Scott Mayman

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Scott Mayman is an Australian television and radio presenter. He has worked extensively in Australia and in the United States and has won a number of awards, including the best presenter award at the Gold Coast Media Awards.

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Early life

Mayman was born in 1969 in Australia.[ citation needed ]

Career

Mayman began his career in Brisbane. [1]

From 1985 to 1998, Mayman worked at various radio and TV stations in Australia. In 1998, he moved to the United States,[ citation needed ] where he worked for CBS Radio News for 24 years. [2] He also operated the KCMO-AM newsroom in Kansas City, Missouri as a news director.[ citation needed ]

In 2005, after a car accident, Mayman moved back to Australia. [3] He remained an Australian correspondent for CBS [1] until he switched to ABC News. [2]

From 2010[ citation needed ] to 2014, [4] he was a news director at Radio 4BC Brisbane. He is also former breakfast show host for FM104.1 Gold Coast,[ citation needed ] and Radio 97. [5] In 2023, he joined the Australian Independent Radio News team. [6]

As of September 2025, Mayman reads news for 2CC Canberra and 6iX Perth, operates the 4BC/101FM "ready reserve" program, works as an Australian correspondent for ABC News and NPR in the US, and is an opinion panellist with Sky News Australia. He is also an aviation writer for the Canberra City News publication. [7]

Awards and honours

Mayman has won a number of awards, including for:

Personal life

In 2024, while travelling back to Australia after covering the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, Scott had a medical emergency at Sydney Airport while changing gates, Qantas staff attended to Mayman while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 Koenig, Rick (11 June 2018). "Famous voices of the Tweed: Radio 97 has been a reliable source of local news for 80 years". Tweed Daily News.
  2. 1 2 "Scott Mayman" . Radio Info. 3 June 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Scott Mayman returning to Australia" . Radio Info. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Scott Mayman wins a surprise Media Award" . Radio Info. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2025. Scott Mayman may have departed the station last November but he's still picking up awards... at the recent Gold Coast Media Awards
  5. ↑ "Nightmare Holiday for Tweed Journo". Daily Telegraph. 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Boland, Bray (17 July 2023). "Scott Mayman returns to Air News". Radio Today. Archived from the original on 21 April 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Mayman, Scott (16 September 2025). "Qantas changes threaten Canberra jobs". Canberra CityNews. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Annual report of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the Financial Year 2006-07". Trove. 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Annual report of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the Financial Year 2008-09". Trove. 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Gold Coast Media Awards - Winners" (PDF). Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  11. ↑ "Scott Mayman Wins Queensland News Award". RadioInfo Australia. 11 October 2010.
  12. ↑ "Annual report of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the Financial Year 2009-10". Trove. 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Patterson, Sarah (23 September 2024). "Radio Today - Radio journo Scott Mayman on the mend after airport medical episode". Radio Today. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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