Gabrielle Boyle presenting Early News this morning.
Gabby has very impressive newsreading skills hopefully we see her more often.
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Saturday (10.02.2018) - Sunday (11.02.2018): Jonathan Uptin is anchoring in Brisbane again this weekend.
How many consecutive days has Jono worked for?
Weekend news turning UP the heat. The familiar, yet fresh face set to remain. Watch this space.
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I see what you did there, interesting development.
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Best (and worst case) scenario: Jono appointed weekend presenter and Darren moves to RQLD and Darwin?
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Regional bulletins extended to weekends perhaps?
UPteen days I reckon.
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Five weeks now of local news and weekend news.
He did the same for a few weeks over summer too.
I would also imagine that their Darwin audience has also seen an increase with Jono.
I am not too sure that the ratings have increased because he is a fresh face. I think we have had close to ten anchor changes to our weekend news in 10 years. Simply, Jono is better than both Darren and Alison.
As for Darren, I have always thought that Nine have intentions for him to replace Bruce Paige on the Gold Coast news when he retires, so maybe Curtis will do a 30 minute weekend bulletin at 6pm for the GC… Or they will move him to do local morning news. To be fair, it should be said that Darren maintains Nine’s strong lead on weeknights, when he fills in for Andrew and Melissa.
Since 2008, I think the anchors have been:
Eva Milic (solo): 2008-2009
Andrew Lofthouse and Eva Milic: 2009)
Eva Milic (solo again): 2009-2011
Heather Foord (Solo): 2011
Eva Milic (Solo again): 2012-2014
Darren Curtis and Eva Milic: 2014
Darren Curtis and Alison Ariotti: 2014-2015
Darren Curtis and Sophie Walsh (Alison on ML): Beginning of 2016
Darren Curtis and Alison Ariotti: 2016-2017
Darren Curtis (solo): 2018
Meanwhile, on Seven…
Sharyn Ghidella (solo): 2008-2012
Rod Young and Kay McGrath (even though it should’ve been Sharyn and Bill on weekends): 2013-2016
Kay McGrath (solo): 2016-now
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Tony Jones started presenting sport from South Korea on Friday.
Corey Norris presented sport on First At Five News this weekend.
Madeline Slattery presented weather on Weekend Today this morning and in Melbourne tonight.
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Monday (12.02.2018): Elizabeth Bryan presented the Early News.
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Chloe Bugelly filed a report for Nine’s Afternoon News… Possibly returned to the network as another Europe correspondent?
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She’s still freelancing I believe. Great to see her back though!
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Why have they rolled out a frail looking Brian Henderson to spruik Peter Overton for Nine News?
I can see they want to give him credibility but it doesn’t look great.
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I’m not sure if I’d say that getting presenters/reporters like Mel McLaughlin & Robert Ovadia to talk up Mark Ferguson for Seven News Sydney promos is really that much better…
What’s that got to do with this promo?
I’m not saying what any other network has done is better or worse. I’m just saying this promo looks terrible.
Who are they trying to appeal to? Pensioners in their 70s and 80s?
It’s the same concept.
I suspect the reason that Nine have gotten Brian Henderson (and also the more recently retired Ken Sutcliffe & Laurie Oakes) to talk up Peter Overton in their current promos is because Nine News has a long history of being trusted and respected in the Sydney market - getting Hendo to talk up Pete is meant to reinforce that.
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I think Ken and Laurie might be fine and Hendo doing the same fifteen or ten years ago.
But I just don’t think it works now with Hendo looking so old and frail., to be honest