Melissa Jane Doyle (born February 10, 1970) is an Australian television personality and co-host of the Seven Network's Sunrise, The Zoo and Where Are They Now.
Early career
Melissa attended the prestigious private school Pymble Ladies' College. She studied communications at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, NSW. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. She gained a cadetship at WIN Television's Canberra bureau in 1990, then moved to Prime Television to become news anchor and general reporter. After her stint at Prime ended in 1995, Doyle joined Channel Seven Sydney as a Canberra based political reporter. Doyle was one of Sunrise's original hosts before it was axed in 1999, before being resurrected in 2000, and which she rejoined in 2002. She also had a stint reading the Seven Late News.
In 2000, she took over as host of Sydney's Today Tonight following the departure of Stan Grant. She stayed until March 2001 when she left for maternity leave.
Sunrise
Doyle returned to Seven from maternity leave in a variety of news and presenting roles before being asked to front a revamped Sunrise program with Chris Reason. After about 8 months, Chris left the program after a recurrence of cancer. David Koch then joined the program as a replacement for Chris.
Together, Doyle and Koch, under the guidance of Executive Producer Adam Boland, eventually surpassed their incumbent opposition and market leaders, the Today Show on Channel Nine.
In 2003 Doyle enjoyed a very public pregnancy with her second child, who was born in December of that year and named Talia.
Doyle was nominated for the Silver Logie as Most Popular Television Presenter in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She was the only female nominated in that category.
Other Work
In October 2007 Doyle's first book, The Working Mothers Survival Guide (co-written with Jo Scard), was published by Allen & Unwin.
In 2008, Doyle fronted a new documentary program on Seven called "The Zoo". After a successful six week run a second series of the program has been commissioned for later in 2008.
Melissa writes a weekly column in the Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne called "Balancing Act". The column talks about her experiences as a working mother.
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