Ross Symonds

Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds
	2UW as breakfast news presenter 1988-1994 Radio 2; (2005-2006)

Ross Symonds (born 8 January 1942) is an Australian former media personality, news presenter and reporter, radio and television personality and spokesman, best known for his association with the

ABC starting in the early 1960s and subsequently the Seven Network

in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s. After leaving his media career he worked in real estate and advertising.

Biography

Symond's was born in January 1942 and began his career with the

ABC Radio in Brisbane in his early 20s, and then went to Sydney

with ABC radio and television spending 12 years in the position

Symonds joined

11AM, on which he was the featured news reader for much of the program's life. Symonds presented his last Seven News Sydney

bulletin on 5 December 2003, alongside Ann Sanders, ending a partnership that had lasted since 1998.

Symonds was also breakfast news presenter on Sydney radio station

2UW

for 6 years 1988–1994.

After which he worked as a casual news presented on Radio 2 in Sydney in 2005, the station close its operations at Homebush the following year.

Awards

Symonds has won the Better Hearing Australia News Presenters' Clear Speech Award ten times,^[1] as well as Best Metropolitan Commercial Radio News Presenter.

Post-media career

Symonds worked in real estate after retiring from his career in media and broadcasting joining a firm on Sydney's Upper North Shore.^[2]

In 2008 Symonds worked in advertising as sales and promotional consultant for Beauty Point Retirement Resort.

Symonds acts as MC for the National Ceremonies for Anzac Day and Remembrance Day at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Notes

^ Better Hearing Sydney
^ North Shore Times (11 May 2007): p.129

References

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[1] Better Hearing Sydney

[2] North Shore Times (11 May 2007): p.129

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