Cancer. Died December 13, 2010.

Australian television presenter, best known as the presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Sydney news bulletins between 1956 and 1983. Dibble joined the ABC after the end of World War II. He started as a clerk in the accounts department. His voice soon attracted attention, and in Canberra he gained his first ABC job in radio doing voice-overs.

Dibble was best known as the senior newsreader for ABC-TV, beginning with the first televised news bulletin on ABN-2 Sydney on 5 November 1956. He reported the biggest news stories of the period, including the Soviet intervention in the Hungarian Revolution, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt, Apollo 11, and Cyclone Tracy.

He appeared as himself in episodes of the ABC-TV comedy series Our Man In Canberra and Our Man In The Company episodes, narrated segments of the radiophonic works What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me and Hot Bananas, written by Russell Guy and originally broadcast on radio station 2JJ. Dibble also did voice-over work for many newsreels, documentaries and educational films.

Spanning almost 30 years, his career at the ABC ended with his retirement in 1983. His last broadcast was on 10 June of that year.