I don’t mind it actually
Much more modern GFX than the other markets
Wowzers Sharyn Ghidella and Jonathan Uptin. Had no idea they had worked together
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For your viewing pleasure, courtesy of SydneyCelebrates, I now present to you the full one-hour bulletin of National Nine News New South Wales for January 1 of 2000:
And has anyone got the A Current Affair episode for January 3 of 2000 (First episode of The year) because there was a story that was ran that day about Nine’s Cricket Coverage.
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What a find! I never knew Jono worked in Sydney!
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Adelaide News promo featuring KXAN Austin Texas newsreader Stacie Schaible
A Global Experience promo featuring American basketball team ‘Harlem Globetrotters’:
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2005 saw plenty of change at the Nine Network; not only did Karl Stefanovic replace the retiring Steve Liebmann as co-host of Today, Jim Waley was also suddenly replaced as anchor of Nine News Sydney by Mark Ferguson (who was just a month short of turning 39) despite the bulletin continuing to lead in the ratings during his stint in the chair (2003-04), though there was no sugar-coating the fact that viewers had started to flock over to Seven News which was, at that point in time, being read by ex-Nine newsreader Ian Ross.
I still feel that Waley was hard done by; he had been expected to return in 2005 only to be told not to return.
Makes me wonder why Nine didn’t do enough to keep Roscoe at the station in preparation for Hendo’s eventual retirement in 2002. In the end, Seven pounced, and the rest is history.
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Nine were in panic mode. Most of that current management had never dealt with Seven winning the ratings.
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The same thing literally happened again just four years later when Mark Ferguson was suddenly replaced by Peter Overton, though at the time they had a long-term plan to eventually overtake Seven News once Ian Ross retired (and probably knowing his audience would not stick around thereafter).
When Fergo replaced Jim Waley, they had no long-term plan at the time to try and remain ahead of Seven.
QTQ management also knew there was going to be some short-term pain for long-term gain when Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes progressively replaced the previously top-rating Bruce Paige and Heather Foord at the end of 2008 (at the end of which Nine News in Brisbane had fallen a distant second behind Seven News, which won all 40 weeks that year).
Paige and Downes co-presented for the first half of 2009 before Lofthouse stepped into the former’s shoes at the end of June. Below is Paige’s final bulletin, which was a major one as it was the day (in Australia) that Michael Jackson passed away.
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Lofthouse and Downes would take Nine News back to the top of the Brisbane ratings by 2013/14, and have remained there ever since (except for a brief period when Seven News returned to the top in 2018-19).
Roscoe retired from the Today show at the end 2001, but was brought out of retirement for a short stint sometime in 2002 during bushfire season (can’t recall if it was early 2002 or late).
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There were apparently some rumours that Packer wasn’t happy that Roscoe wasn’t paid to stay in retirement, similar to how Brian Naylor was reportedly kept on contract to GTV to prevent him from joining Seven.
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He also did some on-and-off presenting during that 2002-03 period, often filling in for Hendo on the Sydney bulletin while he also presented Nightline at least once.
Courtesy: Zampakid
It wasn’t until July 2003 that Seven announced they had signed the ex-Today newsreader.
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I guess Nine thought he’d be loyal to them
Don’t forget that period was also the start of Nine really turning the screws on their costs, the managers wouldn’t have been able to justify an additional expense to keep someone not working.
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Gulf War Coverage 17/1/1991
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One prominent screw-up I can remember is when in August 2011, QTQ claimed that reporters Melissa Mallet and Cameron Price were in a helicopter “near Beerwah” when in reality they were circling Mount Coot-tha, and in Price’s case, on the helipad.
Mallet and Price, as well as a news producer, were sacked in the wake of the affair while news director Lee Anderson quit in protest despite being on leave at the time.
Amazingly, only a matter of years later Nine News in Brisbane would return to the top of the metro ratings.
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There was once upon a time when Adelaide had an all-male presenting duo (Rob Kelvin and Kevin Crease) and Perth an all-female presenting duo (Dixie Marshall and Sonia Vinci).
From what I can remember, Kelvin and Crease did well to last as long as they did, considering they were up against the top-rating duo of Jane Doyle and Graeme Goodings (and later John Riddell) on Seven. Sadly, Crease passed away in April 2007 after being diagnosed with cancer; Kelvin then presented solo in the interim until ex-Ten newsreader Kelly Nestor joined him at the desk in October that year.
Marshall and Vinci didn’t last long in the noughties; they served from 2003-08 I think. They were never going to last long especially as Rick and Sue on Seven were the runaway ratings leaders in the west (and still are today).
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Marshall and Vinci were able to significantly close the gap in the ratings, from over 100,000 to 50,000. But Channel 9 Perth (under Sunraysia ownership) decided to add Coronation Street into the schedule at 5.30pm, which ruined the lead-in and saw the ratings widen again.
On this, Nine were actually winning against Seven until at least 2000 or 2001.