Frank Warrick
{{Short description|Australian journalist and newsreader (1944–2021)}}
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{{infobox person
| name = Frank Warrick
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|OAM}}
| birth_name = Francis Michael Warrick
| birth_place = Australia
| birth_date = 1944
| death_place =
| death_date = 11 May 2021 (aged 76)
| occupation = News presenter, journalist, former DJ
| employer = Seven Network, Nine Network
| known_for = Newsreader at Seven Brisbane
}}
Francis Michael Warrick {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (1944 – 11 May 2021) was an Australian journalist and newsreader and TV game show host.{{cite web |title=Stalwart Queensland TV newsreader Frank Warrick dies |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/qld-stalwart-newsreader-frank-warrick-dies/100130860 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU |date=11 May 2021}}
Biography
Warrick began his career in radio as a disc jockey in Toowoomba in 1963 with AM radio station 4GR,{{cite web | title=Obituary: Frank Warrick – Television.AU | website=Television.AU – The History of Australian Television | url=https://televisionau.com/2021/05/obituary-frank-warrick.html | access-date=2021-06-18}}{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotoday.com.au/4gr-90-years-queensland-s-first-commercial-station/ |title=4GR 90 Years – Queensland’s First Commercial Station |publisher=Radiotoday.com.au |date= |accessdate=2021-06-18}} and in 1965 he was the first voice heard on the new Gold Coast AM radio station 4GG.{{cite web|url=http://www.radioheritage.net/Story435.asp |title=4GG Gold Coast - The Showbiz Radio Station of Australia |publisher=Radioheritage.net |date= |accessdate=2021-06-18}} Warrick joined Seven Brisbane as a newsreader in 1976 and served in the position until his retirement in 2001, including a role as co-presenter of 13 years opposite Kay McGrath. In 1991, prison escapee Harold John McSweeney surrendered to Warrick and a television helicopter crew on the Queensland Darling Downs, purportedly to avoid being shot by the Queensland Police.{{cite web|url=https://www.boggoroadgaol.com.au/2015/10/the-day-they-smashed-truck-through.html|title=The Day They Smashed a Truck Through the Prison Gates (1991)}} Warrick hosted the game show The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime in 1999—before the program was taken over by sports journalist Sandy Roberts. Warrick was also a regular host on the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. In 1994, Warrick was awarded the OAM for "services to the media, to environment, and to the community".{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883182 |title=Awards list |publisher=honours.pmc.gov.au |date= |accessdate=2021-06-18}}
He died aged 76 on 11 May 2021 following a five-year battle with dementia.{{cite web | url = https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/tributes-flow-for-queensland-newsreader-frank-warrick-dead-at-76-20210511-p57qtm.html | last = Garcia | first = Jocelyn | title = Tributes flow for Queensland newsreader Frank Warrick, dead at 76 | accessdate = 11 May 2021 | date = 11 May 2021 | website=Brisbane Times}}
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Category:Seven News presenters
Category:Australian television newsreaders and news presenters