Thursday 24 October -
Syan Vallance presenting in Victoria tonight.
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Friday October 25 - Sunday October 27
Isabel Dayman is presenting the 7pm news in SA
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Isabelâs done it the last few weekends. Havenât seen Richard in a little bit
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Matthew Doran has left the Parliament House team and is now the ABCâs Middle East correspondent.
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Syan is a great fill in presenter. She may end up following her partner Ben Downie (incoming Seven News correspondent) over to the UK.
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Tuesday 29 October to Thursday 31 October -
Ishkandar Razak presenting in Victoria tonight.
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Greg Jennett to move down the road to the Canberra local newsroom at Northbourne to host ACT 7pm from next year.
Afternoon Briefing to hosted by none other, then Patricia Karvelas from either Melbourne or Sydney.
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I donât mind Greg so thatâs a nice appointment for him. Where is James off to?
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After a terrific two years in the chair, including his key role in this monthâs ACT election coverage, current ACT 7PM presenter James Glenday will be going on to an exciting new project next year. More details of that will be announced in coming weeks.
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Hopefully News Breakfast?
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Well that is quite the demotion for Karvelas.
Glenday seems to spend a lot of time in Melbourne so wouldnât be surprised if heâs off to NB rather than something left field like Radio National Breakfast. A refreshed NB team with Michael off to special projects/Vic 7pm and 7:30 fill-in/a longer season of Foreign Correspondent wouldnât be bad.
Jennet for ACT is a bit whatevs. ABC ACT still lost at sea after failing to give the gig to Craig Allen when Virginia H left. He would have been a generational presenter.
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How? She choose to step back, and is still doing her podcast with Fran Kelly + another one, as well as Q&A. And will play a major role in the election coverage.
He has hinted that stepping back has been on his mind - either James or Emma Rebellato (or both IMO), would make fine replacements for Michael.
Speaking to Virginia Trioli on her podcast You Donât Know Me, Rowland was asked about âThe thing he canât stop thinking about âŚâ
âA less intense work life,â he replied.
âI have been doing this job for 14 years, and it does take a toll. I donât need to talk to you too long to know the effect it had on you.â
âAbsolutely, youâre looking at the case study,â Trioli replied.
âIâm getting older, the ripe old age of 55 this year. The toll it takes gets more pronounced every year, the hours, the horrible stories we have to cover as journalists presenting a news program,â Rowland continued.
âI find it is taking more of a toll on me, personally, on my family life, and Iâm looking forward to something less intense.
âI hasten to say I love the show. Iâm not about to do anything rash. I really love what Iâm doing at the moment, but Iâm much closer to the end than I am to the beginning in doing this show and doing this intense news presenting work.
âWhat that less intense job will be, hopefully with the ABC in some capacity, I donât know. But Iâm just looking forward to a stage somewhere down the track in the near future, doing something different.â
Serious? Stop believing the ABC PR. You donât choose to move on after losing more than half of your showâs audience in a couple of years. She was clearly tapped on the shoulder.
Being moved on from the ABCâs and one of Australiaâs most influential radio shows to a daytime slot on the news channel is a demotion. Q&A is largely ignored and no longer part of the news agenda. And the podcast with Fran has none of the cut through or promotion of their big podcasts like Are you Listening.
Iâd think this is the demotion for Jennett. Rather than being seen nationally almost every day, from next year he will only be seen by Canberra viewers during the week. The rest of the country will have to wait until the next federal election.
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Couldnât agree less - itâs a flagship news bulletin.
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That is seen in a market with around 477 000 people - so he is possible being seen by about 50 000 - 100 000 people reading an autocue and introducing stories + weather.
Compared to a national political afternoons program where he is seen by a broad national audience, including the politicians who watch the program, along with his previous roles of national affairs correspondent, and his stint in the US in 2021. Jennett is the one being demoted - not Karvelas, who is being given new stuff to do instead of seeing out her contract on Q&A.
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Really?
Youâd imagine Breakfast, sadly. Personally, I hope heâs the one over to RN.
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Agree completely.
She gave up Afternoon briefing for Radio National breakfast because RN brekky is a big deal and getting that gig was a huge promotion for pk.
The ratings for that show have tanked since sheâs been there so sheâs going back to where she was before - this is a loss for her .
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Thursday 31 October -
Ishkandar Razak presenting news and Nate Byrne presenting weather in Victoria tonight.
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Monday 4 November -
Syan Vallance presenting in Victoria tonight.
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