Alison Drower, radio and television journalist and presenter, has died in hospital from cancer.
Although her career was largely in radio, including working alongside Doug Mulray and Ian Rogerson, she became a familiar face as a presenter on MTV Music Television on the Nine Network in the late 1980s and early ’90s. It was a gig that made her subject to parody, in particular by Jane Turner in Fast Forward sketches, but she was flattered by the attention. “I think it’s very flattering, particularly because it is a continual thing… rather than just a one-off. This means I exist!,” she told TV Week in 1990.
She also hosted Nine’s coverage of the National Rock Eisteddfod.
She went on to become Regional News Director for TV and Radio with Southern Cross Austereo, which included oversight of the local news updates that aired on Southern Cross Ten and Southern Cross Television.
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Her other television credits included RPM and V8 Supercars coverage.
She had most recently been working freelance with radio network ARN, supporting new recruits into the industry.
Source: Radioinfo. TV Week, 6 October 1990.
