| Lateline | |
|---|---|
| Genre | News and current affairs |
| Presented by | Tony Jones (1999-present) Emma Alberici (2012-present) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 22 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John Bruce |
| Producer(s) | ABC News and Current Affairs |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC1 ABC News 24 (2010-present) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original run | 13 February 1990 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Lateline Business (2006 – present) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Lateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at 10:30 pm on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister programme Lateline Business, which commenced on 14 August 2006. It has been labelled by the influential Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in the next day's newspapers than any other TV show in the country.[1] During the summer season, an ABC Late News update is shown in place of Lateline.
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When Lateline premiered on 13 February 1990, it was a thirty-minute single-topic debate forum hosted by Kerry O'Brien, with Ian Carroll as executive producer, and produced in Canberra. Airing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights in 1990 and 1991, and expanding to Monday to Thursday nights from 1992 onwards, the program opened with a seven-minute video piece that attempted to examine the case in a balanced manner, followed by twenty minutes of moderated debate between two to four guests. It was later hosted by Maxine McKew who retired in 2006, before moving into politics.
The most notable aspect of the format at the time was that many guests appeared via satellite. Whether in the studio or on the other side of the world all the guests would appear 'remote', on monitors.
In 2000, an ABC managerial shakeup resulted in the implementation of cost-cutting measures, and the program was transferred to Sydney. Lateline was merged with the ABC Late News program, a ten-minute rundown of the day's top stories and important events that occurred during the evening which ran for ten minutes before Lateline. The new Lateline format, now totalling 35 minutes, includes news, plus approximately twenty minutes of interview. The pre-interview video segment has also been eliminated.
The show usually is hosted by Tony Jones on Wednesday & Thursday and Emma Alberici on Monday, Tuesday & Friday nights.
Fill-in presenters include Steve Cannane and Ticky Fullerton. Former presenters include Maxine McKew, Virginia Trioli, Leigh Sales and Ali Moore.
Reporters include: political reporter, Hayden Cooper, Margot O'Neill, Suzanne Smith, John Stewart, Tom Iggulden and Brett Evans. It is produced by: Lindsay Olney, Aaron Thomas, Andrew Dickson and David Lawrence. Executive Producer is Tim Palmer, who is also Executive Producer of Lateline Business.
Recipients of Walkley Awards from Lateline include Maxine McKew in 1998, and Tony Jones, who received an award for broadcast interviewing in 2004 and 2007. Reporter Suzanne Smith won in 2005 a Logie Award for 'Most Outstanding News Coverage' for her story about sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
In December 2010, it was announced Ali Moore would fill the vacancy left by Leigh Sales when she went to 7.30. [2]
In December 2011, Moore announced that she would be moving to Singapore with her family. Emma Alberici was announced as her replacement.
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