''11AM'' (also known as ''Eleven AM'') is an Australian
news magazine
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television program that aired on the
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australi ...
from 11 am AEST to midday from 1975 to 1999.
Overview
The hour-long news magazine program started on 13 October 1975 with
Roger Climpson
Roger Climpson (born 18 October 1932) is an English-born Australian retired media personality who served a lengthy career in both radio and television, as a journalist, announcer, newsreader and
presenter. He is best known for his time at ''S ...
presenting, with a number of high-profile presenters since, including
Clive Robertson, Steve Liebmann,
Vincent Smith,
Paul Lyneham
Paul Lyneham (13 August 1945 – 24 November 2000) was an Australian journalist, commentator and television presenter. Lyneham was born in Melbourne ,
Kerry O'Brien,
Don Willesee
Donald Robert Willesee (14 April 19169 September 2003) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1950 to 1975. He held ministerial office in the Whitlam ...
,
Helen Wellings
Helen Wellings is an Australian journalist and consumer advocate.
Wellings is currently a Consumer Editor for ''Seven News''. She has been a senior reporter for the Seven Network for 20 years.
Education and teaching career
Wellings studied ...
, Richard Zachariah,
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 i ...
and
Sonia Kruger
Sonia Melissa Kruger (born 28 August 1965) is an Australian television presenter and media personality, who has been a prominent figure in the media for over 20 years. Kruger is currently the host of ''Big Brother Australia'' and a presenter on ...
, among others.
Ross Symonds
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 and later the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.
...
, Darren McDonald,
Melissa Doyle
Melissa Jane Doyle (born 10 February 1970) is an Australian television presenter, author and journalist.
She was previously co-host of the Seven Network's breakfast television program ''Sunrise'' from 2002 to 2013 alongside David Koch and h ...
and
Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams (born 18 February 1963 in Emerald, Queensland ) is an Australian television journalist and presenter, most notably with the Nine Network.
Williams has previously been a sport presenter on ''Nine News Sydney'' from Sunday to T ...
all featured as news presenters throughout the shows life.
Its most famous presenter was comedian
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, as well as a personality and star of radio, theatre, television and film. He often performed in the style of vaudevilli ...
.
It last aired on 28 May 1999, presented by Melissa Doyle, who was filling in for
Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood (born 5 February 1959) is an Australian-born former reporter, journalist and writer with a long association as a newsreader and current affairs host, she was born in South Australia's Riverland region and began her career in the sta ...
(who had already moved to ''
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 television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while f ...
Melbourne'') and
Andrew Daddo
Andrew Dugald Daddo (born 18 February 1967) is an Australian actor, author and television and radio personality.
Early life
Daddo was born in Melbourne on 18 February 1967. He began his education at Mt Eliza Primary School and in year seven mo ...
. Fulwood went on to co-anchor ''
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 television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while f ...
'' in
Melbourne
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with
David Johnston
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, and Daddo to present entertainment programs. ''11AM'' was the forerunner to
''Seven Morning News'', ''
Sunrise
Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon and its accompanying atmospheric effects.
Terminology ...
'' and ''
The Morning Show''.
References
1970s Australian television series
1982 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
Australian television news shows
Seven News
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