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''Nine News: Sunday AM'' was a one-hour bulletin airing at 8am on Sunday mornings, presented by [[Michael Usher]]. [[Stephanie Brantz]] presented sport, finance was presented by [[Ross Greenwood]] and weather was presented by [[Mike Bailey]]. The regular fill-in presenters for the ''Sunday AM News'' were [[Tara Brown]], [[Brett McLeod]] and Elise Mooney. Nine's ''Sunday AM News'' was a one-hour bulletin that was introduced on [[10 August]] [[2008]] as a replacement for the network's long-running current affairs program, ''Sunday''. ''Sunday'', last broadcast on [[3 August]] [[2008]], was axed due to budget cuts in news and current affairs at the Nine Network.<ref name="axing">{{cite news|title=Nine takes axe to Nightline & Sunday|url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24076545-2,00.html?from=public_rss|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=2008-07-25|accessdate=2008-09-07}}</ref> |
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Nine's ''Sunday AM News'' featured the [[Laurie Oakes]] political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. With the exception of Melbourne audiences, the bulletin had continued to lag behind ''[[Sunrise (TV program) #Weekend Sunrise|Weekend Sunrise]]'', which often wins in the ratings by a ratio of 3:1.{{Fact|date=November 2008}} During the non-ratings period, the bulletin was half-an-hour long. |
Nine's ''Sunday AM News'' featured the [[Laurie Oakes]] political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. With the exception of Melbourne audiences, the bulletin had continued to lag behind ''[[Sunrise (TV program) #Weekend Sunrise|Weekend Sunrise]]'', which often wins in the ratings by a ratio of 3:1.{{Fact|date=November 2008}} During the non-ratings period, the bulletin was half-an-hour long. |
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Revision as of 04:52, 4 February 2009
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network. Previously known as National Nine News, it has traditionally been the most popular service in the country, however in recent years, the Seven Network's Seven News has become the highest rating evening news service on a national basis.[1][2]
Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney (TCN9), Melbourne (GTV9), Brisbane (QTQ9) and Darwin (NTD) alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network affiliates in Adelaide (NWS9) and Perth (STW9). A supplementary regional news for the Gold Coast in Queensland is also produced by the news service.
National bulletins
Early Morning News
Nine News: Early Morning News is a half-hour bulletin airing at 5:00am weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by Amber Higlett from Monday to Thursdays and a Joanna Townsend on Fridays. The main fill-in presenter for the Early Morning News is Sarah Harris. The bulletin is also shown as the morning edition of the Qantas In-flight News.
Today
Today is the network's breakfast program, shown from 5:30-9am weekdays, consisting of talk, entertainment and human-interest stories, as does rival program Sunrise. Today is hosted by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson. Georgie Gardner presents half-hourly news bulletins with Cameron Williams (sport) and Steve Jacobs (weather). Finance is presented by Amber Higlett from Monday to Thursday and Joanna Townsend on friday.Richard Wilkins and Hollywood correspondent Richard Reid report on entertainment stories.
Georgie Gardner and Cameron Williams are the usual fill-in presenters for Today, with either Allison Langdon, Kellie Connolly, Sarah Harris or Amber Higlett filling-in as the news presenter. Andrew Voss or Tim Gilbert are the usual fill-in sport presenters, while Jaynie Seal or Giaan Rooney have filled-in as weather presenters.
Today On Sunday
On 4 January 2009, the Nine Network's CEO David Gyngell and news and current affairs boss John Westacott announced that Today will start broadcasting on Sunday mornings with a program titled Today on Sunday, to replace the Sunday AM Edition of Nine News. The program airs between 7:00 and 10:00am, competing directly with the Seven Network's Weekend Sunrise. The program, was launched on February 1st 2009, and is anchored by Today's current sport's reader Cameron Williams, and ACA reporter and fill-in presenter Leila McKinnon. News is presented by Early Morning News and finance presenter Amber Higlett, and sport is presented by Michael Slater. Finance is presented by Ross Greenwood and Hollywood Gossip is presented by Dana Ward. It also features Nine's chief political commentator Laurie Oakes in his tradtional Sunday morning interview.
AM Edition
Nine News: AM Edition is a half-hour bulletin airing at 11:00am weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by news presenter Kellie Connolly, with finance presented by either Amber Higlett, Joanna Townsend or Elvina Simpson. Fill-in presenters include Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston, Amber Higlett and Elise Mooney. The morning bulletin (originally known as National Nine Morning News) has been broadcast since 1983 and was originally presented by Eric Walters.
Prior to 20 October 2008, the bulletin was known as Morning Edition.
PM Edition
Nine News: PM Edition (introduced in 2004 as the Afternoon Edition) is a half-hour bulletin broadcast at 4:30pm weekdays, presented by Wendy Kingston. Tim Sheridan presents sport, while finance is presented by either Ross Greenwood, Joanna Townsend or Elvina Simpson. Weather is presented by Jaynie Seal on Monday - Thursdays and Mike Bailey presents the weather on Fridays. Fill-in presenters include Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Elise Mooney (news) and Tim Gilbert (sport).
Prior to 20 October 2008, the bulletin was known as the Afternoon Edition. The first presenter of the Afternoon Edition in 2004 was Georgie Gardner. Past presenters who have anchored the PM Edition consist of Mike Munro (2005 - 2006) and Kellie Connolly (2006 - 2008). Nicole Livingstone was also the sport presenter in 2007.
Late News Update
Nine News: Late News Update is a short two-minute bulletin, introduced on 28 July 2008 to replace Nightline, Nine's long-running late night news program. Presented by Wendy Kingston in Sydney, the late headlines are usually aired between 10:30pm and 11:30pm weeknights. On weekends, this update is presented by Jo Hall in Melbourne.
Online bulletins
Nine News Now
Nine News Now is an online bulletin recorded at 3:00pm on weekdays and uploaded an hour later. Presented by Wendy Kingston, the online bulletin was introduced in 2006 and can be viewed and downloaded from ninemsn.com.au, and as a vodcast.
Live streaming
In June 2008, live streaming of the 6pm bulletins in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane was introduced to the Nine News website. These bulletins can be viewed nationwide, regardless of the home market of the viewer.
Local bulletins
Owned-and-operated
Sydney
Nine News Sydney is presented from the network's Sydney news studios by Peter Overton on weekdays and Mark Ferguson at weekends, with Ken Sutcliffe presenting sport from Sunday to Thursday and Stephanie Brantz presenting sport on Friday and Saturday. Jaynie Seal presents the weather from Sunday to Thursday, with Mike Bailey presenting on Friday and Saturday. The bulletin is also simulcast on Hope 103.2 radio station.[3]
The main fill-ins for the bulletin are Michael Usher and Kellie Connolly, with Andrew Voss or Stephanie Brantz on Sport and Mike Bailey with the weather.
Sydney's Nine News was presented by Brian Henderson for 38 years - a record that still stands today. Henderson retired in November 2002, with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley taking over as weeknight anchor. At the time of Henderson's retirement, the rotating weekend anchors were Jim Waley or Kim Watkins.
In 2005, Waley, who was one of the Nine Network's longest serving presenters, was dropped following a year of poor ratings (despite the fact that Nine News Sydney was the leading service in 2003-4) and replaced with then-weekend anchor Mark Ferguson.[4] Nine News Sydney has since struggled in the ratings against top-rating rival Seven News Sydney, and after one week of Peter Overton being in the top job, ratings are reportedly dismal already, the once high-rating bulletin at one stage rated fourth behind Seven, Ten and the ABC.
Mike Munro was the previous weekend newsreader, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26th October 2008.[5] He was replaced by Michael Usher.
In January 2009, Mark Ferguson was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton.[6] Ferguson returned to his weekend newsreading position, which he previously held during Jim Waley's stint as weeknight anchor. The Sydney bulletin follows the Brisbane bulletin in terms of a change in weeknight and weekend anchors, in response to falling ratings in both markets.
Melbourne
Nine News Melbourne is presented from the network's Melbourne news studios by Peter Hitchener on weekdays, with Tony Jones presenting sport and Livinia Nixon presenting the weather. Weekend bulletins are presented by Jo Hall and sport presenter Grant Hackett. This bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station Light FM.
Brian Naylor presented National Nine News Melbourne for 20 years from 1978 to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by Peter Hitchener as weeknight news presenter, while Jo Hall took over Hitchener's existing position as weekend presenter.
Rob Gell was the weeknight weather presenter for 15 years until his surprise sacking in 2003, and was replaced by Livinia Nixon. Gell now works with Seven News Melbourne as the weekend weather presenter.
From July 2008, weekend anchors of Nine News Melbourne began reading the news standing up. Nine has no plans to introduce this format into weeknight bulletins, opting for weeknight anchor Peter Hitchener to sit behind the news desk instead.[7]
In October 2008, swimmer Grant Hackett joined Nine News Melbourne as the weekend sport presenter. Hackett replaced Heath O’Loughlin, who vacated the position to take employment with the North Melbourne Football Club. O'Louglin presented sport for the final time on 5 October 2008.[8]
News updates are presented by a reporter or fill-in presenter during the afternoon and the news anchor for the rest of the evening. Fill-ins for the bulletin include Brett McLeod (News), Christine Ahern (Sport), Carolyne Randoe (News and Weather) and Rachel Rollo (Weather).
Over the summer period of 2008-09, 3AW radio presenter and former WIN News Victoria anchor Denis Walter was appointed as the weekday weather presenter as both Carolyne Randoe and Rachel Rollo were on maternity leave.
Brisbane
Nine News Queensland is presented from the network's Brisbane news studios by Bruce Paige and Melissa Downes, with Ian Healy presenting sport, and Garry Youngberry presenting the weather.
Andrew Lofthouse and Eva Milic will commence as the weekend presenters from 2009, alongside sport presenter Steve Haddan. Paul Burt also presents Surfing and Fishing reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Regular presenter fill-ins for the weekend bulletin include former ABC News presenter Lisa Backhouse, news reporter Sarah Harris and Gold Coast news presenter Rob Readings.
Heather Foord announced her resignation as weeknight presenter on 21 November 2008, citing family reasons. She presented her final bulletin on 5 December.[9] On 27 November 2008, Melissa Downes was appointed co-anchor of the weeknight news, replacing Foord.
On the same day as Foord's resignation, weeknight ABC News Brisbane presenter Andrew Lofthouse announced his resignation from the ABC, to join the Nine News Queensland team, from early 2009, as presenter of the weekend news bulletin.[9] The changes to the presenter line-up follows a poor year of ratings for the 6pm bulletin, which for the second year in a row has been beaten by rival Seven News Brisbane. It was later announced that NBN News Weather presenter Garry Youngberry would also join the team to present weather from early 2009. This followed the departure of Sami Lukis, who has since joined Triple M Sydney.
As of 2008, Nine News Queensland is also broadcast on Imparja Television throughout central Australia, however the telecast is delayed by 30 minutes.
History
Mike London was the weekend presenter alongside Heather Foord until his resignation in June 2003, following an incident where London organised a female fan to complain about the news reading technique of weeknight presenter Bruce Paige, who was at the time co-presenting with Jillian Whiting. London had swapped roles with Paige in the mid 1990s following Paige's return to the Nine Network.
Paige and Foord presented the weeknight bulletin together from late 2004 to December 2008; Jillian Whiting preceded Foord after she took up weekend presenting with Mike London in 2002. Foord returned to weeknight presenting in 2005.
The Brisbane bulletin was the last news program in Australia to use the dual-presenter format on weekends (when London was presenting with Foord), until the Perth bulletin revived it in early 2008. Ironically, QTQ is due to revive its' weekend dual-presenting format.
Wally Lewis was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was found he had epilepsy. He returned to presenting sport during the 2007-08 summer period and also files sports reports. He occasionally fills in if either Steve Haddan or Ian Healy is unavailable.[10] Chris Bombolas was the weekend sports presenter who preceded Haddan, before resigning to become a politician.
John Schluter was the weather presenter until his resignation in September 2006, and now works for rival Seven News Brisbane as the weekday weather presenter.
In 2008 Frank Warrick was the weather presenter for most of the year, before being replaced by Sami Lurkis for the rest of the year.
Gold Coast
Gold Coast News is a regional news service for the Gold Coast. Rob Readings presents the bulletin, after previously serving as its weather presenter. This bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station, 107.3 Life FM. Jillian Whiting or Melissa Downes were the previous anchors of the Gold Coast bulletin until Downes moved to presenting the weekend editions of Nine News Queensland, and Whiting went on maternity leave in 2007.
The bulletin was presented from news studios on the Gold Coast until 3 July 2006, when production was moved to Brisbane; although it has since returned to Nine's Gold Coast studios. It airs at 5:30pm on weeknights and is followed by Nine News Queensland. Carley Walters and Frank Warrick are fill-ins for the bulletin.
Darwin
Nine News Darwin is presented from the network's Darwin news studios by Jonathan Uptin, with Lisa Andrews presenting sport. Uptin replaced previous anchor David Fidler who read the then Eight National News for 15 years until 2000, but was forced to resign after being exposed by The Australian newspaper for falsely claiming he had represented Australia at the Olympics.[11]
Lisa Andrews is the anchor for the weekend bulletin, which comprises of a simulcast of Nine News Sydney followed by local news and sport.
Affiliates
Adelaide
Nine News Adelaide is produced from the WIN Corporation-owned Channel 9 Adelaide news studios by Rob Kelvin and Kelly Nestor, with Kym Dillon presenting sport and Brenton Ragless presenting the weather. The weekday bulletins are simulcast on local radio station 107.9 Life FM. Georgina McGuinness is the weekend anchor with Troy Grey presenting sport and Xavier Minniecon presenting weather.
The Adelaide bulletin was notable for having the last remaining all-male co-anchor lineup (with Kevin Crease and Rob Kelvin), which ended in early 2007 after Crease's death. This was one of the longest serving news duos in Australia lasting from 1988 until 2007. Caroline Anislie presented the news with Rob Kelvin until 1987.
Throughout the 1990s, Deanna Williams was the main fill-in presenter and state political reporter. Following her resignation in March 2002, either Kelvin or Crease would fill in for McGuinness on weekends, but in 2005 the situation arose where all three presenters were unavailable, and weekend sports presenter Mark Bickley had to read the news. Reporter Kate Collins is now the fill-in news presenter on weekends.
Ali Carle from Triple M Adelaide occasionally presents weather along with her sport reporting duties.
Perth
National Nine News Perth is produced from the WIN Corporation-owned Channel 9 Perth news studios by Dixie Marshall and Greg Pearce, with sport presented by Michael Thomson and weather with Angela Tsun. Matt Tinney presents the weekend news whilst Mark Readings presents sport. Ebbeny Faranda is the main weekend fill-in.
The Perth bulletin is currently the least successful Nine News bulletin in Australia, typically holding third or fourth place. This is commonly attributed to the popularity of rival station TVW-7's Seven News Perth, which regularly attracts over 100,000 viewers more than National Nine News Perth. [citation needed]
Perth's National Nine News bulletin was the first and only Australian news bulletin to have two female anchors, Dixie Marshall and Sonia Vinci. They were also the faces of Nine Perth's general operations and promotions, until Sonia Vinci was sidelined to host a Perth version of A Current Affair and former Network Ten newsreader Greg Pearce appointed in her place, in early 2008.
Natalia Cooper presented weather on Perth's Nine News until her resignation in June 2008.[12]
This bulletin is also simulcast on WIN Television Western Australia.
Current affairs programs
A Current Affair
A Current Affair is a weeknightly populist current affairs program broadcast on the Nine Network at 6:30pm and presnted by Tracy Grimshaw. First broadcast on 22 November 1971 with Mike Willesee, the show was screened weeknights at 7:00pm on GTV-9. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0-10 Network, journalist Mike Minehan took over presenting the program. The program ended on 28 April 1978 due to strong competition. In 1984, Willesee returned to the Nine Network to present a mid-evening current affairs program titled Willesee, screening from Monday to Thursday nights at 9:30pm. The following year, Willesee moved to the earlier 6:30 pm timeslot and extended to five nights a week and ran until 1986. On 18 January 1988, the same week that Seven's Australian soap Home And Away was introduced, former 60 Minutes team presenter Jana Wendt became the first host of the revived A Current Affair. Following strong competition from Seven's Real Life (which became Today Tonight in 1995), Wendt left the program in November 1992.
ACA presenters since 1988
- Jana Wendt (1988-1992)
- Mike Willesee (1993)
- Ray Martin (1994 - 1998, 2003 - 2005)
- Mike Munro (1999 - 2002)
- Tracy Grimshaw (2006 - present)
Currently, Leila McKinnon is the main fill-in for Grimshaw if she is sick or on leave, however both Eddie McGuire and Karl Stefanovic have also filled in for Grimshaw.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is a Nine Network current affairs and investigative journalism program which airs on the Nine Network on Sundays at 7.30pm. The program is currently presented by Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Michael Usher, Liam Bartlett and Peter Harvey.
Former Bulletins
Nightline
Nightline, launched in 1993, was Nine's late news bulletin broadcast in varying timeslots from 10:30pm to 11:30pm most weeknights. Over the years it was presented by Jim Waley, Hugh Riminton, Helen Kapalos, Ellen Fanning, and finally by Michael Usher. Stephanie Brantz was the final sport presenter prior to the program's axing.
Nightline was axed on 25 July 2008 due to budgetary constraints at the Nine Network, with the final news bulletin airing on the same night.[13] Wendy Kingston presented the final bulletin.
Sunday
Sunday was a long-running Autralian breakfast news program which aired on Nine on Sunday mornings and featured investigative journalism, movie reviews and political interviews. The program was presented by Ellen Fanning prior to its axing. News was presented by Michael Usher and sport was presnted by Stephanie Brantz. Veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes presented politics. The program was axed on 3 August 2008 due to poor ratings and cost-cutting across the network. The previous presenters of the show included:
- Jim Waley (1981-2002);
- Jana Wendt (2003-2006);
- Ellen Fanning & Ross Greenwood (2006-2007);
- Ellen Fanning & Ray Martin (2007-2008); and
- Ellen Fanning (2008).
Sunday Morning News
Nine News: Sunday AM was a one-hour bulletin airing at 8am on Sunday mornings, presented by Michael Usher. Stephanie Brantz presented sport, finance was presented by Ross Greenwood and weather was presented by Mike Bailey. The regular fill-in presenters for the Sunday AM News were Tara Brown, Brett McLeod and Elise Mooney. Nine's Sunday AM News was a one-hour bulletin that was introduced on 10 August 2008 as a replacement for the network's long-running current affairs program, Sunday. Sunday, last broadcast on 3 August 2008, was axed due to budget cuts in news and current affairs at the Nine Network.[13]
Nine's Sunday AM News featured the Laurie Oakes political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. With the exception of Melbourne audiences, the bulletin had continued to lag behind Weekend Sunrise, which often wins in the ratings by a ratio of 3:1.[citation needed] During the non-ratings period, the bulletin was half-an-hour long.
From February 2009, the bulletin was replaced with a Sunday edition of Today entitled Today on Sunday.
References
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- ^ "A 2006 Ratings Reflection". eBroadcast. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2007-06-27.
- ^ "National Nine News on Sydney's 103.2". Sydney's 103.2. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^ Mascarenhas, Alan (2005-01-20). "Nine dumps Jim Waley". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
- ^ Casey, Marcus (2008-07-28). "Mike Munro quits Nine". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
- ^ Clune, Richard (2009-01-110). "You're boned: Nine's news for Ferguson". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Ryan, Kelly (2008-07-08). "Channel 9 stands firm on new-look news format". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ Miller, Megan (2008-09-20). "Grant Hackett dives in with Nine". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- ^ a b Tucker-Evans, Anooska (2008-11-23). "Heather Foord moving forward after co-anchor's gaffe". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
- ^ "Lewis making good progress, says wife". AAP. ninemsn. 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
- ^ >David Filder's False Olympic claims, ABC Media Watch, 27 March 2000
- ^ "Natalia Cooper resigns from Channel Nine". PerthNow. 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "Nine takes axe to Nightline & Sunday". The Daily Telegraph. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2008-09-07.