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Jeff Watson is a broadcaster, author and journalist with 40 years in the business. He started his career as a newspaper reporter in England, moving to BBC radio and then television as a reporter and news presenter with ATV (now Carlton Television).
Special reporting assignments included a stint in the Middle East during the Cyprus emergency, and Libya during the takeover by General Gaddafi.
Jeff Watson moved to Australia in 1971 and has since contributed to such programs as This Day Tonight, Four Corners, Towards 2000 (a program which he devised in 1979), Holiday, Sixty Minutes, Beyond 2000 and Getaway In 2001, he became motoring and aviation editor of Channel 9's Today programme.
Jeff remains best known as one of the presenters of Beyond 2000 which was seen in most countries including the United States and the USSR.
For five years he wrote and presented the ABC radio program Travellers Tales which resulted in a successful book. He co-wrote Heads I Win, about Australian coin forgery. His latest book, The Last Plane out of Berlin, a biography of Sidney Cotton, was published by Hodder at the end of 2002 and has just been reprinted for the fifth time.
In 1980 Jeff set up his own production company which has specialised in making documentaries on aviation.
Films include Spitfire Over Australia, a fifty minute documentary for the ABC, Curtiss Kittyhawk and The Ansett Story (Nine network and Discovery USA), Classic Aeroplanes in Australia (Discovery USA), the RAAF 70th Anniversary (Nine Network), Qantas 50 Years of QF-1 (Nine Network), the Veterans Return and Ghost Squadron (ABC). In 2000 he wrote, directed and presented the documentary drama The Last Plane Out of Berlin (ABC) about the life of the aerial spy Sidney Cotton, a co-production between the Film Finance Corporation and the ABC.
This is now to be a feature film.
Jeff was executive producer of The World Tonight program with Clive Robertson and presented a weekly segment on classic cars (My Car) which has now emerged as a documentary, Classic Cars in Australia.
He has written and presented a number of corporate videos and clients include Conzinc Rio-Tinto, Mobil, Pacific Power, Landcom, Apple, IBM, Mercedes- Benz, National Bank, Audi, Telecom, Toyota, Telstra, Hyundai, Qantas and Westpac. In 1992-3 he presented a series of television commercials for the NSW Electricity Commission and a survey conducted among viewers by the advertising agency Kazoo showed that he has a credibility rating of 90%. In 2004 he presented a series of commercials for Queensland Tourism and has just made a film on carbon dioxide storage for a consortium of American mining companies.
In 1991 Jeff was made a Chevalier of the Order of Merit by President Mitterrand of France, the civilian equivalent of the Legion d_Honneur or an OBE in the British system. This is a rare honour for an Australian, awarded for services to France and acknowledging the many films he has made on French developments in science and technology, in particular, aviation.
Jeff also served two years as a Trustee of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and was an Australia Day Ambassador in 1995-6-7. He was an honorary and is now a full member of the Spitfire Association. In 2003, he was created an honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
As an aviator he has flown, or flown in more than fifty types of aircraft including the Harrier Jump-Jet, the F/A 18 Super Hornet , the English Electric Lightning and the Concorde and has kicked the tyres on the Space Shuttle Challenger. He is currently producing a series on flying boats for Channel 4 (UK) and ABC Australia.
Special reporting assignments included a stint in the Middle East during the Cyprus emergency, and Libya during the takeover by General Gaddafi.
Jeff Watson moved to Australia in 1971 and has since contributed to such programs as This Day Tonight, Four Corners, Towards 2000 (a program which he devised in 1979), Holiday, Sixty Minutes, Beyond 2000 and Getaway In 2001, he became motoring and aviation editor of Channel 9's Today programme.
Jeff remains best known as one of the presenters of Beyond 2000 which was seen in most countries including the United States and the USSR.
For five years he wrote and presented the ABC radio program Travellers Tales which resulted in a successful book. He co-wrote Heads I Win, about Australian coin forgery. His latest book, The Last Plane out of Berlin, a biography of Sidney Cotton, was published by Hodder at the end of 2002 and has just been reprinted for the fifth time.
In 1980 Jeff set up his own production company which has specialised in making documentaries on aviation.
Films include Spitfire Over Australia, a fifty minute documentary for the ABC, Curtiss Kittyhawk and The Ansett Story (Nine network and Discovery USA), Classic Aeroplanes in Australia (Discovery USA), the RAAF 70th Anniversary (Nine Network), Qantas 50 Years of QF-1 (Nine Network), the Veterans Return and Ghost Squadron (ABC). In 2000 he wrote, directed and presented the documentary drama The Last Plane Out of Berlin (ABC) about the life of the aerial spy Sidney Cotton, a co-production between the Film Finance Corporation and the ABC.
This is now to be a feature film.
Jeff was executive producer of The World Tonight program with Clive Robertson and presented a weekly segment on classic cars (My Car) which has now emerged as a documentary, Classic Cars in Australia.
He has written and presented a number of corporate videos and clients include Conzinc Rio-Tinto, Mobil, Pacific Power, Landcom, Apple, IBM, Mercedes- Benz, National Bank, Audi, Telecom, Toyota, Telstra, Hyundai, Qantas and Westpac. In 1992-3 he presented a series of television commercials for the NSW Electricity Commission and a survey conducted among viewers by the advertising agency Kazoo showed that he has a credibility rating of 90%. In 2004 he presented a series of commercials for Queensland Tourism and has just made a film on carbon dioxide storage for a consortium of American mining companies.
In 1991 Jeff was made a Chevalier of the Order of Merit by President Mitterrand of France, the civilian equivalent of the Legion d_Honneur or an OBE in the British system. This is a rare honour for an Australian, awarded for services to France and acknowledging the many films he has made on French developments in science and technology, in particular, aviation.
Jeff also served two years as a Trustee of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and was an Australia Day Ambassador in 1995-6-7. He was an honorary and is now a full member of the Spitfire Association. In 2003, he was created an honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
As an aviator he has flown, or flown in more than fifty types of aircraft including the Harrier Jump-Jet, the F/A 18 Super Hornet , the English Electric Lightning and the Concorde and has kicked the tyres on the Space Shuttle Challenger. He is currently producing a series on flying boats for Channel 4 (UK) and ABC Australia.
Jeff Watson specialises in:
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UK
and is based in Sydney
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NARRATION
PRESENTER
STRAIGHT
UK
and is based in Sydney
