Liebmann happy since leaving Nine

Ray Martin, are you getting this? Your old mate from 60 Minutes, Steve Liebmann says he’s never been happier since leaving the Nine Network.

The 63-year-old, who had suffered heart problems, took up a role with pay TV and is currently the host of the hit series Crime Investigation Australia.

He left Nine in 2005 after 15 years on the Today Show and says he hasn’t looked back since.

“My whole life has changed, that’s what I like about it so much,” Liebmann told AAP.

“I like the freedom. I don’t get up at three o’clock in the morning as I did for 22 years.

“I’ve got the ability now to be able to pick and choose, say yes I want to do that, no I don’t want to do that, thanks a lot.”

The journalist of more than 30 years now spends his mornings playing tennis, and says he doesn’t watch the Today Show, or its rival Sunrise on the Seven Network.

“If I’m up at that hour, and I usually am … if I want news visually I watch Sky News, CNN or the BBC, or I’ll just surf radio,” he said.

He says he is amazed by the show’s success, and finds it fascinating because he covered many of the events as a journalist.

“The ones that attract my attention are the ones that I remember personally,” Liebmann said.

Stories covered in previous series have included Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders, the Snowtown bodies in the barrels killings, and the assassination of John Newman.

The series is produced for pay TV’s Crime and Investigation Network, and has also been licensed to the Nine Network.

It returns to the C&I network with a story on the murders of seven young women in South Australia in the 1970s entitled The Killing Fields of Truro.

It premieres 7:30pm February 28 and will be shown on Nine later in the year.

Source: AAP / Yahoo