Hamish MacDonald quits TEN
TEN presenter announces his departure after 3 years with the network.
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Hamish MacDonald has announced via Twitter he is leaving TEN.
After 3 wonderful years at Ten, I have decided to move on. Thursday 26th September will be my last day on-air.
— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) September 16, 2013
MacDonald joined TEN in November 2010 as a former Al Jazeera correspondent.
During his time with the network he has worked on TEN News, The Project, fronted The Truth Is and TEN Late News.
Thanks to everyone at Ten for the incredible opportunities they’ve afforded me. I’m extremely grateful.This was a hugely difficult decision.
— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) September 16, 2013
I wish everyone at Ten enormous success during the exciting period ahead. I will miss the many great friends I have made here.
— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) September 16, 2013
And finally, after 8 years of almost non-stop travel, I am hoping to take a little down-time now to consider which option to pursue next.
— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) September 16, 2013
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29 Responses
Ten made (another) mistake of putting Hamish into the anchor chair when his absolute talent was high end investigative journalism.
Good luck Hamish – hopefully your next employer has the good sense to utilise your core strengths.
Maybe Sixty Minutes can accommodate him Or the ABC for Foreign Correspondent.
He will probably join the exodus to CNN though.
Good luck Hamish.
Perhaps Seven can find a spot for him on Sunday night?
a shame he is leaving Ten. I liked him on the Late News. But sadly, wasn’t on it for long.
This may sound stupid but why not have local news at 1030PM like they do with ten news at 5PM
I know you’re a fan David buy good riddance in my opinion. Was definitely not a good fit for Ten Late News and I wasnt a fan of any of his other work either.
Who’s next? I know I wouldn’t wanna be with this loser company anymore!
He possibly got as tired of being in the program shuffling….as we viewers are of trying to watch the constant shuffling around…
And he is a journalist…not just a nice look for the news desk.
I really enjoyed The Truth Is and his appearances on the Project. It’s really sad news and I’ll miss him, but I agree that he is destined for bigger and better things.
I have been growing less fond of him, his interviewing style of asking a question, then speaking over the answer with his own thought was frustrating and egotistical.
Ten invested a lot in him so this will be a loss for them. I really like Matt Doran so now he can should be able to enter the spotlight more.
He was a bad fit for 10, he’s far to accomplished a reporter to fit in at the wasteland that is commercial current affairs in this country. I am sure he will do well wherever he ends up next.
He was good on the Negus show. It’s a shame that went away.
Maybe that tiny part in Olympus Has Fallen went to his head! lol
He was the best thing on TEN and their news.. I really enjoyed The Truth is… but was in the wrong timeslot.. It’s probably better for his career to leave TEN before it totally sinks..
The fact is he is too experienced and to high profile for any Australian Network to have. No Australian Network can afford to give him the projects a guy of his talent is capable of doing. It’s sad but he is better being based out of Australia on the world market.
Reality is he was to good for TEN, smart move on his behalf
Don’t blame him, his career was on the fast track to nowhere at Ten. They have never been able to utilise him properly.
I’m sorry to hear that Hamish is leaving TEN. I liked him on The Truth Is and TEN Late News. Good luck to him in whatever he wants to do next.
Back to Al Jazeera?
Will be interesting to see who Ten get to anchor the Late News now.
Matt Doran was perfect but he’ll be tied up with the Morning News in the coming months so the network will probably need to look elsewhere.
Smart move – his career wasn’t going anywhere. I never really understood why he was at Ten in the first place, and they never made particularly good use of him as a personality.
Hopefully he’ll follow in Anna Coren’s footsteps and go onto bigger and better things overseas.
The Truth Is his ego got in the way.
Another sad day for TEN. They just cant catch a break. Good luck Hamish, hope you get snapped up fast
He never seemed that permanent anyway. They set him as host of late news, but he was rarely there from what I hear. The Truth Is was interesting, but a very short run and not a great deal of viewers. That is the kind of show which belongs on ABC or SBS, Ten is not the non David Attenborough type doco channel. I have not seen him on The Project for some time, although I do not watch it nightly. Hope he gets a better role with more onscreen time.
Sad to see Hamish leave as I thought he could be the face of Ten news (the male counterpart of Sandra Sully), but probably a smart move careerwise.
Can’t wait to hear what The Truth Is…..