Nine News
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.
Owned-and-operated
National bulletins
Early News
National Nine Early News is a national bulletin shown at 5.00am weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by Amber Higlett. This bulletin is also shown as the Qantas In-flight Morning News service. The news bulletin is followed by the Today Show with Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson, which starts at 5.30am.
In the past, it was aired at 6:00am and lasted for one hour, preceding Today and hosted by Sharyn Ghidella and Chris Smith. This bulletin was scrapped in 2005 when Today extended to three hours.
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.
Regular fill-in presenters include Richard Wilkins, Allison Langdon, Kellie Connolly, Leila McKinnon and Sarah Harris. Tony Jones fills in on Sport, with Gorgi Quill filling in on Weather.
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 Kellie Connolly, with finance presented by Ross Greenwood or Joanna Townsend.
Fill-in presenters include Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston, Michael Usher.
Afternoon Edition
National Nine News: Afternoon Edition, introduced in 2004, is a national bulletin broadcast at 4.30pm weekdays, presented by Michael Usher. Tim Sheridan presents sport, while finance is presented by Ross Greenwood or Joanna Townsend. Weather is presented by Jaynie Seal on Monday - Thursdays and Mike Bailey presents the weather on Fridays.
Fill-in presenters include Allison Langdon, Wendy Kingston or Brett McLeod (news) and Tim Gilbert (sport)
Sunday Morning News
National Nine News: Sunday Morning News is a national bulletin airing 8am - 9am on Sunday mornings. Presented by Michael Usher, with Stephanie Brantz presenting sport, this one-hour bulletin was introduced on 10 August 2008 as a replacement for the networks Sunday program. Sunday, last broadcast on 3 August 2008, was axed due to budget cuts in news and current affairs at Channel Nine.[3] Nine's Sunday Morning News features the Laurie Oakes political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. The bulletin has continued to lag behind Weekend Sunrise, which often triples the audience of Sunday Morning News.[citation needed]
Online bulletins
Nine News Now
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. This bulletin is presented by Joanna Townsend.
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. However, these bulletins are broadcast east-coast wide, meaning the Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane bulletin can be viewed by anyone living in the east coast.
Local bulletins
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 Monday to Thursday, with Mike Bailey presenting on Friday. Michael Usher is the regular fill-in news presenter, with either Stephanie Brantz and more recently Andrew Voss as fill-in sports presenter. The bulletin also is simulcast on Sydney's 103.2 [4]
Mike Munro presents on weekends, alongside sport presenters Stephanie Brantz on Saturdays and Ken Sutcliffe on Sundays. Mike Bailey presents the weather on Saturdays, while Jaynie Seal presents the weather on Sundays.
Mike Munro will finish reading the weekend news at the end of October following his resignation from Channel Nine.[5] No replacement for Munro has been confirmed as of yet.
Sydney's National Nine News was presented by Brian Henderson for 38 years, a record that still stands today. Henderson retired in 2002, with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley taking over as weeknight presenter. At the time of Henderson's retirement, the weekend presenters were Jim Waley, or Kim Watkins.[citation needed] In 2005, Jim Waley, who was one of the Nine Network's longest serving presenters, was dumped following a year of poor ratings (despite the fact that National Nine News Sydney was the leading service in 2003-4) and replaced with then weekend presenter Mark Ferguson.[6]
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.
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.
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.
In July 2008, National Nine News Melbourne began having it's weekend presenters read the news standing up. Jo Hall read the news standing up on a trial basis on the Saturday and Sunday 6pm bulletins, although Nine has no plans to introduce this new format into weeknight bulletins, opting for weeknight anchor Peter Hitchener to sit behind the news desk instead.[7]
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 Joeseph May. 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. [8] 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.
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 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. 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.
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.
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.
Affiliate
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. Caroline Anisle 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.
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.
National Nine News Perth is produced from WIN Television's Perth news studios by Dixie Marshall and Greg Pearce, sport with Michael Thomson and weather with Angela Tsun
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.[9]
This bulletin is also screened on WIN Television throughout Western Australia.
Former Bulletins
Nightline
Nightline, beginning 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, Ellen Fanning, and finally by Michael Usher. Stephanie Brantz was the sport presenter prior to the programs axing.
Nightline was axed on Friday 25 July 2008 due to budget cuts at the Nine Network, with the final news bulletin airing on the same night.[10] Wendy Kingston presented the final bulletin.
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