John Riddell

John Riddell (born September 1956) is an Australian former television and radio presenter. He is best known for his thirty-year association with the Seven Network's television station in Adelaide, SAS-7 where he anchored Seven News bulletins from 1990 to his retirement in late 2019. Career Riddell began his media career with a cadetship at Messenger Newspapers in Adelaide. Riddell then moved into radio where he worked at 5DN and then as a foreign correspondent for the Macquarie Radio Network. While in London covering the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten for Macquarie in 1979, Riddell caused a security scare and was ejected from Australia House when he was mistaken for a bomber when he was seen with an unscrewed telephone receiver with its wires connected to a small black cassette recorder as he attempted to send a pre-recorded report back to Australia. He then moved into television, initially working at TVW-7 in Perth before returning to Adelaide where he started working at NWS-9 in 1981.