Sounds like the News@Noon will be a lot like the original iteration of The Latest.
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a bit late to the party
Congratulations to Natarsha Belling 
Finally at long last getting something she deserves, a contract at a major commercial network. The way she was treated in the end by Ten and then years in the wilderness was a shame.
She returns to her old timeslot, where she anchored Ten’s national Morning News from 2007 to 2012 after Tracey Spicer was axed. She also presented Ten’s Weekend News from 2009 to 2018.
She came through with that same crop of Melissa Doyle, Sonia Kruger, Mark Beretta, Natalie Barr, Kylie Gillies, Georgie Gardner and Monique Wright from the 90s and presented her very first bulletin when she was still a reporter around then too.
Quite shocked at the news really, can’t believe it. Hope it’s a main-stayer. But farewell outside of Sydney to Ann Sanders, a familiar late morning face to Australians from 2006 to present.
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After the rumours last year of Eddy leaving Sunrise to move to daytime bulletins, you have to wonder if the plan was to make Eddy the face of the midday bulletin, but she didn’t want to move so instead they got Tarsh.
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Or it could be entirely possible that the rumours were not true to begin with? After all, there were rumours.
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Monday January 20, 2025: Angie Asimus reading the 4pm news in Sydney
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Seven News having a poor run the past week in Sydney and Melbourne, especially given the new teams. Started off well two Sundays ago for a few days, then things seemed to collapse. Perhaps not helped by Nine having a couple of good lead-in days in more recent days. But those few GTV numbers above 300k particularly, which 10 years ago would’ve been the equivalent of like 500k, are massive. De Ceglie & Co would be watching things close no doubt, but they do need time to settle and up against the AO, despite perhaps intentional too at least for Maddern with that news cycle, is not the best start.
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Monday January 20
Rosanna Mangiarelli and Will Goodings are back tonight in Adelaide
Gertie Spurling also filled in for Mike Smithson this afternoon on the 4pm news (Smitho did both weeknights and weekends last week)
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Tonight Rick & Sue start there 40th year presenting 7 News.
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Smitho did a report though?
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Blake Johnson is in the US covering the California fires for the network.
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Good to see Blake being given a chance to fill in. I believe this is only his second time in the US.
But why? Why the need? Isn’t there enough US correspondents already?
Cos he is the Aviator Editor 
…must have had to file an aviation story and killed 2 birds with 1 stone…
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They get holidays and roles need to be covered.
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I would say he is filling in. One of the correspondents would be on holidays.
There is also a lot happening in he USA at the moment, an extra set of feet on the ground would help spread the load.
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Seven’s news boss under fire over Belling hire
Again with Seven’s De Ceglie and it’s been claimed the Seven’s news boss was surprised to learn his new midday news bulletin might ratchet up an unexpected cost.
Last year this column revealed Seven’s plans to move entertainment reporter Edwina Bartholomew from the Sunrise program to a daytime news reading role.
The role that was to have enticed Bartholomew away from Sunrise (something that has been in the wind for sometime we hear) and landed her in the chair as presenter of a new midday news bulletin, however she rejected the approach.
After Bartholomew rejected the gig, a substitute reader was sought.
De Ceglie might have expected to claw back a few bob by tapping one of Seven’s other regular newsreaders – of the ilk of Angie Asimus or Amber Laidlaw – however what he may not have considered was his news staffers disinterest in presenting a sponsored news bulletin featuring paid advertorials.
This would explain why, after laying off dozens of experienced news staff including newsreader Sharyn Ghidella in 2024, De Ceglie had to find the coin to hire former Ten newsreader Natarsha Belling, on a rumoured six figure contract.
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