Profile: In Conversation With Margaret Throsby

Fourth Estate

When Margaret Throsby first came through the doors of the ABC in 1967, as the new “announcer” on staff, she was the only woman in a room full of men.

As part of our ongoing series of profiles, the incomparable broadcaster joined Tina Quinn in studio to talk about the remarkable 56 year career that followed.

The word legend is often generously bandied about, but its fitting for the famously velvet voiced presenter, who in 1978 would become the first woman to read the news for ABC Television, encouraging commercial networks to quickly follow suit, and who is thought to have conducted over 15,000 interviews during her decades long career.

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