Media Items - Television - Page 1
"You're a legend, Alan" - Hon.
Tony Abbott, Australian Minister for Health (Heart Foundation
Week speech)
"A welcome dose of inspiration" - 9 TV Network
News
"A cyber celebrity" - 9 TV Network's Getaway
"Australia's Forrest Gump" - 7 TV Network's
Today Tonight
"The senior citizen who is leading the fight against
heart disease" - 10 TV Network news
This site is primarily about an unusual collection
of over 1,200 photos of Sydney taken whilst walking
every street, lane, bush track etc in 284 suburbs
of Sydney.
There have been over 1,458,000 pages viewed by
over 502,000 visitors from 173 countries (latest new ones
are Madagascar, Mauritania, Rwanda, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, and
Togo) - see Visitor
Countries for full list.
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In brief
Alan Waddell was encouraged by his doctor to take up walking.
After a while, repeating the same route every day became boring.
So Alan Waddell decided to walk every street in his own suburb.
In December 2002, this idea of walking every street
was expanded to include neighbouring suburbs and so his odyssey
began.
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Nine Network Today Show 5 September 2008
A segment about Alan's walking life was shown nationally this morning in Nine's Today show. Alan's family greatly appreciate the kindness shown to him by all journalists and photographers. They made him feel at ease, even though he was always very worked up before any media request. This was because he worried that he would let them down by being too nervous to speak properly or not being able to carry out the wishes of the photographer..
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7 TV Network Better Homes and Gardens
25 April 2008
This national TV programme screened a letter-box segment
that had Alan talking about his quirky discoveries and especially
the "devil" box. You can watch the video of the
nearly 4-minute segment here.
They used nine of our favourites (from Artarmon, Belfield,
Enmore, Erskineville, Freshwater, Kings Park, North Curl Curl,
Petersham and Wheeler Heights); you can see them plus 72 others
on our website starting here
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9 TV Network News
21 September 2007
Nine reporter Dale Paget was there as Alan completed his
250th suburb, Northbridge. The event was promoted by a video
on the network's web site and covered in their 6pm news (also
screened on Qantas flights).
Nine News questions Alan at Northbridge’s
Fig Tree Point.
Reporter Dale Paget congratulates Alan
as 20-year veteran of Nine News, cameraman Brendan Donohoe,
completes his shot.
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7 TV Network's
Today Tonight 1 August 2007
Three years to the week following its first story, the Seven
Network's Today Tonight has carried a follow-up item
on Alan. As he walked the scenic areas of Balmain and Dover
Heights, he told the 1.3 million viewers that his vascular
surgeon said "if I had not been walking every day for
the last four years I would not be able to walk at all today."
The item was also carried by Sky News in Australia and New
Zealand.
Today Tonight have an article
on their website about Alan titled
"The secret to living longer"
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Andrew Bourke interviews Alan in Gladstone
Park, Balmain, for a follow-up segment on the Seven
network’s national Today Tonight programme.
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Cameraman Shane’s spectacular cityscape
sequences at sunset concluded the item.
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Heart
Foundation Week launch 2 May 2006
ABC-TV (Sydney/NSW/ACT)
Seven News (National and Sydney/NSW/ACT)
National Nine News (Sydney and NSW/ACT)
Ten News (Sydney and NSW/ACT)
Sky News (Australia and New Zealand)
The Heart Foundation ambassadors at the "Walk
of Life" launch: Alan,
Elka Graham, Olympic swimming silver medallist, Bill Granger,
TV chef, Tony Abbott, Federal Minister for Health.
At age 91, Alan has his first experience
of a media scrum. He is appearing for the Heart Foundation
in Centennial Park.
All four TV networks interviewed Alan for
their Heart Foundation prime-time news items:
Channel 7
Channel 9
ABC
Channel 10
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For the Getaway TV Program please see Media
TV Page 2
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