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WA presenter jobless after heart transplant
Updated: The news from the west continues to disappoint as WIN TV is accused of sacking a regional WA News presenter who had a heart transplant after collapsing at work.
The Australian notes Chris Lohse, 37, underwent a successful heart transplant on October 28th and was looking forward to returning to his job but he was told at a meeting with station bosses on Monday that his old job was not available for him.
His lawyer said he would file an unfair dismissal claim as well as making a complaint with the …
Anna McMahon joins WIN News
TV and News presenter Anna McMahon has returned to Tasmania to become WIN News’ weekend presenter.
McMahon started her career as a cadet at The Mercury newspaper, before moving to TasTV as a reporter. From there she became a presenter for Getaway, newsreader for both Channel 9 and Channel 10 in Brisbane, host of current affairs and lifestyle programs including Brisbane with Anna McMahon, McMahon on Sunday as well as Brissy radio. She has spent the past few years away from television, raising her children.
“Quite simply coming back is all about family …
WIN News report ruled inaccurate
A 2008 regional news report on WIN Television has been found to have breached the Code of Practice for failing to present factual material accurately.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority found that WIN Television VIC (VTV) reported on a Victorian County Court’s acquittal of a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl.
The report stated the girl ‘lied about the assaults.’
But the jury did not give reasons for its verdict when it found the defendant ‘not guilty.’ ACMA ruled WIN News inaccurate for inferring that from the ‘not guilty’ …
Marguerite McKinnon joins WIN News
Former Today Tonight reporter Marguerite McKinnon will join WIN News as a Senior Reporter from Monday.
She will be based in Wagga Wagga following her recent marriage to local project manager, Robert Smith.
For the last two of her 16 years in media, McKinnon has been a reporter on Today Tonight. She has previous roles at Network TEN as assistant Chief of Staff plus a stint with 2UE. At Seven News she interviewed U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Will Smith, Cameron Diaz and former Prime Minister John Howard.
She first joined WIN Television in …
WIN loses defamation case
WIN Television has lost its defamation courtcase with former Shellharbour deputy mayor Michele Greig.
NSW Supreme Court judge Justice Peter McClelland dismissed WIN Television’s argument that the defamatory story it broadcast on March 28 last year was true.
A jury found the news story had defamed Mrs Greig three times, leading viewers to suspect she had acted corruptly.
The WIN story had said “questions are being raised at Shellharbour City Council” over Mrs Greig’s acceptance of two Blackberry devices from a private communications representative while she was handling a technology upgrade at the council …
WIN TV in defamation case
WIN Television is being sued by a former local mayor from Shellharbour City Council in regional New South Wales.
Michele Greig told the Supreme Court she was was distraught and unable to speak to anyone after a TV news broadcast suggested she was being investigated for corruption.
“The word just ate into me, that word corruption,” Mrs Greig said.
“I felt sick, I couldn’t talk to anybody. It was the most traumatic word I could ever imagine being called.”
Mrs Greig is suing defamation after it broadcast the story on its Wollongong evening news …
WIN adds Mackay, Wide Bay News
WIN Television has added two local news bulletins in regional Queensland.
WIN News Wide Bay premiered on March 16 and WIN News Mackay premieres on April 6th, making WIN the only network to broadcast local bulletins across all seven regional coverage market areas within the state.
WIN general Manager Geoff Massey said, “WIN recently commissioned research that showed 70 percent of respondents view local news as the most important.”
Television station facilities in Mackay and Wide Bay have been transformed into news centres linking to studios in Toowoomba and Rockhampton.
Local news will air at …
Networks extend News bulletins
Networks are still adjusting their schedules to reflect the enormity of the Victorian bushfires, now over 100 deaths and in human lives, the country’s biggest ever natural disaster.
Tonight both Seven News and Nine News have scheduled one hour bulletins from 6 – 7pm to air nationally.
Both A Current Affair and Today Tonight will air at 7pm live on location.
For Seven, Home and Away will air at 7:30pm followed by one episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Nine resumes normal programming at 7:30pm with Two and a Half Men and a special …
Vale: Peter Leonard
Former WIN TV newsreader Peter Leonard, died yesterday. He was 66.
Best known for his 15 years as anchorman at WIN Canberra, he lost a long battle with mesothelioma.
Leonard retired from WIN in July last year after being a fixture in the homes of many Canberrans. ”It’s a privilege to do this job. You get a view of the community like no other job lets you, and it really is a privilege,” he said at the time. He lived in Canberra for more than 50 years.
Leonard did five years of work experience …
Denis Walter to exit WIN News
WIN TV’s Victorian newsreader Denis Walter is leaving his presenter role after more than 15 years after being offered the afternoon shift on radio 3AW.
Walter will finish reading the local bulletin he has presented at Ballarat in November, for the afternoon vacancy following the retirement of veteran entertainer Ernie Sigley. He has been part of the 3AW stable for some time, filling in for Sigley over summer, and presenting on weekends.
But the logistics of presenting radio in Melbourne and television in Ballarat make both jobs impossible, not to mention all the …
WIN News cuts Queensland staff
Cutbacks at WIN Television will see the loss of one journalist and one cameraman from several of its Queensland newsrooms.
The staff cuts will affect Townsville, Cairns, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast.
But State news director for WIN, Steve Marshall, says the cuts will provide additional news services in Mackay, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay. He says there will be no change in local news content.
“We’ve always had an extra staff member in relation to reporting because a little while back we decided rather than bring on casuals we would have a spare …
WIN TV news chief sacked
The chief of staff of WIN TV news in Canberra has been sacked and a political reporter stood down after a complaint to the station about by an ACT politician’s senior staff member.
The complaint from a senior member of Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s staff pertained to a story on government-owned fleet management company Rhodium. It is understood the sackings were in part because a story aired with statements that have since been alleged to be defamatory.
John Roe was sacked from his position at the Canberra news station at 11am on Thursday …