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Jeff Kennett For a brief period during 2002, Kennett was a radio presenter for Melbourne station 3AK, continuing an interest in mass communication which was also a feature of his premiership.
Barry DaviesDavies boss at BFBS was Gerald Sinstadt, who, upon their return to Britain, helped Davies get into BBC Radio in 1963, working concurrently as a sports journalist for The Times.
Anita McNaughtIn 1995, she moved to the competitor channel TV3 where she was one of the high-profile team of investigative journalists on the current affairs programme 20/20.
Derek Acorah Acorah's television career commenced in 1997 with the channel Granada Breeze.
Stephen Cole (writer)After a brief stint working in local radio with BBC Radio Bedfordshire (now Three Counties) he became a junior assistant at BBC Children's Magazines in 1993.
A. L. HendriksIn 1961, he was General Manager of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, after which he became a television director in London.
Kevin BakhurstHe was also Controller of the BBC News at One bulletin and in May 2010, he became Deputy Head of the BBC Newsroom.
Daphne Ledward In 1980 she became the gardening presenter for the newly established BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
Jimmy Doherty (farmer)When the Controller of BBC One at the time, Jay Hunt, left to become Chief Creative Officer at Channel 4 at the end of 2010, she signed up Doherty to present exclusively for Channel 4.
Mary Adams (broadcaster)In 1930, after having her series'' Six talks on Heredity'' broadcast on BBC Radio, she left research and joined the BBC's Further Education Department in 1930.
Lisa AzizIn 1983, she moved to Bristol where she worked as both a television reporter and presenter for the BBC and HTV West.
Michael VatikiotisAfter a period spent as a production trainee with the BBC World Service in London, Vatikiotis served as a producer in Northern Ireland and was then posted to Jakarta as a BBC correspondent in 1987.
Una MarsonBy 1942, she became the programme's West Indies producer.
John Simpson (journalist)He became BBC world affairs editor in 1988.
Nick RossDuring the 1991 Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC Radio 4 News FM service.
Verity LambertWhen she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963 she was the youngest producer, and only female drama producer, working at the BBC.
Cynthia Koh While still enrolled in Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's (now MediaCorp) 10th Drama Artiste Course, Koh started acting at the TV station at the age of 18 in May 1992.
Adrian VallarinoDuring the remaining of the 1990 ´ s Adrian continued to work for various international TV news outlets covering the news in Uruguay as well as producing a series of documentaries, shorts and local TV shows.
Anne GreggShe moved to England in 1963, where worked at an advertising agency before moving to Anglia Television, in Norwich, to present a current affairs programme.
John Hawkesworth (producer)He soon joined Rank as a trainee producer, and qualified as an associate producer while working on the 1957 film Windom's Way.
Giles DilnotHe moved to BBC Southern Counties Radio in Guildford, in the same county as his former senior school, and then joined the television launch of BBC South East Today in 2001, becoming a co-presenter of the programme a year later.
Bill GrundyWhen Granada Television began broadcasting in 1956, Grundy auditioned for the post of newsreader, which at first he held in tandem with his geological work.
Tom MangoldIn 1971 he moved to BBC TV Current Affairs working first for 24 Hours, then Midweek, becoming involved in some of the first investigative news documentaries of the BBC.
Neville ThieleAfter acting Director of Engineering Australian Capital Territory, responsible for engineering at the ABC's radio and television studios in Canberra, he was in 1978 appointed Assistant Director Engineering New South Wales (TV), responsible for engineering at the ABC's Gore Hill television studios in Sydney.
Colin BrazierAfter working with BBC News and ITV News, he joined Sky News in 1997, as Royal, Diplomatic and Political Correspondent.
Bam Bam (radio presenter)In 1993 he joined the now defunct Sunset Radio in Manchester as a presenter and commercial producer.
Emmanuel RosenIn 1993, Rosen moved into television, joining Channel 2 news as a diplomatic commentator and reporter.
Simeon CourtieAfter an unsuccessful audition at Children's BBC in 1993 he was offered a job on BBC Two pop show The O-Zone, made by the same department.
Simeon CourtieIn 1990 he began a full-time broadcasting career as a radio-car reporter, then as a presenter at BBC Radio Northampton.
Gerald CockAs the BBC began to extend its radio service throughout the country and provide a greater scope and variety of programmes, Cock was appointed as its first Director of Outside Broadcasts in 1925.
Donald BaverstockHe initially worked for BBC Television in their Talks Department, where he was the Editor of the topical magazine programme Highlight and then co-devised and edited its more ambitious and better-remembered successor Tonight, which began in 1957.
Margaret GilmoreMargaret Gilmore was appointed as Home and Legal Affairs Correspondent for BBC Television News in January 2000.
Sameena Ali-KhanSameena Ali-Khan (born 30 December 1968) is an English journalist currently employed by ITV Central as a main presenter for ITV News Central.
Keith ScholeyIn 2006, Scholey became the Controller of Factual Production for BBC Vision, with the responsibility for all BBC Factual in-house production.
Val GielgudIn 1939 he returned to television for a time on a secondment to the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, which was now a full-fledged, high-definition television network broadcasting to the London area.
Mark ByfordImmediately on graduating he joined the BBC in 1979, aged 20, as a `` temporary holiday relief assistant'' working as a researcher over the summer holiday in his local (Look North) television newsroom in Leeds.
Glenn Bedingfield Bedingfield was one of the first journalists to join the newly set up Labour Party owned Super One Radio and One Television, One Productions in 1991.
Donald MacCormickHe began his media career in Scotland in 1967, working at Grampian Television as a news reporter and then later, on political programmes both for ITV and BBC.
Colin BrazierColin Brazier (born March 28, 1968), is a News Presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting.
Stephen Lambert (media executive)In 1994, Lambert became the founding editor of BBC2's main documentary strand of the 1990s, Modern Times.
Mike Morris (TV presenter)Morris returned to regional television in 1996 when he became a main anchor for Yorkshire Television's flagship news programme Calendar, alongside Christa Ackroyd and Christine Talbot.
Michael TunnHe was hired by Australia's national youth station Triple J in 1990 at the age of 17, making him Australia's youngest professional radio presenter at the time.
Matt FreiOn 1 October 2007, Frei became the first presenter of the BBC World News one hour Washington-based news broadcast, BBC World News America, supported by correspondent Katty Kay.
Beatrice FaumuinaSince 2006 she has been a presenter on the Television New Zealand Pacific Islands current events programme Tagata Pasifika.
Leonard Miall Miall joined the European Service of the BBC in early 1939.
Paul DaleIn 2006 he joined the BBC as Controller of Future Media and Technology for BBC Vision.
Williana BurroughsShe began working as a copyreader at the English-language newspaper Moscow News, and in 1937 joined the staff at the All-Union Radio Committee as an announcer and editor for the English-language broadcasts of Radio Moscow, the international shortwave news service of the Soviet government.
Kirsty LangIn 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight.
Kenneth AdamIn February 1957 he returned once again to the BBC to succeed Cecil McGivern as the Controller of Programmes at the BBC Television Service.
Barbara Slater (sports producer)Slater was first employed by the BBC in 1983, when she became a trainee Assistant Producer.
Peter Levy (presenter)When the BBC split the region into two, Levy moved to present the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire edition from studios in Hull full-time from 11 November 2002.
Hans Dichand Again according to the self-written or approved biographies, Dichand was released from British captivity in October 1945, returned to Graz in November, and became a journalist at the British news service for Allied-occupied Austria where he was tasked with recording content broadcast by the BBC radio service and with processing it for publication in the Neue Steirischen Zeitung.
Michael KarpinIn 1995, upon leaving Channel One, Karpin headed the group that won the bid for Radio 103 FM for Greater Tel Aviv, the first privet station that was established in Israel.
Biddy BaxterAfter moving to a temporary post in 1962 within BBC Television owing to a staff shortage, she gained a permanent post as producer of Blue Peter from November 1962, Blue Peter had originally been devised by John Hunter Blair, but it was Baxter and her deputy Edward Barnes, later head of BBC children's television, who developed the format into a successful programme, initially on a budget of only # 180 per edition.
Bill Cotton Following a secondary education at the independent school Ardingly College, he joined BBC Television as an in-house producer of light entertainment programmes in 1956, working on various programmes such as his father's Billy Cotton Band Show and popular music programme Six-Five Special.
Andrea CatherwoodIn 2003, she was promoted and made the main anchor of the ITV Weekend News, plus a relief presenter on the ITV Lunchtime News and ITV Evening News.
Bill NeelyBill Neely (born 1959) is a journalist and International Editor for ITV News, the news service produced by ITN for British commercial broadcaster ITV.
Nizar Chaari Parallel with his radio career in 2003, he was hired by Canal 21 and became correspondent in Sfax.
Bryan Dobson Dobson joined RTÉ News and Current Affairs as a reporter in 1992.
Huw Edwards (journalist)He began his career at radio station Swansea Sound, from where he joined the BBC in 1984.
Sevinj OsmanqiziLater in 1994 she moved to UK to work as BBC World Service Broadcast journalist.
Erich Maria RemarqueIn 1927, Remarque made a second literary start with the novel Station at the Horizon (Station am Horizont), which was serialised in the sports journal'' Sport im Bild'' for which Remarque was working.
Godfrey PhilippIn 1959 he worked at GTV9 Melbourne as assistant floor manager, before becoming assistant producer of In Melbourne Tonight and later producer-director of The Breakfast Show.
Roger DayBroadcaster Roger'' Twiggy'' Day (born Roger Thomas in Cheltenham, United Kingdom on 29 March 1945) presents on six BBC Local Radio stations across southern England.
Judy BaileyBailey joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (now Television New Zealand) in 1971 and worked as a reporter on news and current affairs programmes.
Caroline AnsteyShe worked as Political Assistant to James Callaghan, British Prime Minister between 1974 -- 79, and as Editor of the BBC's Flagship weekly current affairs program, Analysis.
Khalid AzizIn 1982, he moved to the then ITV company TVS and became the first main anchor for the South edition of the regional news programme, Coast to Coast.
Jay Hunt (television executive) In June 2005 Hunt married Ian Blandford, a former BBC News employee who now works for the BBC College of Journalism and Brightspark TV.
Ken HannamHe worked in Australian radio and television, then moved in 1968 to England.
Kevin BakhurstIn 1996, after two years in Brussels, he returned to the UK to become the assistant editor on the BBC Nine O'Clock News, remaining with the program when it became the BBC Ten O'Clock News.
Hilde HummelvollShe was hired in Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation radio in the regional department, before moving to television in 1985.
Donald BaverstockHe subsequently became involved in the establishment of the ITV northern franchise holder Yorkshire Television, becoming the company's first Director of Programmes and overseeing the creation of popular hits such as the soap opera Emmerdale Farm (from 1972).
Rob CurlingHis on-screen career began in 1987 as a newsreader and co-presenter of the BBC's regional news programme London Plus, later to become Newsroom South East.
Ebs AkintadeAfter graduating and working for a stint at Peter Jones (department store), he became a TV Researcher in September 2005, working for primetime BBC Observational Documentary Trauma following the Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics on the 12 hour shifts at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for four months.
John Campbell (broadcaster) In 1994 he moved to the 20/20 current affairs programme and later presented an interview/current events segment of 3 News.
Chris Rogers (journalist)Since 2010, Rogers has been a presenter on the BBC News channel, BBC London News and BBC World News.
Ted WalkerIn 1979 he worked on a TV dramatisation with BBC Bristol producer Colin Rose.
Hannah MoffatWhen the BBC split the region into two when Moffat was honing her journalism and reporting skills in London and the South East so she re-joined Look North in 2005 to present the bulletins during BBC Breakfast from Hull.
Michael Anthony (author)He eventually returned to Trinidad in 1970, after spending two years as part of the Trinidadian diplomatic corps in Brazil, where his novel King of the Masquerade is set and worked variously as an editor, a researcher for the Ministry of Culture, and as a radio broadcaster of historical programmes.
Peter HorrocksAfter time as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on Breakfast Time, he became deputy editor of Panorama in 1988.
Simon SinghIn 1990 Singh joined the BBC's Science and Features Department, where he was a producer and director working on programmes such as Tomorrow's World and Horizon.
George AllisonAfter the war Allison also moved into broadcasting, joining the BBC and becoming the first person to commentate on the radio on events such as the Derby and the Grand National (with the BBC's racing correspondent Meyrick Good), as well as the annual England v. Scotland international, and the FA Cup Final in 1927, between Cardiff City and Arsenal.
Jane CorbinSince joining Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs programme in 1988 Jane Corbin has made over a hundred documentaries becoming well known as a reporter in war zones and an investigative journalist.
Caroline RightonIn 1999, after 14 years away, Righton returned to the West Country after becoming a regional controller for ITV company Carlton under her former TV-am boss Clive Jones.
Elie Nakouzi Nakouzi began his career as a presenter on Parliament of the Youth, a program hosted by Radio Voice of Lebanon, in 1990.
Nick ClarkeClarke began his career in newspapers on the Yorkshire Evening Post, before joining the BBC in 1973 as Northern Industrial Correspondent.
Bill RalstonTVNZ seconded him to the BBC for six months in 1981, where he worked as a reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff.
Emperor Rosko He joined Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship off the coast of England, in 1964.
Sarah Smith (news reporter)In 1991, Smith moved to London as an assistant producer with BBC Youth Programmes, working on Rough Guide, Rapido and Reportage.
Alexander Vladimirovich AverbukhIn April 2002 he began working at the television channel `` Israel Plus (Channel 9), as one of the founders of the channel.
Tony Jardine Tony started working for the BBC in the 1980s, including standing in for Murray Walker, as main commentator, at the 1985 German Grand Prix.
Anna Home For the 1982 ITV franchise round, she was a member of the consortium which became Television South (TVS) and replaced Southern Television.
Audhild Gregoriusdotter RotevatnAudhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn (born 9 May 1975) is a Norwegian journalist, television host, and radio presenter, who has worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and the now defunct Kanal 24.
Ore OdubaHe was quickly promoted to deputy presenter in 2009, filling in for main presenter Sonali Shah in her absence.
Barney ColehanAs a light entertainment producer Colehan produced the first programme when television arrived in the north of England in 1951.
Jane RootIn 1999, she became Controller for BBC Two, running the UK's 3rd largest network, and was the first woman controller of a BBC television channel.
Catherine Jacob (journalist)In 2013 she appeared as a news presenter for Granada Reports, ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.
Richard MackneyIn 1998 he became a correspondent for ITV breakfast show, GMTV, specialising in the ` lighter' news stories of the day.
Arlette ChabotIn March 2011 she moved to the radio station Europe 1 to become head of news and information.
John Myers (radio executive) In September 1994, he launched Century Radio in North East England.