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Sunday (Australian TV Program)
''Sunday'' was an Australian current affairs, arts and politics program, broadcast nationally on Sunday mornings on the Nine Network Australia. The program covered a range of topical issues including local and overseas news, politics, and in-depth stories on Australia and the world, plus independent film reviews, independent arts features, and independent music reviews. Its final show aired on Sunday, 3 August 2008. History The announcement of the launch of the private and independent breakfast television and Canberra-produced politics program on 22 October 1981 inspired controversy, as it was then practice to fill the spot with religious programming. The advent and ongoing success of ''Sunday'' was a significant milestone in Australian television, as it for the first time offered a credible alternative/rival to the dominant influence of the ABC's flagship current affairs program ''Four Corners'', which had premiered 20 years earlier. ''Sunday'' was often referred to as the "ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media. Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as quirky or unusual events. Government proclamations, concerning royal ceremonies, laws, taxes, public health, and criminals, have been dubbed news since ancient times. Technological and social developments, often driven by government communication and espionage networks, have increased the speed with which news can spread, as well as influenced its content. Throughout history, people have transported new information through oral means. Having developed in China over centuries, newspapers be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Current Affair (Australian TV Series)
''A Current Affair'' (or ''ACA'') is an Australian current affairs program airing weeknights and Saturday nights on the Nine Network. The program is currently hosted by Allison Langdon (Monday–Thursday) and Deborah Knight (Friday and Saturday). History 1970s ''A Current Affair'' was first broadcast on 22 November 1971, with Mike Willesee, screening weeknights at 7:00 p.m., and was broadcast for GTV-9. For part of its early run, the comedian and actor Paul Hogan had a comic social commentary segment. Under Willesee, ACA was a Transmedia production for the Nine Network. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0–10 Network (now known as Network 10), journalist Mike Minehan took over presenting ''ACA''. Other hosts included Sue Smith, Kevin Sanders and Michael Schildberger. The original ''A Current Affair'' was cancelled on 28 April 1978 due to strong competition in the 7:00 p.m. timeslot from ''Willesee at Seven'' on Seven Network and Graham Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Riminton
Hugh Riminton (born 1961) is an Australian foreign correspondent, journalist and television news presenter. He is currently national affairs editor and occasional presenter of '' 10 News First'' (formerly '' Ten Eyewitness News''). He previously co-anchored '' Ten Eyewitness News'' with Sandra Sully until February 2017. Early life and education Born in Sri Lanka, where his father managed tea estates, Riminton migrated to New Zealand when he was five. He began work as a cadet reporter, aged 17 in Christchurch before moving to Australia in 1983 to work for the Macquarie Radio Network in Perth and Melbourne. Riminton graduated with a master's degree from Macquarie University with a major work focusing on peacekeeping policy. Career Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a Melbourne-based general reporter in 1989. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991. Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, notably South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Davis
Graham Hunt Davis (born 7 October 1953) is a Walkley Award and Logie Award winning Fijian-born Australian journalist. He hosts a weekly Australian television program, The Great Divide on the Southern Cross Austereo TV Networkand is a consultant to the Washington-based global communications company Qorvis on its Fiji account. Early life Davis was born in Suva, Fiji, the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and, later, New South Wales Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia. He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to Newington College, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder. Radio Davis worked as a journalist in Britain and Australia for the BBC (External Services/World Service News), ABC and the Macquarie Radio Network before moving to television as a news reporter with the Seven Network in Sydney in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dalley
Helen Dalley (born 1957) is an Australian journalist, who formerly worked for Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) media stable. Dalley is best known for her work on the Nine Network television programs '' Sunday'', ''Today'' and '' A Current Affair''. She has also been a news presenter on Sky News Australia. Education Dalley graduated from the University of Sydney with an Arts degree with Honours in French. Print media She began her career in the print media. In 1979 she began writing freelance articles, including feature stories on sport for the now-defunct weekly newspaper, the ''National Times''. A couple of years later she took a job with ''The Australian Women's Weekly'', and Australian Consolidated Press soon sent her to New York. She stayed there for two years, writing for the Weekly, ''Cleo'' and ''Australian Business''. While overseas, Dalley completed a brief, intensive business journalism course at Columbia University before returning to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia is an Australian news channel owned by News Corp Australia. Originally launched on 19 February 1996, it broadcasts rolling news coverage throughout the day, while its prime time lineup is dedicated to opinion-based programs featuring a line-up of Conservatism in Australia, conservative Pundit, commentators. Sky News Australia is distributed on Multichannel television, pay television in Australia and New Zealand, while a free-to-air version of the service, Sky News Regional (which features programming from Sky News Australia and Fox Sports News (Australia), Fox Sports News) is distributed on Digital terrestrial television in Australia, digital terrestrial television by Southern Cross Austereo and selected WIN Television stations. The channel also operates two spin-off services, Sky News Weather Channel, and public affairs service Sky News Extra (formerly A-PAC). The channel was originally a joint venture between British broadcaster BSkyB (thus making it a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Carr
Robert John Carr (born 28 September 1947) is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the NSW Branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He later entered federal politics as a New South Wales senator, and served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013. Following his departure from politics he served as the Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) from 2014 to 2019 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Carr was born in Sydney and attended the University of New South Wales. Before entering politics he worked as a journalist. Carr entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1983, and the following year became a cabinet minister. He served under Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth until the Labor government was defeated in a landslide at the 1988 state election. Carr subsequently replaced Unsworth as party leader, thus becoming leader of the op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Brown (journalist)
Adrian Brown is a reporter for ''Al Jazeera. He recently returned to Sydney after almost 16 years running a reporting and camera company based in Hong Kong. During that time, he also filed stories for ''National Nine News''. Some of the biggest stories he has reported on include the 1989 Student uprising in China, 1991 Gulf War, September 11 attacks and East Timor. His most recent assignments include the war in the Middle East, the Football World Cup in Germany and the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and its recovery operation. He currently reports for both ''Seven News'' and SBS's ''Dateline A dateline is a brief piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was written or filed, though the date is often omitted. In the case of articles reprinted from wire services, the distributing organization i ...'' on local, national and international stories. ReferencesBiography on Seven News website Australian television presenters Australian televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC, CNN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History ''7NEWS'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'', ''Seven Nightly News'' and ''Seven News'' — is one of Australia's longest-running television news services, founded in 1958, along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Moore
Ali Moore (born 1964) is an Australian TV journalist and radio broadcaster. Career Moore began her career in 1987 as a cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where she was active in a number of programmes. In 1996 she moved to the Nine Network, where she was a reporter and eventually presenter of ''Business Sunday''. Shortly after Moore left ''Business Sunday'' merged into the '' Sunday'' program. She was also a fill-in host for '' Today on Saturday'' and filled in for Tracy Grimshaw from 1999 until 2003 on '' Today''. The morning after the 11 September attacks in New York, Ali co-hosted the program from 6am until 11am bringing in the latest information from the developing story alongside Steve Liebmann. With ''Business Sunday'''s imminent demise in 2006, she opted to leave the network and returned to the ABC. She has previously hosted '' Lateline Business'', and is also a relief presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne and '' The 7.30 Report'' on ABC TV. Moore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS News Sunday Morning
''CBS News Sunday Morning'' (normally shortened to ''Sunday Morning'' on the program itself since 2009) is an American news magazine television program that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979. Created by Robert Northshield and original host Charles Kuralt, the 90-minute program currently airs Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Eastern, and from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Pacific. Since October 9, 2016, the show has been hosted by Jane Pauley, who also hosts news segments, after the retirement of Charles Osgood. Osgood was the host for twenty-two years (and is the program's longest-serving host), taking over from Kuralt on April 10, 1994. History The program was originally conceived to be a broadcast version of a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement, most typified by the Sunday '' New York Times Magazine''. The format was conceived as the Sunday equivalent of the '' CBS Morning News'', which following ''Sunday Morning''s debut was retitled to reflect e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Martin (television Presenter)
Raymond George Martin AM (né Grace, 20 December 1944) is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy (although Kennedy won the ‘Star of the Year Award’, the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959). He is best known for his various on-air roles on Channel Nine from 1978, particularly his stint on '' A Current Affair'' and his long tenure as host of the variety/talk show ''The Midday Show'', after original host Mike Walsh left as host of a similar midday format with '' The Mike Walsh Show''. In 2011, he returned to the current affairs show ''60 Minutes'', in which he had been an original presenter, albeit only in a part-time capacity. Early life and education He was born Raymond George Grace into an Irish-Australian Catholic familyArthur, Chrissy; with Richard Feidler"Ray Martin's autobiography" (includes audio and video), ABC, 22 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
