Guinness World Records recognise Rick & Sue
Seven News Perth anchors now officially the world’s longest-serving TV news anchor duo.
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It’s taken two years since the paperwork was lodged, but it’s official.
Seven News Perth anchors Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr have entered the Guinness World Records being declared the world’s longest-serving TV news anchor duo.
They have presented from 1985 to 2022, for ’36 years 361 days’ according to Guinness World Records.
Ardon and Carr began presenting the live broadcast of the 6pm Seven News together on January 24 1985 and have continued to read together since.
Rick Ardon had initially joined in 1978 as a news journalist and he attributes a large part of his success to the fact he had a good grounding in news as an on-the-road reporter.
Susannah Carr began her career in media in 1974 as an announcer after studying Law and Arts at the University of Western Australia.
“I don’t think any of us thought in the beginning that it would ever get to this stage where we’ve been reading together 37 years, you just don’t plan on that sort of thing,” Carr told Perth Now.
“What a fabulous journey it’s been and continues to be. Seven have the best news team, I’ve got the best reading partner and I love our relationship with the people of Perth. How lucky am I?”
Seven News Perth has won the 6pm timeslot every week since OzTAM ratings began in 2001.
“If they’re trusting us, watching our news at night time, then we want to give them the best possible news,” Rick Ardon said. “We keep checking right up to 6pm and right through during that hour of news to see if anything’s changed.”
Congrats on an amazing success and world record!
On behalf of all Western Australians, I want to congratulate them both on officially being recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest news reading duo anywhere in the world. What an achievement!
— Mark McGowan (@MarkMcGowanMP) January 30, 2022
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Who owned the record prior to them?
US I believe.
According to the announcement, they surpassed an unspecified U.S. anchor team by several years, which likely references WNBC anchor team Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons, who were paired from 1980 to 2012, or about 32 years. Guinness did not appear to track this record before Ardon and Carr were named record holders. In 2016, Houston anchor Dave Ward of KTRK got recognition as holding the record for anchoring the news on the same station for the longest period of time. His record was listed at 49 years and 218 days and he would announce his retirement shortly after. He is now 82. The somewhat similar record of “longest career as a television news broadcaster” is held by U.S. reporter Don Alhart at WHAM in Rochester, New York. In 2016 he was certified as the record holder with 50 years and 179 days of service. Alhart is still working at WHAM as of Jan. 31, 2022. Alhart also has the distinction of having spent his entire career at the same station. (mixdexhq.com)
And of course double congrats since their rating are more than double their opposition Nine News. Being in regional NSW only rarely see Sussanah when she occasionally pops up in news ‘updates’.
Even though I’m not from WA I think all of the rest of Australia can say well done to these two news presenters for their hard work and putting out some of the best news stories of our lives.
Well done Rick and Sue