I think it’s more about a few of us wanting to see Mel Doyle remain on Seven than actually believing a double header is possible.
She is responsible (with Kochie) for where Sunrise is now. They owe this woman long life commitment.
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Jennifer Keyte 1989-1996 HSV7?
Saturday (30.11.2019): Elle Georgiou presenting in Perth Tonight.
Angela Tsun presented updates all afternoon, one may assume they could be having a farewell function for TT.
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Seven [Nightly] News in Melbourne was miles behind [National] Nine News at the time.
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That was nearly 20 years ago.
It’s a different time now. Different length news bulletin, different presenters.
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I’ve heard rumours that to save costs, they will be shipping all presenters to Perth and they shall all share the desk at once. It’s that big, that they’re all able to present their bulletins without interruptions
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Elle signed off the bulletin with a rare “Good night”.
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Sydney and Melbourne viewers- brought up on decades of Henderson, Climpson, Ross, Pearce, Hitchener and Naylor- like to get their news from a voice of authority. The contrived “happy talk” Arthur and Martha news format is a concept some Yank consultancy firm got paid millions to import around the world. Sophisticated audiences don’t buy into the idea that two people are needed to deliver the news when the reader(s) are likely to appear on screen for no more than ten minutes in a one hour broadcast.
It’s hard enough to get authentic banter between a newsreader and the sport presenter without muddying the waters with yet another head at the desk babbling inanely to their off sider about shit. Viewers cringe at these scripted, poor attempts at forced gaiety in newscasts. It baffles me that some markets have persisted with it for this long when it adds nothing to the bulletin.
Watching two newsreaders share the duties is a bit like watching a ping pong match. Just give me a competent journo who can read the lines with some warmth and authority and is capable of showing a glimpse of their personality when appropriate. We don’t need the the other contrived bullshit. They can save that for the breakfast shows.
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I’d love to see Jo Silvagni make a return in some capacity. I did enjoy her weather reports, watched them from Sydney. And Jo’s weather commercial too.
10 did have success in both Sydney and Melbourne with they’re double presenting news teams in the 80 and 90s.
But I do agree, times are changing and I don’t see the double headers lasting in Brisbane/Adelaide and Perth. I have no idea why two news readers read a 30 min bulletin?
Seven Perth - 2 news presenters. 1 sports presenter. 1 weather presenter, plus 1 current affairs presenter.
Seven Melbourne - 1 news presenter, 1 sports presenter and 1 weather presenter.
Not lasting success and they weren’t competing in the same slot with Seven and Nine in the '90s.
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MARK Ferguson will not be replaced by heir-apparent Michael Usher and will return as the host of Seven’s 6pm weeknight news bulletin in 2020, the network confirmed yesterday.
-Daily Telegraph.
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Pretty sure 7 was No 1 in Brisbane when Frank Warwick left Kay McGrath to read solo… but I could be wrong.
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Not sure if things were different in Regional Queensland, but I was under the impression that Bruce Paige and Heather Foord/Jillian Whiting on Nine dominated the 6pm news ratings in South East Queensland during the Late 1990s and Early-Mid 2000s, with Seven becoming #1 around 2006/07ish.
Perhaps @TV.Cynic could do a fact check on that for us! 
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You may be right. I might’ve been thinking Frank left later than he did.
For the vast majority of its 60 years Nine Brisbane has had dual presenters for the weekday bulletin - way back to Don Seccombe and Melody Iliffe in the 60s then Don Seccombe and Brian Cahill in 70s and early 80s.
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Then Don and Paul Griffin. Yep, I’m that old that I remember.
Seven News was never number 1 when Frank was reading. Nine consistently won the ratings in Brisbane from around March ‘87 until around 2006 when Seven became strong with Rod And Kay reading.
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Thanks for clarifying I had thought Frank and Kay might’ve been No 1 for a brief time so that’s good to know