Michael Charlton, first host of Four Corners and Gold Logie winner, dies

Michael Charlton, who won the ABC’s Four Corners program and Gold Logie award, died at the age of 98.

When he spent as a reporter and presenter, Charlton discussed the assassination of US President John F Kennedy, the Apollo Moon Landing and the Vietnam War.

His death was announced in Telegraph in England. The announcement said he died at home on August 24, but did not give any more details.

After hosting ABC TV’s opening night and a successful spell as a cricket commentator, Four Corners took the role of the host in 1961.

In 1963, he won Gold Logie a year after he entered the BBC’s Panorama program before hosting the BBC Phone-in program until 1976.

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A national celebrity

When the four corners were published in 1961 with a six and week -old budget staff with only £ 480 ($ 1,000), the Australians never saw such a thing.

It immediately had an impact and Charlton’s interesting style turned him into a national celebrity.

“I think the main impact of this was to capture a certain mood in Australia, to capture the desire to learn more about the growing mood of independence, the country itself.” He said.

Within the weeks after the first exit, Australia’s first TV shows shocked the country.

He brought the poverty of an indigenous community in the new South Wales to the living rooms of White Australia.

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“This Box Ridge, dedi the presenter Michael Charlton said that he was standing in the midst of corrugated iron huts in his outfit and tie.

“It’s a cemetery for the dead here. And Bishop Davies is everywhere where a cemetery calls the living.”

The impact immediately, people around Australia were angry and the new government of South Wales “was accused of all kinds of protests and anger on Monday”, four corner founding producer Bob Raymond later told.

Charlton also hosted the first live TV broadcast of the Election Night in ABC in 1958.

“Tonight, ABC News Service invites you to the first television of the federal election.”