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Bill Ralston was born on 1953 in Auckland, New Zealand, is a Bill Ralston is New Zealand journalist, broadcaster. Discover Bill Ralston'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 71 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, columnist, radio host, television host
Age 71 years old
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Born 1953
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Birthplace Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1953

Bill Ralston (born 1953) is a New Zealand journalist, broadcaster, and media personality, active in television, radio and print.

1979

Ralston's career began with a cadet job for South Pacific Television in 1979.

1980

In 1980, he worked as a general news reporter for Television New Zealand (TVNZ) in Wellington and Christchurch.

During the mid-1980s, he was a foreign correspondent for TVNZ, reporting from Indonesia, South Africa, China, the Philippines and Europe.

1981

TVNZ seconded him to the BBC for six months in 1981, where he worked as a reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff.

1982

Returning in 1982, he went to the New Zealand Parliament Press Gallery as a political correspondent for TV ONE, where he covered the fall of the Muldoon government.

1986

He was shot at a Soweto school during the 1986 rebel Cavaliers tour of South Africa, and told by the Ministry of Information he was not welcome back.

1987

From 1987, he was a reporter for TVNZ's Frontline, before moving to competitor TV3 as Political Editor in 1989.

1990

In 1990 he was expelled from Fiji for his reporting.

He later fronted TV3's Nightline current affairs show.

1997

He married Janet Wilson, who also works in the media, in c.1997, and has two children from a previous marriage.

He takes a photo of Mark Kellogg, an Associated Press reporter who died with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, wherever he goes.

From April 1997 until October 2000 he was the editor of Metro lifestyle magazine.

1998

He hosted the arts and media show Backch@t for the show's three-year run from 1998 to 2000.

1999

In 1999, an official from the Ministry of Health visited Ralston and threatened to prosecute the magazine under the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990, over a cigar review column.

Ralston complained, saying the magazine derived no income from the column.

While editor, several top Auckland restaurants banned him due to reviews in the magazine.

Backch@t won the New Zealand Film and Television Awards Best Lifestyle Programme for all three years, and the 1999 Qantas Media Award Best Television Media Programme.

2000

In July 2000, police were called to a Saatchi & Saatchi fundraising event, where it was alleged Ralston had punched guests.

2003

He has worked as a political correspondent, fronted the television arts show Backch@t, and was the head of news and current affairs at TVNZ from 2003 to 2007.

The New Zealand Herald has described him as controversial.

Born in Auckland, he attended Northcote Primary School and later Northcote College where he was Head Prefect.

At the University of Auckland he studied politics and history, and wrote for the student magazine Craccum.

Until July 2003 he was writing for the Sunday News and the Independent business weekly, and was a talkback show host on Radio Pacific.

CEO Ian Fraser appointed Ralston head of news and current affairs at TVNZ starting on 14 July 2003, Fraser saying, "Bill's energy, his experience and just a hint of the mongrel" would meet the challenge of the job.

Ralston had a goal of reducing the $46 million TVNZ news budget by $4.5 million, and there were a number of high-profile departures from the broadcaster, including Judy Bailey, Richard Long, and Paul Holmes.

2005

He drew criticism in March 2005 for verbally attacking Prime Television CEO Chris Taylor, saying, "I'd be shooting myself. I'd be pouring petrol over myself and throwing myself off Auckland's tallest building".

2006

In 2006, ONE News won the Qantas Media Award Best News Programme.

He faced disciplinary action also in 2006 over an expletive-laden call to a Herald on Sunday journalist, who was making enquires about a homeless cousin.

2007

Discussing the departures later in 2007, he blamed the government, including Prime Minister Helen Clark, for political interference in the salary negotiations.

Ralston resigned from TVNZ on 30 January 2007, prior to an announcement of restructuring.

2008

Former foreign minister Winston Peters refused to appear on the Sky News New Zealand show covering the 2008 general election, because he objected to Ralston, the host.

2009

Since TVNZ he has written columns for The New Zealand Herald, Herald on Sunday, The Listener, the Media Scrum blog for Fairfax Media, and in 2009 was an afternoon host for Radio Live.

2016

At the 2016 Auckland local elections, Ralston contested the Waitematā and Gulf ward of the Auckland Council.

He came second in the contest to incumbent councillor Mike Lee and was not elected.

As a former editor employed by the Bauer Media Group, he commented on the company's decision to wind down its New Zealand business in response to the government banning magazines as part of the coronavirus lockdown as follows: "Eighty years of the Listener gone because some clod in Government decided to ban the publication."