Melissa Jane Doyle (born February 10, 1970) is an Australian television personality and co-host of the
Seven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1970, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne. It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
's
SunriseSunrise and Weekend Sunrise are Australian breakfast television programs, broadcast on Channel Seven. On weekdays the program follows Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am...
,
The ZooThe Zoo is the Australian version of a New Zealand reality television series of the same name. Centred around the lives of a zoo team at Taronga Zoo, New South Wales. The program is narrated by Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle....
and
Where Are They Now.
Doyle attended the private school
Pymble Ladies' CollegePymble Ladies' College, , is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb in the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
. She studied communications at
Charles Sturt UniversityCharles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university located in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Goulburn, Orange , Wagga Wagga and Ontario...
in
BathurstBathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200 km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Area. It has a population of approximately 37,000 It is the oldest inland settlement in Australia.-History:The...
, NSW. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. She gained a cadetship at
WIN TelevisionWIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions...
's
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bureau in 1990, then moved to
Prime TelevisionPrime Television is an Australian television network owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven...
to become news anchor and general reporter.
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Melissa Jane Doyle (born February 10, 1970) is an Australian television personality and co-host of the
Seven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1970, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne. It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
's
SunriseSunrise and Weekend Sunrise are Australian breakfast television programs, broadcast on Channel Seven. On weekdays the program follows Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am...
,
The ZooThe Zoo is the Australian version of a New Zealand reality television series of the same name. Centred around the lives of a zoo team at Taronga Zoo, New South Wales. The program is narrated by Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle....
and
Where Are They Now.
Early career
Doyle attended the private school
Pymble Ladies' CollegePymble Ladies' College, , is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb in the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
. She studied communications at
Charles Sturt UniversityCharles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university located in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Goulburn, Orange , Wagga Wagga and Ontario...
in
BathurstBathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200 km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Area. It has a population of approximately 37,000 It is the oldest inland settlement in Australia.-History:The...
, NSW. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. She gained a cadetship at
WIN TelevisionWIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions...
's
CanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
bureau in 1990, then moved to
Prime TelevisionPrime Television is an Australian television network owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven...
to become news anchor and general reporter. After her stint at Prime ended in 1995, Doyle joined Channel Seven in Sydney as a Canberra based political reporter. Doyle was one of
Sunrises original hosts before it was axed in 1999, before being resurrected in 2000, and which she rejoined in 2002. She also had a stint reading the Seven Late NewsSeven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
.
In 2000, she took over as host of Sydney's Today TonightToday Tonight is an Australian current affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
following the departure of Stan Grant. She stayed until March 2001 when she left for maternity leave.
Sunrise
Doyle returned to Seven from maternity leave in a variety of news and presenting roles before being asked to front a revamped Sunrise
program with Chris ReasonChris Reason is Network Reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He has also acted as anchor for many Seven News bulletins, including the morning bulletin, early news bulletin and Sydney's Seven News to name a few. He anchored the latter on weekends during the 2007-08 summer...
. After about 8 months, Reason left the program after a recurrence of cancer, and David Koch joined the program as a replacement.
Together, Doyle and Koch, under the guidance of Executive Producer Adam Boland, eventually surpassed their incumbent opposition and market leaders, the Today ShowToday, often referred to as The Today Show, is an Australian breakfast television program. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982, recently celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007...
on
Channel NineThe Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney. For nearly 40 years between 1956 and 2005, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
.
In 2003 Doyle enjoyed a very public pregnancy with her second child, who was born in December of that year and named Talia.
Doyle was nominated for the Silver Logie as Most Popular Television Presenter in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She was the only female
nominated in that category.
Doyle was embroiled in legal proceedings in which it was alleged she identified a minor who was divorcing his parents. The divorce case was being heard in the Victorian Children's Court and because the boy was only 14 years old he couldn't be named. But Sunrise
, as well as a number of other news outlets, including the Sunday Herald Sun
and Today Tonight
, allegedly identified him and the journalists/presenters were charged with contempt of court. The journalists and presenters/hosts were all acquitted but the Seven Network, its news director, Today Tonight
s executive producer and the Sunday Herald Sun
and its editor-in-chief were convicted.
Other Work
In October 2007 Doyle's first book, The Working Mothers Survival Guide (co-written with Jo Scard), was published by Allen & Unwin. It sold over 10,000 copies in its first print run.
In 2008, Doyle was selected to front a new documentary program on the Seven Network called "The Zoo". The show had a six week run during the first half of 2008. A second series of The Zoo commenced on air in October 2008. It generated an audience of over 1.7 million people in each of its first three weeks making it one of the Top Five Programs on Australian television for that week, and one of the highest ranking programs of the year.
Doyle writes a weekly column in Australia's highest selling newspaper, the Sunday Herald Sun
in Melbourne called "Balancing Act". The column talks about her experiences as a working mother.
External links
Health
, June 2004 issue of GoodMedicine magazine
Interview on WHO.com with Mel and Kochie about their Cool the Globe campaign