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Greg Grainger is an Australian filmmaker and TV presenter and known for travel and adventure documentaries and wildlife programs. [1]
Grainger is a Logie Award winner for "Best News Coverage" [2] (9 Network) and 2011 IAB Awards "Best of Show". [3]
Grainger is also the CEO and Executive producer of GraingerTV, [4] Corporate Video Australia [5] and Grainger Films.
Grainger has worked for the National Geographic Channel, [6] The Discovery Channel, [7] ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), [8] the Travel Channel, [9] and the Seven Network. [10]
Grainger's experience in radio and TV journalism include deputy news director Capital London, [11] News Director Radio of 2UE Sydney, [12] "General Manager Radio 2KA Blue Mountains, Radio 2GB, Radio 2UW".[ citation needed ]
Grainger has produced a catalogue of adventure, travel and wildlife programs, from the "Antarctic to the Arctic", [13] from the High Himalayas [14] to the Dead Sea. [15] Grainger's coverage of the Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing in 1972 won the Logie Awards for Best News Coverage. His 1991 encounter with Princess Diana was featured in the 2 part series THE CHARM OF BRITAIN.
Grainger's program Travel Oz resulted in him being appointed one of Tourism Australia's cultural ambassadors, [16] as part of the Friends of Australia program.
In 1986, Grainger filmed White Fury - The Untame Tibet, the first white water rafting expedition across Tibet.
In the documentary film The Island at the End of the World, Grainer crossed South Georgia following the path of Ernest Shackleton.
Grainger's time with cannibals in Irian Jaya featured in the documentary Cannibal Crusade.
National Geographic commissioned Grainger to produce On Thin Ice, a documentary about polar bears and global warming. The film crew traveled to Hudson Bay in Canada and Svalbard in Norway. [17]
Grainger produced the Making Tracks campaign for DDB Sydney and Tourism Australia. It won 1st prize for Best of Show during the 2011 IAB Australia Day. [18]
Grainger produced and presented 96 episodes of Travel Oz. Episodes included visits to the Tiwi Islands, the Torres Strait Islands, the Simpson Desert and the Middleton Reef. The show ran on ABC1 from 2008 to 2013 and on the Seven Network from 2014 to 2015.
Brian Weir Henderson was a New Zealand-born Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his association with the Nine Network as a television news anchor in Sydney, as well as a variety show presenter and host of music program Bandstand, the local version of the US music program American Bandstand.
Roy and HG are an Australian comedy duo, comprising Greig Pickhaver in the role of "H. G. Nelson" and John Doyle as "'Rampaging' Roy Slaven". Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia's obsession with sport. Their characters are based on stereotypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, and Slaven the retired sportsman turned expert commentator. In his 1996 book Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice, Pickhaver summarised the duo's comedic style as "making the serious trivial and the trivial serious".
The Logie Awards is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards.
Paul Hogan is an Australian actor and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as outback adventurer Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), the first in the Crocodile Dundee film series.
Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie–nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique. He is also responsible for introducing the troupe of The Chaser to Australian audiences.
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Mieke Buchan is an Australian television and radio presenter, writer and producer, born in Brisbane (Australia). She has covered major events including: The Olympics, the US Open Tennis, 5 Super Bowls, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship and the Oscars. She has worked for American and Australian television networks, including FOX Sport America, ESPN, SBS and Encore Movie Networks.
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The ASTRA Awards were the annual awards for the Australian subscription television industry. According to the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA), the awards "recognise the wealth of talent that drives the Australian subscription television industry and highlight the creativity, commitment and investment in production and broadcasting.".
Eric Campbell is a prominent Australian foreign correspondent, who began his career as a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald. His assignments have included reporting the wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Balkans, tracking polar bears in the Arctic, filming at secret military bases in Central Russia and travelling by sled with nomadic reindeer herders in Siberia.
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