News and Weather
One of the Seven Network’s requirement for the show was that it contain a small news update. This was presented by Jennifer Keyte in the first three years, who Vizard called the Newsreader with the Mostest. Naomi Robson was the newsreader in later years. The news also included a weather segment, traditionally not the most compelling television. On Tonight Live, high profile guests were used to present the weather including Bob Geldof, Ben Elton, Kylie Minogue, The Georgian Knife Throwers and Australian businessman and entrepreneur, Dick Smith (entrepreneur).
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Famous quotes containing the words news and/or weather:
“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
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