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Clive Hale
Clive Norman Hale (26 April 1937 – 5 June 2005) was an Australian television presenter, best known for his 38-year association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hale was born in Cowell, South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula. Hale was the youngest of three children.
He was educated at Norwood High School and studied art at the South Australian School of Art with the intention of being an artist.
In 1949, Hale secured his first job as a newspaper boy, selling copies of The News.
While studying his fine arts degree in 1957, Hale obtained work at Adelaide radio station 5KA presenting a night show, before getting a job with 5DN to host the interview program Monitor.
In 1959, Hale relocated to Perth where he started working of the ABC, commencing his television career at ABW-2 from the first night the station was on air. While at ABW-2, he was a news presenter and hosted the station's first news magazine program Roundabout.
In 1966, he returned to Adelaide to anchor the local weeknight edition of ABC News on ABS-2, before hosting the local current affairs program This Day Tonight (or TDT) the following year. With Hale as the presenter, TDT became hugely influential in South Australian politics. Hale's popularity as the host of the South Australian edition of TDT was such that the ABC printed bumper stickers saying "I like Clive".
Disgruntled at the way ABC managers were censoring TDT story rundowns, Hale left the ABC in 1971 and defected to the Nine Network where he worked on NWS-9's current affairs program Newsbeat. Although Hale considered the journalism "incredibly tabloid", he also described it as "sort of fun". Hale returned to the ABC in 1973 when he commenced hosting Saturday Week over the summer period while Four Corners was off the air.
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Clive Hale
Clive Norman Hale (26 April 1937 – 5 June 2005) was an Australian television presenter, best known for his 38-year association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hale was born in Cowell, South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula. Hale was the youngest of three children.
He was educated at Norwood High School and studied art at the South Australian School of Art with the intention of being an artist.
In 1949, Hale secured his first job as a newspaper boy, selling copies of The News.
While studying his fine arts degree in 1957, Hale obtained work at Adelaide radio station 5KA presenting a night show, before getting a job with 5DN to host the interview program Monitor.
In 1959, Hale relocated to Perth where he started working of the ABC, commencing his television career at ABW-2 from the first night the station was on air. While at ABW-2, he was a news presenter and hosted the station's first news magazine program Roundabout.
In 1966, he returned to Adelaide to anchor the local weeknight edition of ABC News on ABS-2, before hosting the local current affairs program This Day Tonight (or TDT) the following year. With Hale as the presenter, TDT became hugely influential in South Australian politics. Hale's popularity as the host of the South Australian edition of TDT was such that the ABC printed bumper stickers saying "I like Clive".
Disgruntled at the way ABC managers were censoring TDT story rundowns, Hale left the ABC in 1971 and defected to the Nine Network where he worked on NWS-9's current affairs program Newsbeat. Although Hale considered the journalism "incredibly tabloid", he also described it as "sort of fun". Hale returned to the ABC in 1973 when he commenced hosting Saturday Week over the summer period while Four Corners was off the air.