Same with me - I just thought that if you had no option but to cut one of them, for whatever reason, surely keeping the one that has a qualified journalist to front your bulletin helps maintain your brands credibility?
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Does she love television or does she love being paid well to sit in the studio? Doubt we are going to see her popping up on the crime shift on 7.
And as for being axed without a chance to say goodbye, again thatâs pretty standard. Donât want them going rogue on their last night on air, like Kelly Nestor did.
also Kelly Nestor, whoâs suffering relevance deprivation it seems recently, has weighed in: Kate Collins sacked: Kelly Nestor reacts as 9 News history repeats | The Advertiser. Few inaccuracies in the story, Kate didnât succeed Kelly, Michael Smyth did. Kate succeeded Rob Kelvin. Itâs also a pretty outdated idea, Rosanna is 10 years older than Kate Collins, and Jane Doyle stayed until she retired, so this idea girls are getting boned on age these days is a bit of a fallacy.
That shocks me, Ragless isnât even a journalist? Kate should have been the one to remain for sure.
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IIRC, he was weather presenter in the early 10s before becoming the chief anchor in 2014?
He joined 2008 to replace Keith Martyn, having worked in media for the CFS. After Michael Smyth got boned (add another to the list of people boned without a chance to say goodbye, and Georgina too), Kate was solo for a bit before Brenton got put on the desk.
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Wondering the same about Clint. Melbourneâs sport department very lean
If you listen to the podcast Clint did recently, his departure is down to the fact he worked too much and it wasnât sustainable.
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He had to drop one of his commitments, but he perhaps may have wanted to stay at nine and drop being a radio newsreader
I think itâs safe to say both Clint and Liviniaâs exits are cost cutting from Nine, but they were gifted the opportunity to present their exits as being on their own terms.
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Alicia Loxley solo in Melbourne this evening.
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Uh oh!!
Joking
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I was nearly going to post similar! 
Probably would make sense Tom replaces Hitch and Alicia runs solo.
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Georgie acknowledged Amberâs departure at the end of tonightâs bulletin.
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Brenton did the same in Adelaide tonight acknowledging Kate departure.
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The Adelaide and Sydney acknowledgements seem a bit like a token response to the negative press coverage this has received.
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Three days straight being on the front page of The Advertiser is doing to do that to you. Tokenism and tone deaf.
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Good for GG and Ragless to do their acknowledge to them. But very sad day in the newsroom on Nine.
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Yes, I thought Nine would have learned something out of that âculture reviewâ that they had earlier this year about treatment of staff. Seems not.
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