Australia Day Honours have been bestowed upon tv trade names together with performers Claudia Karvan, David Wenham, Jean Kittson, Chloe Dallimore, producer Bruna Papandrea, director Phil Noyce, TV chef & presenter Kylie Kwong and veteran journalist Steve Liebmann.
Liebmann solely discovered of the honour for Companies to Broadcast Media a number of days in the past.
“I’m nonetheless getting my head round all of it, to be completely sincere. It’s nice. I’m very flattered and really grateful,” he informed TV Tonight.
Liebmann was an authentic Immediately host with Sue Kellaway, on the invitation of Eighties 9 TV boss Sam Chisholm.
“In 1981 he had an thought for a breakfast tv present. Phrase leaked, and Channel 10 jumped in and pinched the title he was going to make use of: Good Morning Australia.
“Pricey ‘ol Mike Gibson stated we had extra pilots then Qantas! However then Kerry Packer lastly gave us the inexperienced gentle.”
Liebmann had 21 years with 9’s Immediately present, cut up throughout two intervals. He additionally anchored 11am for Seven, Sydney’s 10 Eyewitness Information and offered Foxtel’s Crime Investigation Australia -each for five years.
However he nonetheless considers Immediately the spotlight of his profession.
“I can truthfully say the alarm would go at 3 each morning, Monday to Friday, however there was by no means a day the place you’d assume, ‘Oh, geez, I don’t need to go to work at this time.’ It was a pleasure to work for and on.
I’ve been very fortunate to work for media bosses, in radio and tv, who had a real ardour for the enterprise. If you wish to go manner again to the Lamb household at 2UE whenever you had folks like Alan Faulkner and Brian McClenahagn, who had been improbable bosses and nice mentors. After which at Channel 9 with Kerry Packer -these had been folks that actually had a ardour for the enterprise. I believe now the fervour is rankings and income.
“However I reckon I bought as a lot from the media from the printed media as, as I gave again. In all probability I bought extra from radio and tv than I ever contributed.”
Liebmann additionally acknowledges his co-hosts, Sue Kellaway, Lizzie Hayes, Tracy Grimshaw however lately doesn’t see a whole lot of the breakfast style -which he blames on morning tennis classes.
“Whenever you have a look at the mixed viewers for breakfast tv it’s not unhealthy. They’re not as excessive as they was once, for both program and I don’t know whether or not that displays altering tastes on the a part of the viewer or this system content material,” he suggests.
“However there’s additionally a lot competitors now. You’ve bought Immediately & Dawn however you’ve additionally bought Pete Stefanovic on SKY Information and the ABC – two different components that we didn’t have to fret about. So I believe that’s one thing you’ll be able to’t ignore.
“I don’t see a whole lot of breakfast tv. If I’m at dwelling, I’ll have flick round, check out what my outdated alma mater is doing, take a look at what ABC is doing, placed on Sky Information. I don’t have a desire if I’m at dwelling I’ll surf, however I’m often on the tennis courtroom.”
TV and associated Australia Day Honours:
Member AM within the Normal Division of the Order of Australia
Ms Chloe Bennett Dallimore, Coogee NSW
For important service to the performing arts, significantly as a performer.
Ms Jean Kittson, NSW
For important service to the humanities as a performer, author and comic.
Ms Kylie Jane Kwong, NSW
For important service to the hospitality trade, and to the group.
Mr Warren Lindsay Brown, Goulburn NSW
For important service to media as a cartoonist, and to army historical past.
Ms Bruna Papandrea, Coogee NSW
For important service to the performing arts as a movie and tv producer.
Mrs Bess Nungarrayi Value, East Aspect NT
For important service to the Parliament of the Northern Territory, and to the Indigenous group.
Dr Norman Gabriel Swan, NSW
For important service to the printed media as a science and well being commentator.
Mr David Wenham, QLD
For important service to the performing arts as an actor and producer.
Mr Philip Stretton Williams, Wallaroo NSW
For important service to the printed media as a presenter and journalist.
Ms Robbie Sefton, Tamworth NSW
For important service to agribusiness, and to the group in a variety of roles.
Officer AO within the Normal Division of the Order of Australia
The Honourable Prudence Jane Goward, Goulburn NSW
For distinguished service to the folks and Parliament of New South Wales, and to ladies’s affairs.
Mr Phillip Roger Noyce, California USA
For distinguished service to the humanities as a movie and tv director, producer, and screenwriter.
Medal OAM of the Order of Australia within the Normal Division
Ms Chantal Marie-Rose Abouchar, NSW
For service to enterprise, and to the media.
Mr Stephen David Hill, VIC
For service to the skateboarding trade.
Mr John Martin Hyde, Mount Lawley WA
For service to the group by way of a variety of roles.
Ms Claudia Karvan, NSW
For service to the movie and tv trade.
Mr William Granger, NSW
For service to the tourism and hospitality sector.
Mr Steve Liebmann, Cremorne NSW
For service to the printed media as a journalist.
Ms Patricia Fiske, Bondi Seashore NSW
For service to the movie trade.
Mrs Judith Ellen Travers, Acton Park Tas
For service to schooling administration, and to the group.
