Friends mark Eddie’s 30th year in TV
Famous friends gathered at St. Kilda's Stokehouse Restaurant yesterday to mark Eddie McGuire's 30th anniversary in television.
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Famous friends gathered at St. Kilda’s Stokehouse Restaurant yesterday to mark Eddie McGuire’s 30th anniversary in television.
Joining McGuire and wife Carla were James Packer, Shane Warne, Jeff Browne, Richard Freudenstein, Lindsay Fox, Sam Newman, Andrew Demetriou, Ron Walker, Michael Gudinski, Molly Meldrum, Mick Molloy, Billy Brownless, Nathan Buckley, Tony Jones, Trevor Marmalade, Jeff Kennett, Michael Roberts John Cornell and Delvene Delaney.
McGuire got his start in television as a cadet sports reporter for TEN in 1982 before he transferred to Nine later.
Reflecting the volatile nature of the industry, he has hosted an array of hits and misses including The Footy Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, National IQ Test, Logie Awards, Between the Lines, Million Dollar Drop, This is Your Life, A Current Affair and various charity events for bushfires and floods.
He was even CEO of Nine for 15 months in 2006 but it proved to be short-lived, copping regular criticism from Sydney media.
Hot Seat is still a ratings performer for Nine and McGuire has his own EMT show on FOX Footy plus radio, newspaper engagements, Collingwood Football Club presidency and McGuire Media productions.
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@Andrew: I remembered Eddie was hosting late night sport and assumed it was Sports Tonight. Thanks for the correction. 🙂
Not a big Eddie fan in fact not really a fan at all….but credit where credit is due…..not many can say they have lasted that long in the fickle world of television.
Nice to see John and Delvene.
@StephenVic: I don’t think Eddie McGuire ever hosted Sports Tonight as it was a Sydney-based program. However, Eddie (and Stephen Quartermain) did host a late-night weekly show called Sportsweek back in 1991. And Eddie also presented sport during Ten Eyewitness News in Melbourne.
I believe Eddie signed up with Nine in the summer of 1993-94 with The Footy Show starting as an ongoing program in 1994. (Max Walker hosted I guess what was considered a ‘pilot’ of The Footy Show (AFL) in the lead up to the 1993 Grand Final)
What a great achievement in a fickle business. Well done Ed.
I remember Eddie hosted Sports Tonight on ten before moving to nine.
30 years is a long time in TV. Congratulations to Eddie.
By the way, Eddie worked at Ten for around 10 years because I remembered him presenting sport for then Eyewitness News. He joined Nine in 1993 when the network started the AFL Footy Show.
David. I think you will find Eddie was at ten longer than a year. He was there until the late 80’s at least. He moved to nine when ten were in financial trouble to host the footy show with Sam
I remember seeing Bruce McAvaney cross to Eddie at the the VFL tribunal for the first time. He was awful. And I said to my self. Who the hell is this guy. He will never make it. How wrong I was!!! Wel done Ed!!!!