Bill Woods is best known as the presenter, alongside Sandra Sully, of Network Ten's Ten News at Five in Sydney and Sports Tonight.
22 Facts About Bill Woods
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In 1982, Bill Woods graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Writing at Canberra College of Advanced Education and in early 1983, began another three-month course in Commercial Radio Broadcasting at the Australian Film and Television School.
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In early 1984, Bill Woods was offered a journalism cadetship with Radio 2WS in Sydney.
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Bill Woods filled all kinds of news reporting and presenting roles, as well as major sporting event coverage.
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Bill Woods began his television career with Network Ten in 1989.
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Bill Woods began as a reporter, progressing to fill-in presenting on weekends and by the end of the year became the main sports anchor alongside Ian Leslie in Ten's half-hour evening news.
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Bill Woods was the presenter for Ten's National Basketball League coverage from 1992 to the mid-1990s, as well as acting as play-by-play commentator for Sydney Kings home games.
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Bill Woods continued in the news room as regular weekend presenter on Ten's Sports Tonight from 1996 to 2005, as well as acting as a back-up presenter to Tim Webster on weeknights.
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Bill Woods was the face of Ten's motorsport coverage from 1997 to 2006.
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Bill Woods hosted the magazine programme RPM, six of those years with former World Champion Barry Sheene.
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Sheene and Bill Woods anchored and commentated on the World Motorcycle Championship.
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In 2004 Bill Woods filled the role of commentator in the V8 Supercar Championships Series alongside regular commentator Neil Crompton.
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In January 2009, Bill Woods replaced Ron Wilson as presenter of Ten News at Five in Sydney.
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Bill Woods's time presenting Ten News at Five in Sydney and his time at the network was ended abruptly as the Network Ten moved all Ten News at Five broadcasts to a single-anchor format in late 2012, his last broadcast aired on 29 November 2012.
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Bill Woods currently co-hosts SportsFan Clubhouse on 7mate, which is a sports entertainment show made up of sports news, views and social media.
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In 2021, Bill Woods was commentator on Seven Network's new series Ultimate Tag.
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Bill Woods fronted Ten's national news coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was prime-time anchor of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games telecast.
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Bill Woods worked as a reporter on the ill-fated 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
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Bill Woods has hosted the 2007 Rugby World Cup from France, interviewed David Beckham as well as hosting LA Galaxy's exhibition match with Sydney FC, as well as numerous Australian Grand Prix, Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, Gold Coast Indy 300 and Bathurst 1000 telecasts amongst others.
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Bill Woods has anchored five Logie award-winning telecasts: four for the Bathurst 1000 coverage, one for the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
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Bill Woods has anchored and commentated on a variety of other events and series, including the 2007 and 2010 Federal Election telecasts, Triathlon Grand Prix and Australian Ladies Masters golf tournament.
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In 2009 and 2010 Bill Woods hosted a two-hour sports variety show called Thursday Night Live on the One HD channel.