We now cross to Perth (from Perth).
They grow 'em big in WA
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I wonder why they go to South Perth to see a dark barely lit skyline of the CBD, instead of going a few blocks away from the studio to a bright Forrest Place or Elizabeth Quay
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Oops! Nine News WA First logo is shown in the late news nation wide
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Someone in the control room must have noticed as the logo switched back to the standard 9 News logo midway through that report.
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More like Nine News WA Last, as it is shown on a 2-hour delay.
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Natalia Cooper is presenting Sunday-Thursday night weather this week
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Alicia Loxley is presenting tonight
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Tonight: New PM, new PM arrives in Japan VO, then apparently the third biggest story right now was Andrew OâKeefe. (With heavy emphasis on channel 7) jesus
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Great to have him back in Perth. They should promote him to 6pm. Thommo back in sport.
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Havenât seen him present before but Iâm sure heâs an improvement on âThommoâ.
Wouldnât be surprised if Nine are grooming him for the role.
Even though it might not immediately work in the ratings, I reckon they should go for a Genovese-Vo double header on weekends.
@nationalnews can you remember how Darren Curtis and Alison Ariotti/Sophie Walsh rated in Queensland when they presented together on weekends between 2014-17? I know they were punted in favour of Jonathan Uptin in early 2018.
Yeah not great nor were they great at doing it. They were up against Kay and Rod on 7, so didnât have much hope. However, I think Nine not renewing Darrenâs contract was a mistake. Ratings with Uptin havenât been much better IMO.
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I think this is/was because when he was appointed as QTQ weekend newsreader in February 2018, he wasnât a familiar face to metro Brisbane audiences having just moved to the city a few months beforehand (to present the regional QLD and Darwin bulletins), whereas Kay was very familiar to the local audiences having been on television since 1989 (and until stepping down in 2020).
OT but Kayâs TV tenure goes back to the early 80s when she was a Newsreader/Reporter at Channel 0 Brisbane (now 10).
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Shame they canât have the same reader for the 5am and 1130am news, and another reader for the 4pm/5pm and late news.
Seeing they donât even have consistent readers on the existing and well rated 1130 and 4/5pm news, itâs a long shot to ever expect someone consistent on late news. Though like others have said it would be a good opportunity to build your profile and experience.
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The other thing they could do (although it would be one hell of a shift) is have the same person do the late and early news, that way there is someone capable of anchoring at a 9 station at all times in case something happens. Then leave everyone else as is during the day.
That probably wouldnât happen though unless 9 developed a news channel though - it wouldnât be the best use of resources except for the one time a year that something happens worth that warrants breaking into programming at 2am.
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Georgie Gardner is presenting Sunday night
Natalia Cooper is presenting Sun-Thurs weather this week
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