(7-8/7/2018) Susie Nordqvist and Simon Shepherd are presenting Newshub Live at 6pm this weekend and for the next few weekends.
(9-11/7/2018) With Samantha Hayes on a break, Melissa Davies is anchoring Newshub Live at 6pm with Tom McRae this week.
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Today’s Clickbait
Bird Shits on Reporter ahead of Live Cross
It’s bad enough when your boss says your work is shit, but when it’s mother nature, man that’s gotta suck.
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(12/7/2018) Michael Morrah presented Newshub Live at 4pm this afternoon.
(12-13/7/2018) Melissa Davies and Simon Shepherd are presenting Newshub Live at 6pm with Ross Karl on sport.
(13/7/2018) Mitch McCann anchoring Newshub Live at 4pm.
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(16-20/7/2018) Mike McRoberts has returned from a break and presenting Newshub Live at 6pm with Melissa Davies this week.
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She looks really happy that he’s back 
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The opener and backdrop has been updated for Newshub Live at 4pm. Caps courtesy of @SamSamTV
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Looks like Newshub Late is using the new backdrop from tonight too. 
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TVNZ announced today Shortland Street will be extended to Sunday nights this September. Time for Mediaworks to start The Sunday Project? Could be a good opportunity to trial some new faces, with the idea of shaking up the weekday show if the ratings don’t improve.
TVNZ did it with their Saturday edition of Breakfast - Toni and Rawdon pairing ended up replacing Petra and Corin.
Tv2 is putting on Shortland St to combat The Block and Sunday realities on Three, unfortunately I don’t think The Project rates well enough to justify an extra screening (yet).
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The Project wouldn’t rate nearly as well as the reality shows Three have now on Sunday.
I would love to know what the ratings for Shortland Street are these days. I remember they were in the mid to high 300,000’s when Throng.co.nz were still reporting ratings years ago, which was quite a drop compared to what it used to rate. I can only imagine that figure has decreased further. I know it does well on demand but that wouldn’t translate into much revenue.
Not much change it seems. As an example:
Shortland Street 08/07/2018 – 14/07/2018
382,500 5+, 210,700 25-54
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Thanks for the info. Very interesting indeed, and fortunately for TVNZ it’s maintaining a sizeable audience at least.
Meh. 7pm is doing-the-dishes time anyway. 
(28/7/2018) Tom McRae is back presenting Newshub Live at 6pm this weekend alongside Susie Nordqvist.
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JUST ANNOUNCED | Investigative journalist Lisa Owen will replace John Campbell as the host of Checkpoint with John Campbell.
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Massive loss for Mediaworks.
I’m wondering if we will expect a restructuring following her departure.
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