Rob Kelvin
news presenter
Rob Kelvin (born 1943 or 1944) is an Australian former television news presenter. He was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed with cancer. Kelvin presented with Kelly Nestor and then Michael Smyth until he retired in December 2010.
Early life and education
Rob Kelvin was born in 1943 or 1944. He attended Woodville High School and studied economics at university.
He worked as a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea from 1964 to 1970 and returned to Australia in 1971, where he joined Lee Murray's Radio School in Melbourne.
Career
Kelvin began broadcasting at 4AY in Townsville, in north Queensland, until a tropical cyclone blew away part of his house. He then moved to Swan Hill, Victoria to work at 3SH. After radio roles in Sale, Victoria, and Hobart, Tasmania, he returned to Adelaide's 5AD as a radio journalist.
In 1979, he joined NWS9, doing various presenting and reporting roles before becoming a newsreader in 1983.
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