Ross Symonds

Ross Symonds was the MC for the 2008 Anzac Day National Service at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

Ross Symonds (born 13 January 1942) is a former news presenter for the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.

Symonds began his career with ABC Radio in Brisbane in his early 20's, and then went to Sydney with ABC radio and television to become ABC's Senior National News Presenter. After 12 years in the position, Symonds joined Channel Seven in Sydney in January 1981 as the station's main news presenter. He was paired with Ann Sanders on both Seven Nightly News and Seven's news program 11AM, on which he was the featured news reader for much of the program's life.

Symonds presented his last Seven News Sydney bulletin on 5 December 2003, alongside Ann Sanders. They had presented together since 1998. Symonds then worked as a casual news reader at Radio 2 in Sydney in 2005. The station closed its operations at Homebush in 2006.

Symonds also was Breakfast News Presenter on Sydney Radio Station 2UW for 6 years 1988-1994

Symonds has won the Better Hearing Australia News Presenters' Clear Speech Award nine times, as well as Best Metropolitan Commercial Radio News Presenter.

In 2007 he joined a real estate firm on Sydney's Upper North Shore.

References

• Wall Media

External links

• Ross Symonds' Official Site

Preceded by Leigh Hatcher	Seven News Sydney Weekend Presenter 1990-1997	Succeeded by Garry Wilkinson
Preceded by Ann Sanders (solo 1995-1997)	Seven News Sydney Weeknight co-anchor with Ann Sanders 1998-2003	Succeeded by Ian Ross