Clive Robertson (journalist)
| Clive Robertson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 December 1945 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Radio announcer, television host |
Clive Robertson (born 28 December 1945) is an Australian radio and television personality in Sydney who has been heard on both the AM and FM bands for over forty years.
Robertson was born in Katoomba, New South Wales in 1945. He left school at the age of 16 to begin work on a farm (including his beloved "Massey-Harris Tractor"), going on to work for his father (a lawyer), later doing court work, and then moving on to become an electrical apprentice as well as running wires for the Postmaster-General's Department. He later worked on the railways cleaning steam locomotives, and also driving them from time to time, which would fuel a lifelong fascination with them.
Robertson is known for his wry wit and humorous dealings with talk-back callers, and his outspoken manner. He claims that Perth radio station 6IX fired him because he would not use the station's slogan, "have a happy day".
In 1967 with the advent of Talk radio, Robertson began his broadcasting career working at a number of stations in the South-West of Western Australia. In 1972 he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney, beginning on the Radio station 2BL. He moved to Canberra a few months later and worked on 2CY and 2CN. A well known part of his breakfast show on 2BL was his daily tête-à-tête with either Caroline Jones or Margaret Throsby. He also presented the 7 pm television news for the ABC.
In 1980, he worked at 2DAY-FM, but returned to the ABC some months later.
From 1982–1988 he was also host of the Beauty and the Beast television talk show on Network Ten. Leaving ABC radio, he then moved to the Seven Network where he started off hosting the news program 11AM, and in 1985 became the host of Newsworld. Robertson took a unique approach to "Newsworld", and his later news show on the Nine Network, Robbo's World Tonight:
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