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Amy Parks was born on June 10, 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. Parks is well known for being a former host of Channel Nine's late night interactive quiz series, Quizmania, of which finished on June 24, 2007. She is starting a career in acting and plans to go to America some time next year. June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 37 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $222,022 (2nd) - Product per capita $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006) - Population 5,110,500 (2nd) - Density 22. ...
A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
Channel Nine is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Nine Network, available in major markets across Australia. ...
Quizmania is an Australian phone-in quiz show, based on the British program of the same name, and broadcast on the Nine Network in the late night time slot (post-midnight). ...
June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 190 days remaining. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
Career If Amy Parks is sucssesful in America in getting an acting carrer we might start seeing her in some soap opeara shows.
Youth
Amy Parks’ career has been one of extreme diversity. Starting at a young age as a GSODA junior (a local Geelong Theatre group), Amy played various roles on the stage. This gave her great experience for her next big part as the lead singer of the Sweethearts of Swing (a jazz band housed at Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College). Her role in the Sweethearts not only took her performing all over Australia but also earned her a ticket to perform at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival.[citation needed] Poster designed by Keith Haring The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland. ...
Television After being accepted to RMITs Bachelor of Journalism course, Amy became very involved in community television taking on the hosting role for three seasons of Raucous (a live-to-air music show), and also became both producer and presenter of Newsline and Pluck. It was during her time at RMIT that Amy was asked to join the team at Fox Footy and present 26 episodes of Young Guns (a show focussing on the lives and careers of young footballers). The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now officially known only as RMIT University), is a university in Melbourne, Australia. ...
The phrase community television has been used somewhat differently around the world. ...
Fox Footy Channel is a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football, in particular the AFL. The channel was created after the Foxtel consortium won the rights to the AFL; formerly a key feature of Optus Vision programming. ...
Returning to university after her time on Fox Footy, Amy went on to finish her degree at RMIT, whilst still doing various freelancing journalism and presenting activities. These included times at The Age newspaper, Media Giants and the Essendon Football Club, as well as hosting Channel 31’s Real Time Racing, and conducting a series of interviews over three years at the annual Falls Festival for a historical DVD. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ...
Channel 31 is the frequency reserved for community television stations in Australian capital cities. ...
The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ...
Amy’s latest project saw her presenting a children’s DVD, Talking Time (released commercially September 2006 in Australia, Canada, USA & NZ). In this role Amy played beside a collection of puppets in a DVD that is aimed at increasing parent’s awareness of the importance of instilling good speech practices in their children.[citation needed]
Quizmania In July 2006, Amy joined the team at Crackerjack and the Nine Network to be one of the stars of their late night television program Quizmania The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. ...
Quizmania is an Australian phone-in quiz show, based on the British program of the same name, and broadcast on the Nine Network in the late night time slot (post-midnight). ...
On Monday, June 4 2007 Amy appeared as one of the mob members on 1 vs. 100 (Australian game show) with Nikki Osborne, Brodie Young, Suze Raymond and Katrina Conder. Unfortunately, she got eliminated in question two along with Suzy (who looked over Amy's answer) and Katrina (who thought there were more than four suits in a deck of playing cards) for not knowing her probability in a pack of playing cards.-1...
Nikki Osborne (born 19 July 1981 in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia) is a qualified, professionally-trained actress, represented by Barbara Gange Management currently engaged to Jeremy Starr. ...
Quizmania is a phone-in quiz show currently broadcast on the Nine Networks late night time slot. ...
Suze Raymond hosting Quizmania Suze Raymond (born June 1984) is an Australian television presenter from Melbourne, Australia. ...
Katrina Conder hosting an episode of Quizmania. ...
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Music Parks was the lead vocalist of Melbourne-based band Loomset until 2004. The band has a pop/rock sound, with Radiohead, Weezer, Mercury Rev and Dandy Warhols cited as influences. Loomset were formed in early 1999 by Steve Tough and D.T., and the early years were spent building up a reputation on Melbournes live circuit and recording the Elevator Music and Talking in Circles CDs, which were distributed for promotional purposes. ...
For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ...
For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ...
Radiohead are an English rock band that formed in Oxfordshire in 1986. ...
Weezer is an American Grammy-nominated rock band from Los Angeles, California. ...
Mercury Rev are an American rock music group, formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. ...
The Dandy Warhols is a psychedelic power pop band formed in Portland, Oregon by Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Taylor) (vocals, guitar), Zia McCabe (keyboard), Peter Leow (born Holmstrom) (guitar), and Eric Hedford (drums). ...
See also Loomset were formed in early 1999 by Steve Tough and D.T., and the early years were spent building up a reputation on Melbournes live circuit and recording the Elevator Music and Talking in Circles CDs, which were distributed for promotional purposes. ...
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