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9am With David And Kim
''9am with David & Kim'' is an Australian morning show which premiered on Monday 30 January 2006 on Network Ten. It aired live from 9am - 11am weekdays, and was hosted by musician and former '' Getaway'' reporter David Reyne and former ''National Nine News'' presenter and journalist Kim Watkins. Fill in presenters have included Ann-Maree Biggar, Christi Malthouse, Corinne Grant, Kathryn Robinson, Stephen Quartermain and music mogul Ian Dickson. The program replaced long time morning program '' Good Morning Australia'' with Bert Newton, which finished in late 2005, after Bert Newton returned to the Nine Network. Sandy Paterson was the executive producer of the program. Throughout its run the show had struggled behind competing programs '' The Morning Show'' and ''Mornings with Kerri-Anne'', averaging around 50,000 viewers an episode. Demise In August 2009, Reyne announced that he will be leaving 9am at the end of the year, after 4 years with the show and Ten. On 7 December 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Watkins
Kim Watkins (22 September 1967) is an Australian television and news presenter. Career Watkins began her career in 1979, aged 12 as the co-host of the Nine Network's children's show ''You Asked For It''. In 1989, Kim began a six-year stint at the Seven Network in Brisbane working as a news reporter, weekend news presenter and a morning show host. While at Seven, she also worked on the 1992 Olympic Games. In 1995, Watkins joined the Nine Network, working as a reporter on many shows including ''Good Medicine'', ''Australia's Most Wanted'', ''Money'', and giving updates for the '' Wide World of Sports'' telecast of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Watkins also presented '' National Nine Morning News'' and was a fill-in presenter on other ''National Nine News'' bulletins. In April 2005, Watkins took the Nine Network to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, following a maternity leave dispute in which Watkins was reported to be "unhappy with the work sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
