Ï Êüóìïò NEWS IN ENGLISH FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2010 31 2009 Roundup • April 2009 John Mangos visited the Territory as MC for a Tourism Conference and spoke to the Territory Regional Weekly about his extensive career in Television. Article from the Territory Regional Weekly John Mangos speaks about his extensive career in Television TV : John Mangos is one of the most enduring and well known faces on the Australian Media Landscape He has been a regular on Aus- gos. We started by asking John A I was with Greek Australian Q What was it like working with one tralian TV screens for almost Television for a couple of years at of the true legends of Australian Q You have spent the last three the start. There was lot of competi- Comedy in Graham Kennedy on thirty years. He is currently a decades doing broadcast news pro- tion from satellite TV programs Coast to Coast? senior anchorman with Sky grams in one form or another, are coming in from overseas and the net- News Australia, a post he’s held there any significant changes that you work did not really have enough sup- A It was a great experience sitting see to the way news is researched and port from the community. side by side with one of legends of since the 24-hour news channel broadcast over that period? Australian Television for twelve was launched in 1996. He is al- I am not sure if there is enough months. I am amazed by the number so a weekly regular on Aus- A There has definitely been some support out there today for a specific of people who remember the show major changes in the presentation of tralia’s leading breakfast pro- Greek Channel to be taken up again. and even remember vivid details on news in that time. The news now is sketches from the show. gram, the Seven Network's Sun- far more instantaneous and there are Q What effect do you see the intro- rise. And he’s a regular after- so many methods of delivery. There duction of 15 free to air channels Working on the show was a high- noon host on top rating Sydney a now free to air channels, cable having on the existing commercial light and it set the trend for similar channels and mobile phones. channels and on the Fox and Austar style shows to follow. The Panel was talkback radio station 2UE. networks? a similar show with a different for- I think that this is a good thing. mat. It was a weekly show with news A widely respected newscaster, There is nothing wrong with giving A I think that this is a good thing. items and funny commentary. Other John spent 14 years with National people choice. When the Fox and Austar networks shows like Good News Week have Nine News where he worked in the came in, people said there were too followed the same formula that Gra- Federal Parliamentary press gallery Q In 1999 Greek Australian many channels but it is great to have ham pioneered 20 years ago. and as the NSW state political corre- Television was launched, how suc- a wide range of choices. It means di- spondent before he became the net- cessful was the station and how well versity of programming and the cre- Q Out of Graham’s three on air nick- work’s United States correspondent was it been received by the Greek ation of a lot of jobs. names for you, The Unique Greek based in Los Angeles. Community? with the Sleek Physique, The Calamari Kid and the Man with the John returned from the United S- big Molevi which one was you tates at the request of the "King of favourite? Australian television", Graham Kennedy, to co-host the top rating A I would have to say the Man with nightly Coast to Coast news pro- the big Molevi. If you remember the gram. John went on to make docu- sketch it involved a piece of paper mentaries for the Nine Network as and a pencil. It also involved a play well as hosting the Our World series on words and a word which sounded on Sunday nights. a bit like an English swear word. At that time he was a guest host of Q How heavily do you feel the current Nine's Today show and the Midday recession has impacted on ordinary show. Australians, has there been a big impact in Sydney? He then moved to Network Ten to present the Eyewitness news, but a A There has been a major impact year later was lured back to his old s- on people’s lives. There are daily tomping ground at Nine for the irre- conversations on the impact of the sistible chance to be an international recession and people are concerned roving reporter for the Midday show. about losing their jobs. The reces- The Territory Regional Weekly sion is starting to bite hard and there John Mangos with Sotiris and Christina Tsatsoulis caught up for a Chat with John Man- is a lot of apprehension out there..