Paul Makin Biography
Paul Makin is a television and radio journalist located in South Australia. He began his career as a cadet journalist at Radio 5KA Adelaide in 1973, then moved to Radio 2UE Sydney in 1976 before transitioning to television; he is currently a freelance broadcaster for Channel 7 Adelaide.
How old is Paul Makin? – Age
He is 75 years old as of 18 December 2022. He was born in 1947 in Marrickville, Australia.
Paul Makin Family – Education
Makin is William and Poppy Makin’s only child. He grew raised in the southwestern Sydney neighborhood of Panania, where he attended Panania North Public School before moving on to Kingsgrove De La Salle.
Paul Makin Wife
Makin has two children, Rebecca and Paul, from a previous marriage. Since 1999, he has been with his current partner Marion Blackham.
Paul Makin Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Paul Makin Today Tonight
Makin returned to the media in 2000, taking up the post of senior reporter for Today Tonight Channel 7 Adelaide and filling in as executive producer while he was on leave. Throughout the Celebrity Summer Season, he presented several radio shifts with Radio 5AA Adelaide and stepped in for the suspended Leon Byner until his return to the airwaves.
Paul Makin Career
Makin has been in the media for more than 40 years, he started his vocation as a Cine-Cameraman in 1963 and worked with ATN Channel 7 Sydney, NWS Channel 9 Adelaide, SAS Channel 10 Adelaide, WIN Channel 4 Wollongong, as a stringer with ABC Sydney and TCN Channel 9 Sydney.
He joined Radio 5KA Adelaide in 1973 to take up a news coverage cadetship and in 1976 joined Radio 2UE Sydney as a radio writer and on-street correspondent while likewise introducing the Night-watch program. He was the principal newsman on the location of the Granville train fiasco.
From 1977 to 1980 he was the live journalist for Willesee at 7 and introduced the show without a trace of Mike Willesee. Makin moved to Melbourne in 1980 as journalist and moderator for Newsbeat on Radio 3UZ and was positioned in Newport Rhode Island to cover the America’s Cup. During this time he facilitated the public game show $50,000 Letterbox out of Perth.
In 1984 he joined Channel 10 Adelaide (beforehand Promotions Channel 7) as a senior journalist and facilitated Makin’s Adelaide, State Issue and Extraordinary Secrets of the World from the new work area. During this time he became diversion columnist and senior correspondent during the current Week and a standard supporter of Bert Newton’s Great Morning Australia. In 1999 Makin passed on the media to travel abroad. He moved back to Sydney somewhere in the range of 2001 and 2007, to be with his accomplice who migrated there to lay out a business. He worked in different independent jobs including radio commentator for Radio 2UE, Radio 2GB, ABC NewsRadio and as a senior TV journalist with Channel 7 Today This evening program.
Makin moved back to Adelaide in 2007 to take up the job of senior analytical columnist, journalist and substitute moderator with Channel 7 Adelaide’s Today This evening.
In 2013 he required up a six-month contract with Radio 5AA introducing the night program. He is right now working in an independent limit with respect to Channel 7 Adelaide’s Today This evening recording and introducing stories.
Makin has acted in an assortment of component movies, plays and network shows, and throughout the long term has been a normal MC for a large group of magnanimous occasions. He has been associated with the creation and facilitating of corporate introductions, TV advertisements and is the voice for Pilgrim Bounce On – Jump Off Touring Visit Transports around Australia. He showed up in episode 578 of Detainee assuming the part of a TV have.