This is a first isn’t it? Were they unable to get Paul Makin in?
I recall one summer he did the news and TT for a few nights but that was long ago.
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I reckon Seven should wave a heap of cash at Naomi Robson and reinstate Today Tonight.
That show kicked ass at 6:30pm like 11-12 years ago!
I mean she hasn’t disappeared, she was last at Seven’s diamond anniversary in Melbourne, where she was glowing. Obviously still enjoys coming back to functions and network execs keep in touch.
Yes, we’ve all discussed it and Seven still say no, but the only reason was because Matt White quit the position, Helen Kapalos failed and more so 6pm news went 1 hour, with Home and Away needing room (whereas Nine don’t have a staple soapie like Seven and Ten).
If we can expect an a enormous shock or surprise at the Upfronts or rumours over comin months, I’ll put my money on that.
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You’ve said this several times now.
I really don’t think Seven is likely to reinstate Today Tonight on the East Coast anytime in the foreseeable future. And I definitely don’t expect Naomi Robson to ever have a regular presenting role on a current affairs show again, especially with all those newsworthy controversies that happened during her last year or two in the chair!
Yeah, but times and the Australian TV news/current affairs landscape has changed dramatically in the last 11-12 years.
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has it?
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But it rated lower than the 6pm news. Having one hour of news has lifted the news ratings on the east coast for Seven. But look at the rating for TT in Adelaide and Perth - both are significantly lower that the 6pm news - this has directly resulted in Nine News winning the 6.30pm news segment 10 times this year while only winning twice at 6pm.
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The woman became a running joke in the media and an embarrassment to the network. Why would they want her back? There’s a reason you’ve barely seen her on television since Seven ousted her.
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Robson runs her own media training company,
http://www.managingyourmessage.com.au/about/
does corporate team building days,
http://yourcorporatekitchen.com.au/hosts
and is on the speaking circuit.
http://www.aaldc.com.au/speakers/
http://www.claxtonspeakers.com.au/speakers_profile/1826
She seems to keep busy. Robson going to a Seven function means nothing really, she goes to various events all the time.
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Not very recently however, just discussing a possibility, given probable news shuffles at Nine Sydney, Seven News resurgence and Home and Away continuing to decline.
Whilst ACA is around and continues to dominate (at least metro), there’s always a possibility.
Well, she was very popular & like I said, one name that’s around and available.
Yes, but not to the extent that viewers wouldn’t return to the show and/or presenter.
I’d really love to hear what major probable news reshuffles you think will eventually happen at Nine News Sydney, in the relevant thread of course.
When Seven News Sydney starts winning regular ratings nights and weeks between January and September (which Nine still did pretty well in this year), then I’ll say the news service is having a ratings resurgence.
Home & Away has been declining in the ratings for quite some time now…probably because of the late week double/triple episode runs because for whatever reason, Seven doesn’t run the show on Fridays anymore.
More than a decade ago. And as NewsWeary rightly pointed out, Naomi Robson was a running joke in the media and an embarrassment to the network - not someone who’d be chosen to present something positioned as a credible current affairs program (I know TT can’t really be classed as one, but still…) these days.
There’s nowhere near the viewer loyalty towards TV programs, personalities and networks that there was back in 2006-07.
Also, I’d be willing to predict that most people haven’t heard the name “Naomi Robson” since she was on Dancing With The Stars and that even the name “Today Tonight” is starting to fade out (if it hasn’t already) from the minds of East Coast viewers nearly four years since the show was axed on this side of the country.
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I do recall the infamous Steve Irwin matter.
Did it affect ratings though? I thought 2000s (where she was Syd/Melb/Bris) was TT’s most dominant?
But all points taken, very true👍
Only because Seven News (and Home & Away for that matter) was so dominant during that period. If they had been behind at 6pm then I guarantee TT would have posted much lower figures as a result.
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Which was probably also a result of Seven’s increasingly popular programming?
Blue Heelers, All Saints, DWTS, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Border Security, The Force just to name a few.
Because Peter Hitchener dominates Melbourne now, but Peter Mitchell dominated him back then
The only reason why TT was popular back then was because people liked consumer affairs over things that Ray Martin/Mike Munro did on ACA (which also fell backwards and have never recovered then).
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As well as infamously wearing a lizard on her neck for TT’s coverage of Steve Irwin’s death, there was also the infamous “Wa Wa” controversy just after that in September 2006. And the leaked blooper tapes.
Also taking the moral high ground against the ABC’s Media Watch back in 2005…and then there’s this.
If all of that isn’t enough to understand why Naomi Robson no longer has a regular role on television, I don’t know what is.
Yeah, didn’t ACA make an attempt to bring the show more upmarket at the start of Ray Martin’s 2nd stint as host? Unfortunately trashy content on Today Tonight with Naomi Robson was more popular with viewers, so it wasn’t too long before ACA returned to those types of stories.
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She was part of the reason why Today Tonight became No 1 and overtook ACA for the first time in the early 2000s. Give her some credit.
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I give her credit for conning viewers into thinking she had more to offer than a pretty face and a passable ability to read an autocue. History shows she was a vapid, self absorbed princess who was more concerned about her appearance than anything she had to present.
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Probable? So invented?
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Minor blooper in Adelaide with the cross from Jane and John to Rosanna.
The title graphics did not play and a small failure of the prompter left Rosanna on-screen and reading the titles from a paper script. Errors fixed by the time she started reading the intro to the first story. Played off extremely well by Rosanna!
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Have you got a video of this?