Kevin Crease

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Kevin Crease is a former television newsreader on the Adelaide, South Australia edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News, produced by NWS-9.

Kevin started his working life as a clerical worker in 1952 with Shell before becoming a copy boy and later cadet at the Adelaide News newspaper. Crease broke into radio in 1957 after being noticed as a spruiker selling plastic raincoats in Adelaide’s city streets.

On July 17, 1959 when Channel 9 began its first broadcast in Adelaide, Crease was chosen to compere the station’s first program - Clarkson’s TV Hostess Quest. During the 1960s, he worked on a variety of different projects from reading commercials and news to performing on Adelaide Tonight as compere from 1962 until 1975. In 1969, he accidentally became the first ever on-air personality to say “fuck” on Australian television when he said "fucking hell" after a late-night mishap. In the early 1970s he hosted the news program News Beat.

Crease took a short break from television from 1975 to 1977, when he was former Premier Don Dunstan’s press secretary.

He went on to present news for Channel 7 (ADS 7 i.e. ADS-10, as from December 27, 1987 it became part of the Ten Network) from 1977 to 1987 before returning to Channel 9 in April, 1987 as news presenter for National Nine News. Kevin Crease celebrated 45 years in television in 2004.

On February 9, 2007 his good mate and co-presenter Rob Kelvin said that Kevin was going through a serious health issue and is taking extended leave from presenting. It was revealed on March 17, 2007 on National Nine News that he is suffering from a 'serious form of cancer'. The Sunday Mail reported the following day that Crease would be retiring from newsreading.[1]

Kevin's son is Tom Crease, the bassist for famous Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb.