Recognition
Nominated for a silver Logie in 2004 and 2005 for Best TV Presenter, Koch has helped Seven and Sunrise's ratings against the Nine Network's Today.
Koch has written several practical books on family and business financial management; he has also published a book of jokes compiled from his daily joke segment on TV, this was parodied in an episode of The Chaser's War on Everything where reading jokes from "Kochie" was the only thing that got a laugh at a stand-up comedy club. In a survey conducted by Money Management newspaper, his peers recognised him as one of the 10 most influential people of all time in the financial services industry. There may be a conflict of interest in this recognition he received from Money Management newspaper given he set up the publication via his trade publishing group Australian Financial Press (see above).
Koch was frequently parodied on the television show Comedy Inc., played by Paul McCarthy. Reader's Digest listed him in the top 50 Most Trusted Australians.
In 2007, readers of Banking and Finance Magazine voted Koch Australia's Best Finance Journalist while the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia presented him with the "Small Business Champion award" in recognition of his support of Australian small business.
He was named 2007 Australian Father of the Year by the Australian Father's Day Council on 31 August 2007.
He appeared on Australian soap opera Home and Away in 2007 and he appeared on All Saints in 2004 as an Elvis impersonater.
Koch is currently the joint number one ticket-holder of AFL team Port Adelaide Football Club along with Australian model and actress Teresa Palmer. and is a shareholder in the Sydney Kings basketball team.
Through a Sunrise campaign, and his involvement in ShareLife, Koch influenced the Federal Government to establish a national authority to oversee Australia's organ transplant system. Previously Australia had the highest level of registered organ donors (per head of population) in the world but one of the lowest transplant rates. The new national authority aims to bring Australian transplant rates up to world's best practice. Koch sits on the Advisory Committee and chairs the audit committee of the Authority.
Koch also played the voice of the "Australian Newsreader" in the 2009 Dreamworks film, Monsters vs. Aliens.
He has climbed Mt Kilimanjaro twice to raise money for charity and walked the Kokoda Track.
On October 2, 2012, Koch was announced as the chairman of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
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