Kendall Gilding presented the Morning News today.
Angie Asimus is presenting Sydney’s Afternoon News.
Blake Johnson is presenting Melbourne’s Afternoon News.
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5/3/2021 Samantha Brett presented the Early News today.
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Peter Fegan landed on his very wet feet.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CL3j9_Fg7GC/?igshid=g1p2riynt1d2
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Seven News Melbourne reporter (and former Bachelorette) Georgia Love married Lee Elliott in Hobart today. Their wedding were postponed a couple of times due to COVID-19. With Tasmania reopening its state border to Victoria last week, the couple finally took the chance to have the ceremony in the island state where Georgia worked as a journalist for WIN News.
https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/georgia-love-lee-elliotts-wedding-kicks-off-in-hobart-tasmania/news-story/e6db217dc9bd288d363d72edb90bd96a
EDIT: Georgia posted a black and white photo of her and Lee kissing at the wedding.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDeynhgvwM/
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Continuing on from what I said in the above thread…
The Friday night ratings for Seven News Sydney are really a cause for concern. Perhaps there’s just less people watching come the end of the week, but still, those numbers are pretty bad.
Seven’s 6pm & 6:30pm respective ratings on Friday night’s from February onwards:
Friday 05th February - 184k & 168k
Friday 12th February - 218k & 216k (note: the AO was on this night)
Friday 19th February - 217k & 217k (note: the AO was on this night)
Friday 26th February - 209k & 191k
Friday 05th March - 170k & 153k
So how do Seven fix the problem of poor Friday news ratings in Sydney?
Personally I believe that viewers don’t like the two newsreader format, and Seven should go back to just Usher solo on Fridays and Saturdays. Furthermore, it seems that viewers prefer Ferguson over Usher and Cox (Mark won on Tuesday night this week, and Sunday and Wednesday night the previous week), so perhaps they should adjust the roster to have Mark presenting Monday to Friday, and Michael & Angela (if she’s really needed) Saturday and Saturday?
Saturday 6 March-
Matt Carmichael is presenting sport on 5pm News and in Sydney tonight.
Andrew McCormack is presenting sport in Melbourne this weekend.
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Saturday 6 March and Sunday 7 March -
Melina Sarris presenting weather from Moomba carnival at Melbourne’s Alexandra Gardens.
A shorter version of Kay’s report aired in Melbourne this evening (6 March).
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Sunday 07th March -
Matt Carmichael presented sport on the 5pm news and Sydney bulletin again tonight.
Must be the first time Matt’s done weeknight (as in Sunday to Thursday) sport in years?
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Monday 8 March-
Angela Cox is presenting Morning News today.
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Meanwhile in Adelaide Jane Doyle narrowly averted a near certain crying /or coughing episode, by making a sudden swallowing noise before excusing herself, while reading two local murder stories during tonights 6 PM Bulletin.
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With Sam Armytage leaving Sunrise, question is what exactly would she do when/if she comes back.
There’s no current affairs program, but for 7 News Spotlight, which is ad hoc.
The only other option i can think of is if 7 Sydney wanted to do a double header on weeknights as well. She could join Mark Ferguson. Granted she’d have to go back to 5 days a week, but it is 10 hours less on air per week and you do potentially get Thursday night to Sunday afternoon off.
News reading is how she started, and did quite well at. She also wouldn’t be giving her opinion, which many seem to find issue with.
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Or she’ll run out her contract and move to Sky.
It’s such a shame because Sam was such a great Newsreader. However she has become far too opinated, and lost a lot of her work ethic.
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Now there’s the key word - was.
Hard to believe now that Samantha Armytage was at one point a regular fill-in for Ian Ross on Seven News Sydney and prior to Chris Bath’s profile increasing again during the Late 2000s, was likely to succeed him in the main chair.
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I reckon she’ll file a few rural/human interest stories to see out her contract, then sit back and write her columns and host her podcast for News Corp while helping Richard with the horses.
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Monday 8 March to Thursday 11 March-
Matt Shirvington presented sport in Sydney.
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