnight to 1:00 a.m. By 1982 it was being broadcast on

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at about 10:30 p.m. Monday nights. In 1985 it was re-branded as '' Rockit'' for the

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. In 1995 Simon, as Program Director, was instrumental in

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(formerly EON FM) beginning live radio broadcasts of

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matches. As from 2010 he presented the retro music programme, ''Rock of Ages'' on Triple M. In 2018 he retired and was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame later that year.

References

External links

Lee Simon, Triple M
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