Despite him being in a sports role, I still think it’s a conflict of interest on Seven’s behalf by having the local Lord Mayor presenting on their nightly news bulletin IMO.
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I admit to knowing very little about WA’s local govt arrangements, and the mayor’s role varies a lot between cities. But I would’ve thought Mayor of a city with a 2M population is more than a full time role on its own.
And definitely a conflict of interest for a local / state based news bulletin especially. How do they report on local Perth political matters? Seriously devalues the standing of their programme…
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It’s probably more of concern amongst local staff rather than the bosses interstate. It just looks weird when he’s being interviewed on his own network for his gig over at the Mayor’s office. It almost sounds like he is reporting rather than being interviewed as-well…
There is something similar over at ABC NT with Kristy O’Brien in a reporting/presenting role on ABC News & Landline whilst being married to the Chief Minister. Media Watch have reported on this in the past.
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As far as I’m aware the ‘City of Perth’ council area is basically just the CBD itself and home to only about 20k people.
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With how terribly his breakfast show rates on Triple M I’m surprised that he’s stepped down from TV duties rather than radio.
As per the last comment, City of Perth is the CBD, a few inner suburbs, Kings Park and UWA. Basil won with about 27% of the vote, and received less than 2000 votes (in which a significant portion of these votes were likely from businesses rather than residents) for perspective of just how little it took, not to mention another current SevenWest employee and a former SevenWest employee were also running for the same position, it was very clear that Basil is in the role primarily as a puppet of Stokes / SevenWest, which leads into
It wasn’t very visible until recently. When the state border deferral occurred and Stokes ordered The West to make a backflip on their treatment of the state government, Baz followed immediately and started complaining about the border closure impacting the CBD negatively after never attributing any issues of the sort previously since he took the chair as mayor.
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Melbourne weekend weather presenter Melina Sarris gave birth to a baby boy, Romeo Iaquinto on February 10th.
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or enjoys a significant salary?
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Friday 18 February & Saturday 19 February-
Angela Cox is presenting solo in Sydney.
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Nick McCallum is in Darwin covering the 80th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin
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nationalnews Intel:
As of this week, Katie Brown has taken over from Pat Welsh’s Thursday and Friday night sport reads in Brisbane. He will continue to present on Saturdays and fill-in where needed (including the odd national appearance on the Morning News). His editing and producing roles will now be his focus.
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Once again, they move the better presenter whilst keeping the below par presenter in Shane Webcke. The Seven logic prevails again 
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Pat isn’t the best. Katie has good talent.
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Ideally, it should be Pat Welsh who has the main sport reading duty, with Katie reading on the weekends.
Wasn’t Pat Welsh bumped from weeknights for Shane a few years ago? When exactly did that happen?
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This occurred in early 2007, just after Shane Webcke retired from the NRL; from memory Seven recruited him to their sports department the day after he played his final game, which was the Brisbane Broncos’ victory over the Melbourne Storm in the 2006 Grand Final.
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Do we think Pat was pushed or has scaled back of his own accord? Could be the latter, given I believe he also hosts a Brisbane breakfast radio program, so he might want to scale back his on-air duties across the media.
However, I don’t understand the need for three sport presenters across the week. Why don’t they just give Katie Saturdays too and Pat can focus on working behind the scenes at Seven and fill-in presenting full-time?
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Saturday 19 February -
Andrew McCormack presenting sport in Melbourne tonight.
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