Ann Sanders

Last updated

Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders (8737226069).jpg
Sanders in 2013 at the Women of Style Awards
Born (1960-03-15) 15 March 1960 (age 63)
Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupation Journalist & news presenter
Years active1980–present
OrganizationSeven Network
Television Seven News
TitleSeven News presenter
Children2
Awards Logie Award, Most Popular Female TV Personality, Western Australia (1981)

Logie Award, Most Popular Female TV Personality, Western Australia (1982) [ citation needed ]

Better Hearing Association's Clear Speech Award

Contents

[1]

Ann Sanders (born 15 March 1960) is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.

Sanders currently presents Seven Morning News and Seven Afternoon News Sydney.

Career

Sanders began her broadcasting career with SAS-7 in Adelaide, South Australia as a weather presenter before moving to Seven Perth. During this time she won two consecutive (1981/1982) Logie Awards for Most Popular Female Personality in Western Australia. She moved to Sydney in 1983 to join Network Ten as a consumer reporter and news presenter before returning to the Seven Network as a news presenter in 1988.

Sanders joined the national morning news program 11AM in 1990 and travelled to Chernobyl, reporting on the radiation fall-out disaster. Sanders started presenting the weeknight edition of Seven News Sydney in 1995, before being joined by Ross Symonds in 1998 until she moved to weekends in 2004. She stayed until May 2006 when she swapped roles with Chris Bath to present Seven Morning News. [2]

Sanders was in Thredbo at the scene of the landslide disaster in 1997 and collected a Logie Award on behalf of the Seven News team for coverage of the event. Other major stories she has covered include the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in London; the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania and the Waterfall train disaster. She was also involved in Federal and State election coverages and the Sydney Olympics in 2000 for Seven News .

Sanders previously presented hourly news updates on The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur from 2007 until 2015. [2] Ryan Phelan replaced her due to her taking on Seven Afternoon News.

Sanders has filled in for Natalie Barr on Sunrise . She is also a fill-in presenter for Seven News Sydney. She previously hosted the national Seven Afternoon News bulletin at 4pm, before it was replaced by state-based bulletins in 2017. [3] [4] Sanders continues to host the local Sydney edition of this bulletin on Mondays to Thursdays, with Sally Bowrey presenting on Fridays.

Personal life

Sanders is patron of The Children's Music Foundation,[ citation needed ] is on the women's advisory committee for the National Breast Cancer Centre,[ citation needed ] and is an ambassador for Osteoporosis Australia.[ citation needed ]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ATN</span> Television station in Sydney, New South Wales

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax & Sons, was one of the first four licences to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9, so as a result the stations switched their previous affiliations. ATN-7 and HSV-7 joined to create the Australian Television Network, which later became the Seven Network. ATN-7 is the home of the national level Seven News bulletins.

Nine News is the national news service of the Nine Network in Australia. Its flagship program is the hour-long 6:00 pm state bulletin, produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin. National bulletins also air on weekday mornings, weekend afternoons and most nights of the week after 10:30pm. In addition, a supplementary regional news program for the Gold Coast in Queensland airs each weeknight as well as regional bulletins for Northern NSW and the Gold Coast under the name of NBN News air seven nights a week.

Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia.

<i>10 News First</i> News and current affairs service of Network 10 in Australia

10 News First is an Australian television newscast, produced by Network 10. The network's ninety-minute long news program airs at 5pm each evening covering local, national and world news, including sport and weather. Weekend editions are presented nationally from Network 10's studios in Pyrmont, Sydney.

Christine Bath is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter and news anchor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SAS (TV station)</span> Television station in Adelaide, South Australia

SAS, formerly SAS-7 and before that SAS-10, is a television station in Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the Seven Network.

Jennifer Anne Keyte is an Australian journalist and news presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Melissa Doyle</span> Australian television presenter (born 1970)

Melissa Jane Doyle is an Australian television presenter, author and journalist.

Rebecca Maddern is an Australian television presenter and journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">HSV (TV station)</span> Television station in Melbourne, Victoria

HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of AFL coverage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leila McKinnon</span> Australian journalist

Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is a reporter and fill in presenter for Nine News and A Current Affair. She has previously been co-host of Weekend Today. In 2022, she co-hosted the sixth season of Australian Ninja Warrior.

Nuala Hafner is an Australian media personality of Ghanaian descent. She is also a psychologist.

Ronald Wilson is a Northern Irish-born Australian television and radio news presenter and voice-over with a lengthy career in journalism and hosting, especially with Network Ten.

Wendy Kingston is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georgie Gardner</span> Australian journalist (born 1970)

Georgie Gardner is an Australian television and news presenter and journalist.

Alicia Loxley is an Australian journalist and news presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Ferguson (news presenter)</span> Australian news presenter (born 1966)

Mark Ferguson is an Australian news presenter, who currently presents Seven News in Sydney on weeknights.

Emmy Kubainski is an Australian journalist and news presenter.

Sally Bowrey is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and weather presenter for the Seven Network, based in Sydney, Australia.

Rosanna Mangiarelli is an Australian television presenter.

References

  1. ↑ "Ann Sanders". Yahoo. 1 January 2010.
  2. 1 2 Ann Sanders, profile, Seven News, 26 May 2008, 07:45pm, Retrieved 30 December 2010 (UTC)
  3. ↑ "Seven News Adelaide launching local 4pm bulletin - Mediaweek". www.mediaweek.com.au.
  4. ↑ Knox, David (14 July 2017). "New arvo bulletin for Seven in Adelaide".


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.