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Bill Woods
Bill Woods has now been broadcasting for 29 years, racking up 22 of those with Network Ten.
His first foray into the media was as a DJ for country radio station 2BS in 1983. The Bachelor of Arts Journalism graduate moved on to report and present news for Radio 2WS in Sydney before becoming that network’s sports director in 1988. Part-time work for TEN during the 88 Olympics lead to his full-time recruitment early in 1989.
Since joining, Bill has become a TEN stalwart, versatile in production, reporting, hosting and anchoring. Among the many highlights were anchoring the 1994 Commonwealth Games from Victoria, Canada as well as TEN’s 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games news broadcasts.
He returned to his roots in 2006, anchoring the Weekend 5PM and Early News national bulletins while still fronting TEN special events like the 2007 Rugby World Cup, 2007 Federal Election coverage, the David Beckham interview and match telecast, Australian F1 Grand Prix and Australian Motogp. He also anchored for two years the weekly two-hour live sports show Thursday Night Live on ONE.
In 2009, he began co-anchoring the weekday 5PM bulletin with Deborah Knight, thrown in the deep end from day one with live reporting from the Victorian Bushfires. Continuing a trend for TEN news coverage of major events, he also co-anchored the bulletin from the Christchurch earthquake in 2010.
Together with Sandra Sully, Bill currently co-hosts the Ten News at Five.
In his many years with the TEN newsroom Bill has won numerous individual awards for sports reporting which has taken him around the world to major events, such as the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games at which he fronted TEN’s extensive news coverage.
On the production side he has collected on behalf of the network five Logie awards (4 for the Bathurst 1000 coverage he anchored and one for the 1994 Commonwealth Games). He has also anchored and commentated on a variety of events and series such as the Australian F1 Grand Prix, Australian Motogp, the Gold Coast Indy, Triathlon Grand Prix, NBL Basketball (on which he designed and manufactured a board game), International Rugby, Australian Ladies Masters Golf and the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
In that time Bill wrote his first book, the best-selling Legends Of Speed, about Australia’s great race drivers. His second book, a biography of Muslim rugby league player Hazem El Masri, was released in March 2007 and had sold out by the end of the year.
He has recently written his first work of fiction, aimed at teenage readers.
Woods is still an active sportsman, reader, musician, fisherman and home handyman who values his time with his wife Leeanne and three grown-up children on Sydney's northern beaches.
