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George Donikian
George Jack Donikian (born 15 December 1951) is an Australian former radio and television news presenter/personality. He has worked at the SBS as well as the Nine Network and Ten Network. Early life Donikian was born and raised in Kingsford, Sydney. His father was a Greek Armenian who had emigrated to Australia from Athens in 1949, with his fiancée following a year later. He grew up speaking Greek, Armenian and Turkish, and did not speak English until the age of 7. Despite his father's wish for him to become a doctor or barrister, Donikian found his calling in sports, in particular soccer. At the age of 16, his soccer skills brought him to the notice of Jozef Vengloš, the manager of the national team, however his sporting hopes ended when he dislocated his shoulder whilst lifting weights in training. Radio career Donikian commenced his media career as an announcer with radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid-1970s, then went to 2WL in Wollongong. According ...
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Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ...
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Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ...
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SBS World News Australia
''SBS World News'' is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at on SBS with additional weeknight 'late' bulletins from on SBS. ''SBS News'' is the name of the news app and website run by SBS. History ''The World News'' began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series ''Dateline'' started in 1984. Closed captioning for the ''World News'' was introduced in March 1997. In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on the channel until its demise in 2009. ''World N ...
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Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling (born 29 May 1970) is an Australian journalist. Belling has previously worked at Network 10 as a television presenter, news presenter and reporter. She spent over two decades with the company until being made redundant in August 2020. Early life and education Belling was born and raised in Mudgee in the Orana region of New South Wales. She often visits the town with her family and has philanthropic connections with the region. She was a boarder at St Vincent's College, Potts Point in Sydney. Belling attended Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) degree. Career Prior to joining Network 10, Belling was a reporter with Prime Television in Orange, New South Wales, and was a presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Darwin. She then joined 10, originally as a medical reporter. Network 10 In 2007, Belling became the national presenter of '' 10 Morning News'', replacing Trace ...
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Hermione Kitson
Hermione Kitson is an Australian news presenter and reporter. Career Kitson studied Media/Communications at Sydney University and completed an internship at ABC Sydney News and Current Affairs. Network Ten Before joining Network Ten, Kitson worked as a reporter at WIN TV and as a reporter and newsreader at 2UE Radio Sydney. Kitson joined '' Ten News'' in Melbourne in mid-2008, where she was a senior reporter for around four years. She reported on a range of stories, many of them headlines and major news items. Kitson also reported on a number of breaking news events, both live and from the newsroom. In August 2010, Kitson presented her first on-air bulletin, filling-in for George Donikian on the Saturday edition of Ten News Melbourne (following Network Ten's AFL telecasts) and continued to occasionally fulfil this role until September. Thereafter she became a permanent fill-in presenter. During her time in Melbourne, she was the main fill-in presenter for Helen Kapalos ...
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Helen Kapalos
Helen Kapalos (born 17 March 1971) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Kapalos is of Greek descent and the Chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission; her four-year term commenced on 17 August 2015.Premier of Victoria
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Kapalos began her career in her home town of , as a reporter for ABC Radio in 1994, a journalist at 2HD & NEW FM before moving to television with
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Mal Walden
Mal Walden is a former English-born Australian retired journalist and television news presenter based in Melbourne. On his retirement, he was reported to be the longest continually serving face on Australian television with a media career spanning six decades. Walden was the main presenter of the Seven Network Melbourne program ''Seven National News'' from 1978 to 1987 and the Ten Network program ''Ten Eyewitness News'' from 1987 until 2013. Walden was farewelled at State Parliament hosted by Premier Denis Napthine and awarded a lifetime achievement quill by the Melbourne Press Club. Since his retirement Walden has published five books: a memoir ''The Newsman'', and ''Good News'', a selection of stories that shaped the city of Melbourne, "Don't Piss in my Pocket" a book of quotes, 'Crazy Aussie Crims" and "Aussie Icons and Legends". Career Walden started his media career at radio station 3YB-FM at Warrnambool, Victoria, in 1961, he worked as a cadet journalist in radio. Afte ...
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Belinda Heggen
Belinda Heggen is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She worked at ADS10 in Adelaide as a general assignment reporter, and also wrote occasional columns for the newspaper '' Messenger''. She moved to Sydney in 2008 and was a finance reporter for '' Ten Early News'', who filled in for Kathryn Robinson. She was also a '' Ten Late News'' reporter on Friday nights. She has also worked on Adelaide's radio station, FiveAA as a talk back host between 1pm and 4pm on weekdays. Ten News In 2008, Heggen presented the Adelaide news alongside George Donikian while Rebecca Morse was on maternity leave. On 2 February 2012, she resigned from Network Ten after Network Ten's downsizing. FiveAA radio station On 28 May 2012, Adelaide talk radio station 5AA announced Heggen as its new afternoon (1:00pm–4:00pm) host replacing Amanda Blair beginning 12 June. Heggen had previously filled in for Blair on a number of occasions. Personal life Heggen is married with two sons. She is a Star ...
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Rebecca Morse (journalist)
Rebecca Jane Morse (born 26 August 1977, in South Australia) is an Australian journalist, news and radio presenter. Morse was a presenter of Adelaide's '' 10 News First.'' She is also a co-host on SAFM's breakfast radio show ''Bec, Cosi & Lehmo'' in Adelaide with Andrew "Cosi" Costello and Anthony Lehmann. Career Morse attended Blackwood High School and the University of South Australia at Magill. Prior to joining Ten she worked for the ABC in Adelaide as a reporter and presenter. She was a finalist in the Walkley Awards in 2004 in the category of Television News Reporting and in 2005 won the gold award for Journalist of the Year at the South Australian Media Awards. Morse replaced Kelly Nestor in March 2006. In 2012, Morse hosted "The Newsfeed" with Ryan "Burgo" Burgess on SAFM. In August 2020, Morse was made redundant by Network 10. She presented her final Adelaide-based ''10 News First'' bulletin on 11 September before production of the state-based Adelaide bulletin m ...
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Ten News
''10 News First'' is an Australian television newscast, produced by Network 10. The network's ninety-minute long news program airs at 5pm each evening covering local, national and world news, including sport and weather. Weekend editions are presented nationally from Network 10's studios in Pyrmont, Sydney. Network 10's news division also assists in the production of the morning show ''Studio 10'' and prime-time current affairs program '' The Project''. It draws upon the resources of ITN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage outside that of the network, in addition to that of CBS News, which is legally in-house following the 2017 takeover. History Network 10 introduced its news service in 1965 and was a pioneering force behind the concept of the hour-long news bulletin with co-anchors in the form of '' Eyewitness News'' from 1973 onwards. The 1980s were the network's most successful period as a news provider with its local Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane bulle ...
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Keith Martyn
Keith Martyn was a radio and television news presenter who was the weekday weather presenter for Adelaide, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ... television for 27 years. He is also known for 23 years of ''Keith Martyn's South Australian Almanac'' . Martyn was with '' Nine News Adelaide'' between 1996 and 2007, and with Channel Seven for 16 years before that. He also co-presented breakfast shifts on 5DN and 5AD with Jeff Sunderland. In 2007 Martyn retired to Victoria to be closer to his daughter. References Nine News presenters Australian radio personalities Television meteorologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{adelaide-stub ...
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Fast Forward (Australian TV Series)
''Fast Forward'' was Australia's highest-rating and most critically awarded commercial television sketch comedy show, broadcast for 90 one-hour episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992. The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was also the executive producer, writer and performer, and starred Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski (the three of whom went on to star in ''Kath & Kim''), Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brooks, Ernie Dingo, the ''Rubbery Figures'' satirical puppets, and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Bryan Dawe.''The Unofficial Fast Forward Guide'' ''Fast Forward'' was succeeded by the related series '' Full Frontal'', and subsequently ''Totally Full Frontal'', which were broadcast from 1993 to 1999. ''Full Frontal'' had a different main cast, but many of the ''Fast Forward'' cast guest starred. ''Fast Forward'' was directed by Ted Emery. From its second series onward ...
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