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Nightlife (radio Program)
''Nightlife'' is an Australian late-night talkback show across ABC Local Radio hosted by Philip Clark and Suzanne Hill. It offers a mix of both news and current affairs, lifestyle and entertainment. Each night there are regular features and presenters. The listening audience is heavily featured throughout the program. ''Nightlife'' is broadcast on weekday nights from 10.10 pm to 2.00 am (AEST) on ABC Local Radio across Australia, and is followed by '' Overnights''. The show is broadcast on delay to South Australia and the Northern Territory. Hosts In July 2016, Tony Delroy announced that he would be retiring from the show after 26 years as host. He hosted his last show on 2 September 2016. Dominic Knight hosted the show until October 2016. In September 2016, ABC announced that Philip Clark from 666 ABC Canberra will host Nightlife. In November 2016, ABC confirmed that Phillip Clark would host the show from Monday to Thursday and Sarah MacDonald will host from Frida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Local Radio
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Local Radio stations broadcast across the continent using terrestrial transmitters and satellites. Its programming consists of news, current affairs, talkback, entertainment, sport, music and local affairs. They are usually reckoned as the flagship ABC radio stations in their areas. Depending on the time of day and the day of the week, programming can either be purely local (typically on weekday mornings), broadcast from the state or territory capital city ABC station, or simulcast across all ABC Local Radio services across the country (typically overnight, public holidays, in the summer months and on weekends). History Originally, Local Radio was known internally as ''ABC Radio 1'' in metropolitan regions and ''ABC Radio 3'' in regional areas. ''Radio 1'' was a largely local format while ''Radio 3'' was more networked and included content from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Naidoo
Indira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist and television and radio presenter. Education Naidoo's parents were Indian South Africans, who were politically active during the apartheid years. Her father was a dentist and her mother a teacher. They lived in Pietermaritzburg, before leaving the country when Naidoo was two years old, owing to the discrimination which limited her parents' occupations. She was educated in England, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tasmania, attending 12 schools, completing year 12 in Adelaide, South Australia. Career Journalism Naidoo completed a journalism degree at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia) and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide in 1990 as a news cadet. After several years as a political and industrial reporter, she went on to anchor ABC Weekend news and '' The 7.30 Report''. Naidoo then moved to the ABC's ''National Late Edition News'' in Sydney where she develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Sussex
Roland (Roly) Denis Sussex OAM is Emeritus Professor of Applied Language Studies at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Sussex hosts a talkback program on language and linguistics on ABC radio in Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory and writes a weekly column, "Wordlimit", for the newspaper ''The Courier-Mail''. Sussex is a specialist in comparative linguistics, particularly of the European languages, and takes an interest in the Slavic languages within this group. He is also keenly interested in the changes experienced by different languages, such as the influence of American English on Australian English. He holds a PhD from the University of London in Russian Language and Comparative Linguistics."Emeritus Professor Roland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kel Richards
Kelvin Barry "Kel" Richards (born 8 February 1946) is an Australian author, journalist, radio personality and lay Christian. Richards has written a series of crime novels and thrillers for adult readers which includes ''The Case of the Vanishing Corpse'', ''Death in Egypt'' and ''An Outbreak of Darkness''. Richards presented ABC NewsRadio's weekend afternoons, which included regular ''Wordwatch'' segments until 15 August 2010. Wordwatch was a feature introduced by Richards. Initially developed as a "filler" program for the radio programs to allow time for changes of people or locations, it tapped into an interest by the listening public and several books have been produced based on the show's research. In November 2003 the thousandth episode of the show was produced. Kel Richards currently presents Sydney radio station 2CH's Sunday night program "Sunday Night with Kel Richards". He is a lay canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, and the author of the Aussie Bible, which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Dowrick
Stephanie Dowrick (born 2 June 1947) is an Australian writer, Interfaith Minister and social activist. She is the author of more than 20 books of fiction and non-fiction, five of them best-sellers. She was a publisher in Australia and the UK, where she co-founded The Women's Press, London.Women Writing: Views & Prospects 1975–1995, Panel Session: Publishing: Fact and Fiction National Library of Australia. Background Stephanie Dowrick was born in , New Zealand, on 2 June 1947. Her mother, Estelle Mary Dowrick (née Brisco[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Clitheroe
Paul Hugh Clitheroe AM (born 7 July 1955 in Nottingham, England, UK) is an Australian television presenter, radio presenter, financial analyst, financial advisor and publisher. Career Clitheroe graduated from the University of NSW in the late 1970s, with a Bachelor of Arts. With financing from his father for his share of a new business venture, Clitheroe and some university friends founded investment research and advisory company, Ipac Securities Limited, in 1983. He is best known for his stint as the host of Nine Network show ''Money Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are as ...'', a financial and investment program that aired from 1993 to 2002, and has also appeared as occasional specials, the latest in 2006. Clitheroe occasionally appears on Tony Delroy's Nightlife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Urquhart
Felicity Ann Urquhart (born 4 May 1976) is an Australian country and western music singer-songwriter, and a TV and radio presenter. Her single "Big Black Cloud", co-written with Randy Scruggs, reached No. 1 on Country Tracks National Top 30 Singles Chart in 2007. She has won numerous awards including a Centenary Medal in 2001 "For service to Australian society through country music". Urquhart married musician and producer Glen Hannah in March 2009. She has been the host of country music show ''Saturday Night Country'' on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio since March 2010. Since 2015, Urquhart has been part of the group Bennett Bowtell Urquhart Early life Felicity Ann Urquhart was born on 4 May 1976 to Rex, an upholsterer, and Patricia "Trish" Urquhart. She grew up in Tamworth in rural New South Wales. Her maternal grandfather, Ernie Walmsley, was a jockey turned horse-trainer and with her grandmother, Anne, ran a pub in Bingara. Urquhart began busking i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Country
''Saturday Night Country'' is a weekly Australian country music radio program. It is produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and broadcast from 10:05 pm (in each local time zone) on Saturday nights. The current host is the country singer Beccy Cole. History Felicity Urquhart hosted the show from March 2010 until December 2020. She took over the program from original host John Nutting who had hosted ''Saturday Night Country'' from the ABC North Queensland studios in Townsville, Queensland since its debut in 1993. During a temporary period of absence between 2013 and 2015, Catherine Britt filled in for Urquhart. Nutting has explained that the program was launched during a period when the ABC was experiencing criticism for being too city-centric. He suggested a two-hour national country music program be broadcast from 4QN, the regional ABC station in Townsville, as a way to counteract accusations of the ABC focusing too much on capital cities. Nutting described the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Radio Sydney
ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 kHz on the AM dial. The station transmits with a power ( CMF) of 3,110V, which is equivalent to 50 kW (the maximum permissible in Australia) from a site west of the Sydney CBD. History ABC Radio Sydney is the first public radio station in Australia opened in Sydney at 8:00pm on 23 November 1923. Its first callsign was ''2SB'' where ''2'' denotes the State of New South Wales and ''SB'' stood for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. However, the callsign was soon altered to ''2BL'' for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. The change was due to the audio similarity of the sounds FC and SB. In May 1928 the Sydney Broadcasting Company was formed to take over stations 2BL and 2FC. A year later a consortium of entertainment companies founded the Australian Broadcasting Company Limited (ABC) to supply programme m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Clark (radio Presenter)
Philip Clark (born May 1956) is an Australian radio presenter. He is best known for his work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and at Sydney commercial station 2GB. Since 2016, he has hosted the Monday to Thursday editions of ''Nightlife'' on the ABC Local Radio network. Career Clark was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He studied arts and law at the Australian National University in Canberra where he lived from 1974 to 1987. After graduating from university, Clark worked for Labor senator John Button during the Hawke government. In 1986, Clark moved to Sydney where he practiced law with a major law firm. He then joined ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 1988 where he covered state politics and edited the newspaper's ''Stay in Touch'' column. In 1991, Clark moved into radio, initially working on John Doyle's afternoon program on Sydney ABC station 2BL before taking over ''Evenings''. Clark was appointed host of ''Breakfast'' on 2BL in 1993. He moved into commercial r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
666 ABC Canberra
ABC Radio Canberra (call sign: 2CN) is an ABC Local Radio station based in Canberra and broadcasting to the Australian Capital Territory as well as surrounding areas in New South Wales – this includes the cities and towns of Queanbeyan, Yass, and Bungendore. The station began as 2CN in 1953 originally broadcasting on 1540 kHz and from 21 December 1974 at 1440 kHz. On 6 December 1983, it changed to its current AM frequency of 666 kHz. The station first broadcast from studios based at the transmitter site at Gungahlin. In 1957, the station was relocated to the centre of Canberra, before finally moving to purpose-built studios in Dickson in 1964. ABC Radio announced digital radio services in Canberra, the simulcast of 666 ABC Canberra, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, ABC News Radio and triple j launched in 2011. When local programs are not being broadcast the station is a relay of ABC Radio Sydney. Current presenters *Lish Fejer *Adam Shirley *Sabra Lane *Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Knight
Dominic John Sebastian Knight (born 26 January 1977) is an Australian novelist, comedy writer, radio host and media commentator. Best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy Logie Awardwinning group The Chaser, he is also an occasional writer, columnist and blogger for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'', and a former host of ''Evenings'' on ABC Local Radio across NSW and the ACT. Along with fellow Sydney University students Charles Firth, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel, Knight founded ''The Chaser'' newspaper, launched in May 1999. Biography Knight was educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he met fellow ''Chaser'' members Chas Licciardello and Charles Firth. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney, a Master of Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He is the brother of Australian painter Jasper Knight and the grandson of former Reserve Bank Gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
