Nine News and Current Affairs

Worth noting she did present solo on weekends in the latter part of the Bruce Paige-Heather Foord era, at which point Nine News was the top rating news service in Brisbane until Seven set out poaching ex-Nine staff including their weatherman John Schluter and then-Today newsreader Sharyn Ghidella (in what I always say is their Ian Ross moment, if that makes sense) towards the end of 2006.

That, and Wally Lewis having to (temporarily) step down from presenting sport after an epilepsy fit around the same time, saw QTQ’s news get overtaken by BTQ’s for the first time in two decades.

I wonder what caused the pendulum to swing Seven’s way at the turn of the millennium. Though IIRC, Nine’s weekend bulletins continued to outrate Seven’s until John Riddell swapped places with Graeme Goodings in the mid-noughties following the latter’s cancer diagnosis.