Michael Schildberger
Michael Julius Schildberger (4 April 1938 – 2 June 2010) was an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author. He is best known for hosting "A Current Affair" in the 1970s. Career. Schildberger began his media career in 1955 when he joined "The Sun News-Pictorial" as a copy boy and subsequently became a cadet reporter. In 1958 he moved to GTV 9 where he remained for the next twenty years. During the 1970s he was executive producer and national host of "A Current Affair". For that role, he was awarded a 1976 Logie Award for Best TV  Interviewer. While at "A Current Affair" he conducted the first full-length television interview with singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, who had only previously done brief group press conferences. The interview was in conjunction with Diamond's 1975-76 "Thank You Australia" tour and nationally broadcast live concert. After leaving Channel 9, Schildberger worked for several years as Director of News for ATV 10 and FOX-FM. He then moved to Melbourne radio station 3LO where he hosted the morning program, with a short stint at 3DB. In 1984 he founded the media production company Business Essentials. Schildberger was diagnosed with  prostate cancer in 1997. He achieved remission, and became a strong advocate of positron emission tomography. The cancer returned in early 2010. Schildberger died at the Cabrini Hospital in Prahran on 2 June 2010.