Do we even need local editions? Seems like a wise cost cutting move it they pulled it back to national.
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Iâd rather they keep the 4pm state bulletins.
They are also a good training ground for up and coming preenters, we wouldnât see the likes of Kate Creedon present either.
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And canât see axing 4pm saving much money, everyone working on it would already be there for 4pm.
Could see 6pm presenters doing both though.
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According to Inside Mail, a Nine spokesperson says that Georgie Gardner is on planned leave enjoying a Europe getaway and will be back on screen later this month.
The article also reiterates other reports that Georgie earns $600,000 a year to read the 6pm news two nights per week.
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Probably works out at about $100 per word.
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Nearly 3 months off is a long time in TV. Good luck to her. She has done a long stint at Nine so well deserved.
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Very hard to justify in this day and age really.
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Same âreportsâ say that Peter and Ferguson are on $1million+. I donât think that is reasonable either.
itâs not. For a job thatâs mainly swanning in mid afternoon, going into make up, checking some scripts and going live at 6. The days of having anchors like this surely canât go on forever.
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Alicia Loxley presenting solo in Melbourne tonight.
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Is that really all they do? Donât any of them write their own scripts? In the UK I think newsreaders tend to write most of what they read themselves.
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Not in my experience. Stephen Quartermain would wander in the afternoon, read some news stories, get made up and do some updates, do the bulletin and out the door at 6.01.
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And not a second later.
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Is Jennifer the same? Or is 10 getting a little more out of her?
I just fell out of my sick bed. Jen doesnât do any more than she has to.
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Wow, nice work if you can get it. A friend used to work at the BBC and told me the presenters there tend to write most (if not all) of their own scripts, usually in collaboration with the bulletin editor and producers. Thatâs the bulletins anyway, the 24 hour channel is obviously different. From what I understand it varies between different outlets and newsrooms. Some anchors are much more involved than others.
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Absolutely itâs very dependent, Brad McEwan was all over the sports desk all day. Hitch would do lots of work all day doing updates, spots on radio and even public engagements and then later updates.
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I quite like Todd Woodbridge. Would he consider replacing TJ in the near future.
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He would be great, though Iâd say itâs more likely Clint Stanaway will take over when TJ retires, with either Nat Yoannidis (spelling?) or Nathan Currie on weekends.
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Which explains why the daytime updates up until the afternoon are always done by the likes of Candice Wyatt etc.