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Introduction
Bruce McAvaney is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as annual special events such as the Brownlow Medal. McAvaney is well known for his commentary of AFL matches as well as covering every Summer Olympic Games from Moscow 1980 to the Tokyo 2020.
Early life
| Name | Bruce McAvaney |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Sports broadcaster |
| Age | 69 years |
| Height | 1.75m |
Bruce William McAvaney OAM was born on June 22, 1953 (age 69 years) in Australia. He is the son of an Adelaide accountant, McAvaney developed an early interest in sport and race calling. After attending Woodville High School (and failing Year 12) he spent five years as a Telecom clerk. Then in 1976 during a day off work, McAvaney travelled to Kilmore, Victoria, to bet on some races. There, he met Kevin Hillier, an Adelaide race caller, who suggested McAvaney help him out back in Adelaide. This launched his career in the sports media, joining Adelaide radio station 5DN, calling horse races and later hosting a sports show.
Television career
Bruce McAvaney moved to television in 1978, when he joined Adelaide station ADS-7 to read sport news and produce the weekly Racetrack program. His career received a boost when colleague Sandy Roberts covered the 1980 Moscow Olympics for Seven, and Bruce was chosen to host the Adelaide end of the telecast for the station. From 1981 until 1983, McAvaney was the chief sports presenter for Seven News in Adelaide.
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McAvaney was also the lead commentator for Seven’s telecasts of the South Australian National Football League competition, calling the 1983 SANFL Grand Final with former player Robert Oatey. He also hosted the league’s Magarey Medal telecasts. In late 1983, he moved to Melbourne and joined Ten Melbourne to read sport news. The following year he was the secondary host and commentated track and field events at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics for the Ten Network.
He also called the Melbourne Cup and hosted various major sporting telecasts for Ten between 1985 and 1988, including the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, the 1987 World Athletics Championships in Rome and the 1988 IAAF Grand Prix in Berlin. McAvaney went on to co-host Ten’s telecast of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a role which won him significant acclaim.
In 1989, McAvaney negotiated a two-year premature end to his contract with Ten, and returned to the Seven Network on the condition that he could cover the 1992 Olympics.
Since his return to Seven, McAvaney has hosted and called a broad range of the network’s sports coverage, including the Melbourne Cup, World Athletics Championships, Motor Racing, the Australian Open Tennis, Australian Masters Golf and all Summer Olympic Games from Barcelona 1992 to Rio 2016, except London 2012 (because Seven did not have the rights to those Games). His extensive history covering Olympic Games has led to the nickname “Mr Olympics”.
In an interview with the Herald Sun, McAvaney announced informally that he would no longer commentate Men’s games at the Australian Open so that he could optimise his health over summer and for other sport events.
Bruce McAvaney had been calling the Open since 1990 and been chief caller alongside Jim Courier since 2005. 2017 was only the second time he had missed the tournament, attributing that later to his cancer diagnosis.
McAvaney was the MC of the Brownlow Medal for over two decades (though at different time periods), between 1990 and 2018. Since 2018, McAvaney hosted Seven’s coverage of Test cricket, interviewing some of cricket’s most interesting figures in the lunch breaks of the Melbourne & Sydney Tests.
In February 2021, McAvaney announced that he was retiring from calling AFL games because of a desire to reduce his workload. He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2002 for service to sports broadcasting, and to the community through charitable and sporting organisations.
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Bruce McAvaney was also inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in that year. In 2022, he was inducted into the TV Week Logie Hall of Fame, becoming the second sports broadcaster to be inducted.
Wife
Bruce McAvaney was married to his first wife Merry from 1983 to 1991. He met his second wife Anne Johnson, a television journalist and producer, in 1993 while making the show Seasons. With her, he has two children, Sam and Alexandra. He moved his family from Melbourne back to his hometown of Adelaide in 1999. In March 2017, McAvaney revealed he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. As of April 2023, Bruce McAvaney and his wife Anne Johnson are still married.
Bruce McAvaney net worth
How much is Bruce McAvaney worth? Bruce McAvaney net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as a sports broadcaster. Bruce McAvaney’s salary per month and other career earning are over $350,000 dollars annually. His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. He is one of the richest and influential sports broas in Australia. He stands at an appealing height of 1.75m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.
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