Mel McLaughlin is also off tonight - Matt Shirvington on sport instead.
All three of the main team (Mark, Mel and Angie) off on a weeknight. Don’t see that too often.
EDIT: I was incorrect - Mel presented sport as usual.
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Busy filming a promo or something, perhaps?
Maybe, but who knows, could be a bunch of reasons.
As strange as it sounds, maybe they’re trialling the weekend team (bar Sally obviously who’s on holidays) on a Thursday night to see if it makes any impact on the ratings?
Michael Usher looks tired. Waking up at 3am for Sunrise then doing news at 6pm.
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Why would you trial something to see if it resonates with an audience when most of the audience would have had no idea it was happening until the switch the news on?
Oh my bad - Matt presented Sydney’s 4pm sport which Mel always does, so I assumed she must be off if Matt was on in the afternoon.
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Well, how about not posting guesses as facts?
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Sally isn’t on holidays she is presenting as usual today.
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Sorry I was referring to earlier in the week where judging by her Instagram she appeared to be on holidays, hence Sam Brett and Amber Laidler doing Sydney’s weather.
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Bill McDonald? 
Friday 9 April-
Blake Johnson is presenting in Melbourne filling in for Mike Amor.
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whaddaya mean no-one?
A newsreader from the 6pm bulletin joins the 4pm reader towards the end of the news to discuss the upcoming stories. In this case Max is reading the 4 and 6pm bulletins.
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oh ok. come to think of it I think they do that in melbourne too. who usually presents the qld edition?
Kendall Gilding.
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He’s good Blake
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If Blake is to become the next weekend presenter of Seven News Melbourne, then they should start rostering him on the Afternoon News a few days a week to start familiarising him with the audience on more of a regular basis.
It doesn’t make much sense for them to have Jacqui Felgate to be doing Afternoon News when she doesn’t fill in for Mike at 6pm. I’d like to see Jacqui given more 6pm opportunities - I think she’s a good newsreader and relatable to audiences.
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Double header like Sydney?