I’d prefer her replacing Jonathan at QTQ
Probably a division down AFL/NRL lines. Cities with similarities. Not sure why Perth is grouped in with Sydney/Brisbane though.
From Monday, September 14, newsreader Sandra Sully will present a 90-minute bulletin at 5pm to viewers in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth while Jennifer Keyte will anchor a combined Melbourne and Adelaide bulletin. Panel show The Project and 10’s national weekend news, hosted by Chris Bath, are unaffected.
Unless Perth gets a different bulletin two or three hours later with the same presenter.
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From the SMH Article
“While we’re centralising the presentation of our news in Sydney and Melbourne, we’re still committed to local coverage,” said a source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to make public comments.
Seems like a joke to say that when you have just axed local presenters who know their market and their audience.
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Maybe they don’t have the ability to manage it in Melbourne?
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As was just mentioned in the Content and Appearance thread:
All Brisbane presenters are out of a job.
Weather forecasts will be read from Sydney (judging by the article), so it looks like all weather presenters are out of a job too.
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So Narelda will do Perth live from Sydney? Surely the presenters across Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth should be given the option to move to Syd/Mel if they wanted.
No mention yet for Adelaide and Perth, but it’s a shame for Monika as she just started with the network at the start of the year.
Brisbane seems to have already been confirmed that all 3 of their presenters are not tagging along to Sydney.
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They just hired a new presenter in Perth and now she has gone.
The SA and Qld presenters were very very good and now they’ve been dispensed with. Strange stuff from 10.
It seems the CBS buyout only delayed for a few years what was already happening and now COVID and Viacom have brought it all undone.
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Tim Bailey and Mike Larkin also amongst those set to leave. The Brisbane and Perth sports presenters have been retained for an “expanded” role.
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That’s a massive mistake to get rid of Larkin! In saying that he is probably on a massive pay packet.
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From the article
Those understood to be leaving the network include: Brisbane newsreader Georgina Lewis and weather presenter Josh Holt; Adelaide newsreader Rebecca Morse, weather presenter Kate Freebairn and sports anchor Will Goodings; Perth newsreader Monika Kos and weather presenter Michael Schultz; Sydney weather presenter Tim Bailey and Melbourne weather presenter Mike Larkan.
Matt Burke will anchor sports coverage in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth while Stephen Quartermain will present sport in Melbourne and Adelaide. Sports reporters Jonathan Williams in Brisbane and Tim Gossage in Perth will take on expanded roles.
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I find it hard to believe Perth won’t get a local bulletin from Narelda starting from 7pm Sydney (8pm during daylight savings).
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Georgina Lewis is the best newsreader in Brisbane, IMO, across both 9 and 7’s 6pm News and ABC’s 7pm News. She’s been with them for over 20 years.
Bailey and Larkin also with 10 for decades so terrible news all round.
Tough for Monika, made redundant twice in under a year. They only just hired her.
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Surely Perth won’t be getting 2-3 hours old news with a rugby league sports focus?
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There is no way they will do a 3 hour delayed bulletin for Perth. That would be shocking!
Side note, this means that Sandra will be about 3/4’s back to her national identity within the network.
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Will be very interesting to see if any of the axed presenters get snapped up by the other networks.
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It seems like (and I’m just guessing here) there’ll be a ‘core’ bulletin (ie; featuring national/international reports) and relevant reports for each state will be inserted into that
This is terrible news. Even worse than the November 2012 & May 2014 cutbacks because fundamental core basics (like having a locally produced news service in Brisbane/Adelaide/Perth) are now being affected.
Hopefully, but current media job prospects don’t look good. For some presenters (definitely Tim Bailey, I think) this will likely result in the end of media careers.
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