{{Short description|Australian television presenter (1937–2005)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox person |name=Clive Hale |birth_date={{birth date|1937|04|26|df=y}} |birth_place=Cowell, South Australia |death_date={{death date and age|2005|06|05|1937|11|15|df=y}} |death_place=Sydney, New South Wales |occupation=television presenter |television={{hlist|''ABC News''|''This Day Tonight''|''Nationwide''|''For Love or Money''|''Roundabout''}} |alma_mater=South Australian School of Art }}
'''Clive Norman Hale''' (26 April 1937 – 5 June 2005) was an Australian television presenter, best known for his 38-year association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<ref name=dates>{{cite news |last=Harrison|first=Penny|date=16 August 1997|title=Datelines: Clive Hale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122123404/datelines-clive-hale|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=164|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life=== Hale was born in Cowell, South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Clive Hale fronts ABC Adelaide's influential 'This Day Tonight' from 1965 and goes on to host 'Nationwide' in 1980 |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/clive-hall-fronts-abc-adelaide-s-influential--this-day-tonight--from-1965-and-goes-on-to-host--nationwide--in-1980 |access-date=12 December 2022|website=adelaideaz.com}}</ref> Hale was the youngest of three children.<ref name=dates/>
He was educated at Norwood High School and studied art at the South Australian School of Art with the intention of being an artist.
===Career=== In 1949, Hale secured his first job as a newspaper boy, selling copies of ''The News''.<ref name=dates/>
While studying his fine arts degree in 1957, Hale obtained work at Adelaide radio station 5KA presenting a night show, before getting a job with 5DN to host the interview program ''Monitor''.<ref name=dates/>
In 1959, Hale relocated to Perth where he started working of the ABC, commencing his television career at ABW-2 from the first night the station was on air.<ref name=dates/><ref name=new>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=30 January 1978|title=New host for TDT |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122123098/new-host-for-tdt|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=16|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> While at ABW-2, he was a news presenter and hosted the station's first news magazine program ''Roundabout''.<ref name=dates/><ref name=new/>
In 1966, he returned to Adelaide to anchor the local weeknight edition of ''ABC News'' on ABS-2, before hosting the local current affairs program ''This Day Tonight'' (or ''TDT'') the following year.<ref name=dates/><ref name=":0" /><ref name=new/> With Hale as the presenter, ''TDT'' became hugely influential in South Australian politics. Hale's popularity as the host of the South Australian edition of ''TDT'' was such that the ABC printed bumper stickers saying "I like Clive".<ref name=":0" />
Disgruntled at the way ABC managers were censoring ''TDT'' story rundowns, Hale left the ABC in 1971 and defected to the Nine Network where he worked on NWS-9's current affairs program ''Newsbeat''.<ref name=dates/> Although Hale considered the journalism "incredibly tabloid", he also described it as "sort of fun".<ref name=dates/> Hale returned to the ABC in 1973 when he commenced hosting ''Saturday Week'' over the summer period while ''Four Corners'' was off the air.<ref name=dates/>
In 1978, Hale relocated to Sydney when he was appointed as the host of the national edition of ''This Day Tonight'' but it was axed later that same year.<ref name=new/><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 December 1978|title=Goodnight and goodbye from TDT|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122123053/goodnight-and-goodbye-from-tdt|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=4|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Groves|first=Don|date=3 December 1978|title='Heart-throb Clive' will be back to skipper new show|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122123018/heart-throb-clive-will-be-back-to|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=9|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> Hale was then the national host of the replacement program ''Nationwide'' when it began broadcasting in 1979.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=19 February 1979|title=Who knows where this country is going? (Nationwide advertisement)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122122933/who-knows-where-this-country-is-going/|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=2|location= |access-date=2 April 2023|quote=...linked nationally by Clive Hale}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Robinson|first=Harry|date=17 August 1981|title=Hale: Is the two-minute man absolutely necessary?|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122122813/hale-is-the-two-minute-man-absolutely|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=33|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> He would present the common stories broadcast across Australia with a state-based presenter presenting local current affairs stories. Hale said it was during this period he pitched ideas to the ABC about producing programs about visual arts but to no avail.<ref name=dates/>
In 1982, Hale temporarily relocated to Japan where he spent twelve months working at NHK, advising them on news and current affairs.<ref name=dates/> In 1988, Hale hosted an hour of highlights from the Australian Bicentenary to 125 countries via satellite which he considered to possibly be his "proudest ABC moment".<ref name=dates/>
In 1990, Hale became the national presenter of the ABC's first late night news service on ABC TV.<ref name=dates/> Hale continued in this role until 1995 when he was replaced by Indira Naidoo.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman|first=Jane|date=9 October 1995|title=Soul searching at the ABC |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122123209/soul-searching-at-the-abc|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=47|location= |access-date=2 April 2023|quote=Clive Hale has been moved out of the late night news reading spot and replaced with Indira Naidoo, formerly ABC weekend newsreader in Adelaide.}}</ref> Despite media reports to the contrary, Hale volunteered to leave the role when he was offered the job to host another series of the antiques show ''For Love or Money''.<ref name=love>{{cite news |last=Freeman|first=Jane|date=3 March 1997|title=Bitten by the love bug|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122122695/bitten-by-the-love-bug|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=60|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> Hale also read the weekend news in NSW.
Happy that he finally persuaded the ABC to do a program surrounding decorative arts, Hale hosted ''For Love or Money'' for three seasons from 1987 with regular panelists such as antique dealer Peter Cook.<ref name=dates/><ref name=love/>
He returned to Adelaide before his retirement in 1997.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=dates/> Upon his retirement in 1997, Hale said he was looking forward to enjoying many aspects of life in Sydney and exploring his interest in information technology, multimedia and the internet as well as travel and antiques.<ref name=dates/>
Hale developed an interest in computer art after buying an Apple Macintosh computer in 1985.<ref name=dates/><ref>{{cite news |last=Landis|first=Christina|date=3 July 1994|title=Clive Hale|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122122847/clive-hale/|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=166|location= |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref>
===Death=== Hale died of cancer in 2005<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2005|title=Former ABC news reader dies |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-06-06/former-abc-news-reader-dies/1586702 |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref> and was survived by his wife economist Helen Lapsley and son Tony.
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15522260%255E911,00.html ''The Advertiser'' story on Hale's death]{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050610232711/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15552305%255E7582,00.html Tribute from former colleague Richard Morecroft published on 9 June 2005] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080604235618/http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/media/s1385756.htm ABC media release on Hale's death]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hale, Clive}} Category:People from Cowell, South Australia Category:Mass media people from Adelaide Category:Australian television presenters Category:Journalists from South Australia Category:1937 births Category:2005 deaths