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Gallery: 20 years of Lateline
Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the ABC’s late night current affairs show, Lateline.
Based on Nightline with Ted Koppel, the series was created in 1990 by ABC journalist Ian Carroll, currently Director of Innovation for the ABC.
Its hosts have included Kerry O’Brien, Maxine McKew, Tony Jones, Virginia Trioli and Leigh Sales, plus Quentin Dempster, Lisa Millar and Tamara Oudyn.
ABC Press Release:
The ABC has marked the 20th anniversary of its flagship late night news and current affairs program, Lateline, with a special function at its Ultimo headquarters last night.
Speaking to an audience …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
Deputy PM “not smarter than a Fifth Grader.”
“My name is Julia Gillard and I am not smarter than a Fifth Grader,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.
Gillard admitted the shocking revelation last night after dipping out on the big prize on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader. But she came very darn close.
Gillard took out the $100,000 prize when she declined answering the second last question at $250,000.
That question was: “Published in 1991 shortly after his death, ‘The Minpins’ was the last book by which author?”
“This is what I feared,” said Gillard.
“Even though I would never give this …
No more Rudd on Rove, please
Memo to Kevin Rudd’s minders, and Rove’s producers too:
If he’s going to appear on the show again can we please ban the political agenda? There are plenty of other television programmes for this kind of content: The 7:3o Report, Lateline, Meet the Press even Sunday Night, A Current Affair and Today Tonight are all supposed to have current affairs in them.
Rove is pitched as variety / light entertainment. There was very little of it in this exchange. Rudd enthralled us with the wonders of ‘ute-gate’ fake emails, climate change, education, global …
ABC hosts under international microscope
Kerry O’Brien and Tony Jones are to be scrutinised by overseas journalists as part of an ABC policy of editorial self-regulation, according to Media Watch.
Interviews by the two hosts have been selected to be assessed a BBC and Canadian broadcaster.
The ABC’s self-regulation policy was the brainchild of the broadcaster’s director of editorial policies, Paul Chadwick.
Chadwick set up a system called Quality Assurance Projects under which he chose small chunks of ABC output that were subjected to analysis by outside experts.
However, Media Watch’s presenter, Jonathan Holmes, said the latest attempt at self-regulation …
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Last month veteran ABC reporter Kerry O’Brien received an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology recognising his public contribution over the past 40 years. It is his only university qualification.
“The truth is I’ve done a job over 40 years as opportunities have been presented to me I’ve taken them. My university was the university of hard knocks,” he said.
Since his cadetship with the Nine Network in 1966 he has interviewed many former international leaders including Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Michel Gorbachev and Colin Powell.
O’Brien said he looked back fondly …
TV crew arrested in bushfire zone
A television reporter and cameraman have been arrested inside a restricted zone left devastated by the Victorian bushfires.
AAP reports the pair allegedly avoided or bypassed a police road block before being detained at Kinglake, one of the areas worst-hit by the deadly Black Saturday bushfires.
Last week, Victorian Coroner Jennifer Coate issued an order banning unauthorised entry to bushfire areas where lives may have been lost.
Updated: 3AW has reported that the journalist who was detained is Rafael Epstein from the ABC TV program, Lateline.
A Victoria Police spokesman said the journalist and cameraman …
Daylight robbery for network shows
Now that we are well and truly into Daylight Saving some viewers will be aware that they are seeing their regular programming delayed -or in some cases- more delayed than usual.
Queensland viewers will have noticed that Sunrise and Today are now on a one hour time delay.
A year ago Today attempted to adjust for Queensland airing between 5 and 8.30am, with an extra Queensland-only half an hour. This year the show advises it is sticking with its regular 5:30 – 9am telecast with a delay for Queensland viewers. South Australian, Northern …
Leigh Sales to take Lateline’s Friday chair
ABC correspondent Leigh Sales will become the regular Friday host of the ABC’s Lateline programme this month when Virginia Trioli moves to Melbourne to co-host the new ABC2 morning show, Breakfast.
Sales has been a regular fill-in presenter of ABC TV news and current affairs programs, including the World at Noon, the ABC 7PM TV news and Stateline.
She has also worked on assignment for Foreign Correspondent and The 7.30 Report.
More recently Sales has been the ABC’s National Security Correspondent and author of Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks. In 2005, she …
Seven packed with hits
It was the week ASTRA and Seven got into a stoush over AFL, gardening gurus came out fighting, SBS took its funding campaign to the people, Today Tonight apologised to a dating a dating agency and Lateline apologised to the Corbys, WIN TV sacked a news chief, David Koch stumbled over the marvels of “fasttracking v downloading,” we lost a veteran actor with a huge list of credits, and our first gardening celebrity, while actor Mark Priestley was laid to rest.
And it was another win for Seven, with 29.4% in Week …
Lateline apologises for Corby story
On Friday night, Virginia Trioli issued an apology from the ABC: “Last month Lateline aired a story containing new evidence that Schapelle Corby’s father, the late Michael Corby senior, was involved in the drug trade. That story should have made it clear that these were allegations, not facts. And for that we apologise. The story has now been amended to make it accurate and you can see the corrected version on our website.”
The apology followed a story which linked Schapelle Corby’s father to a drug trade. At the time …