Rob Kelvin is a former Australian TV news presenter. He presented the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide alongside the late Kevin Crease until early 2007. Rob retired in December 2010.
Rob Kelvin Age|Rob Kelvin Height
Rob was born on September 20, 1944, in Adelaide, South Australia. He stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches.
Rob Kelvin Family
Information on his parents, siblings, or extended family is still under review. However, this information will be updated soon.
Rob Kelvin Educational Background
He attended Woodville High School and studied economics. In 1971, he joined Lee Murray’s Radio School in Melbourne.
Rob Kelvin Wife
He is the husband of Anna Kelvin(Betteanne Kelvin). He married her in 1966. Rob married Anna in 1966, and they had two sons, Richard and Jesse. Richard was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1983 when he was 15.
Suspected serial killer Bevan Spencer von Einem, a leading suspect in Adelaide‘s unsolved Family Murders, which saw five young men abducted and killed between 1979 and 1983, was convicted of Richard’s murder on November 1984 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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He is the father of Jesse Kelvin and the late Richard Kelvin. Richard was kidnapped, tortured and murdered at the age of 15, in 1983. The main suspect was serial killer Bevan Spencer-a leading suspect in Adelaide’s unsolved Family Murders, which saw five young men abducted and killed between 1979 and 1983.
Spencer was convicted of teenager Richard’s murder in late 1984 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. People do confuse between Rob Kelvin and Richard Kelvin. Rob is the father of Richard.
Richard being Rob’s son was abducted at about 6.15 p.m. on Sunday 5 June 1983 from a laneway off Ward Street, North Adelaide. To avoid all this confusion, Rob Kelvin is still alive.
Rob Kelvin Career|Rob Kelvin Channel 9|Rob Kelvin Newsreader
Rob joined NWS9 in 1979. He did various roles in presenting and reporting. He became a newsreader in 1983. He joined Kevin Crease at the news desk in 1987.
Kelvin’s sporting coverage has included working on the Commonwealth Games in both Brisbane (1982) and Auckland (1990) and covering the Adelaide editions of the Australian Grand Prix on track from 1985-1995. A long-time motor racing fan, Kelvin was also tracking commentator for more than 15 years at Rowley Park Speedway and later at its replacement Speedway Park.
Kelvin presented his final regular bulletin on New Year’s Eve 2010, ending his 32-year career with the Nine Network. He continued to appear as a stand-in presenter for 6 pm news bulletins for Channel 9 in Adelaide during 2011.
Rob Kelvin And Kevin Crease|Rob Kelvin South Australia
He was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed with cancer. Kelvin presented with Kelly Nestor and then Michael Smyth until he retired in December 2010.
Crease died on 12 April 2007, aged 70 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Following his death, Crease was posthumously inducted into the South Australian Media Hall of Fame.
The award was accepted by his son, Tom Crease, at the awards ceremony held on 28 April 2007, at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Later that week NWS-9 aired Farwell Creasey which was the top-rating program in Adelaide for the week.
Rob Kelvin Net Worth
He has a net worth of $1.4 million.
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Rob Kelvin Retirement|Where Is Rob Kelvin Now
Back on October 30, 2010, it was reported that: Rob has been the face of South Australia’s news for three decades, but at 6.30 pm on December 31, Rob Kelvin will get up from the Channel 9 news desk for the last time, walk out the Tynte St studio doors and into retirement.
The 66-year-old has told the Sunday Mail the New Year’s Eve news bulletin will be his last, ending his 32-year career with the network.
From January 3 he will be replaced by Kate Collins and Michael Smyth. Apart from getting to spend more time with his wife Anna, 64, and son Jesse, 38, Kelvin is looking forward to another aspect of retirement – being able to roll up his sleeves and show off the tattoo he’s had to keep hidden from viewers since 2005.
“I got it in Tahiti – we were there on holiday and there was a guy in a shack on the beach full of surfboards and skateboards and dreadlocks,” Kelvin said.
“His name was Joseph Samuela and people were coming from all over the world for tattoos. I just thought ‘What a moment! If you’re ever going to get a tattoo I’m going to get one now’.”
The small, black tattoo – a tribal depiction of a sea turtle – sits on the inside of his right forearm, over a bloodline to his heart. “It’s for conservation – keep the oceans clean, keep the turtles alive and the whole planet will live,” Kelvin said. “It was a spur of the moment thing and I’ll be one of the few people who can leave it at one tattoo.”
Kelvin’s retirement announcement was not altogether unexpected – in May, the local media went into overdrive when Nine issued a Friday afternoon press release announcing he would be replaced by Collins during a month’s long service leave.
Many speculated those weeks were really a litmus test for Collins’ and Smyth’s on-air chemistry, a preview of what the station’s 2011 news line-up would be. Since then his appearances on the Nine newsdesk have been sporadic; he returns to screens tomorrow after wrapping up another three months’ leave.
But Kelvin said his retirement had come about simply because “it’s the right time”.”I’ve just had three months off which has been a fair sort of dress rehearsal for retirement,” he said. “I guess first and foremost the reason is that I’m 66 years of age.
“For some years I’ve had 65 as a rough target and a couple of years ago I spoke to Tony (Agars, Nine News director) and said I might pull stumps at 65, he said, ‘ooh, can you hang on?’. “And it’s been a terrific year, I’ve really enjoyed this last year too.”
Kelvin started on Nine’s news team in 1979 as a sports presenter before teaming up with Caroline Ainslie in his first stint as a news anchor in 1983.
The news desk proved to be his rightful home, although that first year he endured the awful pain of losing his 15-year-old son Richard, who was murdered by Bevan Spencer Von Einem.
It was in 1987 that Kelvin found his true deskmate – Kevin Crease – with whom he forged a 20-year partnership that became the trusted face of Nine’s nightly SA news.
That partnership came to a sad end on April 2007, when Kelvin was forced to present a tough story – Crease’s death from cancer at the age of 70. That night Kelvin stoically read the intro to the news report next to an empty chair, with Crease’s jacket hanging on the back.
While the newsman said he would miss the thrill of chasing the big stories, the thrill of waking up to a day without deadlines was even greater. “No deadlines, that’s the amazing thing about retirement,” he said. “Once upon a time, I had a wristwatch that had six alarms on it and they were different things that I would have to do at different times during the day and it would go off for all these different things. And I haven’t missed a deadline that I’m aware of in 32 years.”
It’s that dedication to his work that has earned Kelvin the respect of his colleagues – news director Tony Agars has nothing but praise for him.
“He’s a great bloke, full of integrity and you need people like Rob around,” Mr. Agars said. “His influence on the bulletin has been nothing short of brilliant and we love him to bits.” Mr. Agars insisted Kelvin’s work at Nine would continue, although he was not ready to reveal in what capacity. “Rob now reads through until the end of the year,” Mr. Agars said.
“After that, it’s not the end for us. Rob is quite keen and I’m certainly very keen to have Rob with us for a while yet. We’re talking about some projects now that Rob can get his teeth into and certainly I reckon you’ll see Rob reading news as we’ve got holidays and things like that coming up.”
Meanwhile, Kelvin – who notes with glee he will start his retirement on 1/1/11 – couldn’t be happier about his decision to walk away from the news desk.
“I don’t think I’m going to miss it,” he said. “As for not doing it, I don’t know, 30 years is probably enough.”
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