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7.30
''7.30'' is an Australian nightly television current affairs program which broadcasts on ABC and ABC News at on Monday to Thursday nights. The program is currently hosted by Sarah Ferguson. History The program first aired on 7 March 2011, replacing both '' The 7.30 Report'' and '' Stateline''. It was originally hosted by Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann. In 2012, Uhlmann was appointed as ''7.30'' political editor, therefore stepping down as host. Uhlmann remained as political editor until 2013 when he announced that he would be working on a documentary about the Rudd and Gillard governments for the ABC. Sabra Lane replaced him as political editor, until she left to host the ABC morning radio current affairs program, ''AM''. In 2015, Jo Puccini was appointed the Executive Producer. In December 2016, ABC announced that Andrew Probyn would replace Sabra Lane as political editor. In August 2017, Probyn moved to a new role as ABC's political editor replacing Chris Uhlmann who le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Uhlmann
Christopher Gerald Uhlmann (born 24 June 1960) is an Australian former journalist and television presenter. Career Uhlmann was formerly a seminarian, a security guard, and a journalist with ''The Canberra Times'' before joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio producer in 1998. From 1999 to 2004, Uhlmann co-hosted '' Local Radio Breakfast'' on 666 ABC Canberra with David Kilby. In 2005, he was Jon Faine's producer for the ''Mornings'' show on 774 ABC Melbourne, and in 2006 was made chief political correspondent for ABC Radio current affairs. In 2008, Uhlmann switched to television, and was political editor for '' The 7.30 Report'', ABC News, and ABC News channel. In December 2010, he was appointed as co-host of the ABC Television current affairs program, ''7.30''. In 2012, the show was revamped again, with Uhlmann returning to the political editor role, and Leigh Sales hosting the program. In 2013, Uhlmann stepped down as ''7.30'' political editor. He anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Dempster
Quentin Dempster is an Australian journalist and author. Career Dempster began his career as a cadet on the Maryborough Chronicle in Queensland, and moved to Brisbane's ''Telegraph'', where he became the paper's chief political reporter. In 1982, he was awarded the Australian Journalists' Association's gold honour badge for meritorious service. ABC Dempster joined the ABC in 1984, and was widely acclaimed for his reporting of the Fitzgerald Inquiry in Queensland and the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service. After joining the ABC he wrote and produced ''The Sunshine System'', a documentary on institutionalised corruption in the Sunshine State, which exposed how senior police made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from bribes and kickbacks linked to organised crime. The Sunshine System's revelations gave impetus to calls for a commission of inquiry into political and police corruption. The inquiry, headed by Tony Fitzgerald QC, ran from 1987 to 1989, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ferguson (journalist)
Sarah Ferguson (born 31 December 1965) is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter. She is the host of ABC TV's current affairs program ''7.30''. Personal life Ferguson was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where her British-born parents lived before moving to Britain as the Biafran war broke out. Her Scottish father Iain, a trainee pilot turned businessman, worked for Dunlop. Ferguson attended New Hall, a Catholic-run private girls school in Boreham, Essex. She later studied English literature at King's College, London. In her early teens, she began a correspondence with the poet Philip Larkin. In a teenage essay she said when she grew up, she wanted to be "a commando and a librarian in the British House of Commons". Ferguson's career began in newspapers in the United Kingdom, writing arts reviews for ''The Independent''. Later she moved to Paris and worked as a researcher and production assistant on arts programs for French and British broadcasters. In 1992, Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ferguson (journalist)
Sarah Ferguson (born 31 December 1965) is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter. She is the host of ABC TV's current affairs program '' 7.30''. Personal life Ferguson was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where her British-born parents lived before moving to Britain as the Biafran war broke out. Her Scottish father Iain, a trainee pilot turned businessman, worked for Dunlop. Ferguson attended New Hall, a Catholic-run private girls school in Boreham, Essex. She later studied English literature at King's College, London. In her early teens, she began a correspondence with the poet Philip Larkin. In a teenage essay she said when she grew up, she wanted to be "a commando and a librarian in the British House of Commons". Ferguson's career began in newspapers in the United Kingdom, writing arts reviews for ''The Independent''. Later she moved to Paris and worked as a researcher and production assistant on arts programs for French and British broadcasters. In 1992, Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Tingle
Laura Margaret Tingle (born 14 February 1961''Who's Who in Australia'', ConnectWeb, 2016.) is an Australian journalist and author. She is the chief political correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's '' 7.30'' current affairs television program and was previously the political editor of ''Australian Financial Review''. Career Tingle began her career in Sydney as a cadet journalist with Fairfax Media's ''Australian Financial Review'' and ''Business Review Weekly'' in the early 1980s, reporting on financial deregulation and the floating of the dollar. In 1987, she moved to News Limited's ''The Australian'' newspaper as an economics correspondent. She was appointed chief political correspondent in 1992 and national affairs correspondent from 1994. In 1996, she returned to Fairfax as a political correspondent for ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 1998, she resigned as Canberra bureau chief for ''The Age'', frustrated by constant interference and lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stateline (TV Program)
''Stateline'' was a television current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It provided analysis of state and municipal politics as well as insight into state and regional issues in a current affairs journalistic style. The program was known for its interviews with politicians, and for its coverage of important regional issues. The ABC announced in December 2010 that the state-based current affairs program ''Stateline'' would be folded into a new ''7.30'' brand from March 2011. The change saw ''7.30'' extended to five nights a week, although Friday editions continue to be presented locally and focus on state affairs. Format It was broadcast on ABC1 on Fridays at 7:30 pm (in place of '' The 7.30 Report''), with eight separate state and territory specific editions. It was also broadcast on the new digital channel ABC2 after its launch in March 2005. With the launch of ABC News 24 ABC News (formerly ABC News 24; also referred to as the AB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Puccini
Jo Puccini is an Australian journalist and since 2017 the Editor of ABC Investigations. From 2015 she was executive producer for the ABC for the nightly current affairs programme ''7.30''. Career Puccini worked as a researcher and producer with the Seven Network on shows like ''Today Tonight'', ''The Times'' and ''Witness'', before joining the ABC's ''Media Watch'' as a researcher in 2000. While at the ABC’s ''Four Corners'' (2002–2007) Puccini won three Walkley Awards for journalism. Puccini was appointed Executive Producer for 7.30 in 2015 replacing Sally Neighbour. In 2017 she was appointed Editor of ABC Investigations Overview * 2000 ''Media Watch'', Researcher * 2001 ''Four Corners'', Researcher, Producer and Associate Producer * 2008 ''Media Watch'', Executive Producer * 2010 ''Lateline'', Supervising Producer * 2012 ''7.30'', Commissioning Editor * 2013 ABC, Editor for the National Reporting Team *2015 ''7.30'', Executive Producer *2017 Editor, ABC Investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Day Tonight
''This Day Tonight'' (TDT) was an Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) evening current affairs program from 1967 to 1978. Founding When ''TDT'' premiered in 1967 it was the first regular nightly current affairs program on Australian TV, and it extended ABC's award-winning coverage of current affairs, which had begun in the early 1960s with its flagship weekly program ''Four Corners''. Background ''TDT'' was hosted for the first eight years by journalist Bill Peach. The original on-air team consisted of executive producer Allan Martin, and producers Sam Lipski and Ken Chown in Sydney and Bill Pritchard in Melbourne. The original reporters were 60 minutes, Gerald Stone Frank Bennett, Peter Luck, and Gordon Bick in Sydney; Gerald Lyons, Mike Crewdson and Brian King in Melbourne; and Eric Hunter in Canberra. Shortly after, Eric Hunter replaced Mike Crewdson in Melbourne and Mike Willesee became the program's first full-time political reporter. The fact that Melbourne report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Lane
Sabra Lane (born c.1968) is an Australian journalist and radio presenter, best known for her work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Lane currently hosts the current affairs program ''AM (Australian radio series), AM'' on ABC Local Radio and ABC Radio National. Early life Lane was born in Melbourne, Victoria and grew up the regional city of Mildura where she attended Catholic education in Australia, Catholic school St Joseph's College. After completing Year 12, Lane spent a year in Norway on a Rotary Youth Exchange program where she lived on an island on the southwest coast of Norway and learnt how to speak fluent Norwegian language, Norwegian in the local dialect. Career While studying on the Magill, South Australia, Magill campus of the University of South Australia in Adelaide in the late 1980s, Lane got a job with Network Ten's local ADS (TV station), Adelaide station where she was initially required to listen to police scanners on Friday and Saturday nights before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Longest-running Australian Television Series
Below is a list of all the longest-running Australian television programs, both past and present, that have been broadcast for a minimum of 6–10 years or 6 seasons (or both). All data is updated as of 2 February 2022. Note: Programs with a shaded background indicate the program is still in production. 40–69 years 30–39 years 25–29 years 20–24 years 15–19 years 10–14 years 6–9 years See also * List of Australian television series * List of longest-running United States television series * List of longest-running Philippine television series * List of longest-running Indian television series * List of longest-running Spanish television series References External links {{Television in Australia Lists of Australian television series Television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News (TV Channel)
ABC News (formerly ABC News 24; also referred to as the ABC News channel) is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC HD channel (which simulcast ABC TV in high definition) and commenced broadcasting as ABC News 24 at 7:30 pm (AEST) on Thursday, 22 July 2010. The network is a division '' ABC News and A Current Affairs Department'', the majority of the channel's content is produced from the station ABN studio's, in Ultimo, Sydney which the public can view being presented from an atrium looking into the news presentation studio. ABC's breakfast television programme, ''News Breakfast'', Afternoon Briefing and the evening programme ''The World'' is produced at ABV Southbank, Melbourne (weekdays). Due to the relaunch of ABC HD on 6 December 2016, the picture quality of ABC News channel was reduced to standard definition. History The ABC announced in January 2010 that it planned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
