Rob Brough Biography
Rob Brough is a journalist, television host, and rugby league coach from Australia. Brough began his media career as an announcer at radio station 4VL in Charleville, Queensland, in the 1970s.
How old is Rob Brough? – Age
He is 68 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1955, in Charleville, Queensland, Australia.
Rob Brough Family – Education
Brough and his brother Mal grew up in a little fibro cottage near Slacks Creek.(Fibro is a colloquial Australian term for fiber cement.) Their father farmed vegetables to support the family, but due to poliomyelitis, he had to slide around his vegetable patch on his rear while caring to it. Mal Brough, Brough’s brother, was a Federal Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2016. Brough has had to present various local news items about his brother, including some that have documented controversies such as Mal Brough’s role in the James Ashby affair, due to his brother’s involvement in politics.
Rob Brough Children
He has two children; Tyson Brough, and Sam Brough. After struggling with health problems, Brough’s son Sam died on his third birthday in 1989. Jess and Tyson are Brough’s other children.
Rob Brough Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Rob Brough Family Feud
Brough left news reporting in 1990 when he joined Channel 7 in Brisbane to host the Australian version of Family Feud, which was broadcast nationally. Brough hosted the show until 1995, when it was replaced by John Deeks till it was cancelled in 1996. Both Bert Newton and Grant Denyer presented revived versions of the show for the Nine Network and Network Ten, respectively.
Dominic Knight said in an editorial piece for the Sydney Morning Herald that Bert’s Family Feud, the 2006 version of the show, was a bad show for more reasons than merely bringing back “unpleasant memories of Rob Brough.” Steve Vizard of Seven’s sketch comedy show Fast Forward frequently parodied Brough.
Rob Brough Channel 7
Brough returned to news for Sunshine Television on the Sunshine Coast, a regional Queensland affiliate of Seven, following his tenure as Family Feud host. Brough joined Sunshine Television News shortly after it was acquired by Seven. As a result, the name and design of the network changed to reflect the metropolitan Channel 7 stations.
In the beginning, Brough broadcast the Sunshine Coast edition of Seven News and pre-recorded two more bulletins for the Wide Bay-Burnett and Mackay regions. Brough now presents seven separate local editions of Seven News each weeknight from the Sunshine Coast studio of the network. These editions air simultaneously across the various regions at 6 p.m. each weeknight on Channel 7 and then repeat at 6:30 p.m. on 7two. Since then, Seven has increased its regional news output in Queensland.
Brough is joined by Joanne Desmond as a co-moderator on the Cairns, Townsville, Focal Queensland and Sweetheart Downs releases of Seven News, while Brough keeps on introducing the Mackay, Wide Inlet and Daylight Coast versions without anyone else. At the point when Brough is away, Steve Titmus joins Joanne Desmond on the versions that she normally co-gives Brough, while Desmond fills in for Brough without anyone else on the releases he for the most part presents solo.
Brough is one of the busiest newscasters in Australia because the studio produces seven 30-minute news bulletins every weeknight in addition to additional updates in the afternoon and at night. Now, Brough can be seen reading regional Seven News editions as far west as the Central Highlands in Central Queensland, as far north as Port Douglas, and as far south as Stanthorpe.
After local political candidates running in the 2007 Federal Election were persuaded to endorse WIN News through on-air advertisements, Media Watch questioned the credibility of the Townsville edition of WIN News in 2007. Media Watch guaranteed the questionable activities of WIN News shocked Seven Nearby News yet simply because they didn’t come up with the thought first. After that, a clip from the Townsville edition of Seven Local News with Brough introducing a story about the WIN News controversy was played by Media Watch.
After a graphics designer erroneously included images of dairy cows in an “over-the-shoulder” graphic next to Rob Brough while he was introducing a story on the Townsville edition of Seven Local News, Brough appeared once more on Media Watch in 2008. Actually, the story was about how Dairy Farmers Stadium, a local sports venue, was getting ready for an upcoming NRL match.
In 2015, Brough fronted a mission sent off by Seven Queensland in light of the “Save Our Voices” crusade, which was a joint advancement between WIN TV, Southern Cross Austereo and Seven pointed toward empowering watchers to campaign the Central Government to loosen up media proprietorship regulations. Brough appeared in the Seven Local News studio during the “Leave TV Laws Alone” commercial that Seven Queensland aired during commercial breaks, claiming that Seven Queensland spends more money on local news than their rivals. The following voice-over states that viewers should not be used as pawns and that Seven Queensland opposes the bullying practiced by the other networks.
Brough has said that his work in the media has been impacted by TV moderators Mike Walsh and Mike Willesee.