Dave Kirwan

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Dave Kirwan is an Australian television and radio host now based in New York City. He is the only Australian radio announcer in New York City, the number one media market in the USA.[1] He is a DJ on CBS owned FM radio station 923-KROCK[2]

His twelve year media career has spanned across television, radio and voice overs.

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[edit] Radio

Kirwan started his career at Sydney radio station Sea FM in 1998 before moving to the New South Wales snowy mountains station Snow FM. He presented a night-time nationally broadcast program for Broadcast Operations Group in 2001 before returning to Sea FM. In 2000 he was a finalist in the Australian radio awards in the Best Program Director category.[3]

[edit] Television

Until August 2007 Kirwan was the weekend anchor on The Weather Channel. Kirwan was a reporter with the channel for five years before landing an anchor role hosting the popular Weekend View program.[4]

From 2001-2004 he was the snow and surf reporter for Today on the Nine Network. He filled in for Steve Jacob's weather segments during the summer of 2005. He also made Australian television history by giving away one million dollars live on air during the program.[5]

Other networks Kirwan has reported for include Fox Sports[6], FUEL TV, TV1, Sky News and MTV.

[edit] Voice Overs

Kirwan is one of Australia's most successful male voice over artists being the promo voice of Nickelodeon and former promo voice for MTV.[7]

[edit] Other Media Work

He was also a spokesperson for Perisher Blue Ski Resort during the ski season.[8][9]

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[edit] References and Notes

  1. ^ Alex Cosper. "New York Radio History", Tangent Sunset, 2005. 
  2. ^ "Bio on K-ROCK website", cbsradio.com, 2008. 
  3. ^ "Media Flash - Aussie Media News And Jobs 23/10", Mediaflash.com.au, October 23, 2000. 
  4. ^ "The Weather Channel Australia Programming", wikipedia.org. 
  5. ^ "Boost Mobile Gives Away $1 Million at Perisher Blue!", Ski.com.au, September 9th, 2005. 
  6. ^ Lia Timson. "Wired On The Slopes", Sydney Morning Herald, July 9th, 2005. 
  7. ^ "Dave Kirwan Agent Bio", RMK. 
  8. ^ "Ski season off to good start", ABC News, June 9th, 2003. 
  9. ^ Jano Gibson. "Gales peel back roof of Perisher ski lodge", Fairfax Digital, July 26th, 2005. 
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