Who is dennis cometti

His versatility and immense knowledge, smooth delivery, quick wit and a penchant for wordplay enabled him to perfect a distinctive, entertaining style which stood out in a highly competitive form of media.

Commuting regularly between his hometown and the eastern states, Cometti was best-known Australia-wide for his football work, calling the AFL from its inception in , but he also covered cricket and the Olympic Games as well as reading the sports news bulletins for both Seven and Nine in Perth. He broadcast his first Test cricket match for the ABC in at age 23, the youngest to do so for the national broadcaster, and continued in this role for the next 13 years alongside iconic commentator Alan McGilvray.

Actor Eric Bana was another to 'do' Cometti. He also commentated at the Summer Olympics swimming competitions in Barcelona , Atlanta and Sydney Cometti has broadcast more Australian Olympic Gold Medals than any other commentator of the television era.

While at Nine, Cometti was openly stated as one of the network's highest paid personalities, at a price Seven said they would not match. However, with Seven regaining the rights to broadcast AFL games starting from , on 8 December it was announced that Cometti re-signed with the Seven Network to "call" games radio-like on AFL alongside Bruce McAvaney , another specialist caller rather than commentator. In addition, Cometti presents a special weekly segment during the sport report during the evening news.

By season's end he had been voted Television Caller of the Year by the Australian Football Media Association for the sixth consecutive time. In Cometti joined Melbourne radio station 3AW to broadcast one AFL match per round almost always Saturday afternoon and host a 2 hour talkback preview prior to that game.

In , he re-joined The West Australian newspaper to write a fortnightly column and weekly blogs. Cometti currently resides in the Perth suburb of Yokine in the same house he spent his childhood.

Except for his time in Melbourne, he has lived in the same house all of his life. Commetti will continue to call games for Channel 7 during the AFL season. During those 5 years he was voted AFMA Australian Football Media Association television broadcaster of the year 5 times for his disposition not to criticise the game's umpire's decisions, rather to call it after their decisions and "call-on" from their decisions, never fielding a view.

In he was awarded the Alf Brown Award as the games foremost media personality for awareness of the game. In a Melbourne newspaper Herald Sun annual poll he recorded increasing record percentages for fan popularity over his 5 years with Channel Nine against non-specialist opponents. In both cases his nearest rival was in single figures and did not take into account several commentators on the ABC. Wikimedia Foundation. Cometti — may refer to: Dennis Cometti born , a former Australian rules football player and coach Valerio Cometti, the Italian founder of V12 Design in This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.

In November , however, it was announced that Cometti would continue to call matches for Triple M radio for games in Western Australia. The show also revealed his great-great-grandmother although never charged may have been involved in the deaths of two of her husbands. In , he appeared in a television commercial series for Carlton Draught's Draught Pick iPhone app. In , Cometti was named winner of the Alf Potter Award for that season's most outstanding media personality.

He is married to Velia. They have two children, daughter Ricki born and son Mark born in , who is a professional wrestler known as The Outback Silverback Mark Silva based in Orlando, Florida. Biography Lists News Also Viewed. Dennis Cometti. The basics. The details from wikipedia. Commentary career Early radio career — He commenced his media career as radio announcer in Perth, Western Australia, in as a Top 40 disc jockey at radio station 6KY. Video games Cometti has been the voice-over commentator for the AFL video game series since Awards and honours In , Cometti was named winner of the Alf Potter Award for that season's most outstanding media personality.