Tags: Presenter, Radio Host.
Sir Eric Herbert Pearce OBE (5 March 1905 – 12 April 1997) was a broadcaster and television pioneer in Australia. Pearce was born in Hampshire England and had an early career in radio on the BBC before migrating to Australia where he was a long-term newsreader on Melbourne TV stations HSV Channel 7 (1956–65) and GTV Channel 9 (late 1950s–74 1976–78). Pearce was married three times: Ella Mary (fl. 1933); Jean Mary Macartney (1909–1956); and Betty (died c. 1987).