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Mike Carlton (Michael James Carlton) was born on 31 January, 1946 in Australia, is an Australian media commentator and author. Discover Mike Carlton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Michael James Carlton
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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 31 January 1946
Birthday 31 January
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Nationality Australia

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Who Is Mike Carlton's Wife?

His wife is Kerri Morag Ramsay

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Timeline

1928

Carlton's father, James Carlton, was an athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

1930

In 1930, he set an Australian national record for the 100 yards, which was not broken until 1953.

1932

He would have been selected for the 1932 Olympics but left sport to become a Catholic priest.

During World War II he was assigned to teach the Catholic faith to a non-Catholic woman who was engaged to a Catholic man.

He fell in love with the woman and left the priesthood.

They had two sons, Mike and Peter.

1946

Michael James Carlton, (born 31 January 1946) is an Australian former media commentator, radio host, television journalist, author and newspaper columnist.

He formerly co-hosted the daily breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2UE with Peter FitzSimons and later Sandy Aloisi.

Carlton was known for his criticism of conservative public figures such as former prime minister John Howard, former Liberal leader Alexander Downer, former radio announcer Alan Jones, and conservative governments, including the United States' Bush administration.

1951

Jim Carlton died in 1951.

Mike Carlton has been married twice.

He has two children with his first wife, Kerri.

He met his second wife, Morag, when he was 52 and she was 23, working as his producer at ABC Radio.

They have one child together.

1963

Carlton began his career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) as a cadet journalist in 1963, aged 17.

His file reports as an ABC war correspondent in Vietnam earned him great admiration within the industry and a promotion to chief of the ABC's news bureau in Jakarta, Indonesia.

1970

Garnering further accolades on his return with the pioneering 1970s ABC-TV current affairs program This Day Tonight,

1980

He moved to his first radio program as host at Sydney commercial station 2GB in the early 1980s, this is where "Friday News Review" was born.

1988

Carlton dominated morning radio for a number of years until Alan Jones was moved into the breakfast slot at 2UE in March 1988, and Carlton's ratings started to falter.

1990

In the early 1990s he was a presenter for London's LBC Newstalk 97.3FM, then under Australian ownership.

At first he presented the drivetime programme, but it was as presenter of The Morning Report breakfast programme that he came to prominence, winning a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award.

This programme helped to change the station's financial fortunes.

He later wrote a novel set at a London talk radio station called Off the Air, which became a best-seller in Australia in the late 1990s.

1994

In 1994, Carlton returned to Sydney to host a morning program on music station Mix 106.5.

He then moved to the drive slot at 702 ABC Sydney.

Building a reasonable following and establishing a format that he has largely retained in the years since, he was then poached by commercial broadcaster 2UE.

Carlton hosted 2UE's drivetime (3pm-6pm) program for a number of years, before moving to the breakfast timeslot (5:30 am – 9 am).

2006

In a move to improve ratings, 2UE management teamed Carlton with media personality, fellow Sydney Morning Herald columnist and longtime friend of Carlton's, Peter FitzSimons on the breakfast show in 2006.

2007

The ratings for the show gradually improved, however in mid-2007 they remained well behind the top two AM talk stations for the breakfast period.

Peter FitzSimons left the show at the end of 2007, and was replaced by Sandy Aloisi from 2008.

Carlton's former workmate, now rival, Alan Jones continued to dominate Sydney radio talkback.

A long-running feud with fellow 2UE broadcaster Stan Zemanek, noted for his conservative views, had become a feature of Carlton's recent career prior to Zemanek's death in mid-2007.

On 17 July 2007, Carlton made comments regarding his late rival.

Responding to a listener's question as to why he wouldn't attend Zemanek's funeral, Carlton replied that it would be "an act of sheer hypocrisy ... I loathed him."

He continued: "I'd only go to check that he was actually dead."

Carlton later apologised for the remarks, which had been the subject of criticism from fellow radio presenters and 2UE staff.

A highly popular feature of Carlton's long-running radio program (and indeed his previous radio career before he joined 2UE), was the weekly political satire segment, Friday News Review.

The segment was well known for its fast-paced sketches, topical skewering of high-profile politicians, celebrities and sportspeople across the nation and around the world, and its extremely accurate voice-impersonations of the leading characters.

Most of the characters in the segment not portrayed by Carlton were portrayed by Australian actor and television personality Josh Zepps.

Friday News Review was one of the last political satire programs on mainstream commercial media in Australia.