Ken Sutcliffe

Biography

National Nine News sports presenter and host

Ken Sutcliffe began his broadcasting career in 1966 in his hometown of Mudgee. After four years as a sports presenter/reporter and disc jockey on Mudgee and later Young radio, Ken ed CBN-8 Orange as a newsreader.

He then moved to North Queensland for eight years where he performed general television duties in Townsville and Cairns.

Ken ed TCN-9 in 1979 as an offsider to Ron Casey, producing and presenting feature spots on World Of Sport.

He began presenting sport on National Nine News - a position he still holds - in 1982 and later that year began filling in as co-host on Wide World of Sports and the Today Show.

After seven years with Wide World of Sports, Ken spent a year in 1988 as co-host of Graham Kennedy's late night news program. He then took over Mike Gibson as host of Wide World of Sport in 1989. Prior to that Ken spent a year hosting and reporting on the America's Cup defence in Fremantle.

During his time with Wide World of Sports, Ken travelled many kilometres for the Nine Network. He was in Los Angeles in 1984 for the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics took him to Calgary in 1988, to Albertville, France, in '92 and to Lillehammer in '94.