Career
Quartermain began his career as a cadet journalist with Leader Newspapers in January 1980. He then joined the American Broadcasting Company in 1982 where he worked as a radio and television journalist covering general news, politics, police rounds, finance, industrial affairs and sport. American Broadcasting Company cadet
In December 1984, Quartermain joined Network Ten where, during the 1980s, he covered events such as the Seoul Olympics, Wimbledon, The Ashes and the world gymnastics championships.
In 1991, he hosted the sports program Sportsweek.
He also covered Commonwealth games, the Sydney Olympics and other special sporting events including American Federation of Labor-Congress, Rugby League, Basketball and Swimming. From 1998 until 2004, he appeared on shows such as The Panel, providing sports reports, and commentated Australian Football League matches for Network Ten when they gained the rights in 2002.
Starting with the 2009 season, he has co-hosted with Robert Walls the new football discussion show One Week at a Time on Network Ten"s HD channel One. After Network Ten lost the rights to televise American Federation of Labor-Congress, Quartermain remained at the network, retaining his role as weekday sports presenter for the Ten Eyewitness News bulletin in Melbourne.
In 2013, he became the Friday presenter of Ten Eyewitness News, with Mal Walden wanting to downscale his on-air role.
In December 2013, after presenting the main news bulletin for two days per week for some months, Quartermain replaced Walden and became the full-time presenter of Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne. Stephen was also an occasional fill-in host on morning show, 9am with David and Kim. Triple M
Quartermain began his American Federation of Labor-Congress radio commentary career at Magic in 1995 before joining Triple M where he worked from 1997 to 2011.
3AW
In 2013, Quartermain joined radio station 3AW as an American Federation of Labor-Congress commentator but left at the end of the season following his appointment as the chief news presenter at Network Ten Melbourne.
