Wow congratulations to Jo for notching up four decades with Nine!
Also, looks like she’s not a real blonde 
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Monday 17 June & Tuesday 18 June -
Zara James is presenting Early News.
Monday 17 June -
Mark Burrows is presenting Morning News & Sydney Afternoon News.
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Monday 17 June -
Adelaide reporter Ben Avery is now reporting from London
Looking at her instagram Amelia Adams might be on holidays or Ebony Cavallaro’s stint is now over, time will tell l suppose.
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Either way, it looks like Ben Avery will be in London until Sophie Walsh makes the move to Europe. This stint will give him some good national exposure I feel.
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Justine Conway is presenting weather in Melbourne filling in for Livinia this week.
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That’s the first time she’s been seen on Channel Nine Perth since 2008, when she moved to London for freelancing work before ultimately being snapped up by Seven in 2009 (and then moving back to Nine but joining the Sydney newsroom).
I guess Cooper has now experienced both ends of the ratings spectrum at Nine.
Natalia is due back from maternity leave in October.
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Oh dear, that’s not the sort of thing I’d want to hear the night after Nine News Sydney lost to Seven across the entire hour! 
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He really isn’t that bad.
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I would’ve thought that Nine would be better off allowing Sophie Walsh to present some bulletins (and weather forecasts but that’s another story) before she leaves Sydney for the London bureau!
Other options could include utilising Davina Smith (surely after five years of regularly presenting national daytime bulletins, Davina would be a more than adequate Sydney 6pm fill-in newsreader?) or Jayne Azzopardi.
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I would think that the thought process there is why familiarise viewers with a presenter that’s going to be shipped off to report overseas soon. Instead, they’ll use the “third-in-line” presenter who is perfectly capable and relatively familiar already to Sydney viewers (and for all we know may well become the weekend presenter when Deb steps down). At least they’re consistent!
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I don’t agree that having a meteorologist will make or break Nine’s bulletin. Seven’s weather was never more watchable than when they had Nuala Hafner presenting because she had such a big, fun personality and injected life into it. Wouldn’t it be great if TCN could lure her back to Sydney news?
There is, however, a precedent for what you’re suggesting regarding appointing a meteorologist. After falling to third place in Sydney in 1976 because of the News Centre Nine debacle, Nine set out to rebuild the bulletin. They snuck under Seven’s defences over the Christmas break and signed up Alan Wilkie to replace Judy Lynne as weather presenter. Wilkie had been at ATN 7 for almost a decade. It did boost the credibility of the bulletin and put them back in the race.
You have to wonder if Nine would consider poaching talent to boost the bulletin if things got much worse. With interest in climate change and focus on major weather events perhaps they should be looking at boosting coverage with a professional weather watcher.
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Nine needs to consider bringing back Nightline. The Latest has been doing well, by boosting the Seven News brand. But that’s only one element. The Today Show is another.
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Who was the news leader in Sydney then? Had to be either ABC or Ten News.
Also, the only meteorologist I can think of that Nine has across their metro bulletins is Jessica Braithwaite, but she is on maternity leave and is unlikely to leave Adelaide any time soon. Chelsea Carey (who is filling in for her) would be a good option too.
Of all the presenters/reporters who’ve left Nine News Sydney in recent years, you’d have to imagine that not doing more to keep Michael Usher would be one of their bigger regrets? I don’t know how long his contract has left to go but if I was Wick/Hobbs, I’d probably try and get Usher back at the first available opportunity.
However I would hasten to say that while there’s definitely some on-air talent at Seven that Nine should seriously consider think about signing up (or in some cases, getting back), they’ve also got others like Robert Ovadia, Laura Banks and Bryan Seymour who really don’t deserve the opportunity to be seen on Nine.
With it being almost six months since the bulletin was launched, wouldn’t Nine have launched a competing product by now if The Latest was really this recent runaway success of Australian TV?
I’m probably one of the very few who still thinks Nine did the right thing by dumping Karl and that the content mix of Today (needs to be more serious/newsy than what it currently is, although perhaps not quite at the same level as ABC News Breakfast) is a bigger elephant in the room than Georgie or Deb, but let’s not go there again…
I would’ve guessed that Seven National News was Sydney’s top rating news service back in the mid-1970s remembering this was the era of Roger Climpson and as NewsWeary pointed out, Alan Wilkie on weather before Nine poached him.
2nd might’ve been ABC News who would’ve still had original anchor James Dibble back then?
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Roger Climpson’s Seven National News was consistently winning the ratings throughout 1976. They’d just invested in all the latest electronic news gathering technology and were the first station in Sydney to have a helicopter and weather radar. Roger was also reading the bulletin six nights a week. The rugby league replay on Sunday nights aided them just as league aids Nine’s Sydney bulletin today.
Nine decided to move their bulletin to 6pm towards the end of that year to compete head to head with the Eric Walters read Eyewitness News. Both news services were being beaten by The Beverly Hillbillies at 6pm on Seven and Seven’s news was soundly beating the second half of Ten’s news and A Current Affair on Nine at 6.30pm. Within weeks Nine’s bulletin was back at 6.30pm. That was also the year Nine attempted a second bulletin at 8.30pm. That didn’t last, either.
Source: SMH.
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It’d be hard to get Usher back I reckon, he’s in a really good place with Sydney’s news and The Latest.
Nine should have a good look at their presenting team across the board though.
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