Could they relaunch next Monday for opening day of tennis?
Interesting they’re not doing local afternoon news
I would say there would be a relaunch in the works for news at some point. Whether it happens soon, who knows! 9News are pretty good at keeping things fresh in terms of presentation out of any other news bulletin.
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However 7 news have beaten 9 news in the graphics department. Nine has a lot of catching up to do and so has WIN and NBN
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Are we watching the same bulletins?
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Agreed. 7 has the best graphics.
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If it’s going to happen soon, I think it would be next Monday 16th when Peter Overton returns in Sydney.
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Our commercial networks are so damn immature.
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Sour grapes from an ex employer?
Meanwhile, I didn’t even realise this happened.
It was mentioned in the ratings topic, including that Nine News at 6pm was beaten by the 6pm portion of 10 News that had 35,000.
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Still find it amusing that Perth would opt to watch a Sydney’ produced bulletin over a locally made product.
The amount of money Nine has invested (over the past decade) into that market is astonishing, yet Perth just won’t change their viewing habits.
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Especially when that pairing at Seven are soon to rack up four decades together.
When Nine News were number one nationally between 2013-15, they should’ve put their energy into Perth by using a slogan among the lines of “Perth is watching Australia’s number one news” or “Australia’s number one news is Nine News”. But they didn’t.
Even after the massively successful pairing at Seven is inevitably broken up, one way or the other, the tide just won’t turn.
That being said, I think there’ll be plenty of interest in Adelaide this year with Seven having two new weeknight anchors up against Brenton and Kate who are soon to rack up a decade together on Nine.
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Sorry I meant I didn’t realise Gareth became the news director.
Yes, Nine have invested and made the station better since Sunraysia/WIN but the people of Perth HATE Nine. Nine News gets lower than Ten News presented from Sydney sometimes, and beaten also by ABC and Seven. Nine is the forbidden channel in Perth it seems.
Is it time for Nine Perth to try A Current Affair at 6pm (since it’s on delay anyway) and move news to 6.30pm for 1 hour?
10 basically invest fuck all into the Perth market … has no locally produced content, moved its news presentation to Sydney and yet still pulls in a high figure than Nine News Perth.
Makes you think… why bother Nine? Just move everything to Sydney or Melbourne. Perth clearly don’t want an alternative and are stuck on a cat saying good night to them.
Just disappointing.
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Similarly, Seven seemed to be the forbidden channel in Sydney and Melbourne during the 2002-06 period in which the network didn’t have the AFL, especially in the latter where it was regularly beaten by 10 (which marketed themselves as “The Premiership Network” during that time).
And despite being in different timeslots Seven News was also being regularly beaten by Ten News and/or ABC News in both markets during that time, until Ian Ross was brought in to resuscitate the Sydney market. Of course, (National) Nine News was the dominant news service then.
I don’t think this is quite right?
Sure, a large portion of the bulletin is presented out of Sydney - however sport and weather come from Perth, stories are shot, voiced and packaged locally and they still have a local news director and local social media producer.
You’re right in that they invest the bare minimum in the market currently, and what they’re putting up isn’t great, still better than nothing.
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Sydney and Melbourne have never done this. Both cities history’s have swapped between seven and nine over the decades depending on the product.
I’m also thinking the Perth market is no longer large enough to sustain two commercial bulletins at 6.00pm.
They need Michael and Monika at 6pm and need heavy advertisement on local content that can move viewers from 10 to 9
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Yes we’re aware of this… the discussion is about the comparison to what Nine is currently investing into the Perth market.