Bruce Mansfield

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Bruce Mansfield (born 194?) is a well-known Australian television and radio personality.

1 Early career
2 Newsreading
3 Return to radio
- 3.1 3AW/Nightline
4 External links

[edit] Early career

Mansfield began in radio with stints on stations including 3UZ, 3KZ, 3AW and 3XY in the 1960s. Bruce later moved to television appearing on The Graham Kennedy Show on GTV-9 in the early 1970s.

[edit] Newsreading

His television career then took on a more serious tone in 1974 when he joined ATV-0 as chief newsreader on Eyewitness News. In 1979, both Bruce and his newsreading partner Annette Allison, were dismissed from their duties and re-assigned other roles at the station. Bruce went on to become a voice-over announcer at ATV and also a participant on game shows such as Personality Squares.

[edit] Return to radio

He also co-hosted (with John Blackman) the breakfast program on radio 3AW as alter-ego Uncle Roy. The pair dominated Melbourne breakfast radio for several years before Blackman departed to rival station 3AK in 1986.

In the late 1980s, Bruce was presenter of the drive time program on community radio station 3INR-FM broadcasting from the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg.

Bruce later resurrected the Uncle Roy character on 3AK in 1989 in a revamped breakfast program with Darren James. The program lasted only until the middle of 1990 when 3AK was taken over by new management and all station employees were sacked.

[edit] 3AW/Nightline

In 1990, Bruce joined another TV veteran Philip Brady to present the popular Nightline program on radio 3AW, and also the Sunday night nostalgia program Remember When.

In 1999, Bruce was sacked from 3AW over allegations that he gave on-air interviews in exchange for free goods and services, in a later development in the cash-for-comment investigations conducted by the then Australian Broadcasting Authority. He went on to present an afternoon program on 3AK in 2000, before returning to his former role as Nightline and Remember When co-host on 3AW in 2001.

Later in the 1990s, Bruce made a return to television introducing late night movies and also hosting an infomercial program Mansfield's Melbourne on Channel 31 in Melbourne. Mansfield was also a voiceover for a segment on Rove Live called "Who's in the Swivel Chair?" before leaving the role in 2005. Amazingly the segment on Rove Live would run simultaneously with his Nightline show on 3AW on a Tuesday night, quite clearly proving that his appearance on Rove was pre-recorded.