Australian TV legend Clive Robertson dies at the age of 78
Australian media pioneer Clive Robertson has died at the age of 78.
The veteran broadcaster, known for his work for both ABC and Seven, died last week of cancer.
He was best known to Australian viewers for his appearances in Newsworld and Beauty and the Beast.
According to entertainment reporter Peter Ford, he has been battling cancer for the past two years.
Fellow ABC presenter and presenter Margaret Throsby paid tribute to her former on-air partner via social media on Thursday.
“Very sad to hear of the death of my long-time partner in crime Clive Robertson,” Throsby wrote on X.
Australian media pioneer Clive Robertson has died at the age of 78. Pictured
‘Eccentric, one-off, brilliant presenter, teasing, unreconstructed, his breakfast show on 702 Sydney was essential listening. TEAR.’
With a career spanning four decades, Robertson began working at a number of stations in the south-west of Western Australia in the late 1960s.
He joined the ABC in 1972, starting at radio station 2BL next to Throsby, before moving to Canberra where he worked on 2CY and 2CN.
Robertson worked briefly at 2DAYFM in 1980, but returned to the ABC shortly afterwards.
The broadcast veteran has a huge radio career in both FM and AM bands and has presented radio programs on ABC Classic FM, 2GB, 2SM, 2UE, 6IX, 6TZ and 6VA.
In the 1980s, Robertson moved to Channel Seven, where he presented the talk show Beauty and the Beast.
He later presented the news program 11AM before later becoming the host of Newsworld in 1985.
Peter Ford of 6PR also remembered the deceased broadcaster during his radio program on Thursday.
Robertson has been battling cancer for the past two years
With a career spanning four decades, Robertson began working at a number of stations in the south-west of Western Australia in the late 1960s.
“He was very good, and of course he probably did the late night news, where he went off script and made funny and cutting comments about the people, and that had never been done before,” Ford said.
“I mean, Graham Kennedy did it later on Nine, but even today there aren’t really people doing that, and that earned him an incredible cult following.”
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