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Guy Sweeting

Guy Sweeting is best known as a newsreader, most memorably at the then number 1 commercial radio in Sydney 2UE from 1991 to 1996, especially for the use of the news sign off:'This is news across Australia'. This particular sign off was used as the overnight news was not only broadcast across Sydney but during those 5 years syndicated across a network of up to 88 commercial radio stations 'across Australia' through the 2UE network. During this time 2UE was the number 1 commercial radio station in Sydney with talk back stars Alan Jones hosting the breakfast show (weekdays) followed by John Laws, Brian Bury, John Stanley, Stan Zemanek then overnights with Brian Carlton and later John Kerr. Guy read the news toward the end of the Stan Zemanek show Monday to Friday and then across the overnight programs, as mentioned, hosted by Brian Carlton then John Kerr. Sweeting also read the news on weekend daytime programs hosted by Ray Hadley, Kerry-Ann Kennerly, Bob Rogers among others. Guy started reading the overnight network news on weekends with weekend overnight talk programs hosted by Mike Williams, who was earlier the warm up audience entertainment prior to the Mike Walsh midday tv show on Channel Nine. From an entertainment perspective, highlights during these years include comedic on air interactions with Stan Zemanek and Mike Williams. On one occasion after the 11:30pm news headlines, Stan decided to use a different Mexican style weather theme which he said one of his female producers was dancing to on a studio table. Guy commented to Stan after that, that the weather music went for so long that the weather may have changed during the course of the weather theme. Mike Williams hosted a Christmas morning talk show one year on 2UE in which Guy was reading the news. After one of these bulletins Mike asked Guy to join with him and his producer Stephanie in singing Christmas carols live on air. While Mike and Guy managed to forge together a couple of simple melodic Christmas tunes, Stephanie, when coaxed was unkeen and laughter erupted between the three when Mike suggested it be kept simple and they all sing Happy Birthday! Sweeting later worked as an assistant producer in the Channel Nine newsroom with a highlight during that time (1996-98) being the rolling coverage of the Thredbo landslip disaster and the death of Princess Diana.