Would be a good idea to save Clint from travelling to Sydney every weekend (like Rebecca Maddern did just prior to COVID) and also to prevent Nine News Melbourne having two separate sports presenters for each Saturday and Sunday.
Who would present the news? Dougal Beatty (for example)? I’d also like to think Clint could also do sport.
I’d rather watch Clint and Christine tbh
Another idea is to split the weekend editions.
You could have Saturday Today out of Sydney with Jayne and a male presenter from Sydney.
And then Sunday Today out of Melbourne with Clint and Christine.
This benefits everyone as Clint doesn’t have to fly to Sydney each weekend, he can do Melb sport on both Sat & Sun, Christine would have a day off by not needing to host both mornings, and Jayne gets an extra day available to focus on other reporting/fill-in duties for Nine.
These thoughts are solid ideas, even if seemingly unlikely, Nine have taken punts before and while some haven’t paid off, some have, quite like the Melbourne-based one, with whatever anchors (do they persist with Clint? What about others from say GTV9 news or WWOS?) and even if just one of the weekend days or a trial.
As unlike Today, Weekend Today for whatever reason(s) really seems to be struggling to gain much traction, not helped by COVID, constantly changing presenters and generally a weaker brand and promotion than the more well known, stable and I think across its history top rating Seven rival.
Need to spend some money on a marketing campaign / better awareness of their weekend breakfast program IMO.
Why are you trying to get Clint sacked from his job?
Clint & Lauren would work from Melbourne on Weekend Today, since they already have a following from their radio.
Today should introduce local news and weather for each market as with most US breakfast shows. Sunrise does this in Perth and Today did it in Perth before 2020.
Sunrise did do local news windows for each market in 2007-08, though they disappeared by the time the Early News began in July 2008.
Matt Tinney does anchor local news and weather from Perth for a while
A very costly exercise without much benefit. You have to remember that the American breakfast shows have ratings between 2.3 and 2.9 million every day.
In Australia Sunrise averages 367,000 daily viewers year-to-date, compared to Today’s 282,000.
You would be making local news and weather for a very small number of people and likely not get enough of a boost in ratings to pay for it.
Omg the commentary by Mia was just woeful.
She made Nick sound like a professional.
I strongly disagree. Mia and Nick were pretty impressive. In fact add Emma into the mix and I thought it was great coverage by Nine.
Seriously?
How many times did Mia cut Nick off to say “absolutely” and how many times did she say the winner “had always been the bridesmaid but now was the bride”. And how many times did she repeat, “what’s the feeling like there?”
She just rambled and rambled. I could go on…
Nick was fine.
I have to agree. I tuned in to see how Nick went and thought they both did really well. Exceeded my expectations that’s for sure.
Mia and Nick are doing a good job this week.
They’ve both been great. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re grooming Mia for a bigger Today Show role down the track.
