Stephen Quartermain

Stephen Quartermain has been a popular journalist and newsreader for two decades and is the host of the Network 10 Melbourne evening news. He began his career in 1980 as a local reporter with Leader Associated Newspapers, Stephen then moved two years later to the ABC and he then joined the TEN Network in 1984. During his three years as an ABC radio and television journalist, he gained extensive experience covering politics, industrial rounds, police rounds and his first love, sport.

Stephen’s career highlights include on-the-spot reporting at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the 1989 Ashes cricket tour of England, Wimbledon in 1989, the World Gymnastics Championships in Germany, the Auckland and Canadian Commonwealth Games.

From 1990 to 1995 Quartermain was the host of an AFL show which was seen in Britain on Channel 4 and via cable, in the United States, Canada and more than 20 other countries and during 1991 he co-hosted TEN's popular sports show, Sportsweek.

Stephen is best known as the Network Ten's nightly sports reporter and during his career, he was a regular on TEN's The Panel as their resident sports expert, and co-hosted and called Triple M's coverage of AFL football.

During his career, Stephen has won multiple media sporting awards for his coverage of cricket, football, basketball and swimming.

Stephen has called and hosted six Grand Finals for television and six for radio as well as the prestigious honour of hosting four Brownlow Medal counts.

Stephen manages to regularly take bookings as a master of ceremonies for corporate events and his experience and professionalism ensures he is always in great demand, he continues hosting the evening news and enjoys tremendous popularity among the viewers.

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