Ross Symonds (born 1942) is an Australian former news presenter and reporter, television and radio personality and spokesman, best known for his association with the
ABC
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and later the
Seven Network
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in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.
Career
Symonds began his career with the
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
firstly with
ABC Radio in
Brisbane
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in his early 20s, and then went to
Sydney with ABC radio and television. After 12 years in the position, Symonds joined
Channel Seven in Sydney in January 1981 as the station's weekend news presenter before later joining Roger Climpson to read the weeknight bulletin. He was paired with
Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders (born 15 March 1960), is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.
Sanders currently presents '' Seven Morning News'' and '' Seven Afternoon News Sydney.''
Career
Sanders began her broadcasting career with SAS-7 in A ...
on both ''
Seven Nightly News'' and Seven's news program ''
11AM'', on which he was the featured news reader for much of the program's life.
Symonds presented his last ''
Seven News Sydney'' bulletin on 5 December 2003, alongside Ann Sanders, ending a partnership that had lasted since 1998. Symonds then worked as a casual news reader at
Radio 2 in Sydney in 2005. The station closed its operations at Homebush in 2006.
Symonds also was breakfast news presenter on Sydney radio station
2UW
KIIS 1065 (call sign: 2WFM) is a commercial FM radio station in Sydney, Australia, on a frequency of 106.5 MHz. KIIS 1065 is one of the flagship stations on ARN's KIIS Network. The station's headline show is ''The Kyle and Jackie O Show''.
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for 6 years 1988–1994.
Awards
Symonds has won the Better Hearing Australia News Presenters' Clear Speech Award ten times, as well as Best Metropolitan Commercial Radio News Presenter.
Currently
In 2007 Symonds joined a
real estate
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firm on Sydney's Upper North Shore.
['']North Shore Times
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Like the ''Northern District Times'', the paper is one of News Limited's communi ...
'' (11 May 2007): p.129
In 2008 Symonds joined Beauty Point Retirement Resort as Sales and Promotional Consultant.
Symonds acts as MC for the National Ceremonies for Anzac Day and Remembrance Day at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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References
Wall Media
1942 births
ABC News (Australia) presenters
Seven News presenters
Living people
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