National Nine News
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National Nine News, or Nine News, is the news service of the Australian Nine Network. 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]
Its flagship bulletin is broadcast daily at 6.00pm. Individual, local bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin. In Adelaide and Perth National Nine News-branded bulletins are produced by WIN Television as owner of the two stations.
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[edit] National bulletins
[edit] Today
Today is the network's breakfast program, shown from 5.30-9am weekdays. It combines 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 updates with Cameron Williams (sport) and Steve Jacobs (weather). Richard Wilkins and Hollywood correspondent Richard Reid report on entertainment stories.
Fill-ins for News are: Allison Langdon, Kellie Connolly and Leila McKinnon; Fill-ins for Sport are: Tony Jones
[edit] Morning Edition
National Nine News: Morning Edition is a national bulletin shown at 11.00am weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by news presenter Leila McKinnon, with finance usually presented by Ross Greenwood. The bulletins usual presenter is Kellie Connolly who is on maternity leave.
Fill-ins are: Allison Langdon and Wendy Kingston
[edit] Afternoon Edition
National Nine News: Afternoon Edition, introduced in 2004, is a national bulletin broadcast at 4.30pm weekdays, presented by Leila McKinnon. Tim Gilbert or Tim Sheridan presents sport, while finance is usually presented by Ross Greenwood and weather is presented by Jaynie Seal on Monday - Thursdays and Mike Bailey presents the weather on Fridays. The bulletins usual presenter is Kellie Connolly who is on maternity leave.
Fill-ins are: Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Wendy Kingston
[edit] Nightline
Nightline is broadcast around 11:30pm most weeknights on Channel Nine. It is presented by Michael Usher on Mondays to Thursdays, with Allison Langdon often presenting on Fridays. Stephanie Brantz presents sport, and finance news is provided by Tom Piotrowski from Commsec. Jaynie Seal presents the weather from Mondays to Thursdays, with Mike Baliey on Fridays.
Fill-in presenters include Wendy Kingston or Elise Mooney.
[edit] Online bulletins
[edit] Nine News Now
Presented by Leila McKinnon, Nine News Now is an online bulletin recorded at 3.00 pm weekdays, and released an hour later. This service began in 2006 and can be seen and downloaded from ninemsn.com.au, and as a vodcast.
[edit] Live Streaming
In June 2008 the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane 6.00pm bulletins were made available to be streamed live from the Nine News website at ninemsn.com.au.
[edit] Local bulletins
[edit] Sydney
National Nine News Sydney is presented from the network's national news studios by Mark Ferguson, with Ken Sutcliffe presenting sport Mondays to Thursdays and Stephanie Brantz presenting sport on Fridays. Jaynie Seal presents the weather Sunday to Thursday, with Mike Bailey presenting Friday and Saturday.
Mark Ferguson succeeded Jim Waley in 2005 as the bulletin's main presenter.[3] Waley had been the longest serving presenter at the time, following the retirement of Brian Henderson. Henderson had presented the Sydney bulletin for almost 40 years, a record which still stands today. Either Kim Watkins or Jim Waley were the weekend presenters at the time, with Mark Ferguson the weekend reader when Waley was the head weeknight presenter. When Ferguson assumed the weeknight duties in 2005, Waley is suspended.
Mike Munro presents on weekends, alongside sport presenters Stephanie Brantz on Saturdays and Ken Sutcliffe on Sundays. Mike Bailey presents the weather on Fridays and Saturdays. Mike Munro and Michael Usher are regular fill-in presenters.
[edit] Melbourne
National Nine News Melbourne is presented from the network's Melbourne news studios by Peter Hitchener, with Tony Jones presenting sport, and Livinia Nixon presenting the weather. Weekend bulletins are presented by Jo Hall and sport presenter Heath O’Loughlin. This bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station Light FM.
Brian Naylor presented National Nine News in Melbourne for 20 years, (1978-1998). 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.
Brett McLeod is the fill-in weekend presenter for the Melbourne news service, with Christine Ahern the fill-in sport presenter. Carolyne Randoe presents the weather in place of Livinia Nixon over the summer or as a fill-in.
[edit] Brisbane
National Nine News Brisbane is presented from the network's Brisbane news studios by Bruce Paige and Heather Foord, with Ian Healy presenting sport, and Frank Warrick presenting the weather.
Melissa Downes is the weekend presenter for the Brisbane news service, alongside sport presenter Steve Haddan and weather presenter Miranda Deakin. Paul Burt also presents Surfing and Fishing reports each Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening.
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 2007/2008 summer period, and also files sports reports. He occasionally fills in if either Steve Haddan or Ian Healy is unavailable. [4] 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 as the weekday weather presenter.
Mike London was the weekend presenter alongside Heather Foord until his resignation in June 2003 following comments he made about 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 have presented the bulletin together since late 2004; 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 to use the dual-presenter format on weekends, until the Perth bulletin revived it in early 2008. Regular presenter fill-ins for the bulletin, include former ABC News presenter Lisa Backhouse, Sarah Harris and Jillian Whiting.
This bulletin is also shown on Imparja Television as of 2008, however telecast is delayed by 30 minutes.
[edit] Gold Coast
Gold Coast News is a local news service for the Gold Coast region. Eva Milic presents the bulletin, after previously serving as weather presenter. Jillian Whiting or Melissa Downes were the previous presenters of the Gold Coast bulletin until Downes moved to presenting the weekend bulletin of the Brisbane news service, and Whiting went on maternity leave in 2007.
The bulletin was presented from news studios on the Gold Coast until July 3, 2006, when production was moved to Brisbane, however it is once again presented from Nine's Gold Coast studios. It airs at 5:30pm and is followed by Brisbane's National Nine News. It does not air on weekends.
[edit] Darwin
National Nine News Darwin is presented from the network's Darwin news studios by Jonathan Uptin, with Lisa Andrews presenting sport.
Lisa Andrews is the weekend presenter for the Darwin news service, which comprises then national news presented from the network's Sydney bulletin presented by Mike Munro, then local news and sport.
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[edit] Adelaide
National Nine News Adelaide is produced from WIN Television's Adelaide news studios by Rob Kelvin and Kelly Nestor, with Kym Dillon presenting sport and weather presenter Brenton Ragless .
Georgina McGuinness is the weekend presenter for the Adelaide news service. Mark Bickley presents sport and Xavier Minniecon presents the 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.
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.
Troy Grey fills-in as sports presenter over summer, while Ali Carle from Triple M Adelaide occasionally presents weather along with her sport reporting duties.
[edit] Perth
National Nine News Perth is produced from WIN Television's Perth news studios by Dixie Marshall and Greg Pearce, with sport presented by Michael Thomson.
Sharlyn Sarac and Matt Tinney present the weekend news whilst Mark Readings presents sport.
The Perth bulletin is currently the most poorly performing National 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 appointed 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.[5]
This bulletin is also screened on WIN Television throughout Western Australia.
[edit] References
- ^ Seven Network (2005-11-28). "Year in review". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ A 2006 Ratings Reflection. eBroadcast (2006-12-04). Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
- ^ Mascarenhas, Alan. "Nine dumps Jim Waley", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005-01-20]]. Retrieved on 2007-11-18.
- ^ "Lewis making good progress, says wife", AAP, ninemsn, 2007-02-22. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
- ^ "Natalia Cooper resigns from Channel Nine", PerthNow, 2008-04-10. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
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