And she has the experience of being a roving reporter. From the clips I’ve seen of her days at STW she frequently did Weather OBs
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Natalia is the perfect weather girl. She presented the weather on both Nine and Seven News Perth a few years back before moving to the East
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Ange and Sam are good but not in the same boat as Natalia.
Monday (12.12.16) - Thursday (15.12.16): Peter Stefanovic is co-hosting with Lisa again this week, in addition to presenting sport. Deborah Knight is reading the news.
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Funny i was going to say the opposite. I always foudn Samantha Jolly better to be presenting then I found Natalia when she was here in Perth.
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quote=" Ratings: Seven wins Monday again; ABC’s Back Roads scores top entertainment program, topic:101"]
In the morning Sunrise had a big win with 320,000 tuning in compared to Today on Nine with 262,000 and ABC News Breakfast with 104,000 and 49,000.
[/quote] Gee Today is in a worse position than it was 14 months ago.
Karl must be the big drawcard and without him…
Maybe their run of luck ran out when Sunrise reverted back to its original format?
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Yeah, you’re probably right. Sunrise was scoring home goals earlier in the year and now they’re finding form again.
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You mean Today? 
We need to talk about Pete Stefanovic. He seems to be some sort of sacred touchstone at Nine, but he’s a disaster. He comes across as such a doofus. Sad attempts at humour and not as bright as everyone else on the panel. Couple him with the never-fun Deb Knight, a dour Lisa and no sport presenter and your problem with ratings is looking at you right in the face.
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Well i don’t think calling him a doofus or any of the name in the book is good way to start the conversation.
I have no problem with Pete. I think he does a good job.
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Why do I get the impression that many dislike Peter Stefanovic purely for the fact that he’s the brother of the very polarising lead male presenter of Today?
FWIW, personally I think Peter Stefanovic is a rather average, middle of the road presenter. His On-Air presence isn’t amazing but at the same time, I do think there are worse on our screens.
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The graphics are hideous.
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I feel like Peter needs to have a long sit down with his brother and learn about how to be affable or even pretend to be affable on screen. There is no connection there, I feel like he’s a guy I could not approach or have a conversation with if I met him. That being said Karl was also described as a robot when he started so maybe he’s just a little wet behind the ears in terms of hosting that sort of show and he will grow into the role?
This time of the year they just have a revolving door of hosts anyway. Expect to see Tim McMillan back or David Campbell or Tim Gilbert hosting down the line with maybe Alicia Loxley.
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Friday (16.12.16): Peter Stefanovic is co-hosting with Lisa, in addition to reading sport, live aboard the Ovation of the Seas. Deborah Knight is in the studio reading the news (I honestly don’t know how hard it is for them to understand that separating an already empty team makes for an awful show).
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This time of the year they just have a revolving door of hosts anyway. Expect to see Tim McMillan back or David Campbell or Tim Gilbert hosting down the line with maybe Alicia Loxley.
[/quote] I think today will be Pete’s last day anyway with Dickie probably co-hosting for the next two weeks. Tim McMillan will then likely co-host with Alicia/Sylvia until Karl and Lisa return in the third week of January.
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Maybe their run of luck ran out when Sunrise reverted back to its original format?
[/quote] That is likely to be the primary reason why Sunrise’s audience rose. Today’s decline is due to a number of reasons including; rotating door of Early News presenters from mid-year; decline in ratings for Nine News and Nine’s prime time; bad PR and Karl absent quite frequently.
I think Tim Gilbert will be co-hosting with Sylvia during January.
Agreed. She never really has a good sense of humour and is very serious in newsreading (never really smiling or being humourous).
@Tom_TV7 personally when watching a news bulletin l like the newsreader to be serious and from what l have seen of Deb reading news bulletins over the years she has good interaction with sports and weather presenters.
In regard to hosting on weekends Deb is my favourite she is professional and has great banter with other presenters and she does have a good sense of humour.She had the right chemistry with Cam Williams but with Peter Stefanovic that’s a different story.It never felt right to me anyway Pete was more interested in laughing with Jayne and Natalia and at times it seemed like Deb was left out of conversations.
I’m hoping Tom can build up good chemistry with Deb in time,and to have the right chemistry it does take time.
When l think of the Nine News Sydney team Deb along with Georgie Gardner and Peter Overton are the best newsreaders.
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Tim Gilbert rarely fills in and when he has, he isn’t great. Given that last summer he was there when Karl wasn’t, I think David Campbell and Tim McMillan will fill-in. And don’t forget Donald Trump’s inauguration is in late January (which Karl will likely cover), so Sylvia will probably co-host then.
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Very serious in newsreading (never really smiling or being humourous).
[/quote] See, I as many know, don’t like Sylvia, she seems very happy when reading serious news. Deb is far better than Sylvia at reading Today’s news IMO and Georgie is leaps and bounds ahead of them all.
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It never felt right to me anyway Pete was more interested in laughing with Jayne and Natalia and at times it seemed like Deb was left out of conversations.I’m hoping Tom can build up good chemistry with Deb in time,and to have the right chemistry it does take time.
[/quote] Well said.