Jana Wendt (born 9 May 1956 in Melbourne, Australia) is a leading television journalist in Australia. Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. She was born to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Until August 2006, she was host of the Nine Network's Sunday program. The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney Sunday was an Australian current affairs and arts program broadcast nationally every Sunday morning on the Nine Network Australia. Prior to her time with Sunday, she worked as a reporter on Australian 60 Minutes, as well as filing stories for the American CBS 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes premiered 11 February 1979. It airs on Sunday nights on the Nine Network. Not to be confused with the BBC news magazine program Sixty Minutes (TV series. She has been host of A Current Affair, also on Nine, a host of Australian Dateline on SBS, Witness on Seven and a newsreader on ATV-10. A Current Affair (or " ACA " is a nightly tabloid current affairs programme broadcast on the Nine Network every week night hosted Dateline is an Australian television current affairs program broadcast on SBS TV. The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS is one of two government-funded Australian Public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the The Seven Network is an Australian television network, owned by the Seven Media Group. ATV is a Television station in Melbourne, part of Network Ten - one of the three major commercial television networks in Australia. She also did a number of specials for the ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster.
Wendt is married to producer Brendan Ward and has one son, Daniel. In 2004, a painting of Wendt by artist Evert Ploegs won the packers' room award at the Archibald Prize. The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important Portraiture prize and is the most prominent of all arts prizes in Australia.
Wendt won the 1992 Gold Logie for her role as host of A Current Affair. She was the first recipient not to be there to accept the award.
Rumours of her departure from Nine began in June 2006, when the network announced it would merge its Sunday and Business Sunday programs. Leaks to the print media, reportedly from high levels within Nine and described by journalists as "ham-fisted", revealed that the network wanted to replace Wendt with Ellen Fanning.
CEO Eddie McGuire in particular was accused of trying to "white-ant" Wendt. Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM (born 29 October 1964 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian television presenter and businessman White-anting is an Australian term for the process of internal erosion of a foundation On 1 September 2006 it was announced [1] that Wendt would leave the Nine Network. News reports suggested she would receive a payout of more than $2 million in lieu of the remaining 2½ years of her contract.
The absence of Wendt on the Sunday program's relaunch on 3 September 2006 was met with an unprecedented number of complaints that flooded the Nine Network's switchboard and of which the operator failed to keep count. [2]
Wendt was then sacked from her regular 'Lunch' column for The Bulletin magazine, due to the association the magazine has with Channel Nine. Both have the same parent company, PBL.
On 12 September 2006, just ten days after she left Channel Nine, Jana Wendt agreed to appear on stage at Channel Seven's 50 years of television presentation. Channel 9 may refer to Channel 9 (Malaysia Channel 9 (New Zealand Channel 9 (Serbia Channel 9 (Thailand This was seen as a huge snub to Channel Nine, which had "boned" her only days before.
She co-presented the News and Current Affairs 50 years celebration with Sydney news anchor, Ian Ross. Ian Ross (born June 24, 1940) is the presenter of the Sydney bulletin of Seven News.
In 2007 she wrote a book, A Matter of Principle.
References
- ^ Jana quits Nine - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au
- ^ Crikey - Viewers let Nine know what they think of the new Sunday - Viewers let Nine know what they think of the new Sunday
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