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Bill Woods

Bill Woods has now been broadcasting for 23 years, 17 of those with Network Ten.

His first foray in to the media was as a DJ for country radio station 2BS in 1983. The Bachelor of Arts Journalism graduate moved on to report and present news for Radio 2WS in Sydney before becoming that network?s sports director in 1988. Part-time work for TEN during the 88 Olympics lead to is full-time recruitment early in 1989.

Since joining, Bill has become a TEN stalwart, versatile in production, reporting, hosting and anchoring. He is currently returning to his roots, anchoring the Early News and is back-up anchor for the five o'clock news while still fronting the long-running Sunday motor sport show RPM.

In his many years with the TEN newsroom Bill has won numerous individual awards for sports reporting which has taken him around the world to major events, such as the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games at which he fronted TEN?s extensive news coverage.

On the production side he has collected on behalf of the network five Logie awards (4 for the Bathurst 1000 coverage he anchored and one for the 1994 Commonwealth Games which he co-anchored). He has also anchored and commentated on the Australian F1 Grand Prix, Australian Motogp, the Gold Coast Indy, Triathlon Grand Prix Series, NBL Basketball, International Rugby and the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.

Bill?s heavy commitment to TEN?s massive motor sport coverage has taken much of his time in the past 10 years and it did inspire him to fulfil a long-held ambition: writing his first book. Legends Of Speed, about Australia?s great race drivers, was a best-seller, re-printed twice.

While he'll once again anchor TEN's Australian Formula One Grand Prix coverage his interests even further, hosting the weekend news and 2007 Rigby World Cup coverage. His second book, a biography of Muslim rugby league player Hazem El Masri, will be released in March 2007.

Woods is still an active sportsman, reader, musician, fisherman and home handyman who values his time with his wife Leeanne and children Robert 17, Michael 15, and Lauren 13 at their home on Sydney's northern beaches. He love movies but his collection of the "Seinfeld" and "Yes Minister" television series says more about his sense of humour.

Kathryn Robinson

Kathryn Robinson has had a diverse career since completing a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University.

Growing up in Sydney, Kath completed high school and realised she had a desire to learn more about finance - after all, money makes the world go around.

Kath went on to study a Bachelor of Economics at Macquarie University and commenced full time work with Macquarie Bank working in a variety of departments gaining valuable experience.

Two years later she was offered a job as a portfolio currency manager (trading foreign exchange) in Macquarie Investment Management Limited. During this time, Kath completed a set of exams at the Sydney Futures Exchange which enabled her to become a registered representative allowing her to pass on advice to clients on how and where to invest.

While still at Macquarie Bank, Kath launched a successful event management business in 1998 and two years later left Macquarie to pursue journalism.

In 2001, while still operating and managing her event management business Kath embarked on a Masters of journalism at Charles Sturt University and was offered her first role on television as a reporter for Channel Seven's Sydney Weekender.

By 2003, Kath's interests had turned to news and she headed to Prime Television in Orange as a reporter.

In 2004, after completing her Masters of Journalism, Kath moved to Canberra to host Southern Cross Ten's current affairs show State Focus. She also presented the news updates.

Kath, in 2005, made the move back to her home town of Sydney to work as a presenter at Sky News and a news producer at Network Ten on weekends.

Kath's weekend work at TEN soon turned to full time work in May of 2005 when she became a news producer and reporter.

In 2006, with the launch of Ten's Early News, Kath was the most obvious choice to present all of the latest finance news, alongside Bill Woods from 6am every weekday morning.

Kath married Chris Reason in October 2005 and in her spare time enjoys reading, pilates, attending the theatre and going to the beach.

Natarsha Belling

Natarsha Belling is one of the best known news presenters on Australian television. She read her first international news bulletin at just 21. Natarsha now has a decade of experience reporting and breaking some of the nation?s biggest news stories. Her passion, warmth and sincerity has seen the popular presenter enjoy a meteoric rise.

In 2007, Natarsha was promoted to be the face of Network Ten?s innovative one hour morning news. She not only anchors the day's major headlines, but conducts in studio interviews and live crosses to the news makers and breakers, giving the audience unprecedented information and analysis of the day's important issues.

Natarsha's well awarded journalistic background and passion for medical and social issues cements her expertise in covering the news that really matters to audiences. The one hour format allows Natarsha to deliver and dissect the latest information on a wide range of important issues from major emergencies to the child care debate.

Natarsha's rare and admirable talents were recognized early on in her stellar career. She was offered a full time journalism position whilst still completing her final year of a Bachelor of Communications at the prestigious Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. After just 12 months gaining invaluable experience as a regional reporter for Prime News in Orange, Natarsha was poached to join the ABC news team in Darwin.

Whilst working with the ABC, Natarsha was at the forefront of reporting on the controversial euthanasia debate. It was in Darwin Natarsha?s skill as a newsreader was first discovered. At just 21 she presented her first bulletin for both ABC News Darwin and the Australia Television News Service, which was beamed to millions of viewers throughout Australia and Asia.

In 1998, Natarsha was again poached, this time to join Network Ten in Sydney as a news journalist and presenter.  Natarsha has presented the news to millions of Australian viewers across all the network?s major bulletins, including the national late night, weekend and morning news services.

She has also received a number of prestigious awards for her medical reporting, including the Heart Foundation's Excellence in Journalism Award. And late last year Natarsha also received the The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation?s Award for Outstanding reporting for her coverage of Type 2 diabetes.

Natarsha is also a sought after MC, with a wealth of experience. She has hosted a variety of prestigious events from International Women?s Day at Parliament House in Canberra, to Australia Day Live Celebrations with a crowd of more than 200,000 in Sydney's Darling Harbour.

In 2006, Natarsha proudly announced what she sees as her biggest achievement to date, the birth of her first child, Harrison. This life changing role now gives her invaluable insight into many of the issues confronting Australian families. No doubt Natarsha will take on motherhood with as much passion and dedication as she gives her work.

Sandra Sully

To viewers she is an absolute delight, a professional journalist with the expertise to transcend the 'read' and really 'tell' the story with warmth, sincerity and the ability to be objective at all times.

Sandra Sully is enjoying her 12th year as the national Anchor for Network Ten's Late News with Sports Tonight.  As well as presenting, she is also the show's Senior Editor and plays an integral role in producing and compiling the bulletin.

Complimenting her role at TEN, she hosted the Network's successful series Australia's Brainiest Kid and the brainiest television franchise which included such shows as Australia's Brainiest Comedian and Australia's Braniest TV Star.

A true professional, Sandra delivered a live-to-air news bulletin whilst being in the midst of a disaster ? the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. With calm and poise, Sandra was the first person to tell Australia about the tragic events unfolding before her eyes while delivering a professional news bulletin on the world's worst terrorist attack.

Most recently, Sandra hosted COOL AID: The National Carbon Test which featured her exclusive interviews with Al Gore, former US vice president and creator of An Inconvenient Truth, and Australian of the Year Tim Flannery.

In 2005, Sandra spoke with Douglas Wood in TEN's exclusive, world-first interview with the Australian hostage freed from his kidnappers in Iraq. 

Sandra was also on air in 1997 during one of Australia?s worst natural disasters, the Thredbo Landslide. Like New York, this horrific piece of news was delivered professionally under difficult conditions. 

She has subsequently covered the anniversary commemorations of both the Bali Bombing and September 11 tragedies.

Sandra?s versatility has enabled her to cover numerous events for the network including becoming the first woman to co-host Australia?s national iconic sporting event, The Melbourne Cup and was part of the coverage for seven years.

Sandra has also hosted the prestigious Australian of the Year Awards with Prime Minister John Howard for the last five years in Canberra.

Since joining Network Ten in 1991, Sandra has been an integral part of the news team, covering elite events such as reporting on the 1996 Atlanta Games and in 1994, covered the XV Commonwealth Games in Canada.  Coupled with this, Sandra co-hosted Good Morning Australia in 1992 and was co-anchor for the FIRST AT FIVE news hour in 1993.

Sandra began her career with TEN in Canberra working at the parliamentary bureau.  Her passion for politics led her to host the 1996 Federal Election.

In her spare time, Sandra is heavily involved in a number of charity organisations. She is on the Women's Advisory Board for the National Breast Cancer Centre, a position she has held for five years, is co-patron of Spinal Cure and is a member of the Carbine Club, an organisation that raises money for Kids Sport.

Sandra's passion for news has cemented her position as one of the finest newsreaders in the country, delivering the TEN LATE NEWS with integrity and credibility.
 

Brad McEwan

No one can accuse sports presenter Brad McEwan of not being on the ball.  
  
The Melbourne-born presenter for TEN's flagship sports program Sports Tonight, has been involved in almost every sport, whether participating or covering.   

Born in Bendigo Victoria, Brad grew up in Lockington, with a population of approximately 300 people, Brad studied physical education at Ballarat University.

In 1994, Brad commenced a four-year period at Triple M Radio in Melbourne where he worked in the newsroom as a sports reporter and presenter.

In 1998, Brad left the shores of Australia to go and work in Europe where he enjoyed working briefly as a sports presenter for Edinburgh radio station, Scot FM.

His entry into television arrived in 1999 when he commenced work with Network Ten in Melbourne as a sports reporter.
 
In 2004, Brad moved to Brisbane as TEN's News at Five sports anchor, producer and writer.

During this time he also hosted Queensland's local AFL show Queensland Rules, and commentated from the boundary for many of the AFL games held in Brisbane.

In late 2006, Network Ten welcomed the new format of Late News with Sports Tonight, which tempted Brad to make the move south to Sydney in 2007.

Hosted by Sandra Sully and Brad McEwan, TEN's Late News with Sports Tonight combines the latest news with a comprehensive look at the day in sport all in a half hour format from Monday to Thursday.

When not speaking or writing sport, Brad enjoys participating in all types of sports especially swimming. He still makes time for his other interests, which include listening to music, cooking and collecting antiques.

Deborah Knight

A member of the "Mitchell mafia" Deborah Knight graduated with a journalism degree from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

Radio was her first love, finely tuned in regional NSW in her first job at 2WG in Wagga Wagga.

Keen for a new challenge in "the big smoke", she took up an offer from Mix 106.5 in Sydney, and then accepted a position with the ABC.

Her ability to quickly grasp new subject matter was reflected in her varied roles at the national broadcaster, from rural reporting, to Triple J, and hosting the prestigious AM and Breakfast program on Radio National.

Deborah entered the world of television as a presenter/reporter with the much-loved ABC TV show "Landline" where her work, specifically interviewing the Prime Minister, caught the eye of TEN political editor Paul Bongiorno.

From the ABC, Deborah joined Network Ten in the Canberra Press Gallery. She covered two Federal elections and regularly presented Meet the Press and the Network news, before taking the leap overseas. Deborah headed up TEN?s US Bureau (based in Los Angeles) for 3 years, covering tumultuous stories including September 11, the re-election of George W Bush and the Iraq War.

Deborah returned to Australia in November 2004 and joined Ron Wilson as co-anchor of Sydney's Ten News at Five Bulletin in January 2006.

Once a month Deborah also hosts Meet the Press, TEN's national live current affairs program which attracts the nation's top leaders and discusses the big news stories of the week.
 

Neil Cordy

Neil's sporting career began when he debuted with the Footscray Football Club in 1979 after being recruited from Traralgon in Victoria.

He went on to play 139 games for the Bulldogs and remained with the club until 1986 before he made the move to the Sydney Swans in 1987.  Playing more of a defensive role, he played 96 games in total until 1993 when he hung up his boots.

Following Neil's move to Sydney for his football career, he stayed in the city and joined Network Ten as sports reporter.  He contributes to Sports Tonight and is a valued member of TEN's commentary team with his role as Boundary Rider for all Sydney Swans home games.

Paul Bongiorno

Paul Bongiorno is Network Ten's Parliament House Bureau Chief in Canberra and Political Editor, positions he has held since 1991.

He has been the host of the Ten Network?s national, political program, "Meet The Press" since 1996.

He is currently Vice President of the Federal Parliamentary Press gallery, after five years as President.

Paul came to the Bureau in December 1987 from Channel Ten, Brisbane.

In Brisbane he covered state politics and established a reputation as an investigative journalist winning four national Walkley Awards - the only TV journalist to do so.

In 1987 Paul was also the "Bulletin" magazine's Queensland correspondent. He is a regular radio commentator.

Paul has been in television journalism since 1974.He started out with the Seven Network in Melbourne and did a stint at WIN TV in Wollongong.

He is married with two daughters and has a Master's Degree in Theology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.

Rob Canning

As a fifteen year-old Rob Canning set himself the goal to one day work for Network Ten's leading national sports program Sports Tonight. It's therefore fitting that Rob and the show now enter into a seventh year together.

With a bachelor of arts in communications with a major in broadcast journalism from Charles Sturt University, Rob's first job in journalism was with WIN TV in Orange in 2000.

A producer from TEN's Sports Tonight saw the potential in Rob and within three weeks had poached him to join Sports Tonight in Sydney as a journalist.

At just 22 years old, Rob was the youngest person to present Sports Tonight after he presented the show for two weeks over the 2002 Christmas break.

More recently Rob has anchored Sports Tonight on a regular basis.

Rob has covered a number of popular and memorable Australian and international sporting events including the 2003 Rugby world cup, Super12/14 seasons, the national rugby league competition - including origin campaigns and grand finals, the San Francisco Red Bull air race, Bathurst 1000's, Gold Coast Indy events and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

TEN's coverage of the Vodafone national beach volleyball presented Rob with yet another opportunity to commentate on a popular nationally televised sport. Rob has covered the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 beach volleyball seasons with Olympic gold medallist Kerri Pottharst.

Rob is an active sportsperson, having represented NSW and Bathurst Goldminers in state league basketball. The former school captain of Barker College has competed in four marathons since 2004. He aims to run two marathons a year and is currently training to compete in the 2007 Busselton triathlon ironman event.

Rob loves to camp, read, play drums, feed his plants and visit his cat Ruperict.

Ron Wilson

Ron Wilson is a 34 year veteran of news and current affairs, more than 27 of them with Network TEN as a journalist and newsreader.

Ron was just four years old when his family arrived in Australia from Northern Ireland, settling first in Victoria. On leaving Geelong Grammar School, he moved to Darwin and studied for a law degree. 

Ron's mother was a writer for Crawford Productions in the sixties on shows such as Homicide and Division Four.  Eventually the TV bug struck and the law degree was abandoned for a career on the small screen.

Cyclone Tracy struck at Christmas in 1974.

Ron's family was split up in the evacuation and his father remained in Darwin to work with the re-building teams.

Thanks to the Salvos, Ron soon found work with Wollongong radio station 2WL, and then in 1977 it was off to Wagga Wagga to get back into television as a newsreader.

After marriage and an overseas trip, he settled back in Sydney once again, working first for 2SM and then 2UE.  Part-time voice over work for Channel Ten led him to join the station full-time in October 1979, initially as a journalist and then as newsreader.

Good Morning Australia secured Ron to present the news for TEN's national breakfast program from 1982 and later as its host with Sandra Sully.

Since 1994, Ron has co-presented Ten's News at Five and welcomed his new co-presenter Deborah Knight to the desk in January 2006.

Ron has been happily married for 27 years and has three children.

As a result of his insight into the operations of the Salvation Army from the receiving end, Ron remains a committed supporter of their work and among other things, has hosted their Red Shield Appeal in Sydney for the last ten years.

Ron is also heavily involved in the Variety Club of Australia and Father Chris Riley's Youth Off The Streets. In the early 1980's, as a result of special reports produced and presented by Ron, Father Riley secured a sponsorship deal to fund his very first farm for street kids.

Tim Webster

Originally from Sydney, Tim Webster's rise from night time disc jockey at radio 2BS Bathurst, NSW in 1973 to Sydney 2SM by 1974 was probably one of the fastest leaps from country to city radio in history.

Part of the original groundbreaking Sydney 2MMMFM on-air team in 1980, Tim settled at 2DAYFM a year later and was there until the late 1980's.

In 1981 Tim turned his talents to television and was the first newsreader on Good Morning Australia, which he later co-hosted with Kerri-Anne Kennerly in 1987 - 1988 and again in 1991.

From 1982 - 1986 Tim presented Eyewitness News with Katrina Lee and briefly with Ann Sanders before taking Eyewitness News to 5.00pm in 1992 as news presenter with Katrina Lee.

For many years, Tim hosted the Melbourne Cup Carnival, in particular the race that stops a nation, the Melbourne Cup.  Coupled with this, Tim was involved with co-hosting the 1994 Commonwealth Games.

Tim loves all sport but ask him which is his favourite and there will be no hesitation in his answer ? golf. An avid golfer himself, Tim?s handicap has been sliding for a few years now due to a knee injury (so he says!).

In 1993, Tim became the host of Sports Tonight, Network Ten's nightly sports news program.

Tim is currently the sports presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five and is the co-presenter of Perth's Ten News at Five.

Tim is also a regular for Sports Tonight in Sydney and is the permanent replacement for John Laws on 2UE's John Laws Morning Show when John is away.

Tim Bailey

Tim Bailey started his career as a journalist in his hometown of Hobart with the Hobart Mercury, following in the footsteps of two generations of his family. In Hobart he was a General Roundsman, where he had the opportunity to be posted to the West Coast and cover Industrial Relations and the Environment. Returning to Hobart, 12 months later, Tim moved into the sports department where he covered cricket, football, golf and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race.

Soon after, Tim headed north to the Gold Coast where he worked as a Feature Writer for the Gold Coast Bulletin for four years, establishing his own News Agency and selling stories internationally and domestically.

Tim?s next step forward in the media was a progression into radio where he became an inaugural member of Sea FM Gold Coast?s very first morning crew.

Tim headed south again in 1990 and joined Network TEN's Good Morning Australia as a reporter working for Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Mike Gibson before receiving an offer to join Sydney radio station 2Day FM.

Tim has now worked at 2Day FM for twelve years, starting out with the Morning Crew doing humour and sport.  He has now been their surf and snow reporter for the past eight years.

The lure of television was never far away however and Tim returned to TEN, reviving his role on GMA and joining the team on Totally Wild as a presenter. Tim also hosted his own early morning program, The Big Breakfast.

A sporting man for all seasons, Tim commentated for the Uncle Toby's Super Series and was a feature reporter at the Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1994. Tim has also hosted a weekly national basketball show (Air Time) and the Coca-Cola NRG-White Room. Tim is currently the host of the Vodaphone Australian Beach Volleyball Tour.

One of Australia?s most recognisable faces, Tim currently presents the weather on location around NSW for the First at Five News with Ron Wilson and Deborah Knight.

Jim Carroll

Having earned a reputation as one of Australia's best news and current affairs producers Jim Carroll was appointed Network Ten's Head of News in October 2005.

He joined the Network in 2000 stepping away from journalism to take an executive role managing TEN's corporate affairs and investor relations strategies.

Born in Sydney, Jim began his media career as a newspaper journalist at News Limited in 1977 before moving into radio at the fledgling 2MMM firstly as a newsreader and reporter, then as news editor.

Following a year working for agencies in Europe Jim returned to complete an economics degree before becoming a senior political advisor to the New South Wales Government in 1984.

Four years later he joined the Seven Network as a news producer, and then had a stint in London as European bureau chief. Coming back to Sydney Jim was appointed the Network's foreign editor and then promoted to deputy news director.

In 1992 he was offered the position of Executive Producer on the Nine Network's The World Tonight and the following year launched Nightline.

Jim has produced a number of award winning programs, been a judge of the Walkley Awards and helped guide the careers of some of Australia's most prominent media identities.

Married to Jane and the father of Sam, Claudia and Will, Jim has plenty of interests outside the newsroom. He is involved in a range of community activities and is a surfing, skiing, basketball and rugby union enthusiast, the latter a sport in which he is a qualified coach and referee.

Narelda Jacobs

TEN Perth welcomes Narelda Jacobs to the role of presenter of the News at Five local weeknight bulletin.

Narelda, an established News Reporter at TEN, is a graduate of broadcasting at the W.A. Academy of Performing Arts and started her career as a Reporter at GWN in Bunbury. She joined the TEN Perth News department in early 2000.

Since then, Narelda has worked in a variety of reporting roles in the Perth newsroom and is currently a specialist court reporter. She has also had considerable on air experience in presenting TEN's weather report over Summer in the past few years.

"Narelda is very much part of the fabric of TEN News in Perth," said TEN Perth News Director Chris Hunt, "and has made a major contribution as a senior reporter. We are looking forward to her joining Tim Gossage and Michael Schultz on air later in the year."

TEN Perth General Manager, Simon Martin, added: "Narelda has honed her journalism skills, is a very popular staff member and TEN is delighted to give this local opportunity to one of our own."