National Nine News
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Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network
.
Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney (TCN9), Melbourne (GTV9), Brisbane (QTQ9) and Darwin
(NTD) alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN
-owned Nine Network affiliates in Adelaide (NWS9) and Perth (STW9). A supplementary regional news for the Gold Coast
in Queensland is also produced by the news service.
The Early Morning News is a pre-recorded bulletin, and is presented as the "AM Edition" of the Qantas Inflight News, a daily news bulletin for passengers of Qantas
airways.
Nine previously had an early news bulletin, known as Daybreak, and later National Nine Early News, from the early nineties until 2003 when Today
was extended to begin at 6am. The Early News resumed for a brief time at 6am in 2005 where it was presented by Sharyn Ghidella
and Chris Smith, before again being cancelled. Amber Sherlock previously presented the bulletin from July 2008 until June 2010.
This bulletin has been used as a training ground for presenters, with the Weekend Today
news presenter generally taking two or three days, with junior reporters doing the remaining days. This has happened throughout Amber Sherlock & Alicia Gorey
's tenure as the main presenters. These presenters have included; Sarah Harris, Kristie Carter, Louise Creely, Jessica Rich, Amelia Adams, Sophie Walsh, Davina Smith, Kyrrie Blenkinsop, Sylvia Jefferies and Sarah Stewart.
from Monday to Thursday, with Amber Sherlock presenting every Friday. Sport is presented by Tim Sheridan. Fill-in presenters include Amber Sherlock, Sarah Harris, Amelia Adams and Jessica Rich (news), Tim Gilbert and Roz Kelly (sport).
The morning bulletin, originally known as National Nine Morning News, has been broadcast since 1981 and was originally presented by Eric Walters. The bulletin was extended from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on Monday 4 May 2009.
From 2004 to October 2008 the bulletin was known as the Morning Edition, and between that date and May 2009 was titled as the AM Edition.
Recently, the bulletin has become unavailable on the Nine Network's regional affiliate WIN Television
and has been replaced on WIN by Alive and Cooking and a news and entertainment show "Daily".
from Monday to Thursday, with Amber Sherlock presenting every Friday. Sport is presented by Tim Sheridan and weather is presented by Livinia Nixon
. The bulletin consists of national news, sport, finance and weather. Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Amber Sherlock, Sarah Harris, Amelia Adams and Jessica Rich (news), Tim Gilbert and Roz Kelly (sport), Garry Youngberry (weather).
It was introduced in 2004 as National Nine News: Afternoon Edition in response to Seven launching a similar 4:30pm bulletin a year before.
Past presenters who have also presented the bulletin include Georgie Gardner
(2004), Mike Munro
(2005–2006), Kellie Connolly
(2006–2008), Leila McKinnon
(2008) and Mark Ferguson
(2009). Previously sport has been presented by Nicole Livingstone
(2007). In 2008, Mike Bailey
presented the weather on Fridays, until he was sacked in early 2009.
From 2004 to 20 October 2008 the bulletin was known as the Afternoon Edition. It was sub-titled as the PM Edition from October 2008 to May 2009, before changing simply to Nine Afternoon News. The bulletin is often still referred to as the Afternoon Edition.
In June 2009, the program was replaced by a 1-hour news program This Afternoon
. The last regular bulletin aired on Thursday 25 June 2009 after being presented from Melbourne for the previous 7 weeks. James Talia
presented the final edition. The following day, a special 90-minute bulletin was broadcast on the death of Michael Jackson
, with This Afternoon
beginning the following Monday. This only lasted three weeks, with This Afternoon
axed due to poor ratings after only 12 episodes. Nine News: Afternoon Edition was reinstated on Wednesday 15 July 2009, with Mark Ferguson
appointed as presenter. Ferguson remained in the chair until signing off on 25 September 2009, prior to his departure for the Seven Network
. Wendy Kingston
was reinstated as the program's presenter.
In November 2010, the bulletin was extended to an hour.
(Saturday) and Peter Overton
(Sunday). Sport is presented by Cameron Williams
(Saturday) and Ken Sutcliffe
(Sunday). Weather is presented by Jaynie Seal
. Fill-in presenters include Wendy Kingston
(news) and Amber Sherlock (weather)
It was introduced in 2011 in response to Ten News
moving their weekend bulletin to 6:00pm. The bulletin is not broadcast in Sydney or Brisbane on Sundays during the NRL
season. Despite Ten News reinstating their own 5:00pm weekend bulletin, the Nine bulletin remains.
Amber Sherlock along with a number of rotating reporters including Tracy Vo, Jessica Rich and Sarah Harris present news updates on weeknights from Sydney's TCN 9 studios.
Weekend late news updates are presented from Melbourne's GTV 9 studios by Alicia Gorey
.
. The special online bulletin was introduced in September 2009. It can be viewed and downloaded from ninemsn.com.au, and as a vodcast.
The bulletin was formerly known as Nine News Now and was previously recorded later at 3pm. It was introduced in 2006.
Nine Morning News and Nine Afternoon News are also streamed live from the Ninemsn Newsroom website.
Sydney
Nine News Sydney is presented from the network's Sydney news studios
by Peter Overton
from Sunday to Thursday and Georgie Gardner
on Friday and Saturday, with Ken Sutcliffe
presenting sport from Sunday to Thursday and Cameron Williams
presenting sport on Friday and Saturday. Natalie Gruzlewski
presents the weather from Monday to Thursday and Jaynie Seal
presents the weather from Friday to Sunday. The bulletin is also simulcast on Hope 103.2
radio station.
The main fill-ins for the bulletin are presenters Wendy Kingston
, Leila McKinnon
and Peter Harvey
with sports presenters Andrew Voss
, Tim Sheridan and Tim Gilbert with weather presenters Amber Sherlock and Amelia Adams.
The Sydney bulletin was presented by Brian Henderson for 38 years – a record that still stands today. Henderson retired in November 2002, with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley
taking over as weeknight presenter. Waley was the main weekend presenter around the time of Henderson's retirement.
In 2005, Waley, who was one of the Nine Network's longest serving presenters, was dropped following a year of poor ratings (despite the fact that Nine News Sydney was the leading 6pm news program throughout the 2003-4 ratings seasons) and replaced with then-weekend presenter Mark Ferguson
. In 2004, Nine News Sydney won only 27 out of a possible 40 ratings weeks. By this time, the 6pm bulletin had lost its long time ratings lead to the rival Seven News Sydney.
Mike Munro
was the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by Michael Usher
.
In January 2009, Mark Ferguson
was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton
. Ferguson returned to his weekend presenting position, which he previously held during Jim Waley
's stint as weeknight presenter.
In July 2009, it was revealed that weekend news presenter Mark Ferguson
would move to Seven News
from October. Ferguson, who had been with Nine for 17 years, was removed immediately from the Sydney weekend bulletin and was replaced by Georgie Gardner
. Ferguson continued to present Nine Afternoon News until his contract expired in September 2009.
Mike Bailey
presented weather forecasts on Friday and Saturday, until he was sacked in early 2009. Jaynie Seal
, who had previously presented weather from Sunday to Thursday, returned to weekday weather presenting. In February 2010, Nine announced that Natalie Gruzlewski
would present weather from Monday to Thursday and file lifestyle and entertainment reports for Nine News with Seal presenting weather from Friday to Sunday. During 2011, the 6pm Sydney bulletin officially overtook Seven's Sydney news in the ratings for the first time in seven years, winning 21 weeks compared to Seven's 14 weeks.
Nine News Sydney is also broadcast on WIN Television
in regional southern and central New South Wales & the ACT.
news studios
by Peter Hitchener
on weekdays, with Tony Jones
presenting sport. Livinia Nixon
presents the weather. Weekend bulletins are presented by Alicia Gorey
and sport presenter Clint Stanaway. The bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station Light FM
.
The late Brian Naylor
presented National Nine News Melbourne for 20 years from 1978 to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by Peter Hitchener
as weeknight news presenter, while Jo Hall
took over Hitchener's existing position as weekend presenter.
Rob Gell
was the weeknight weather presenter for 15 years until his surprise sacking in 2003, and was replaced by Livinia Nixon
.
From July 2008, weekend presenters of Nine News Melbourne began presenting the news standing up. Nine did not introduce this format into the weeknight bulletin, opting for presenter Peter Hitchener
to sit behind the news desk instead. This lasted until August 2009 as Nine News Melbourne received a new set, similar to that of Nine News Sydney, with Jo Hall
moving back to sitting behind a newsdesk.
In October 2008, swimmer Grant Hackett
joined Nine News Melbourne as the weekend sport presenter. Hackett replaced Heath O’Loughlin
, who vacated the position to take up employment with the North Melbourne Football Club
. O'Louglin presented sport for the final time on 5 October 2008. Although in November 2009, Nine announced that Hackett will no longer present weekend sports news but appear on shows, Wide World of Sports
and What's Good For You
. Lisa Andrews replaced him, remaining in this position until mid 2011. Clint Stanaway replaced her.
Nine News Melbourne had led in the ratings well ahead of its rivals for more than 20 years, but as recently as 2007 it had lost this position to its rival Seven News Melbourne, winning only 19 weeks out of a possible 40 (Seven won 20 weeks and one week was drawn that year).
In November 2011, it was announced that Weekend Today
news presenter Alicia Gorey
would be moving back to Melbourne to replace Jo Hall
who is wanting to scale down her role with the network.
Afternoon news updates are presented by Jo Hall
from Monday to Friday. The nightly news presenters presents newsbreaks for the rest of the evening. Fill-in news presenters for the bulletin include presenters Tony Jones
, Jo Hall
, Brett McLeod
. Clint Stanaway is the main fill-in sports presenter, while Corey Norris is the substitute weekend sport presenter. Brodie Harper, Jacqueline Felgate or Sonia Marinelli present the weather in place of Livinia Nixon
over the summer, or as a fill-in.
Fill-in presenters in recent years have included Rachael Rollo (news/weather), Carolyne Randoe (news/weather), Tim McMillan (news/sport), James Talia
(news/sport) and Christine Ahern (sport). Over the summer period of 2008–09, 3AW
radio presenter and former WIN News
Victoria presenter Denis Walter
was appointed as the weekday weather presenter. Steve Jacobs
was also a fill-in presenter through 2009. Postcards reporter Brodie Harper filled in for Livinia Nixon
whilst she was on maternity leave from November 2009 until July 2010.
Nine News Melbourne is also simulcast on WIN Television
in regional Victoria each night and at weekends on WIN Television Tasmania.
and Melissa Downes
on weeknights, with Ian Healy
presenting sport, and Garry Youngberry presenting the weather. This bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on community radio station River 94.9
and across regional Queensland on WIN Television
.
Eva Milic
presents on weekends, alongside sport presenter Steve Haddan. Paul Burt is now presenting weather. He also presents Surfing and Fishing reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Regular presenter fill-ins for the weekend bulletin include former ABC News
& weather presenter Lisa Backhouse
, former weekend and weeknight presenter until 2011, Heather Foord
and former weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
and weather presenter Sylvia Jeffreys. Wally Lewis
is also often seen presenting sport.
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
announced his retirement from Nine News. After presenting his final bulletin on 26 June 2009, Paige remains with the network filling-in as presenter over the summer period and presenting a feature segment on Sunday nights. Andrew Lofthouse
took over as the weeknight presenter with Melissa Downes
. From 11 July 2009, Heather Foord
returned to Nine News as weekend presenter, replacing Lofthouse with Eva Milic
moved from news to weather duties. Foord remained in the position until mid 2011 when she resigned to spend more time with her family. Eva Milic
then became the weekend presenter. Foord can still occasionally be seen filling in for Milic or Downes.
From the mid-1990s, National Nine News Brisbane was presented by Bruce Paige
and Heather Foord
on weeknights. This lasted until 2002, when Foord decided to move to weekend presenting with Mike London, allowing her to spend more time with her family. Jillian Whiting
replaced her on weeknights.
Mike London and Heather Foord
presented on weekends until London resigned in June 2003, following allegations that he had organised a female friend to complain about the news presenting technique of weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
, who was at the time presenting with Jillian Whiting
. This was covered by the ABC
's Media Watch in 2003. London had swapped roles with Paige in the mid 1990's following Paige's return to the Nine Network in 1994.
In late 2004, Heather Foord
and Jillian Whiting
swapped positions, with Foord moving back to weeknight presenting with Bruce Paige
. Whiting became the solo weekend presenter. She remained in this position until 2006, when she was replaced by Melissa Downes
. During this time, Nine News Brisbane was the leading news service in Queensland until rival Seven News Brisbane
assumed this title in 2007. Since then, Nine News Brisbane has remained in second place.
Heather Foord
announced her resignation as weeknight presenter on 21 November 2008, citing family reasons. She presented her final bulletin on 5 December. On 27 November 2008, Melissa Downes
was appointed presenter of the weeknight news with Bruce Paige
, replacing Foord.
On the same day as Foord's resignation, Andrew Lofthouse
announced his resignation from ABC News Queensland to join the Nine News team. It was announced that Eva Milic
would join Lofthouse as a weekend presenter. Lofthouse and Milic commenced from early 2009 as presenters of the weekend news bulletin. The changes to the presenter line-up followed a poor year of ratings for the 6pm bulletin, which for the second year in a row was beaten by rival Seven News Brisbane.
In June 2009, more presenter changes occurred with Andrew Lofthouse
replacing Bruce Paige
as weeknight presenter with Melissa Downes
. The following month, Heather Foord
again returned to the newsdesk, taking over the weekend bulletin. Eva Milic
was moved to weekend weather presenting to make way for Foord's return.
Wally Lewis
was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was found he had epilepsy. He returned to presenting sport during the 2007–08 summer period and also files sports reports. He occasionally fills in if either Steve Haddan or Ian Healy
is unavailable. Chris Bombolas
was the weekend sports presenter who preceded Haddan, before resigning to become a politician, and then chairman of A-League
club Brisbane Roar.
John Schluter
was the weather presenter until his resignation in September 2006 just short of his 25th anniversary with the Nine Network, and now works for rival Seven News Brisbane
as the weekday weather presenter.
In 2008 Frank Warrick was the weather presenter for most of the year, before being replaced by Sami Lukis
for the rest of the year.
Former NBN weather presenter Garry Youngberry became weeknight weather presenter from early 2009. This followed the departure of Sami Lukis
, who moved to Sydney to join radio station Triple M
.
Nine News Brisbane is also broadcast on Imparja Television
throughout central Australia. This simulcast was introduced in 2008.
presented the bulletin in 2008, after previously serving as its weather presenter. Millic moved back to become a weekend presenter for Nine News Brisbane a year later. This bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station, 107.3 Life FM
. Jillian Whiting
or Melissa Downes
were the previous presenters of the Gold Coast bulletin until Downes moved to presenting the weekend editions of Nine News Brisbane, and Whiting went on maternity leave in 2007.
The bulletin is produced and presented from the Nine Network's Gold Coast studios at Surfers Paradise
with studio production moved briefly to Brisbane between 2006 and 2008. It airs at 5:30pm on weeknights as an opt-out
broadcast on QTQ-9
's Gold Coast transmitters and is followed by Nine News Brisbane. Carly Walters and Frank Warrick are fill-in presenters for the bulletin.
by Jonathan Uptin
. Michelle Buckworth presents Sport and also presents a short weekend bulletin. Uptin replaced previous presenter David Fidler who present the then Eight National News for 15 years until 2000, but was forced to resign after being exposed by The Australian
newspaper for falsely claiming he had represented Australia at the Olympics. Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Kyrrie Blenkinsop (News) and Leah Hannon (Sport).
The weekend bulletin comprises a simulcast of Nine News Sydney followed by local news and sport.
During 2009 and 2010, Darwin's Nine News was also broadcast on Imparja Television
throughout central Australia. This simulcast no longer occurs, with Imparja broadcasting the Brisbane bulletin only. Nine News Darwin continues to be simulcast on local radio station Territory FM.
-owned Channel 9 Adelaide news studios by Kate Collins
, with Kym Dillon
presenting sport and Brenton Ragless presenting the weather. Rob Kelvin
is the weekend presenter with Troy Grey presenting sport. The weekday bulletins are simulcast on local radio station 107.9 Life FM
and replayed on weeknights at 11:30pm.
The bulletin was previously presented by Rob Kelvin
and Kelly Nestor
who advised viewers on air on 26 November 2009 that her contract would not be renewed and was promptly removed from any further news presenting. Rob Kelvin
presented his final bulletin on 31 December 2010.
Rob Kelvin
and the late Kevin Crease
presented Nine News Adelaide from 1988 until 2007.
This was one of the longest serving news duos in Australia. Caroline Ainslie presented the news with Rob Kelvin
until 1987.
Throughout the 1990s, Deanna Williams was the main fill-in presenter and state political reporter.
Following her resignation in March 2002, either Kelvin or Crease would fill in for McGuinness on weekends, but in 2005 the situation arose where all three presenters were unavailable, and weekend sports presenter Mark Bickley had to present the news.
Nine News Adelaide is also broadcast into the Riverland and South-East of South Australia via WIN Television
. Nine's Adelaide bulletin was not available in this region between September 2007 (when WIN switched affiliations to Seven during a dispute with Nine) and October 2009 (when WIN introduced the digital only channel WIN Nine).
Perth
Nine News Perth is produced from the WIN Corporation
-owned Channel 9 Perth news studios
and is presented by Greg Pearce
, with sport presented by Mark Readings
and weather with Angela Tsun. Louise Momber or Ebbeny Faranda present the weekend news, with sport presented by Tyson Beattie and weather by Candice Barnes. Fill in presenters include Peter Vlahos (sport) and Lee Steele (weather). The weekday bulletins are simulcast on local radio station Sonshine 98.5 FM.
Perth's Nine News bulletin was the first and only Australian news bulletin to have two female presenters, Dixie Marshall
and Sonia Vinci
. They were also the faces of Nine Perth's general operations and promotions, until Sonia Vinci
was sidelined to host a Perth version of A Current Affair and former Network Ten
news presenter Greg Pearce
appointed in her place, in early 2008. In 2010, Sharlyn Sarac
resigned from presenting weekend news with Matt Tinney
.
In April 2011, Matt Tinney
resigned and is now presenting WIN News Western Australia
weeknights with Louise Momber or Ebbeny Faranda presenting the weekend news. Dixie Marshall
resigned from the Nine Network
in May 2011.
Natalia Cooper presented weather on Perth's Nine News until her resignation in June 2008.
This bulletin is repeated at 11:30pm on weeknights and is also simulcast on WIN Television Western Australia
.
. Presented by Karl Stefanovic
and Lisa Wilkinson
, it airs weekdays from 5:30am to 9am, live from Nine's Sydney studios. News is presented by Deborah Knight
(Monday & Friday) & Georgie Gardner
(Tuesday - Thursday), Sport is presented by Ben Fordham
, and Weather is presented by Steve Jacobs
. Entertainment news is presented by Richard Wilkins
with Richard Reid.
Fill-in presenters for Today include Georgie Gardner
(host), Deborah Knight
or Sarah Harris (news), Tim Gilbert (sport), Michele Mahone (entertainment), and Emma Freedman (weather).
and Leila McKinnon
. It airs Saturdays from 7am to 9am, and Sundays from 7am to 10am (competing directly with the Seven Network
's Weekend Sunrise
). News is presented by Deborah Knight
, while sport is presented by Tim Gilbert. Entertainment news is presented by Michele Mahone.
The program was announced on 4 January 2009 by Nine's CEO David Gyngell
and news and current affairs boss John Westacott. It was originally broadcast on Sunday mornings only and was titled Today on Sunday, introduced to replace Nine News Sunday AM. On 2 May 2009, Today
was further extended to Saturday mornings, airing between 7:00 and 9:00am with the same presenters as the Sunday edition. Both the Saturday and Sunday editions were re-named Today: Weekend Edition
, before that was changed to Weekend Today
, similar to rival Weekend Sunrise
.
program broadcast on the Nine Network at 6:30pm and presented by Tracy Grimshaw
. First broadcast on 22 November 1971 with Mike Willesee
, the show was screened weeknights at 7:00pm on GTV-9
. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0–10 Network, journalist Mike Minehan took over presenting the program. The program ended on 28 April 1978 due to strong competition. In 1984, Willesee returned to the Nine Network
to present a mid-evening current affairs program titled Willesee, screening from Monday to Thursday nights at 9:30pm. The following year, Willesee moved to the earlier 6:30 pm timeslot and extended to five nights a week and ran until 1986. On 18 January 1988, the same week that Seven
's Australian soap Home And Away
was introduced, former 60 Minutes
team presenter Jana Wendt
became the first host of the revived A Current Affair. Following strong competition from Seven's Real Life (which became Today Tonight
in 1995), Wendt left the program in November 1992.
Currently, Leila McKinnon
is the main fill-in for Grimshaw if she is sick or on leave, however Eddie McGuire
, Cameron Williams
and Karl Stefanovic
have also filled in for Grimshaw.
current affairs
and investigative journalism
program which airs on the Nine Network on Sundays at 7.30pm. The program is currently presented by Liz Hayes
, Tara Brown
, Michael Usher
, Liam Bartlett
, Allison Langdon
and Peter Harvey
.
as presenter. Other presenters who have presented Nightline include Hugh Riminton
, Helen Kapalos
, Ellen Fanning
and Michael Usher
. The bulletin was axed on 25 July 2008 due to budgetary constraints at the Nine Network, with the final news bulletin airing on the same night. Wendy Kingston
presented the final bulletin.
On Monday 4 May 2009, Nine re-introduced a late bulletin, entitled Nine Late News and presented by Wendy Kingston
.. The Late News was launched to replace the short two-minute national newsbreak, which was introduced following Nightline's axing in 2008. On weekends, a late news update continues to air, presented by Alicia Gorey
in Melbourne.
Wendy Kingston
stayed as presenter of the Late News until November 2009, when she was replaced with Kellie Connolly
. The Nightline branding returned on 30 November 2009. The late bulletin was broadcast in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin markets only - Adelaide and Perth viewers (served by WIN
-owned Nine stations) received a repeat of the 6pm local bulletin.
In July 2010, the network announced that Nightline had been axed due to poor ratings and scheduling problems. It will be replaced by news updates presented by duty reporters. Nine reportedly offered presenter Kellie Connolly
a redundancy package.
, movie reviews and political interviews. The program was presented by Ellen Fanning
prior to its axing. News was presented by Michael Usher
and sport was presented by Stephanie Brantz
. Veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes
presented politics. The program was axed on 3 August 2008 due to poor ratings and cost-cutting across the network. The previous presenters of the show included:
. Stephanie Brantz
presented sport, finance was presented by Ross Greenwood
and weather was presented by Mike Bailey. The regular fill-in presenters for the Sunday AM News were Tara Brown
, Brett McLeod
and Elise Mooney. Nine's Sunday AM News was a one-hour bulletin that was introduced on 10 August 2008 as a replacement for the network's long-running current affairs program, Sunday. Sunday, last broadcast on 3 August 2008, was axed due to budget cuts in news and current affairs at the Nine Network.
Nine's Sunday AM News featured the Laurie Oakes
political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. With the exception of Melbourne audiences, the bulletin had continued to lag behind Weekend Sunrise, which often wins in the ratings by a ratio of 3:1. During the non-ratings period, the bulletin was half-an-hour long.
From February 2009, the bulletin was replaced with a Sunday edition of Today entitled Today on Sunday.
, Katrina Blowers and Mark Ferguson
.
The show presented the top current affairs of the day and predominantly focuses on news, sport, weather and entertainment with an emphasis on reports and interviews.
On 15 July 2009, Nine axed This Afternoon due to poor ratings.
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
.
Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney (TCN9), Melbourne (GTV9), Brisbane (QTQ9) and Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
(NTD) alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN
WIN Corporation
The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...
-owned Nine Network affiliates in Adelaide (NWS9) and Perth (STW9). A supplementary regional news for the Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
in Queensland is also produced by the news service.
Nine Early Morning News
Nine Early Morning News is a half-hour bulletin airing at 5:00am weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by Kyrrie Blenkinsop or Sarah Stewart.The Early Morning News is a pre-recorded bulletin, and is presented as the "AM Edition" of the Qantas Inflight News, a daily news bulletin for passengers of Qantas
Qantas
Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...
airways.
Nine previously had an early news bulletin, known as Daybreak, and later National Nine Early News, from the early nineties until 2003 when Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
was extended to begin at 6am. The Early News resumed for a brief time at 6am in 2005 where it was presented by Sharyn Ghidella
Sharyn Ghidella
Sharyn Ghidella is the weekend presenter on Seven News Brisbane.Ghidella was born in Babinda, in Far North Queensland. Her career in television began in the region, as a reporter and presenter for North Queensland Television . She also produced and presented the regional weekly current affairs...
and Chris Smith, before again being cancelled. Amber Sherlock previously presented the bulletin from July 2008 until June 2010.
This bulletin has been used as a training ground for presenters, with the Weekend Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
news presenter generally taking two or three days, with junior reporters doing the remaining days. This has happened throughout Amber Sherlock & Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...
's tenure as the main presenters. These presenters have included; Sarah Harris, Kristie Carter, Louise Creely, Jessica Rich, Amelia Adams, Sophie Walsh, Davina Smith, Kyrrie Blenkinsop, Sylvia Jefferies and Sarah Stewart.
Nine Morning News
Nine Morning News airs at 11:00am weekdays. It is presented from the network's Sydney studios by news presenter Wendy KingstonWendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
from Monday to Thursday, with Amber Sherlock presenting every Friday. Sport is presented by Tim Sheridan. Fill-in presenters include Amber Sherlock, Sarah Harris, Amelia Adams and Jessica Rich (news), Tim Gilbert and Roz Kelly (sport).
The morning bulletin, originally known as National Nine Morning News, has been broadcast since 1981 and was originally presented by Eric Walters. The bulletin was extended from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on Monday 4 May 2009.
From 2004 to October 2008 the bulletin was known as the Morning Edition, and between that date and May 2009 was titled as the AM Edition.
Recently, the bulletin has become unavailable on the Nine Network's regional affiliate WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
and has been replaced on WIN by Alive and Cooking and a news and entertainment show "Daily".
Nine Afternoon News
Nine Afternoon News airs at 4:30pm weekdays, and is presented from the network's Sydney studios by news presenter Wendy KingstonWendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
from Monday to Thursday, with Amber Sherlock presenting every Friday. Sport is presented by Tim Sheridan and weather is presented by Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
. The bulletin consists of national news, sport, finance and weather. Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Amber Sherlock, Sarah Harris, Amelia Adams and Jessica Rich (news), Tim Gilbert and Roz Kelly (sport), Garry Youngberry (weather).
It was introduced in 2004 as National Nine News: Afternoon Edition in response to Seven launching a similar 4:30pm bulletin a year before.
Past presenters who have also presented the bulletin include Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
(2004), Mike Munro
Mike Munro
Michael Munro is an Australian television presenter.- Early life :Munro cites a tough childhood with an abusive and alcoholic mother, as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales and Marist College North Shore in...
(2005–2006), Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly is a Australian journalist.Connolly was the presenter of the Nine Network's Nightline and also was an interim co-host of Today in 2007.-Career:...
(2006–2008), Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist.McKinnon is currently co-host of Weekend Today an is also a reporter and fill in presenter for Nine News and A Current Affair.-Career:...
(2008) and Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
(2009). Previously sport has been presented by Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Livingstone
Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals...
(2007). In 2008, Mike Bailey
Mike Bailey (weatherman)
Mike Bailey is an Australian former presenter for the weekday weather segment of the ABC Sydney edition of the 7.00pm news bulletin, which is also relayed to major parts of New South Wales. Bailey is also a lecturer in radio journalism at Macleay College in Sydney...
presented the weather on Fridays, until he was sacked in early 2009.
From 2004 to 20 October 2008 the bulletin was known as the Afternoon Edition. It was sub-titled as the PM Edition from October 2008 to May 2009, before changing simply to Nine Afternoon News. The bulletin is often still referred to as the Afternoon Edition.
In June 2009, the program was replaced by a 1-hour news program This Afternoon
This Afternoon
This Afternoon was an Australian news and current affairs television program that was broadcast by the Nine Network. It was produced by the network and broadcast live from 4.30pm to 5.30pm weekdays for three weeks in mid-2009.The show presented the top current affairs of the day and focused on...
. The last regular bulletin aired on Thursday 25 June 2009 after being presented from Melbourne for the previous 7 weeks. James Talia
James Talia
James Talia is an Australian television reporter.Talia completed a journalism degree at the RMIT in 1995 before joining WIN TV in Ballarat in 1996 as a reporter and news presenter....
presented the final edition. The following day, a special 90-minute bulletin was broadcast on the death of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
, with This Afternoon
This Afternoon
This Afternoon was an Australian news and current affairs television program that was broadcast by the Nine Network. It was produced by the network and broadcast live from 4.30pm to 5.30pm weekdays for three weeks in mid-2009.The show presented the top current affairs of the day and focused on...
beginning the following Monday. This only lasted three weeks, with This Afternoon
This Afternoon
This Afternoon was an Australian news and current affairs television program that was broadcast by the Nine Network. It was produced by the network and broadcast live from 4.30pm to 5.30pm weekdays for three weeks in mid-2009.The show presented the top current affairs of the day and focused on...
axed due to poor ratings after only 12 episodes. Nine News: Afternoon Edition was reinstated on Wednesday 15 July 2009, with Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
appointed as presenter. Ferguson remained in the chair until signing off on 25 September 2009, prior to his departure for the Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
. Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
was reinstated as the program's presenter.
In November 2010, the bulletin was extended to an hour.
Nine News First at Five
Nine News First at Five airs at 5:00pm on weekends, and is presented from the network's Sydney studios by Georgie GardnerGeorgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
(Saturday) and Peter Overton
Peter Overton
Peter Overton is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.-Career:He joined the Nine Network as a reporter for National Nine News and graduated to weekend sports presenter on National Nine News in Sydney and substitute for Ken Sutcliffe...
(Sunday). Sport is presented by Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams is an Australian journalist.Williams is currently co-host of Weekend Today alongside Leila McKinnon.- Career:Williams's journalism career began 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he...
(Saturday) and Ken Sutcliffe
Ken Sutcliffe
Ken Sutcliffe is a popular sporting television personality, born in Oberon, New South Wales but lived most of his growing up days in Mudgee. Also known as the "Male Model from Mudgee" and "Ken Withsport".-Career:...
(Sunday). Weather is presented by Jaynie Seal
Jaynie Seal
-Career:Seal is a weather presenter with the Nine Network, appearing on Nine News Sydney and Nine Afternoon News as well as being the Nine Network Lotto host....
. Fill-in presenters include Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
(news) and Amber Sherlock (weather)
It was introduced in 2011 in response to Ten News
Ten News
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont...
moving their weekend bulletin to 6:00pm. The bulletin is not broadcast in Sydney or Brisbane on Sundays during the NRL
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
season. Despite Ten News reinstating their own 5:00pm weekend bulletin, the Nine bulletin remains.
Nine News Updates
Nine News State-based updates are presented throughout the afternoon by reporters or presenters.Amber Sherlock along with a number of rotating reporters including Tracy Vo, Jessica Rich and Sarah Harris present news updates on weeknights from Sydney's TCN 9 studios.
Weekend late news updates are presented from Melbourne's GTV 9 studios by Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...
.
Ninemsn Newsroom
Ninemsn Newsroom is an online bulletin streamed at 12:30pm on weekdays. Presented by Wendy KingstonWendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
. The special online bulletin was introduced in September 2009. It can be viewed and downloaded from ninemsn.com.au, and as a vodcast.
The bulletin was formerly known as Nine News Now and was previously recorded later at 3pm. It was introduced in 2006.
Live Streaming
In June 2008, live streaming of the 6pm bulletins in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane was introduced to the Nine News website. These bulletins can be viewed nationwide, regardless of the home market of the viewer.Nine Morning News and Nine Afternoon News are also streamed live from the Ninemsn Newsroom website.
Nine Newsbreak
Nine Newsbreak is an iPhone and iPad app that was launched in 2011. The app is constantly updated with videos from Nine's newsrooms around the county and overseas along with a 60-second video stories that are exclusive to the app, full reports from Nine News bulletins. There is also a user generated functionality, enabling consumers to take a photo or video and send it via the app, direct to the Nine Newsroom.SydneyTCNTCN stands for:* Take Care Now, a private company providing out-of-hours medical cover in England* TanenbaumCHAT North Campus, a private Hebrew high school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada* TCN-9, a Sydney television station...
Nine News Sydney is presented from the network's Sydney news studiosTCN-9
TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby. The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licences to be issued for commercial television stations in...
by Peter Overton
Peter Overton
Peter Overton is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.-Career:He joined the Nine Network as a reporter for National Nine News and graduated to weekend sports presenter on National Nine News in Sydney and substitute for Ken Sutcliffe...
from Sunday to Thursday and Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
on Friday and Saturday, with Ken Sutcliffe
Ken Sutcliffe
Ken Sutcliffe is a popular sporting television personality, born in Oberon, New South Wales but lived most of his growing up days in Mudgee. Also known as the "Male Model from Mudgee" and "Ken Withsport".-Career:...
presenting sport from Sunday to Thursday and Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams is an Australian journalist.Williams is currently co-host of Weekend Today alongside Leila McKinnon.- Career:Williams's journalism career began 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he...
presenting sport on Friday and Saturday. Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter & model.-Career:She began her TV career on the Gold Coast as host of Prime Television's Surf TV, a beach and surf conditions program....
presents the weather from Monday to Thursday and Jaynie Seal
Jaynie Seal
-Career:Seal is a weather presenter with the Nine Network, appearing on Nine News Sydney and Nine Afternoon News as well as being the Nine Network Lotto host....
presents the weather from Friday to Sunday. The bulletin is also simulcast on Hope 103.2
2CBA
2CBA is a Christian radio station in Sydney, Australia, transmitting on the FM dial at 103.2 MHz. Founded by the Rev. Vernon Turner, it commenced broadcasting on 5 March 1979 and cemented itself as Australia's first Christian FM radio station.The station provides a mix of contemporary...
radio station.
The main fill-ins for the bulletin are presenters Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
, Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist.McKinnon is currently co-host of Weekend Today an is also a reporter and fill in presenter for Nine News and A Current Affair.-Career:...
and Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey is an award-winning Australian television journalist.He has been with the Nine Network since 1975 and currently he presents the mailbag segment on 60 Minutes as well as being a reporter on Nine News and a regular contributor on Today.Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the...
with sports presenters Andrew Voss
Andrew Voss
Andrew Voss is an Australian sports commentator for the Nine Network, who currently works on National Rugby League coverage.-Television Career:...
, Tim Sheridan and Tim Gilbert with weather presenters Amber Sherlock and Amelia Adams.
The Sydney bulletin was presented by Brian Henderson for 38 years – a record that still stands today. Henderson retired in November 2002, with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley
Jim Waley
Jim Waley is a veteran & experienced Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network, an Australian television network.-Career:In 1981, Waley was appointed founding presenter of Sunday...
taking over as weeknight presenter. Waley was the main weekend presenter around the time of Henderson's retirement.
In 2005, Waley, who was one of the Nine Network's longest serving presenters, was dropped following a year of poor ratings (despite the fact that Nine News Sydney was the leading 6pm news program throughout the 2003-4 ratings seasons) and replaced with then-weekend presenter Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
. In 2004, Nine News Sydney won only 27 out of a possible 40 ratings weeks. By this time, the 6pm bulletin had lost its long time ratings lead to the rival Seven News Sydney.
Mike Munro
Mike Munro
Michael Munro is an Australian television presenter.- Early life :Munro cites a tough childhood with an abusive and alcoholic mother, as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales and Marist College North Shore in...
was the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by Michael Usher
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes.He has previously presented Nightline and was the news presenter on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz.Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987...
.
In January 2009, Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton
Peter Overton
Peter Overton is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.-Career:He joined the Nine Network as a reporter for National Nine News and graduated to weekend sports presenter on National Nine News in Sydney and substitute for Ken Sutcliffe...
. Ferguson returned to his weekend presenting position, which he previously held during Jim Waley
Jim Waley
Jim Waley is a veteran & experienced Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network, an Australian television network.-Career:In 1981, Waley was appointed founding presenter of Sunday...
's stint as weeknight presenter.
In July 2009, it was revealed that weekend news presenter Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
would move to Seven News
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
from October. Ferguson, who had been with Nine for 17 years, was removed immediately from the Sydney weekend bulletin and was replaced by Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
. Ferguson continued to present Nine Afternoon News until his contract expired in September 2009.
Mike Bailey
Mike Bailey (weatherman)
Mike Bailey is an Australian former presenter for the weekday weather segment of the ABC Sydney edition of the 7.00pm news bulletin, which is also relayed to major parts of New South Wales. Bailey is also a lecturer in radio journalism at Macleay College in Sydney...
presented weather forecasts on Friday and Saturday, until he was sacked in early 2009. Jaynie Seal
Jaynie Seal
-Career:Seal is a weather presenter with the Nine Network, appearing on Nine News Sydney and Nine Afternoon News as well as being the Nine Network Lotto host....
, who had previously presented weather from Sunday to Thursday, returned to weekday weather presenting. In February 2010, Nine announced that Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter & model.-Career:She began her TV career on the Gold Coast as host of Prime Television's Surf TV, a beach and surf conditions program....
would present weather from Monday to Thursday and file lifestyle and entertainment reports for Nine News with Seal presenting weather from Friday to Sunday. During 2011, the 6pm Sydney bulletin officially overtook Seven's Sydney news in the ratings for the first time in seven years, winning 21 weeks compared to Seven's 14 weeks.
Nine News Sydney is also broadcast on WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
in regional southern and central New South Wales & the ACT.
Melbourne
Nine News Melbourne is presented from the network's MelbourneMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
news studios
GTV-9
GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at a new high-tech, purpose-built studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands.-History:...
by Peter Hitchener
Peter Hitchener
Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener is an Australian television presenter. He has been chief news presenter for Melbourne's edition of Nine News since 1998, and prior to that was weekend news presenter.-Career:...
on weekdays, with Tony Jones
Tony Jones (sports journalist)
Tony Jones is an Australian sports journalist, based in Melbourne.Jones studied at a radio school before beginning his career in radio newsrooms in country Victoria and Melbourne's 3AW. He joined the Nine Network in May 1986, making the move from news into sport.Tony began presenting weekend...
presenting sport. Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
presents the weather. Weekend bulletins are presented by Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...
and sport presenter Clint Stanaway. The bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station Light FM
Light FM
LightFM is an employment and voluntary based Christian community radio station in Melbourne, Australia. It broadcasts on 89.9 FM from studios at 333 Mitcham Road, in Mitcham and a transmitter on Mount Dandenong.-History:...
.
The late Brian Naylor
Brian Naylor (broadcaster)
Brian Naylor was an Australian television presenter, best known for his longstanding stint as chief news presenter at National Nine News Melbourne from 1978 to 1998 and his sign-off line, "May your news be good news, and good-night."His son Matthew was killed in a plane crash at Kinglake, Victoria...
presented National Nine News Melbourne for 20 years from 1978 to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by Peter Hitchener
Peter Hitchener
Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener is an Australian television presenter. He has been chief news presenter for Melbourne's edition of Nine News since 1998, and prior to that was weekend news presenter.-Career:...
as weeknight news presenter, while Jo Hall
Jo Hall
-Career:She began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism....
took over Hitchener's existing position as weekend presenter.
Rob Gell
Rob Gell
Rob Gell is a geomorphologist and weather presenter formally with National Nine News and later Seven News.He was one of the only Australian weather presenters on free-to-air television with a degree in Meteorology along with David Brown.-Career:Gell, who attended Koonung Secondary College is a...
was the weeknight weather presenter for 15 years until his surprise sacking in 2003, and was replaced by Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
.
From July 2008, weekend presenters of Nine News Melbourne began presenting the news standing up. Nine did not introduce this format into the weeknight bulletin, opting for presenter Peter Hitchener
Peter Hitchener
Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener is an Australian television presenter. He has been chief news presenter for Melbourne's edition of Nine News since 1998, and prior to that was weekend news presenter.-Career:...
to sit behind the news desk instead. This lasted until August 2009 as Nine News Melbourne received a new set, similar to that of Nine News Sydney, with Jo Hall
Jo Hall
-Career:She began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism....
moving back to sitting behind a newsdesk.
In October 2008, swimmer Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett OAM is an Australian former swimmer most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history...
joined Nine News Melbourne as the weekend sport presenter. Hackett replaced Heath O’Loughlin
Heath O’Loughlin
Heath O'Loughlin is a former weekend sports presenter and reporter for Nine News Melbourne.At the end of 2006, O'Loughlin moved from the Seven Network to the Nine Network to replace Leith Mulligan as weekend sport presenter, with Mulligan moving to Fox Sports News...
, who vacated the position to take up employment with the North Melbourne Football Club
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
. O'Louglin presented sport for the final time on 5 October 2008. Although in November 2009, Nine announced that Hackett will no longer present weekend sports news but appear on shows, Wide World of Sports
Wide World of Sports
Wide World of Sports can refer to:*Wide World of Sports , screened on the Nine Network*Wide World of Sports , screened on the American Broadcasting Company...
and What's Good For You
What's Good For You
What's Good For You is a Logie Award-winning Australian health and lifestyle television program that airs on the Nine Network. It investigates myths and fables concerning health and well being...
. Lisa Andrews replaced him, remaining in this position until mid 2011. Clint Stanaway replaced her.
Nine News Melbourne had led in the ratings well ahead of its rivals for more than 20 years, but as recently as 2007 it had lost this position to its rival Seven News Melbourne, winning only 19 weeks out of a possible 40 (Seven won 20 weeks and one week was drawn that year).
In November 2011, it was announced that Weekend Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
news presenter Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...
would be moving back to Melbourne to replace Jo Hall
Jo Hall
-Career:She began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism....
who is wanting to scale down her role with the network.
Afternoon news updates are presented by Jo Hall
Jo Hall
-Career:She began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism....
from Monday to Friday. The nightly news presenters presents newsbreaks for the rest of the evening. Fill-in news presenters for the bulletin include presenters Tony Jones
Tony Jones (sports journalist)
Tony Jones is an Australian sports journalist, based in Melbourne.Jones studied at a radio school before beginning his career in radio newsrooms in country Victoria and Melbourne's 3AW. He joined the Nine Network in May 1986, making the move from news into sport.Tony began presenting weekend...
, Jo Hall
Jo Hall
-Career:She began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, then joined Nine News in 1979. In 1990 she became the first woman to be presented with the Thorn Award, a national award for journalism....
, Brett McLeod
Brett McLeod
Brett McLeod born 1975 is an Australian television news reporter and presenter for Nine News Melbourne.He is currently a reporter and relief news presenter for the Nine Network, and Nine News Melbourne having previously worked on 3AW before joining the network.Brett has also worked in Radio as part...
. Clint Stanaway is the main fill-in sports presenter, while Corey Norris is the substitute weekend sport presenter. Brodie Harper, Jacqueline Felgate or Sonia Marinelli present the weather in place of Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
over the summer, or as a fill-in.
Fill-in presenters in recent years have included Rachael Rollo (news/weather), Carolyne Randoe (news/weather), Tim McMillan (news/sport), James Talia
James Talia
James Talia is an Australian television reporter.Talia completed a journalism degree at the RMIT in 1995 before joining WIN TV in Ballarat in 1996 as a reporter and news presenter....
(news/sport) and Christine Ahern (sport). Over the summer period of 2008–09, 3AW
3AW
3AW is a talkback radio station in Melbourne, Australia on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station.-History:...
radio presenter and former WIN News
WIN News
WIN News is a local television news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. 20 regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, Canberra, Ballarat, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Mount Gambier, Hobart and Perth.-History:As well as its flagship nightly...
Victoria presenter Denis Walter
Denis Walter
Denis Walter is an Australian media personality and singer.Throughout his music career Walter has recorded 14 albums. For many years until his resignation in November 2008 to join Melbourne radio 3AW full-time, Walter was the host of the evening news in the regional areas of Victoria for WIN TV...
was appointed as the weekday weather presenter. Steve Jacobs
Steven Jacobs
Steven Jacobs is an Australian television presenter and actor.Jacobs is currently weather presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today.-Career:...
was also a fill-in presenter through 2009. Postcards reporter Brodie Harper filled in for Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon
Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
whilst she was on maternity leave from November 2009 until July 2010.
Nine News Melbourne is also simulcast on WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
in regional Victoria each night and at weekends on WIN Television Tasmania.
Brisbane
Nine News Brisbane is presented from the network's Brisbane news studios by Andrew LofthouseAndrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse is a television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The English-born former teacher is the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends...
and Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
on weeknights, with Ian Healy
Ian Healy
Ian Andrew Healy is a former cricketer who played for Queensland and Australia. A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international cricket in 1988, after only six first-class games. His work ethic and combativeness was much needed...
presenting sport, and Garry Youngberry presenting the weather. This bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on community radio station River 94.9
River 94.9
River 94.9 is a commercial radio station, that broadcasts to South-East Queensland. The station opened in February 1990, and was formerly known as Star 106.9, which used to operate on the frequency now occupied by Nova 106.9. The station was previously owned by Rural Press & Bundaberg Broadcasters,...
and across regional Queensland on WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
.
Eva Milic
Eva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
presents on weekends, alongside sport presenter Steve Haddan. Paul Burt is now presenting weather. He also presents Surfing and Fishing reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Regular presenter fill-ins for the weekend bulletin include former ABC News
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News is a national news service produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the division is responsible for all newsgathering and production of news output for ABC television, radio and online services...
& weather presenter Lisa Backhouse
Lisa Backhouse
-Career:Backhouse began her television career as a cadet at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Brisbane in 1988. She soon relocated to Townsville, remaining there for nearly two years. She then moved to Canberra, where she reported on national politics and events.Backhouse returned to...
, former weekend and weeknight presenter until 2011, Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
and former weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
and weather presenter Sylvia Jeffreys. Wally Lewis
Wally Lewis
Walter James "Wally" Lewis AM is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. Currently a commentator of the sport, he is widely regarded as the greatest rugby league player of all time...
is also often seen presenting sport.
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
announced his retirement from Nine News. After presenting his final bulletin on 26 June 2009, Paige remains with the network filling-in as presenter over the summer period and presenting a feature segment on Sunday nights. Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse is a television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The English-born former teacher is the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends...
took over as the weeknight presenter with Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
. From 11 July 2009, Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
returned to Nine News as weekend presenter, replacing Lofthouse with Eva Milic
Eva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
moved from news to weather duties. Foord remained in the position until mid 2011 when she resigned to spend more time with her family. Eva Milic
Eva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
then became the weekend presenter. Foord can still occasionally be seen filling in for Milic or Downes.
From the mid-1990s, National Nine News Brisbane was presented by Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
and Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
on weeknights. This lasted until 2002, when Foord decided to move to weekend presenting with Mike London, allowing her to spend more time with her family. Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting is a former presenter with the Nine Network in Brisbane, having presented both Nine News Brisbane and Nine Gold Coast News, as well as the local Brisbane magazine show Extra....
replaced her on weeknights.
Mike London and Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
presented on weekends until London resigned in June 2003, following allegations that he had organised a female friend to complain about the news presenting technique of weeknight presenter Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
, who was at the time presenting with Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting is a former presenter with the Nine Network in Brisbane, having presented both Nine News Brisbane and Nine Gold Coast News, as well as the local Brisbane magazine show Extra....
. This was covered by the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's Media Watch in 2003. London had swapped roles with Paige in the mid 1990's following Paige's return to the Nine Network in 1994.
In late 2004, Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
and Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting is a former presenter with the Nine Network in Brisbane, having presented both Nine News Brisbane and Nine Gold Coast News, as well as the local Brisbane magazine show Extra....
swapped positions, with Foord moving back to weeknight presenting with Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
. Whiting became the solo weekend presenter. She remained in this position until 2006, when she was replaced by Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
. During this time, Nine News Brisbane was the leading news service in Queensland until rival Seven News Brisbane
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
assumed this title in 2007. Since then, Nine News Brisbane has remained in second place.
Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
announced her resignation as weeknight presenter on 21 November 2008, citing family reasons. She presented her final bulletin on 5 December. On 27 November 2008, Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
was appointed presenter of the weeknight news with Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
, replacing Foord.
On the same day as Foord's resignation, Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse is a television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The English-born former teacher is the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends...
announced his resignation from ABC News Queensland to join the Nine News team. It was announced that Eva Milic
Eva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
would join Lofthouse as a weekend presenter. Lofthouse and Milic commenced from early 2009 as presenters of the weekend news bulletin. The changes to the presenter line-up followed a poor year of ratings for the 6pm bulletin, which for the second year in a row was beaten by rival Seven News Brisbane.
In June 2009, more presenter changes occurred with Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse is a television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The English-born former teacher is the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends...
replacing Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige
Bruce Paige is a newsreader in Brisbane, Australia. He previously co-presented Nine News Queensland alongside Melissa Downes, having paired with Jillian Whiting and Heather Foord previously.-Career:...
as weeknight presenter with Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
. The following month, Heather Foord
Heather Foord
Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...
again returned to the newsdesk, taking over the weekend bulletin. Eva Milic
Eva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
was moved to weekend weather presenting to make way for Foord's return.
Wally Lewis
Wally Lewis
Walter James "Wally" Lewis AM is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. Currently a commentator of the sport, he is widely regarded as the greatest rugby league player of all time...
was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was found he had epilepsy. He returned to presenting sport during the 2007–08 summer period and also files sports reports. He occasionally fills in if either Steve Haddan or Ian Healy
Ian Healy
Ian Andrew Healy is a former cricketer who played for Queensland and Australia. A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international cricket in 1988, after only six first-class games. His work ethic and combativeness was much needed...
is unavailable. Chris Bombolas
Chris Bombolas
Chris Bombolas is a former Australian politician and television presenter. A former sports reporter for the Nine Network in Brisbane, he served as the Labor member for Chatsworth in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2009.Bombolas was born in Newcastle, New South Wales...
was the weekend sports presenter who preceded Haddan, before resigning to become a politician, and then chairman of A-League
A-League
The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...
club Brisbane Roar.
John Schluter
John Schluter
John Schluter is the weekday weather presenter for Seven News in Brisbane as well as being the host of 'Flashback' - a long running segment within Sunday evening news broadcasts.-Media career:...
was the weather presenter until his resignation in September 2006 just short of his 25th anniversary with the Nine Network, and now works for rival Seven News Brisbane
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
as the weekday weather presenter.
In 2008 Frank Warrick was the weather presenter for most of the year, before being replaced by Sami Lukis
Sami Lukis
Sami Lukis is an Australian television and radio personality. She appeared on the Nine Network as the weather girl on Today, and for Network Ten on the children's educational program Totally Wild...
for the rest of the year.
Former NBN weather presenter Garry Youngberry became weeknight weather presenter from early 2009. This followed the departure of Sami Lukis
Sami Lukis
Sami Lukis is an Australian television and radio personality. She appeared on the Nine Network as the weather girl on Today, and for Network Ten on the children's educational program Totally Wild...
, who moved to Sydney to join radio station Triple M
2MMM
2MMM is a radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Triple M Sydney is part of the Austereo Triple M network and broadcasts on the 104.9 MHz frequency.-The Early Days:...
.
Nine News Brisbane is also broadcast on Imparja Television
Imparja Television
Imparja Television is an Australian television network servicing remote eastern and central Australia, that began broadcasting on 2 January 1988. It is based in Alice Springs, where it has a studio and satellite uplink facility. Notably, it is controlled by Australian Aborigines through ownership...
throughout central Australia. This simulcast was introduced in 2008.
Gold Coast
Nine Gold Coast News is a regional news service for the Gold Coast, presented by Rob Readings. Eva MilicEva Milic
Eva Milic is an Australian journalist.Milic is currently weekend presenter for Nine News Queensland.She completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast...
presented the bulletin in 2008, after previously serving as its weather presenter. Millic moved back to become a weekend presenter for Nine News Brisbane a year later. This bulletin is also simulcast on local radio station, 107.3 Life FM
Life FM (Gold Coast)
Juice107.3 is a Christian radio station on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.It broadcasts at 107.3 MHz. The station's motto is Good Taste Radio. The station offers a ratio of 60% Christian Music to 40% Mainstream. As well as playing music, Juice107.3 offers news, sport and general talk...
. Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting is a former presenter with the Nine Network in Brisbane, having presented both Nine News Brisbane and Nine Gold Coast News, as well as the local Brisbane magazine show Extra....
or Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes
Melissa Downes is a reporter and presenter with Nine News Queensland and is presenter on weeknights with Andrew Lofthouse.Melissa originally worked with rival Seven News where she was a reporter and later presenter of Nine Gold Coast News bulletin...
were the previous presenters of the Gold Coast bulletin until Downes moved to presenting the weekend editions of Nine News Brisbane, and Whiting went on maternity leave in 2007.
The bulletin is produced and presented from the Nine Network's Gold Coast studios at Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Surfers Paradise is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 Census, Surfers Paradise had a population of 18,501....
with studio production moved briefly to Brisbane between 2006 and 2008. It airs at 5:30pm on weeknights as an opt-out
Opt-out
The term opt-out refers to several methods by which individuals can avoid receiving unsolicited product or service information. This ability is usually associated with direct marketing campaigns such as telemarketing, e-mail marketing, or direct mail. A list of those who have opted-out is called a...
broadcast on QTQ-9
QTQ-9
QTQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving Brisbane, Queensland. It is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co., and is part of the Nine Network. It broadcasts on VHF channel 9 and VHF channel 8 . QTQ began broadcasting on 16 August 1959, the first of the Brisbane stations to...
's Gold Coast transmitters and is followed by Nine News Brisbane. Carly Walters and Frank Warrick are fill-in presenters for the bulletin.
Darwin
Nine News Darwin is presented from the network's Darwin news studiosNTD-8
NTD is an Australian television station, licensed to and serving Darwin, Palmerston and surrounds. The station is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co., and is an owned-and-operated station of the Nine Network, under the company name Territory Television Pty...
by Jonathan Uptin
Jonathan Uptin
Jonathan Uptin is the presenter on Nine News Darwin.He has worked across Australia on a number of different platforms. After doing a communications degree at the University of Canberra, he began his media career at Channel Nine in Sydney as an assistant to the chief of staff, before working as a...
. Michelle Buckworth presents Sport and also presents a short weekend bulletin. Uptin replaced previous presenter David Fidler who present the then Eight National News for 15 years until 2000, but was forced to resign after being exposed by The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
newspaper for falsely claiming he had represented Australia at the Olympics. Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Kyrrie Blenkinsop (News) and Leah Hannon (Sport).
The weekend bulletin comprises a simulcast of Nine News Sydney followed by local news and sport.
During 2009 and 2010, Darwin's Nine News was also broadcast on Imparja Television
Imparja Television
Imparja Television is an Australian television network servicing remote eastern and central Australia, that began broadcasting on 2 January 1988. It is based in Alice Springs, where it has a studio and satellite uplink facility. Notably, it is controlled by Australian Aborigines through ownership...
throughout central Australia. This simulcast no longer occurs, with Imparja broadcasting the Brisbane bulletin only. Nine News Darwin continues to be simulcast on local radio station Territory FM.
Adelaide
Nine News Adelaide is produced from the WIN CorporationWIN Corporation
The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...
-owned Channel 9 Adelaide news studios by Kate Collins
Kate Collins (journalist)
Kate Collins is a South Australian television presenter, and current presenter of Nine News Adelaide.Kate was formerly presenter of the Adelaide edition of A Current Affair, a position she held from 2008 to 2009....
, with Kym Dillon
Kym Dillon
Kym Dillon is the lead sports presenter for Nine News Adelaide. He is also part of the successful breakfast radio trio Kym, Ali and Dzelde, currently on Triple M. He played football for former SANFL club West Torrens.-References:...
presenting sport and Brenton Ragless presenting the weather. Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin is a former television news presenter who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.He previously was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed...
is the weekend presenter with Troy Grey presenting sport. The weekday bulletins are simulcast on local radio station 107.9 Life FM
Life FM (Adelaide)
Life FM is a Christian radio station in Adelaide, South Australia that has been operating full time from October 1993 . It broadcasts on 107.9 MHz. The station's motto is More Music. According to the radio station's own website, the length of time it took to acquire a "broadcast licence for...
and replayed on weeknights at 11:30pm.
The bulletin was previously presented by Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin is a former television news presenter who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.He previously was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed...
and Kelly Nestor
Kelly Nestor (journalist)
Kelly Nestor is an Australian television news presenter and she is currently working for The Advertiser.- Biography :Nestor was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales, but made her name as a news presenter in Adelaide....
who advised viewers on air on 26 November 2009 that her contract would not be renewed and was promptly removed from any further news presenting. Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin is a former television news presenter who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.He previously was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed...
presented his final bulletin on 31 December 2010.
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin is a former television news presenter who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.He previously was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed...
and the late Kevin Crease
Kevin Crease
Kevin John Crease was a South Australian television presenter and news presenter. He was most noted for presenting South Australian edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News with Rob Kelvin between 1987 and 2007....
presented Nine News Adelaide from 1988 until 2007.
This was one of the longest serving news duos in Australia. Caroline Ainslie presented the news with Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin
Rob Kelvin is a former television news presenter who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.He previously was a presenter of the weeknight edition of Nine News Adelaide produced by NWS-9. Kelvin presented the bulletin with Kevin Crease until February 2007, when Crease retired after being diagnosed...
until 1987.
Throughout the 1990s, Deanna Williams was the main fill-in presenter and state political reporter.
Following her resignation in March 2002, either Kelvin or Crease would fill in for McGuinness on weekends, but in 2005 the situation arose where all three presenters were unavailable, and weekend sports presenter Mark Bickley had to present the news.
Nine News Adelaide is also broadcast into the Riverland and South-East of South Australia via WIN Television
SES/RTS
SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, are Australian television stations licensed to, and serving Mount Gambier and Riverland in South Australia. The station commenced transmissions on 25 March 1966.-History:...
. Nine's Adelaide bulletin was not available in this region between September 2007 (when WIN switched affiliations to Seven during a dispute with Nine) and October 2009 (when WIN introduced the digital only channel WIN Nine).
PerthSTW-Mathematics:*The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, a generalization of Fermat's last theorem.-Music:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*Salt the Wound, a deathcore band-Other:...
Nine News Perth is produced from the WIN CorporationWIN Corporation
The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...
-owned Channel 9 Perth news studios
STW
-Mathematics:*The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, a generalization of Fermat's last theorem.-Music:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*Salt the Wound, a deathcore band-Other:...
and is presented by Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce is currently presenter of Nine News Perth, a position he has held since early 2008.Originally a journalist with the ABC Greg became best known as presenter of the Ten News bulletin for Perth, prior to that he had been a news presenter for Seven News in Melbourne and had a short stint...
, with sport presented by Mark Readings
Mark Readings
Mark Readings is an Australian sports journalist and commentator.He is currently the weekend sports presenter for Nine News Perth and also commentates Australian rules football matches from Perth for Melbourne radio station SEN 1116....
and weather with Angela Tsun. Louise Momber or Ebbeny Faranda present the weekend news, with sport presented by Tyson Beattie and weather by Candice Barnes. Fill in presenters include Peter Vlahos (sport) and Lee Steele (weather). The weekday bulletins are simulcast on local radio station Sonshine 98.5 FM.
Perth's Nine News bulletin was the first and only Australian news bulletin to have two female presenters, Dixie Marshall
Dixie Marshall
Dixie Marshall was previously a senior news presenter for Nine News Perth.She held the position from 2002 until 2011 despite low ratings, although she has been with the Nine Network since 1984, and previously worked for The Australian Newspaper and Radio 6PR.Dixie was one of the first female sports...
and Sonia Vinci
Sonia Vinci
Sonia Vinci is a former journalist and co-anchor of Nine News in Perth.She began a journalist in 1990 at Perth radio 6PR and later became Australia's youngest female news director...
. They were also the faces of Nine Perth's general operations and promotions, until Sonia Vinci
Sonia Vinci
Sonia Vinci is a former journalist and co-anchor of Nine News in Perth.She began a journalist in 1990 at Perth radio 6PR and later became Australia's youngest female news director...
was sidelined to host a Perth version of A Current Affair and former Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
news presenter Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce is currently presenter of Nine News Perth, a position he has held since early 2008.Originally a journalist with the ABC Greg became best known as presenter of the Ten News bulletin for Perth, prior to that he had been a news presenter for Seven News in Melbourne and had a short stint...
appointed in her place, in early 2008. In 2010, Sharlyn Sarac
Sharlyn Sarac
Sharlyn Sarac was born in Perth, Western Australia and entered the media at age 17. Sarac presented the weekend edition of Nine News Perth from 2004 through to December 2008....
resigned from presenting weekend news with Matt Tinney
Matt Tinney
Matt Tinney joined Nine News Perth's team in February 2008 as a reporter and weekend news presenter.Tinney began his reporting career at WIN Television’s national headquarters in Wollongong in 2005...
.
In April 2011, Matt Tinney
Matt Tinney
Matt Tinney joined Nine News Perth's team in February 2008 as a reporter and weekend news presenter.Tinney began his reporting career at WIN Television’s national headquarters in Wollongong in 2005...
resigned and is now presenting WIN News Western Australia
WIN News
WIN News is a local television news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. 20 regional bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong, Canberra, Ballarat, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Mount Gambier, Hobart and Perth.-History:As well as its flagship nightly...
weeknights with Louise Momber or Ebbeny Faranda presenting the weekend news. Dixie Marshall
Dixie Marshall
Dixie Marshall was previously a senior news presenter for Nine News Perth.She held the position from 2002 until 2011 despite low ratings, although she has been with the Nine Network since 1984, and previously worked for The Australian Newspaper and Radio 6PR.Dixie was one of the first female sports...
resigned from the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in May 2011.
Natalia Cooper presented weather on Perth's Nine News until her resignation in June 2008.
This bulletin is repeated at 11:30pm on weeknights and is also simulcast on WIN Television Western Australia
WOW (TV station)
WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia. The station officially commenced transmissions on 26 March 1999 as the second commercial regional broadcaster in Western Australia, alongside former monopoly, Golden West Network...
.
Today
Today is the network's breakfast program, consisting of talk, entertainment and human-interest stories, as does rival program SunriseSunrise (TV program)
Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On weekdays the programme follows Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am.-History:...
. Presented by Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic is an Australian Gold Logie winning television presenter.Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast program, Today.-Early years:...
and Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa Wilkinson is an Australian journalist and television personality.Wilkinson is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast television program Today.-Career:...
, it airs weekdays from 5:30am to 9am, live from Nine's Sydney studios. News is presented by Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
(Monday & Friday) & Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
(Tuesday - Thursday), Sport is presented by Ben Fordham
Ben Fordham
Ben Fordham is an Australian journalist and radio presenter.Fordham is currently a sport presenter on the Nine Network's Today and drive presenter on 2GB.-Career:...
, and Weather is presented by Steve Jacobs
Steven Jacobs
Steven Jacobs is an Australian television presenter and actor.Jacobs is currently weather presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today.-Career:...
. Entertainment news is presented by Richard Wilkins
Richard Wilkins (TV presenter)
Richard Stephen Wilkins is a television presenter.Wilkins is currently the Nine Network's Entertainment editor for Today.- Career :...
with Richard Reid.
Fill-in presenters for Today include Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner is an Australian journalist and television personality.Gardner is currently the news presenter on Today as well as being a fill-in host...
(host), Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
or Sarah Harris (news), Tim Gilbert (sport), Michele Mahone (entertainment), and Emma Freedman (weather).
Weekend Today
Weekend Today is presented by Cameron WilliamsCameron Williams
Cameron Williams is an Australian journalist.Williams is currently co-host of Weekend Today alongside Leila McKinnon.- Career:Williams's journalism career began 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he...
and Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist.McKinnon is currently co-host of Weekend Today an is also a reporter and fill in presenter for Nine News and A Current Affair.-Career:...
. It airs Saturdays from 7am to 9am, and Sundays from 7am to 10am (competing directly with the Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
's Weekend Sunrise
Weekend Sunrise
Weekend Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On Saturdays, it runs from 7am to 9am whilst on Sundays it runs from 7am to 10am.-History:...
). News is presented by Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
, while sport is presented by Tim Gilbert. Entertainment news is presented by Michele Mahone.
The program was announced on 4 January 2009 by Nine's CEO David Gyngell
David Gyngell
David Gyngell is the CEO of Australian commercial broadcasting network Channel Nine. He is currently serving his second stint as CEO after resigning from the job in May 2005...
and news and current affairs boss John Westacott. It was originally broadcast on Sunday mornings only and was titled Today on Sunday, introduced to replace Nine News Sunday AM. On 2 May 2009, Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
was further extended to Saturday mornings, airing between 7:00 and 9:00am with the same presenters as the Sunday edition. Both the Saturday and Sunday editions were re-named Today: Weekend Edition
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
, before that was changed to Weekend Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
, similar to rival Weekend Sunrise
Weekend Sunrise
Weekend Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On Saturdays, it runs from 7am to 9am whilst on Sundays it runs from 7am to 10am.-History:...
.
A Current Affair
A Current Affair is a weeknightly populist current affairsCurrent affairs (news format)
Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....
program broadcast on the Nine Network at 6:30pm and presented by Tracy Grimshaw
Tracy Grimshaw
Tracy Grimshaw is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is currently the host of A Current Affair, and was a co-host of Today for nine years.-Career:...
. First broadcast on 22 November 1971 with Mike Willesee
Mike Willesee
Michael Willesee is an Australian television presenter.Mike Willesee came to prominence in 1967 as a reporter for the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight , where his aggressive style quickly earned him a reputation as a fearless political interviewer.-Career:Willesee figured...
, the show was screened weeknights at 7:00pm on GTV-9
GTV-9
GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at a new high-tech, purpose-built studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands.-History:...
. When Willesee left Nine in 1974 to move to the rival 0–10 Network, journalist Mike Minehan took over presenting the program. The program ended on 28 April 1978 due to strong competition. In 1984, Willesee returned to the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
to present a mid-evening current affairs program titled Willesee, screening from Monday to Thursday nights at 9:30pm. The following year, Willesee moved to the earlier 6:30 pm timeslot and extended to five nights a week and ran until 1986. On 18 January 1988, the same week that Seven
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
's Australian soap Home And Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
was introduced, former 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
team presenter Jana Wendt
Jana Wendt
-Early life:Wendt was born to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.-Career:Wendt's television career began as a news presenter for ATV-10 evening news...
became the first host of the revived A Current Affair. Following strong competition from Seven's Real Life (which became Today Tonight
Today Tonight
Today Tonight is a controversial Australian News and Current Affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
in 1995), Wendt left the program in November 1992.
Currently, Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon
Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist.McKinnon is currently co-host of Weekend Today an is also a reporter and fill in presenter for Nine News and A Current Affair.-Career:...
is the main fill-in for Grimshaw if she is sick or on leave, however Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network....
, Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams
Cameron Williams is an Australian journalist.Williams is currently co-host of Weekend Today alongside Leila McKinnon.- Career:Williams's journalism career began 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he...
and Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic is an Australian Gold Logie winning television presenter.Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast program, Today.-Early years:...
have also filled in for Grimshaw.
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is a Nine NetworkNine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
current affairs
Current affairs (news format)
Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....
and investigative journalism
Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism...
program which airs on the Nine Network on Sundays at 7.30pm. The program is currently presented by Liz Hayes
Liz Hayes
Elizabeth "Liz" Hayes is an Australian television presenter. She was born in Taree, New South Wales...
, Tara Brown
Tara Brown
Tara Brown is an Australian television presenter. She was born in Sydney, NSW, Australia.On 25 October 2008, she gave birth to her first son, Jack Cooper.-Nine Network:...
, Michael Usher
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes.He has previously presented Nightline and was the news presenter on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz.Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987...
, Liam Bartlett
Liam Bartlett
Liam Bartlett is a journalist from Perth, Western Australia.He currently works on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes current affairs program. Previously, he had a six year stint with ABC radio station 720 ABC Perth, presenting the morning program. He had previously worked for GWN in Bunbury as a news...
, Allison Langdon
Allison Langdon
Allison Langdon is a reporter and news presenter for Australia's Nine News, and also an author.-Career:Allison attended Wauchope High School and Port Macquarie's MacKillop Senior College. During her time at school, she presented radio programs on Monday evenings on the local community radio...
and Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey is an award-winning Australian television journalist.He has been with the Nine Network since 1975 and currently he presents the mailbag segment on 60 Minutes as well as being a reporter on Nine News and a regular contributor on Today.Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the...
.
Nightline
Nightline was Nine's weeknight late news bulletin, originally launched in 1992 with Jim WaleyJim Waley
Jim Waley is a veteran & experienced Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network, an Australian television network.-Career:In 1981, Waley was appointed founding presenter of Sunday...
as presenter. Other presenters who have presented Nightline include Hugh Riminton
Hugh Riminton
Hugh Riminton is a journalist, foreign correspondent and television news presenter.Raised in New Zealand, he began work as a cadet reporter, aged 17 in Christchurch before moving to Australia in 1983 to work for the Macquarie Radio Network in Perth and Melbourne. In 1989, he joined the Australian...
, Helen Kapalos
Helen Kapalos
Helen Kapalos is an Australian television news presenter.Kapalos began her career in her hometown of Newcastle, New South Wales, as a reporter for ABC Radio in 1994, before moving to television on SBS in Sydney...
, Ellen Fanning
Ellen Fanning
Ellen Fanning is an Australian journalist and was the last host of the Nine Network's Sunday television program.She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. She later graduated with a communications degree at the Queensland University of...
and Michael Usher
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes.He has previously presented Nightline and was the news presenter on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz.Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987...
. The bulletin was axed on 25 July 2008 due to budgetary constraints at the Nine Network, with the final news bulletin airing on the same night. Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
presented the final bulletin.
On Monday 4 May 2009, Nine re-introduced a late bulletin, entitled Nine Late News and presented by Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
.. The Late News was launched to replace the short two-minute national newsbreak, which was introduced following Nightline's axing in 2008. On weekends, a late news update continues to air, presented by Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey
Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...
in Melbourne.
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston
Wendy Kingston is a Australian journalist and news presenter.Kingston currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and news updates on Kerri-Anne.-Career:...
stayed as presenter of the Late News until November 2009, when she was replaced with Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly is a Australian journalist.Connolly was the presenter of the Nine Network's Nightline and also was an interim co-host of Today in 2007.-Career:...
. The Nightline branding returned on 30 November 2009. The late bulletin was broadcast in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin markets only - Adelaide and Perth viewers (served by WIN
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
-owned Nine stations) received a repeat of the 6pm local bulletin.
In July 2010, the network announced that Nightline had been axed due to poor ratings and scheduling problems. It will be replaced by news updates presented by duty reporters. Nine reportedly offered presenter Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly
Kellie Connolly is a Australian journalist.Connolly was the presenter of the Nine Network's Nightline and also was an interim co-host of Today in 2007.-Career:...
a redundancy package.
Sunday
Sunday was a long-running Australian breakfast news program which aired on Nine on Sunday mornings and featured investigative journalismInvestigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism...
, movie reviews and political interviews. The program was presented by Ellen Fanning
Ellen Fanning
Ellen Fanning is an Australian journalist and was the last host of the Nine Network's Sunday television program.She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. She later graduated with a communications degree at the Queensland University of...
prior to its axing. News was presented by Michael Usher
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes.He has previously presented Nightline and was the news presenter on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz.Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987...
and sport was presented by Stephanie Brantz
Stephanie Brantz
Stephanie Brantz is an Australian sports presenter. She began her television career in 2000 on SBS , and has since worked on the Nine Network and Fox Sports...
. Veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes is an Australian political journalist, commentator, and media personality. Since 1966, he has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, covering the Parliament of Australia and federal elections....
presented politics. The program was axed on 3 August 2008 due to poor ratings and cost-cutting across the network. The previous presenters of the show included:
- Jim WaleyJim WaleyJim Waley is a veteran & experienced Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network, an Australian television network.-Career:In 1981, Waley was appointed founding presenter of Sunday...
(1981–2002); - Jana WendtJana Wendt-Early life:Wendt was born to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.-Career:Wendt's television career began as a news presenter for ATV-10 evening news...
(2003–2006); - Ellen FanningEllen FanningEllen Fanning is an Australian journalist and was the last host of the Nine Network's Sunday television program.She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. She later graduated with a communications degree at the Queensland University of...
& Ross GreenwoodRoss GreenwoodRoss Greenwood is an Australian financial analyst and journalist.Greenwood has been the editor of numerous business publications, including Personal Investor , Business Review Weekly , and Shares, a magazine he co-founded....
(2006–2007); - Ellen FanningEllen FanningEllen Fanning is an Australian journalist and was the last host of the Nine Network's Sunday television program.She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. She later graduated with a communications degree at the Queensland University of...
& Ray MartinRay Martin (television presenter)Raymond George "Ray" Martin AM is an Australian television journalist. He is best known for his various on-air roles on Channel Nine from 1978 to 2008. In 2011 he returned to 60 Minutes....
(2007–2008); and - Ellen FanningEllen FanningEllen Fanning is an Australian journalist and was the last host of the Nine Network's Sunday television program.She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended All Hallows' School, in Brisbane. She later graduated with a communications degree at the Queensland University of...
(2008).
Sunday Morning News
Nine News: Sunday AM was a one-hour bulletin airing at 8am on Sunday mornings, presented by Michael UsherMichael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian reporter for 60 Minutes.He has previously presented Nightline and was the news presenter on Sunday alongside Ellen Fanning and Stephanie Brantz.Usher graduated from All Saints' College in Perth in 1987...
. Stephanie Brantz
Stephanie Brantz
Stephanie Brantz is an Australian sports presenter. She began her television career in 2000 on SBS , and has since worked on the Nine Network and Fox Sports...
presented sport, finance was presented by Ross Greenwood
Ross Greenwood
Ross Greenwood is an Australian financial analyst and journalist.Greenwood has been the editor of numerous business publications, including Personal Investor , Business Review Weekly , and Shares, a magazine he co-founded....
and weather was presented by Mike Bailey. The regular fill-in presenters for the Sunday AM News were Tara Brown
Tara Brown
Tara Brown is an Australian television presenter. She was born in Sydney, NSW, Australia.On 25 October 2008, she gave birth to her first son, Jack Cooper.-Nine Network:...
, Brett McLeod
Brett McLeod
Brett McLeod born 1975 is an Australian television news reporter and presenter for Nine News Melbourne.He is currently a reporter and relief news presenter for the Nine Network, and Nine News Melbourne having previously worked on 3AW before joining the network.Brett has also worked in Radio as part...
and Elise Mooney. Nine's Sunday AM News was a one-hour bulletin that was introduced on 10 August 2008 as a replacement for the network's long-running current affairs program, Sunday. Sunday, last broadcast on 3 August 2008, was axed due to budget cuts in news and current affairs at the Nine Network.
Nine's Sunday AM News featured the Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes is an Australian political journalist, commentator, and media personality. Since 1966, he has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, covering the Parliament of Australia and federal elections....
political interview, at approximately 8.35am every Sunday morning. With the exception of Melbourne audiences, the bulletin had continued to lag behind Weekend Sunrise, which often wins in the ratings by a ratio of 3:1. During the non-ratings period, the bulletin was half-an-hour long.
From February 2009, the bulletin was replaced with a Sunday edition of Today entitled Today on Sunday.
This Afternoon
This Afternoon was a 1-hour news and current affairs program, which aired on the Nine Network weekdays at 4:30pm. The program was presented by Andrew DaddoAndrew Daddo
Andrew Daddo is an Australian actor, author and television personality.Andrew has been a long time presenter on the Seven Network in Australia and has been involved in hosting many Seven specials...
, Katrina Blowers and Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....
.
The show presented the top current affairs of the day and predominantly focuses on news, sport, weather and entertainment with an emphasis on reports and interviews.
On 15 July 2009, Nine axed This Afternoon due to poor ratings.