Claim: Paul Bongiorno was born in 1944 and has worked in the television industry since 1974.
Evidence: Paul Damian Bongiorno AM (born 1944) is an Australian political journalist and commentator. Bongiorno started in television at the Seven Network in Melbourne in 1974, moved to WIN TV in Wollongong later that year, then moved to Network Ten in Brisbane in 1978 as a reporter and, for a time, a weather presenter.