Monday & Tuesday -
Michael Usher hosting with Nat.
Angie Asimus presenting news with Nathan Templeton presenting sport and Nelson Aspen is presenting Entertainment.
Angie Asimus presenting news with Nathan Templeton presenting sport and Nelson Aspen is presenting Entertainment.
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Wednesday- Kochie is back on the desk hosting
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With Angie Asimus still reading the news and Nathan Templeton on sport.
Nelson Aspen has been pre-recording packages for Entertainment on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday instead of a live cross.
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Probably cheaper for them to send a package over than have a satellite link?
I don’t think that is entirely true. Adam Boland liked Georgie and Mark Beretta- they hosted Olympic Sunrise for him in 2000. What happened was that in early 2001, the network planned a breakfast show (probably a lot like today’s Sunrise) with Lisa Forrest and one of the Daddos, I think. So Boland’s Seven News Sunrise was going to be dumped and he was to be a segment producer for this new show. But, in the end, the network deemed it too expensive and stuck with the 90 minute bulletin. The only problem for Boland was that Berretta had moved back to Seven News Melbourne and Georgie Gardner was poached by National Nine News Sydney. That is how it became of Melissa Doyle and Chris Reason.
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Not quite true. Georgie was definitely sidelined. She became a fill-in at seven after Mel replaced her and she got limited air time… that’s why she joined Nine as a weather presenter.
No they didn’t.
Jo Griggs and Andrew Daddo did. Chris Bath read news. IIRC.
Georgie and Mark hosted Sunrise after that until the end of 2001.
Mark told me himself in an email back then that he liked hosting Sunrise but the network was taking the show in a different direction.
I am not going to argue but I think Seven News Sunrise was axed briefly. When it returned, Mel hosted.
Georgie was definitely a part of it. Host or news I don’t remember.
Georgie & Mark co-hosted follow the flame if I remember correctly. I cannot quite remember who did Olympic Sunrise. But Daddo and Griggs sounds about right.
There are YouTube clips of Georgie and Mark presenting together, and when the hosted a function earlier this year they alluded to it being a while since they had hosted anything together in their respective Instagram posts.
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Andrew Daddo and Johanna Griggs definitely hosted Olympic Sunrise in 2000 with Chris Bath on news.
Georgie Gardner looks like she is on news in the above clip.
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Thanks.
Maybe she did it some days only? Can’t really remember …
All of the hosting and broadcast history is on Wikipedia.
The promos I’ve seen (such as this one - I’ve also got the Olympic Sunrise promo somewhere so will find that when I get the chance) would suggest that Joanna Griggs, Andrew Daddo, Chris Bath & Georgie Gardner were all part of Olympic Sunrise in 2000. Perhaps Jo & Andrew were the main hosts while Chris & Georgie shared the newsreading duties on different days?
As for Mark Beretta, I’m fairly sure he presented Follow The Flame with Georgie and also had some level of involvement with Seven’s general coverage of the 2000 Olympics but I don’t know if he was ever part of Olympic Sunrise.
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Pretty sure you’re correct that Mark and Georgie hosted the torch coverage each afternoon, prior to the news maybe?
Mark wasn’t part of Olympic Sunrise
Monday 24 December -
Nat hosting with Chris Reason.
Kendall Gilding presenting news and Simon Reeve presenting sport.
Nat and Chris also doing the Entertainment news this morning.
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Nice to see Simon back filling in on the weekday show. I think the last time was in mid-2016. Not too keen on the other two (why don’t they use members from WS).
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7 have so many solid performers to choose from to relieve over Christmas/NewYear.
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