Peter Ford Biography
Peter Ford is an entertainment reporter from Australia well-known in Australia and New Zealand for his many live appearances on radio stations and television programs.
How old is Peter Ford? – Age
He is 78 years old as of 5 February 2023. She was born in 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her real name is Peter Newton Ford.
Peter Ford Family
Her family moved to Ocean Island in the Pacific Ocean when she was three years old, today known as Banaba Island and part of Kiribati, and remained there until 1963 when the family relocated to Adelaide.
Is Peter Ford Married?
He has not revealed his marital status to the public.
Peter Ford Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Peter Ford Career
When Ford was younger, he lived in Yarraville, a suburb of Melbourne, and became interested in the local entertainment industry. He recalls waiting outside a local newsstand for the most recent entertainment magazines and attending mall openings to see famous people. Ford has also mentioned that he remembers waiting outside the 3AW studio to see Mary Hardy.
Ford applied for a course at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology but was turned down because he wanted to work as a journalist. Ford tried to get a job in the media while working as a cleaner in Footscray. He tried to get cadetships with newspapers like The Age and The Herald, and he also tried to get in touch with radio stations to see if he could work in their newsrooms.
Until one of his former teachers contacted his parents to inform them that radio station 3UZ was looking for an office boy, his efforts had been fruitless. Ford got the job and started working at 3UZ. One of his responsibilities was to collect the mailbags, ride a tram back to the studio in Bourke Street, and sort the mail each morning before 9:30 a.m.
Despite being “a shocking old moth-eaten rat-infested joint,” Ford recalls the 3UZ studio being “an amazing place” with “a great sense of history.” Ford recalled that when he first started working at 3UZ, many of the older employees had been in the industry since the 1940s and 1950s. Before Don Lane joined the station, Bob Rogers was the breakfast presenter.
Ford worked as a football reporter “around the grounds” for the first time on air. After that, Ford was hired as a producer for Bert Newton’s morning radio show, initially on a temporary basis before being given the job permanently. After that, Ford worked as a producer for radio and television for about eight years.
Ford worked for two years in New Zealand after producing radio in Melbourne before returning to Australia. Ford started working as a producer on the Network Ten breakfast show Good Morning Australia, which was hosted by Gordon Elliot and Kerri-Anne Kennerly when she was 22 years old and had never worked in television before.
Ford hosted a radio show on 3AK called Alive and Dangerous from 1989 to 1990. On the show, he talked to people like Ernest Borgnine, David Essex, Bill Kerr, Bud Tingwell, and Denise Drysdale.
Ford sent audio cassette airchecks to various Australian radio stations pitching the idea of him becoming their entertainment reporter after Bert Newton encouraged him to pursue on-air opportunities. 7LA in Launceston agreed to Ford’s proposal, becoming the first station to have him deliver entertainment news, despite the fact that many stations rejected it. 3BA in Ballarat before long followed after accordingly with 3AW in Melbourne turning into the primary capital city station to have Portage convey amusing news for their audience members.
Ford made his first appearance on the Nine Network’s Midday, a lunchtime variety show that Newton hosted for a week in 1988. Ford began appearing on The Bert Newton Show on a regular basis in 1989. The show was a variety show that aired during lunch on the Seven Network in an effort to compete with Nine’s Midday, but it was canceled after just one year.
Ford is now utilized by numerous metropolitan and regional radio stations throughout Australia and New Zealand every day, where he regularly “breaks” numerous media industry stories after gradually increasing his profile as an entertainment reporter. Ford has appeared on The Morning Show on a regular basis and has also commented on Sunrise, A Current Affair, Studio 10, and 20 to 1.
