Seven News
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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 Local News bulletins for parts of regional Queensland
. The news service is retransmitted via a number of regional affiliates, including Prime Television
, the Golden West Network
, Southern Cross Television
and WIN Television
in South Australia
. It draws upon the resources of BBC
, NBC
, CNN
, APTN
and Reuters
for select international coverage.
Peter Meakin
is the current head of news and current affairs for the Seven Network
, and in recent years, Seven News has overtaken Nine News as the most watched television news service in Australia.
Seven News, previously known as Channel 7 News, Seven Eyewitness News, Seven National News and Seven Nightly News, is one of Australia's longest-running television news services, along with Nine News on the rival Nine Network
.
Falling viewers numbers in the mid-1980s, particularly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, led the network to relaunch both its programming and its news service, which was renamed Seven Nightly News, as part of the network's growing alignment (in terms of branding) with the US network NBC
– taking on both the name and well-known theme music (The Mission
, composed by John Williams) of NBC's flagship news program, NBC Nightly News
. During the worst period of low ratings, Seven Nightly News was forced to move their main bulletin to 6.30pm because Nine News was too strong in the ratings.
Shortly after the 1991 creation of the Seven Network
as a company, a national populist current affairs program Real Life
was launched, presented by former ABC
reporter Stan Grant. It continued until 1995, when it was replaced by state-based editions of the current program Today Tonight
, which airs in most markets straight after the 6pm Seven News. Today Tonight
has since discontinued separate editions for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane markets, which now receive a single east-coast edition.
The 2003 appointment of former Nine Network
news and current affairs chief Peter Meakin
has led Seven News to take a noticeably more 'local' feel, which has proved to be a ratings success in larger markets such as Sydney
and Melbourne
. A greater amount of locally-focused output is now incorporated, such as the 2005 Seven Listens campaign, which involved small, one-person studios at Westfield
Shopping Centres for shoppers to discuss issues, in addition to a number of online surveys. Data collected from these surveys contributed to special reports on issues deemed to have been of importance to the public.
Ratings have gradually increased since 2004. Seven News was the top rating news service nationally in both the 2005 and 2006 ratings seasons, partly attributed to the success of television game show Deal or No Deal
, which provides it with a significant lead-in audience. Between 2007 and 2010, the 6pm edition of Seven News completed a clean sweep as the most watched news bulletin across the five major capital cities.
news presenter Natalie Barr
and Sunrise
sports presenter Mark Beretta
. The main fill-in presenter for the bulletin is Samantha Armytage
.
The bulletin began from 14 July 2008, and draws upon overnight news stories from international sources as well as additional weather and financial news. The first bulletin was presented by Simon Reeve
.
program, aired weekdays from 6am to 9am and weekends from 7am to 10am as Weekend Sunrise. The show is broadcast live from Seven's Martin Place studios, and is based on a mix of human interest, showbiz and entertainment alongside half-hourly national news & sport bulletins and weather updates.
The program is presented by Melissa Doyle
and David Koch with news presenter Natalie Barr
, sport presenter Mark Beretta
and weather presenter Grant Denyer
. Samantha Armytage
and Andrew O'Keefe
present Weekend Sunrise
with Jessica Rowe
as news presenter and Simon Reeve
as the sport presenter and James Tobin as weather presenter.
, who also presents news updates for The Morning Show. The half-hour bulletin airs at 11.30am on weekdays. Prior to 2007, the bulletin aired at 10:30am. Fill in presenters include Mark Ferguson
, Talitha Cummins
and Rebecca Maddern
.
The bulletin was first broadcast on 29 January 2001 and presented by Garry Wilkinson. Following his departure, Chris Reason
took over until 2004 when Chris Bath
began presenting the bulletin. Sanders presented the bulletin from 2006, when she swapped roles with Chris Bath
(Sanders had originally been the Seven News Sydney weekend presenter from 2004-5, following Ross Symonds
's retirement in 2003).
Occasionally, if the Sydney studio is unavailable, the bulletin may be presented either out of the Melbourne or Brisbane studios by Rebecca Maddern
or Sharyn Ghidella
respectively. During the tennis season, the bulletin airs in Sydney and Melbourne only, at the earlier time of 10:30am.
from Monday to Wednesday, and Mark Ferguson
on Thursday and Fridays and sport is presented by Jim Wilson. Weather is presented from Seven's Melbourne studios
by David Brown. Fill in presenters include Ann Sanders
, Talitha Cummins
, Sarah Cumming
and Rebecca Maddern
(news), Tony Squires
, Matt Carmichael, Leith Mulligan
and Michael Felgate (sport) and Sarah Cumming
(weather).
The bulletin was initially known as Target Iraq and presented by David Johnston
. It was aimed primarily at covering news from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Initially presented from Sydney, the bulletin was retained following the initial invasion, but moving to Melbourne where Johnston was based at the time. Rebecca Maddern
took over from Johnston as presenter following his retirement in late 2005 until production was moved to Seven's Martin Place in mid-2006, to be fronted by Seven's United States Correspondent, Mike Amor
. Samantha Armytage
replaced Mike Amor
when he returned to the United States as Bureau Chief in October 2006.
It was announced on 3 December 2010 that Seven 4.30 News would be extended from 30 to 60 minutes http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/12/seven-extends-430pm-news.html. Sport was also incorporated into the bulletin. Occasionally, the program is presented from Melbourne by Rebecca Maddern
or from Brisbane by Sharyn Ghidella
respectively if the national news studio at Sydney is unavailable. Seven 4.30 News does not air during the tennis season.
Until 2003, a late-night bulletin existed on the Seven Network
airing around 10:30pm or 11:30pm. Presenters included Nick McArdle
, Natalie Barr
, Chris Bath
, Garry Wilkinson, Simon Reeve
and Anne Fulwood
amongst others. The late bulletin was then simply known as Seven News.
A three-minute summary airs at around 10.30pm on weeknights (subject to scheduling). The late bulletin covers major national and international news stories in brief along with a sports story and a national weather summary.
Samantha Armytage
presents late news updates on Monday, with Sarah Cumming
presenting on Tuesday to Friday. The national late news update is presented from Seven's Martin Place studios. Fill-in presenters include Sophie Hull, Pippa Gardner, Robert Ovadia and Rebecca Maddern
.
In 2007 and 2008, Seven Late News was revived in the form of a Friday night bulletin during the AFL
season. The half-hour bulletin was introduced in 2007, broadcast at 10:30 p.m. into Sydney
and Brisbane
. In 2008 the same bulletin was also shown delayed in Melbourne
, Adelaide
and Perth
at the later time of 11:30pm (aired later on occasions). The bulletin had a similar format to the other national bulletins produced by Seven News.
As of 2011, the half-hour late bulletin is no longer produced by the network, with 10:30pm updates now presented on Friday nights.
Sydney
Seven News Sydney is directed by Chris Willis and presented in high-definition from the network's national news studios
at Martin Place
by Chris Bath
on weeknights and Mark Ferguson
at weekends. Sports news is presented by Tony Squires
(weekdays) and Matt Carmichael (weekends) with weather presented by Sarah Cumming
on weekdays.
The flagship bulletin is also simulcast live by Prime Television stations in the Canberra
(including Goulburn, Yass and Cooma), Newcastle
-Hunter Region, Illawarra
-NSW South Coast (Wollongong, Southern Highlands, Nowra, Ulladulla, Batemans Bay, Bega) and Gold Coast
(QLD) markets. The program airs at 6:30pm in the Wagga Wagga-Orange
-Dubbo, Tamworth
-New England and Mid North Coast-Northern Rivers regions following local Prime News bulletins.
At the end of 2003, the dual-presenter format for Seven News Sydney was scrapped. Between 1998 and 2003, the 6pm news was co-presented by Ross Symonds
and Ann Sanders
(who started presenting the weeknight news in February 1995) - a combination which had long struggled against the then long-time leading 6pm bulletin, National Nine News Sydney. Symonds has since retired, whilst Sanders moved to presenting the weekend bulletin from 2004-5 before being appointed as presenter of the national Morning News in 2006.
Seven News Sydney's attempts to boost ratings began in late 2003 when Ian Ross was appointed as main weeknight presenter. Mark Beretta
was the sports presenter until mid-June 2004, when he took up the same position on Sunrise and was replaced by former Network Ten
sports presenter Matthew White
. The bulletin relocated to new street-level studios located in Martin Place in late-2004, allowing bystanders to watch the news bulletins being broadcast live. A new standard set was built in 2005; this set was in use until February 2011 when the Seven News studio was given an overhaul. After two years of presenting the national morning news, Chris Bath
returned to her former role as weekend news presenter in 2006. Ben Damon
replaced Nick McArdle
at the end of 2006 as weekend sports presenter, only later to be replaced by Johanna Griggs
.
Ross presented his final bulletin for Seven News Sydney on Friday 27 November 2009. Bath took over as main weeknight presenter from Monday 30 November 2009 while former Nine News presenter Mark Ferguson
took over as weekend presenter on Saturday 28 November 2009. Johanna Griggs
resigned as weekend sports presenter in November 2010. Simon Reeve
briefly replaced her until Matt Carmichael got the weekend position full-time. At the same time, Sarah Cumming
took over the role as weather presenter from Sara Groen
who presented her last bulletin on Friday 26 November 2010. Groen still continues to present weather occasionally on the Melbourne bulletin.
Seven's 6pm Sydney bulletin retained its ratings lead until 2011 when the rival Nine News bulletin overtook Seven in the ratings for the first time in seven years, winning 21 weeks compared to Seven's 14 weeks.
News updates for Sydney are presented by Chris Bath
(weekdays) and Mark Ferguson
(weekends) throughout the afternoon and the early evening, with national updates broadcast during the rest of the evening. Fill in presenters include Mark Ferguson
, Sophie Hull (news), Natalie Barr
(occasional weekend news), Samantha Armytage
(occasional weekend news) and Chris Reason
(news) whilst Mark Beretta
, Jim Wilson and Simon Reeve
occasionally fill in on sport. Talitha Cummins
occasionally fills in on weather if Sarah Cumming is absent.
, located adjacent to Etihad Stadium in the Docklands precinct
. Weekday sport and weather are presented by Sandy Roberts
and David Brown, with Tim Watson
presenting on weekends alongside news presenter Jennifer Keyte
.
Seven News Melbourne is re-broadcast throughout regional Victoria and New South Wales/South Australia border areas that receive television services from Victoria
, through Prime Television
, and to viewers in Darwin
, Northern Territory
through Southern Cross Television (TND-34)
nightly at 6pm.
Seven News Melbourne scrapped the dual-presenting format in 2000 when David Johnston
and Anne Fulwood
(a partnership which only lasted from mid-1999 to late 2000) were replaced by Peter Mitchell. He had previously held the role of the weekend news presenter for over thirteen years. Jennifer Keyte
was appointed as weekday news presenter in 1990, becoming Australia's first solo female primetime commercial news presenter. In a network reshuffle in 1996, Jennifer Keyte
terminated her employment after the Seven Network attempted to pair her with David Johnston. She returned to Seven Melbourne in August 2003, assuming the role as the weekend news presenter, succeeding Jennifer Adams
. Jim Wilson was once the sports presenter until 2004 when he was replaced by Beverley O'Connor
. O'Connor in turn was replaced by Sandy Roberts
in March 2005; a position he still holds today.
Production of the Melbourne bulletin moved to the Docklands precinct in March 2002. At the time, the background seen during the 6pm bulletin was the offices of the Seven's Docklands studios before an upgrade to the main studio in 2004; and now the standard set which was implemented on 20 June 2005. Beforehand, it was produced at HSV-7's headquarters, located in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne
.
After decades of coming in second place to Nine News Melbourne, Seven News Melbourne dead heated in 2007, winning 20 out of 40 ratings weeks. This was subsequently followed by a series of advertisements and promos which have touted Seven News Melbourne as Melbourne's New #1. Despite a poor start to 2008, Seven News Melbourne won 25 out of 40 ratings weeks, officially becoming Melbourne's most watched television news service.
Afternoon news updates for Melbourne are presented by Rebecca Maddern
or another reporter, while Peter Mitchell presents weeknight updates. Jennifer Keyte
presents all weekend news updates. Rebecca Maddern
is also the fill-in presenter for the nightly 6pm bulletin, with Michael Felgate or Leith Mulligan
, as the fill-in sports presenters. Sara Groen
is the fill in weather presenter if David Brown
is away.
and Rod Young
on weeknights from Seven's Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Sport is presented by Pat Welsh
and Shane Webcke
and weather is presented by John Schluter
.
The bulletin is also simulcast in Brisbane on local radio station 96.5 Family FM, to regional Queensland
viewers in the Sunshine Coast
, Wide Bay-Burnett
, Toowoomba, Rockhampton
, Mackay
, Townsville and Cairns television markets via the Seven Queensland
network and across central & remote areas of eastern Australia, on Southern Cross Central
.
On weekends, Sharyn Ghidella
presents the news with Pat Welsh or Shane Webcke on sport and Liz Cantor
on weather. Previously, Tracey Challenor
presented the weekend news for many years until her resignation in February 2007. Cummins was first appointed to the weekday weather in 2005 after more than a year of the Brisbane bulletin not having a weather presenter; former kids show presenter Tony Johnston
had this role in 2003. Cummins was replaced by former Nine
weatherman John Schluter
in early 2007, meaning she was moved to weekends. She does however, fill in on weekdays if Schluter is away. Ghidella joined Seven News Brisbane in 2007 and occasionally presents on weeknights filling in for Kay McGrath
.
In October 2002, Rod Young moved from ABC News
in Brisbane to co-anchor with Kay McGrath. She had presented Seven News Brisbane solo for the previous nine months following the retirement of Frank Warrick. Their dual presenter format has proved to be successful. Following a couple of lean years coming second to Nine News Brisbane, Seven News Brisbane regained its ratings lead by 2007, helped by the recruitment of ex-Nine weatherman John Schluter
and director of news Rob Raschke. In 2008, Seven News Brisbane was officially the #1 bulletin in Brisbane, winning all 40 ratings weeks.
News updates for Brisbane are presented by Kay McGrath
, Rod Young
or Sharyn Ghidella
throughout the afternoon and the early evening. Sharyn Ghidella
, Patrick Condren and Jillian Whiting
are fill-in news presenters, with Ben Davis, Shane Webcke or Rohan Welsh presenting sport, and Liz Cantor or Angie Asimus presenting the weather.
and John Riddell
on weeknights, with Bruce Abernethy
(Thursday to Monday) and Chris Dittmar
(Tuesday and Wednesday) presenting sport and Melody Horrill
as weather presenter. Weekend bulletins are presented by Graeme Goodings
.
Seven News Adelaide is also broadcast to the regional areas of South Australia
on Southern Cross Television GTS/BKN
in the Spencer Gulf
region and Broken Hill in New South Wales, and through WIN Television
South Australia in the Riverland
and Mount Gambier/South East regions of the state.
Previously, Goodings presented on weeknights and John Riddell on weekends, until it was revealed that Goodings had bowel cancer. Both presenters agreed to swap roles in 2004 and had been presenting Seven News Adelaide together since 1989, which had proven a success.
Prior to 27 December 1987, the presenters and crew of Seven News Adelaide produced Ten News Adelaide (then known as Ten Eyewitness News). However, as the television industry was consolidating in Australia, these news services had each become associated by ownership with inter-state news services being broadcast on opposite frequencies; therefore, to simplify network interaction, their respective networks agreed to swap channel assignments and network affiliations in Adelaide. Graeme Goodings and Mike Smithson
were some of the local personalities that changed stations.
During the AFL
season, Seven News Adelaide does not air at the regular time on Sundays if there is a twilight match involving Port Adelaide
or Adelaide, in which case the bulletin is usually delayed until half time and shortened to 10–15 minutes. This bulletin replaces the half-time analysis of the AFL matches broadcast.
News updates for Adelaide are presented by Jane Doyle, John Riddell or Graeme Goodings throughout the afternoon and the early evening. Jessica Adamson
and Mike Smithson are frequent fill-in presenters, in addition to Mark Soderstrom, Tim Noonan and Caroline Kelly (fill-in sport and weather presenters).
Perth
Seven News Perth is directed by Howard Gretton and presented on weeknights by Rick Ardon
and Susannah Carr
, with sports presenter Basil Zempilas
and weather presenter Natalia Cooper
. Emmy Kubainski
or Sally Bowrey presents the weekend news with Adrian Barich
presenting sport. Seven News Perth is also simulcast on the GWN network to regional and remote areas of Western Australia
.
Long standing Seven News Perth presenter Jeff Newman
announced his retirement from television on 1 July 2009, and retired from his role on Monday 10 August 2009. He has been replaced by former Nine News Perth weather presenter Natalia Cooper
, who began her new role during September.
In 2005, Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr celebrated a twenty year anniversary as a news reading duo. They are one of the longest serving dual news presenter teams in the world and their dual-presenter format of Seven News Perth has been highly successful. Seven News Perth has led in the ratings for decades, well ahead of Nine News Perth by as many as 100,000 viewers.
News updates for Perth are presented by Natalia Cooper, Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon throughout the afternoon and by Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon in the early evening. Yvette Mooney was the weekend news presenter until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and subsequently left the network in June 2008. Chris Young
is the current sport fill-in.
Regional Queensland
Seven Local News bulletins are broadcast each weeknight with six separate editions for Cairns, Townsville, Mackay
, Wide Bay
, the Sunshine Coast
and Rockhampton
. They are followed by Seven News Brisbane, in place of Today Tonight
.
The bulletins are presented by Rob Brough
, with Joanne Desmond co-anchoring the Cairns, Townsville and Rockhampton editions. Nathan Spurling presents sport with Livio Regano presenting weather for all six sub-regions.
In early 2004, Seven Local News was re-introduced in the Townsville and Cairns sub-markets as a result of regulations regarding local content on regional television introduced by the Australian Broadcasting Authority
(now the Australian Communications and Media Authority
).
The most successful edition of Seven Local News is broadcast on the Sunshine Coast
. In early 1998, WIN Television
launched a competing service publicly stating that it would beat Seven in the ratings within six months. At the end of the 1998 ratings season, after a new station head had overseen a comprehensive re-vamping of the program and its external promotions, Seven Local News had actually increased its audience share by six ratings points.
Reporters and camera crews are based at newsrooms in each of the six regions with studio presentation for the Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton and Wide Bay bulletins pre-recorded at studios in Maroochydore. The Sunshine Coast edition of Seven Local News is broadcast live. News editing is undertaken by the local newsrooms, and sent to the main Maroochydore studios for transmission.
On 5 March 2007, Seven Local News bulletins commenced production and broadcasts in a widescreen
standard-definition
digital
format. Seven Local News was the first regional news service in regional Queensland
to convert to widescreen.
On 22 November 2010, Seven Local News launched a sixth edition for the Rockhampton/Gladstone and Central Queensland region.
, came under heavy criticism in 2010 for the decision to air a story on Seven News in Sydney outing
then-New South Wales Transport Minister David Campbell as homosexual. Campbell, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
for over two decades, was forced to resign after Meakin chose to air a story by Walters showing Campbell leaving a gay bathhouse
.
Seven's decision to run the story was derided by politicians, other media outlets, academics and the public as "not a good moment for the media coverage of Macquarie Street", "old-fashioned" and an act of "pathetic snooping".
Seven's justification for airing the story was initially that Campbell had misused his Ministerial vehicle, however this allegation was quickly shown to be untrue by other media outlets, as New South Wales Ministers have full private use of their Ministerial vehicles. The justification later put forward by Seven to defend its actions was that it was in the public interest to make the allegations public because of the risk of blackmail. Allegations also emerged that Walters had undertaken the story not for its public interest, but as the result of a grudge: Walters' relationship with Campbell's ministerial colleague Reba Meagher
had broken down the previous year. Walters had also lost his job in a strategy unit for the Labor government under former premier Morris Iemma
after Iemma was ousted by a group of Ministers, including Campbell.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority
instigated an investigation into Seven's conduct in this matter, under the industry's self-regulated code of conduct. It accepted the public interest justification put forward by Seven, that Campbell's actions left him "vulnerable to compromise or blackmail".
The following morning, rival networks, obtained the same footage as Seven News and broadcast another part of the interview not seen on the original report showing military leaders agreeing with Tony saying "It certainly does", backing his claims that his words had been taken out of context. Mr Abbott maintains that he was discussing whether the unit had had sufficient firepower support during the incident. Much support was shown for the Opposition Leader on social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook.
Seven News reporter Mark Riley appeared on Sunrise and many other radio shows defending the claims and the report that aired.
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...
in Australia.
National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
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, Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Adelaide
Adelaide
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, and Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
. The network also produces Seven Local News bulletins for parts of regional Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
. The news service is retransmitted via a number of regional affiliates, including Prime Television
Prime Television
PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...
, the Golden West Network
Golden West Network
GWN7 is an Australian television network owned by the Prime Media Group that is based in Bunbury, Western Australia. The Golden West Network launched on 10 March 1967 as BTW-3 in Bunbury, and has since expanded to cover regional and remote Western Australia, servicing all areas except metropolitan...
, Southern Cross Television
Southern Cross Television
Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia. Although the programming varies from region to region, all areas are affiliated with the Seven Network and, in some areas, have a dual...
and 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 South Australia
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:...
. It draws upon the resources of BBC
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, NBC
NBC News
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, CNN
CNN
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, APTN
Associated Press Television News
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and Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
for select international coverage.
Peter Meakin
Peter Meakin
Peter Meakin is an Australian journalist and the head of news and current affairs at the Seven Network.He worked at the Nine Network for three decades, eventually becoming director of current affairs in 1987 and the head of news and current affairs in 1993; he was credited with the ratings success...
is the current head of news and current affairs 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...
, and in recent years, Seven News has overtaken Nine News as the most watched television news service in Australia.
History
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...
.
Falling viewers numbers in the mid-1980s, particularly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, led the network to relaunch both its programming and its news service, which was renamed Seven Nightly News, as part of the network's growing alignment (in terms of branding) with the US network NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
– taking on both the name and well-known theme music (The Mission
The Mission (theme song)
"The Mission" is a television news music package composed by John Williams in 1985. Originally commissioned for NBC's national news programs, the theme has also been used on some NBC affiliates for their local newscasts....
, composed by John Williams) of NBC's flagship news program, NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
. During the worst period of low ratings, Seven Nightly News was forced to move their main bulletin to 6.30pm because Nine News was too strong in the ratings.
Shortly after the 1991 creation of 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...
as a company, a national populist current affairs program Real Life
Real Life (TV program)
Real Life was an Australian current affairs television program that aired on the Seven Network from 20 January 1992 to 1994.Its format was similar to other tabloid current affairs shows airing at the time, these being A Current Affair and Hinch, which had recently been axed by the Seven Network and...
was launched, presented by former ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
reporter Stan Grant. It continued until 1995, when it was replaced by state-based editions of the current program 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....
, which airs in most markets straight after the 6pm Seven News. 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....
has since discontinued separate editions for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane markets, which now receive a single east-coast edition.
The 2003 appointment of former 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...
news and current affairs chief Peter Meakin
Peter Meakin
Peter Meakin is an Australian journalist and the head of news and current affairs at the Seven Network.He worked at the Nine Network for three decades, eventually becoming director of current affairs in 1987 and the head of news and current affairs in 1993; he was credited with the ratings success...
has led Seven News to take a noticeably more 'local' feel, which has proved to be a ratings success in larger markets such as Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Melbourne
Melbourne
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. A greater amount of locally-focused output is now incorporated, such as the 2005 Seven Listens campaign, which involved small, one-person studios at Westfield
The Westfield Group
The Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities...
Shopping Centres for shoppers to discuss issues, in addition to a number of online surveys. Data collected from these surveys contributed to special reports on issues deemed to have been of importance to the public.
Ratings have gradually increased since 2004. Seven News was the top rating news service nationally in both the 2005 and 2006 ratings seasons, partly attributed to the success of television game show Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (Australian game show)
Deal or No Deal is an Australian game show airing on the Seven Network and in New Zealand on Prime . It was the first international version of the game show, after the original Dutch version. It was the first of the versions to use the Deal or No Deal name...
, which provides it with a significant lead-in audience. Between 2007 and 2010, the 6pm edition of Seven News completed a clean sweep as the most watched news bulletin across the five major capital cities.
Seven Early News
Seven Early News is a national news bulletin, broadcast live from Seven's Martin Place studios from 5.30am to 6am, presented by 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:...
news presenter Natalie Barr
Natalie Barr
Natalie Anne Barr is an Australian journalist, news and television presenter.Barr is currently news presenter on the Seven Network's Sunrise and presenter of Seven Early News.-Career:...
and Sunrise
Sunrise (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:...
sports presenter Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta is an Australian media personality. He is known by the common nickname of Beretts.-Early life and career:Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966. He was educated at St. Joseph's College...
. The main fill-in presenter for the bulletin is Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
.
The bulletin began from 14 July 2008, and draws upon overnight news stories from international sources as well as additional weather and financial news. The first bulletin was presented by Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve may refer to:* Simon Reeve , British author and television presenter* Simon Reeve , Australian television presenter...
.
Sunrise
Sunrise is the network's breakfastBreakfast television
Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...
program, aired weekdays from 6am to 9am and weekends from 7am to 10am as Weekend Sunrise. The show is broadcast live from Seven's Martin Place studios, and is based on a mix of human interest, showbiz and entertainment alongside half-hourly national news & sport bulletins and weather updates.
The program is presented by Melissa Doyle
Melissa Doyle
Melissa Jane Doyle is an Australian television personality.Doyle is currently co-host of the Seven Network's Sunrise, The Zoo and Where Are They Now.-Early career:...
and David Koch with news presenter Natalie Barr
Natalie Barr
Natalie Anne Barr is an Australian journalist, news and television presenter.Barr is currently news presenter on the Seven Network's Sunrise and presenter of Seven Early News.-Career:...
, sport presenter Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta is an Australian media personality. He is known by the common nickname of Beretts.-Early life and career:Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966. He was educated at St. Joseph's College...
and weather presenter Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...
. Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
and Andrew O'Keefe
Andrew O'Keefe
Andrew Patrick O'Keefe is an Australian entertainer, best known for being the host of the hit game-show Deal or No Deal. He is also the co-host of Weekend Sunrise....
present 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:...
with Jessica Rowe
Jessica Rowe
Jessica Rowe is an Australian television news presenter. Rowe attended Sydney Girls High School in Sydney, and completed a Communications degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM...
as news presenter and Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve (Australian television presenter)
Simon Reeve is an Australian television presenter and host of many shows on the Seven Network. Reeve is currently the sports presenter on Weekend Sunrise, reporter on Sunrise, and the host of the children's quiz show It's Academic, as well as a fill-in presenter for Seven News.Simon commenced his...
as the sport presenter and James Tobin as weather presenter.
Seven Morning News
Seven Morning News is a national news bulletin produced from Seven's Martin Place studios and presented by Ann SandersAnn Sanders
Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and she also presents hourly Seven News updates through The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.-Career:...
, who also presents news updates for The Morning Show. The half-hour bulletin airs at 11.30am on weekdays. Prior to 2007, the bulletin aired at 10:30am. Fill in presenters include 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....
, Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins is an Australian journalist.Cummins is currently a reporter for Seven News in Sydney and fill in presenter on Seven Morning News and Seven 4:30 News.-Career:...
and Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
.
The bulletin was first broadcast on 29 January 2001 and presented by Garry Wilkinson. Following his departure, Chris Reason
Chris Reason
Chris Reason is a senior reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-Career:Chris began his career in newspapers - first The Redland Times then The Sun in Brisbane. He has also worked for Nine Network in the Gold Coast for a year.Reason came to Seven News in 1990 in Brisbane as a...
took over until 2004 when Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
began presenting the bulletin. Sanders presented the bulletin from 2006, when she swapped roles with Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
(Sanders had originally been the Seven News Sydney weekend presenter from 2004-5, following Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds is a former news presenter for the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.Symonds began his career with ABC Radio in Brisbane in his teenage years, and then went to Sydney with ABC radio and television to become ABC's Senior National News Presenter...
's retirement in 2003).
Occasionally, if the Sydney studio is unavailable, the bulletin may be presented either out of the Melbourne or Brisbane studios by Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
or 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...
respectively. During the tennis season, the bulletin airs in Sydney and Melbourne only, at the earlier time of 10:30am.
Seven 4.30 News
Seven 4.30 News is a national news bulletin, broadcast live from Seven's Martin Place studios by Samantha ArmytageSamantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
from Monday to Wednesday, 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....
on Thursday and Fridays and sport is presented by Jim Wilson. Weather is presented from Seven's Melbourne studios
HSV-7
HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, and its first and oldest station, having been launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne....
by David Brown. Fill in presenters include Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and she also presents hourly Seven News updates through The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.-Career:...
, Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins is an Australian journalist.Cummins is currently a reporter for Seven News in Sydney and fill in presenter on Seven Morning News and Seven 4:30 News.-Career:...
, Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming is an Australian journalist.Cumming is currently weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.-Career:Sarah completed her Journalism degree at the University of South Australia, where she majored in International Relations...
and Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
(news), Tony Squires
Tony Squires
Tony Squires is an Australian media personality, currently presenting the sport report on Seven News in Sydney. He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the comic sport news show The Fat, which ran on ABC television from 2000 to 2003....
, Matt Carmichael, Leith Mulligan
Leith Mulligan
Leith Mulligan is an Australian sports journalist and presenter on Seven News.Born in South Australia, Mulligan grew up on his family’s vineyard in the Coonawarra wine region. One of six children, Mulligan was determined from a young age that his chosen career would involve sport...
and Michael Felgate (sport) and Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming is an Australian journalist.Cumming is currently weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.-Career:Sarah completed her Journalism degree at the University of South Australia, where she majored in International Relations...
(weather).
The bulletin was initially known as Target Iraq and presented by David Johnston
David Johnston (Newsreader)
David Johnston is a retired Australian television news presenter.Johnston, known as DJ to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, presented his last bulletin on the Seven Network on 23 September 2005...
. It was aimed primarily at covering news from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Initially presented from Sydney, the bulletin was retained following the initial invasion, but moving to Melbourne where Johnston was based at the time. Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
took over from Johnston as presenter following his retirement in late 2005 until production was moved to Seven's Martin Place in mid-2006, to be fronted by Seven's United States Correspondent, Mike Amor
Mike Amor
Mike Amor is the United States Correspondent for Seven News.Mike Amor is one of Australia’s most experienced TV correspondents and is currentlyU.S...
. Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
replaced Mike Amor
Mike Amor
Mike Amor is the United States Correspondent for Seven News.Mike Amor is one of Australia’s most experienced TV correspondents and is currentlyU.S...
when he returned to the United States as Bureau Chief in October 2006.
It was announced on 3 December 2010 that Seven 4.30 News would be extended from 30 to 60 minutes http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/12/seven-extends-430pm-news.html. Sport was also incorporated into the bulletin. Occasionally, the program is presented from Melbourne by Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
or from Brisbane 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...
respectively if the national news studio at Sydney is unavailable. Seven 4.30 News does not air during the tennis season.
Seven News Updates
State-based updates are presented throughout the afternoon by reporters or presenters.Until 2003, a late-night bulletin existed on 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...
airing around 10:30pm or 11:30pm. Presenters included Nick McArdle
Nick McArdle
Nick McArdle is an Australian TV sports presenter with a career spanning 20 years in the media industry. McArdle is a current sports presenter with Fox Sports in Australia...
, Natalie Barr
Natalie Barr
Natalie Anne Barr is an Australian journalist, news and television presenter.Barr is currently news presenter on the Seven Network's Sunrise and presenter of Seven Early News.-Career:...
, Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
, Garry Wilkinson, Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve (Australian television presenter)
Simon Reeve is an Australian television presenter and host of many shows on the Seven Network. Reeve is currently the sports presenter on Weekend Sunrise, reporter on Sunrise, and the host of the children's quiz show It's Academic, as well as a fill-in presenter for Seven News.Simon commenced his...
and Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood is a former Australian newsreader and current affairs host who was born in South Australia's Riverland.-Career:Fulwood began her television career at ADS-7 in Adelaide in 1983 initally as a sports reporter...
amongst others. The late bulletin was then simply known as Seven News.
A three-minute summary airs at around 10.30pm on weeknights (subject to scheduling). The late bulletin covers major national and international news stories in brief along with a sports story and a national weather summary.
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
presents late news updates on Monday, with Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming is an Australian journalist.Cumming is currently weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.-Career:Sarah completed her Journalism degree at the University of South Australia, where she majored in International Relations...
presenting on Tuesday to Friday. The national late news update is presented from Seven's Martin Place studios. Fill-in presenters include Sophie Hull, Pippa Gardner, Robert Ovadia and Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
.
In 2007 and 2008, Seven Late News was revived in the form of a Friday night bulletin during the AFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
season. The half-hour bulletin was introduced in 2007, broadcast at 10:30 p.m. into Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
. In 2008 the same bulletin was also shown delayed in Melbourne
Melbourne
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...
, Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
and Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
at the later time of 11:30pm (aired later on occasions). The bulletin had a similar format to the other national bulletins produced by Seven News.
As of 2011, the half-hour late bulletin is no longer produced by the network, with 10:30pm updates now presented on Friday nights.
SydneyATN-Medicine:*Acute tubular necrosis, a medical condition involving the death of tubular cells that form the tubule that transports urine to the ureters*Asymmetric tonic neck reflex*Atypical trigeminal neuralgia-Television:...
Seven News Sydney is directed by Chris Willis and presented in high-definition from the network's national news studiosATN-7
ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was one of the first four licences to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia...
at Martin Place
Martin Place, Sydney
Martin Place, formerly known as Moore Street, is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate...
by Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
on weeknights 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....
at weekends. Sports news is presented by Tony Squires
Tony Squires
Tony Squires is an Australian media personality, currently presenting the sport report on Seven News in Sydney. He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the comic sport news show The Fat, which ran on ABC television from 2000 to 2003....
(weekdays) and Matt Carmichael (weekends) with weather presented by Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming is an Australian journalist.Cumming is currently weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.-Career:Sarah completed her Journalism degree at the University of South Australia, where she majored in International Relations...
on weekdays.
The flagship bulletin is also simulcast live by Prime Television stations in the Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
(including Goulburn, Yass and Cooma), Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
-Hunter Region, Illawarra
Illawarra
Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven or South Coast region. It encompasses the cities of Wollongong, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven and the town of Kiama. The central region contains Lake...
-NSW South Coast (Wollongong, Southern Highlands, Nowra, Ulladulla, Batemans Bay, Bega) and 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...
(QLD) markets. The program airs at 6:30pm in the Wagga Wagga-Orange
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....
-Dubbo, Tamworth
Tamworth, New South Wales
Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...
-New England and Mid North Coast-Northern Rivers regions following local Prime News bulletins.
At the end of 2003, the dual-presenter format for Seven News Sydney was scrapped. Between 1998 and 2003, the 6pm news was co-presented by Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds
Ross Symonds is a former news presenter for the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.Symonds began his career with ABC Radio in Brisbane in his teenage years, and then went to Sydney with ABC radio and television to become ABC's Senior National News Presenter...
and Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and she also presents hourly Seven News updates through The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.-Career:...
(who started presenting the weeknight news in February 1995) - a combination which had long struggled against the then long-time leading 6pm bulletin, National Nine News Sydney. Symonds has since retired, whilst Sanders moved to presenting the weekend bulletin from 2004-5 before being appointed as presenter of the national Morning News in 2006.
Seven News Sydney's attempts to boost ratings began in late 2003 when Ian Ross was appointed as main weeknight presenter. Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta is an Australian media personality. He is known by the common nickname of Beretts.-Early life and career:Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966. He was educated at St. Joseph's College...
was the sports presenter until mid-June 2004, when he took up the same position on Sunrise and was replaced by 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...
sports presenter Matthew White
Matthew White (journalist)
Matthew White is an Australian journalist, and currently presenter of Today Tonight and sports presenter.-Career:White began his journalism career at a local newspaper in Manly before moving to radio and joining Newcastle's NEWFM to present breakfast news...
. The bulletin relocated to new street-level studios located in Martin Place in late-2004, allowing bystanders to watch the news bulletins being broadcast live. A new standard set was built in 2005; this set was in use until February 2011 when the Seven News studio was given an overhaul. After two years of presenting the national morning news, Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
returned to her former role as weekend news presenter in 2006. Ben Damon
Ben Damon
Ben Damon is an Australian journalist.-Career:Prior to his resignation, Ben presented the weeknight sport report for Sydney's edition of Seven News, since the departure of Matthew White who now hosts Today Tonight East Coast Edition...
replaced Nick McArdle
Nick McArdle
Nick McArdle is an Australian TV sports presenter with a career spanning 20 years in the media industry. McArdle is a current sports presenter with Fox Sports in Australia...
at the end of 2006 as weekend sports presenter, only later to be replaced by Johanna Griggs
Johanna Griggs
Johanna Leigh Griggs is a former swimmer and current television presenter from Australia.-Swimming career:Griggs represented Australia at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990—winning a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke event....
.
Ross presented his final bulletin for Seven News Sydney on Friday 27 November 2009. Bath took over as main weeknight presenter from Monday 30 November 2009 while former Nine 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....
took over as weekend presenter on Saturday 28 November 2009. Johanna Griggs
Johanna Griggs
Johanna Leigh Griggs is a former swimmer and current television presenter from Australia.-Swimming career:Griggs represented Australia at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990—winning a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke event....
resigned as weekend sports presenter in November 2010. Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve (Australian television presenter)
Simon Reeve is an Australian television presenter and host of many shows on the Seven Network. Reeve is currently the sports presenter on Weekend Sunrise, reporter on Sunrise, and the host of the children's quiz show It's Academic, as well as a fill-in presenter for Seven News.Simon commenced his...
briefly replaced her until Matt Carmichael got the weekend position full-time. At the same time, Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming
Sarah Cumming is an Australian journalist.Cumming is currently weather presenter on Seven News Sydney.-Career:Sarah completed her Journalism degree at the University of South Australia, where she majored in International Relations...
took over the role as weather presenter from Sara Groen
Sara Groen
Sara Groen is an Australian actress and television presenter.-Career:Whilst studying at Bond University in Queensland, she appeared in an episode of The Lost World in 2001, followed by an episode in Farscape a year later...
who presented her last bulletin on Friday 26 November 2010. Groen still continues to present weather occasionally on the Melbourne bulletin.
Seven's 6pm Sydney bulletin retained its ratings lead until 2011 when the rival Nine News bulletin overtook Seven in the ratings for the first time in seven years, winning 21 weeks compared to Seven's 14 weeks.
News updates for Sydney are presented by Chris Bath
Chris Bath
Christine "Chris" Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the weeknight presenter of Seven News Sydney and presenter of Seven's current affairs program Sunday Night....
(weekdays) 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....
(weekends) throughout the afternoon and the early evening, with national updates broadcast during the rest of the evening. Fill in presenters include 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....
, Sophie Hull (news), Natalie Barr
Natalie Barr
Natalie Anne Barr is an Australian journalist, news and television presenter.Barr is currently news presenter on the Seven Network's Sunrise and presenter of Seven Early News.-Career:...
(occasional weekend news), Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...
(occasional weekend news) and Chris Reason
Chris Reason
Chris Reason is a senior reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-Career:Chris began his career in newspapers - first The Redland Times then The Sun in Brisbane. He has also worked for Nine Network in the Gold Coast for a year.Reason came to Seven News in 1990 in Brisbane as a...
(news) whilst Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta
Mark Beretta is an Australian media personality. He is known by the common nickname of Beretts.-Early life and career:Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966. He was educated at St. Joseph's College...
, Jim Wilson and Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve (Australian television presenter)
Simon Reeve is an Australian television presenter and host of many shows on the Seven Network. Reeve is currently the sports presenter on Weekend Sunrise, reporter on Sunrise, and the host of the children's quiz show It's Academic, as well as a fill-in presenter for Seven News.Simon commenced his...
occasionally fill in on sport. Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins
Talitha Cummins is an Australian journalist.Cummins is currently a reporter for Seven News in Sydney and fill in presenter on Seven Morning News and Seven 4:30 News.-Career:...
occasionally fills in on weather if Sarah Cumming is absent.
Melbourne
Seven News Melbourne is directed by Steve Carey and presented by Peter Mitchell on weeknights from Seven's Broadcast Centre MelbourneHSV-7
HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, and its first and oldest station, having been launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne....
, located adjacent to Etihad Stadium in the Docklands precinct
Melbourne Docklands
Docklands is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia occupying an area extending up to 2 km west of and adjacent to Melbourne's Central Business District . Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...
. Weekday sport and weather are presented by Sandy Roberts
Sandy Roberts
Sandy Roberts is the weeknight sports presenter of Seven News Melbourne.Roberts grew up on a sheep farm in Lucindale, South Australia. After completing school he moved to Adelaide where he worked as a sports writer for the Adelaide Advertiser...
and David Brown, with Tim Watson
Tim Watson
Timothy Michael "Tim" Watson is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, sports journalist and media personality.He is notable for his long career at the Essendon Football Club as a player where he participated in several premiership teams...
presenting on weekends alongside news presenter Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
.
Seven News Melbourne is re-broadcast throughout regional Victoria and New South Wales/South Australia border areas that receive television services from Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, through Prime Television
Prime Television
PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...
, and to viewers in 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...
, Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
through Southern Cross Television (TND-34)
Southern Cross Television
Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia. Although the programming varies from region to region, all areas are affiliated with the Seven Network and, in some areas, have a dual...
nightly at 6pm.
Seven News Melbourne scrapped the dual-presenting format in 2000 when David Johnston
David Johnston (Newsreader)
David Johnston is a retired Australian television news presenter.Johnston, known as DJ to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, presented his last bulletin on the Seven Network on 23 September 2005...
and Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood is a former Australian newsreader and current affairs host who was born in South Australia's Riverland.-Career:Fulwood began her television career at ADS-7 in Adelaide in 1983 initally as a sports reporter...
(a partnership which only lasted from mid-1999 to late 2000) were replaced by Peter Mitchell. He had previously held the role of the weekend news presenter for over thirteen years. Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
was appointed as weekday news presenter in 1990, becoming Australia's first solo female primetime commercial news presenter. In a network reshuffle in 1996, Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
terminated her employment after the Seven Network attempted to pair her with David Johnston. She returned to Seven Melbourne in August 2003, assuming the role as the weekend news presenter, succeeding Jennifer Adams
Jennifer Adams
Jennifer Adams is an Australian television presenter and producer.-Biography:After studying at Perth's Curtin University with a degree in journalism, Adams worked at WIN Television Ballarat before joining the Seven Network in Melbourne in 1997.Adams was appointed weekend presenter for Seven News...
. Jim Wilson was once the sports presenter until 2004 when he was replaced by Beverley O'Connor
Beverley O'Connor
Beverley O'Connor is a Melbourne journalist and broadcaster. She is currently a presenter of ABC's Asia Pacific News service, in which role she replaced Anne Krug, and she is also a fill-in presenter for Virginia Trioli on ABC News Breakfast....
. O'Connor in turn was replaced by Sandy Roberts
Sandy Roberts
Sandy Roberts is the weeknight sports presenter of Seven News Melbourne.Roberts grew up on a sheep farm in Lucindale, South Australia. After completing school he moved to Adelaide where he worked as a sports writer for the Adelaide Advertiser...
in March 2005; a position he still holds today.
Production of the Melbourne bulletin moved to the Docklands precinct in March 2002. At the time, the background seen during the 6pm bulletin was the offices of the Seven's Docklands studios before an upgrade to the main studio in 2004; and now the standard set which was implemented on 20 June 2005. Beforehand, it was produced at HSV-7's headquarters, located in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne
South Melbourne, Victoria
South Melbourne is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Port Phillip and Melbourne...
.
After decades of coming in second place to Nine News Melbourne, Seven News Melbourne dead heated in 2007, winning 20 out of 40 ratings weeks. This was subsequently followed by a series of advertisements and promos which have touted Seven News Melbourne as Melbourne's New #1. Despite a poor start to 2008, Seven News Melbourne won 25 out of 40 ratings weeks, officially becoming Melbourne's most watched television news service.
Afternoon news updates for Melbourne are presented by Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
or another reporter, while Peter Mitchell presents weeknight updates. Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
presents all weekend news updates. Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern
Rebecca Maddern is an Australian journalist, news reporter and presenter.Maddern is currently a reporter for Seven News and fill-in presenter on a number of Seven Network programs including Seven News Melbourne, Seven Morning News, Seven 4.30 News, Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise, The Morning Show and...
is also the fill-in presenter for the nightly 6pm bulletin, with Michael Felgate or Leith Mulligan
Leith Mulligan
Leith Mulligan is an Australian sports journalist and presenter on Seven News.Born in South Australia, Mulligan grew up on his family’s vineyard in the Coonawarra wine region. One of six children, Mulligan was determined from a young age that his chosen career would involve sport...
, as the fill-in sports presenters. Sara Groen
Sara Groen
Sara Groen is an Australian actress and television presenter.-Career:Whilst studying at Bond University in Queensland, she appeared in an episode of The Lost World in 2001, followed by an episode in Farscape a year later...
is the fill in weather presenter if David Brown
David Brown (meteorologist)
David Brown is an Australian meteorologist for Seven News in Melbourne and the national Seven 4.30 News bulletin. He was also the former weather presenter for Sunrise....
is away.
Brisbane
Seven News Brisbane is directed by Rob Raschke and presented by Kay McGrathKay McGrath
Kay McGrath is an award winning journalist who is a presenter of Seven News in Brisbane, Australia, along with Rod Young.Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the...
and Rod Young
Rod Young
Rod Young is the presenter of the Brisbane bulletin of Seven News with Kay McGrath.Before moving to the Seven Network, Rod was the face of news in Brisbane on the ABC where he began working in the late 1970s. Rod has had a distinguished career after starting in radio at station 2GO at Gosford on...
on weeknights from Seven's Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Sport is presented by Pat Welsh
Pat Welsh
Pat Welsh is the head of sports for Seven News in Brisbane.Welsh, who is best known for his rugby league and golfing commentary has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Australia and United States for the Seven Network...
and Shane Webcke
Shane Webcke
Shane Webcke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who spent his entire top-grade career playing for the Brisbane Broncos. His position of choice was at prop forward and at his peak he was renowned as the best front rower in the world...
and weather is presented by 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:...
.
The bulletin is also simulcast in Brisbane on local radio station 96.5 Family FM, to regional Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
viewers in the Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast
There are several places around the globe that use the name Sunshine Coast. They are collections of coastal towns and/or cities that have banded together, usually for tourist promotional reasons...
, Wide Bay-Burnett
Wide Bay-Burnett
Wide Bay-Burnett is a region of the Australian state of Queensland, located between 170 and 400 kilometres north of the state capital, Brisbane. The area's population growth has exceeded the state average over the past 20 years, and it is forecast to grow to more than 430,000 by 2031...
, Toowoomba, Rockhampton
Rockhampton
Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia...
, Mackay
Mackay, Queensland
Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
, Townsville and Cairns television markets via the Seven Queensland
Seven Queensland
Seven Queensland is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland. The station is owned and operated by the Seven Network from studios located in Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast, using the callsign STQ, which stands for Sunshine Television,...
network and across central & remote areas of eastern Australia, on Southern Cross Central
Southern Cross Television
Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia. Although the programming varies from region to region, all areas are affiliated with the Seven Network and, in some areas, have a dual...
.
On weekends, 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...
presents the news with Pat Welsh or Shane Webcke on sport and Liz Cantor
Liz Cantor
Liz Cantor is an Australian television presenter.She is currently the weekend weather presenter for Seven News Brisbane and she also reports on a number of Seven Network Queensland lifestyle programs, Great South East and Creek To Coast; and also presents the Golden Casket Lotto draw segments.Liz...
on weather. Previously, Tracey Challenor
Tracey Challenor
Tracey Challenor was a journalist and news presenter for Seven News in Brisbane from November 1991 until 2007. She began her journalism career in 1989 as a cadet reporter with The Redland Times and Bayside Bulletin newspapers....
presented the weekend news for many years until her resignation in February 2007. Cummins was first appointed to the weekday weather in 2005 after more than a year of the Brisbane bulletin not having a weather presenter; former kids show presenter Tony Johnston
Tony Johnston
Tony Johnston is an Australian television presenter, producer and radio broadcaster. Tony began his career in 1986, as a presenter on the music video show 'Saturday Jukebox' on the Seven Network in Australia....
had this role in 2003. Cummins was replaced by former Nine
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...
weatherman 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:...
in early 2007, meaning she was moved to weekends. She does however, fill in on weekdays if Schluter is away. Ghidella joined Seven News Brisbane in 2007 and occasionally presents on weeknights filling in for Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath is an award winning journalist who is a presenter of Seven News in Brisbane, Australia, along with Rod Young.Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the...
.
In October 2002, Rod Young moved from 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...
in Brisbane to co-anchor with Kay McGrath. She had presented Seven News Brisbane solo for the previous nine months following the retirement of Frank Warrick. Their dual presenter format has proved to be successful. Following a couple of lean years coming second to Nine News Brisbane, Seven News Brisbane regained its ratings lead by 2007, helped by the recruitment of ex-Nine weatherman 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:...
and director of news Rob Raschke. In 2008, Seven News Brisbane was officially the #1 bulletin in Brisbane, winning all 40 ratings weeks.
News updates for Brisbane are presented by Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath is an award winning journalist who is a presenter of Seven News in Brisbane, Australia, along with Rod Young.Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the...
, Rod Young
Rod Young
Rod Young is the presenter of the Brisbane bulletin of Seven News with Kay McGrath.Before moving to the Seven Network, Rod was the face of news in Brisbane on the ABC where he began working in the late 1970s. Rod has had a distinguished career after starting in radio at station 2GO at Gosford on...
or 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...
throughout the afternoon and the early evening. 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...
, Patrick Condren 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....
are fill-in news presenters, with Ben Davis, Shane Webcke or Rohan Welsh presenting sport, and Liz Cantor or Angie Asimus presenting the weather.
Adelaide
Seven News Adelaide is directed by Terry Plane and presented by Jane DoyleJane Doyle
Jane Doyle is a presenter for Seven News in Adelaide having joined the Seven Network from ABC TV.-Early career:One of Adelaide's most respected and popular TV presenters, Doyle began as a school teacher before moving in journalism in far-north Queensland...
and John Riddell
John Riddell (news)
John Riddell is the presenter of Seven News in Adelaide. He has been weekday presenter with Jane Doyle since 2004, and previously presented the weekend news.-Early career:...
on weeknights, with Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy is a former Australian rules footballer in the SANFL, VFL/AFL and current media personality.-Football career:...
(Thursday to Monday) and Chris Dittmar
Chris Dittmar
Chris Dittmar is an Australian sports commentator who was formerly the World No. 1-ranked men's squash player....
(Tuesday and Wednesday) presenting sport and Melody Horrill
Melody Horrill
Melody Horrill is the weather presenter and reporter with Seven News in Adelaide.After working at both the Nine Network and ABC TV, Melody joined Ten News in Adelaide as environment reporter. She was also the regular fill-in weather presenter...
as weather presenter. Weekend bulletins are presented by Graeme Goodings
Graeme Goodings
Graeme Goodings is a veteran Australian television journalist, best known for his role as a presenter at Seven News in Adelaide.-Early career:...
.
Seven News Adelaide is also broadcast to the regional areas of South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
on Southern Cross Television GTS/BKN
Southern Cross Television
Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia. Although the programming varies from region to region, all areas are affiliated with the Seven Network and, in some areas, have a dual...
in the Spencer Gulf
Spencer Gulf
The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322 km long and 129 km wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the Eyre Peninsula, while the eastern side is the...
region and Broken Hill in New South Wales, and through 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...
South Australia in the Riverland
Riverland
The Riverland, is a region of South Australia. It covers the area near the Murray River from where it flows into South Australia downstream to Blanchetown.The major town centres are Renmark, Berri, Loxton, Waikerie and Barmera...
and Mount Gambier/South East regions of the state.
Previously, Goodings presented on weeknights and John Riddell on weekends, until it was revealed that Goodings had bowel cancer. Both presenters agreed to swap roles in 2004 and had been presenting Seven News Adelaide together since 1989, which had proven a success.
Prior to 27 December 1987, the presenters and crew of Seven News Adelaide produced Ten News Adelaide (then known as Ten Eyewitness News). However, as the television industry was consolidating in Australia, these news services had each become associated by ownership with inter-state news services being broadcast on opposite frequencies; therefore, to simplify network interaction, their respective networks agreed to swap channel assignments and network affiliations in Adelaide. Graeme Goodings and Mike Smithson
Mike Smithson
William Michael Smithson , is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for 8 years in baseball from 1982-1989 for three different teams.-Career highlights & awards:...
were some of the local personalities that changed stations.
During the AFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
season, Seven News Adelaide does not air at the regular time on Sundays if there is a twilight match involving Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide Football Club
The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...
or Adelaide, in which case the bulletin is usually delayed until half time and shortened to 10–15 minutes. This bulletin replaces the half-time analysis of the AFL matches broadcast.
News updates for Adelaide are presented by Jane Doyle, John Riddell or Graeme Goodings throughout the afternoon and the early evening. Jessica Adamson
Jessica Adamson
Jessica Adamson is a senior reporter and occasional presenter with Seven News in Adelaide. She is Seven's crime reporter but also acts as foreign correspondent at times, covering the Asian Tsunami and also the Olympic games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing....
and Mike Smithson are frequent fill-in presenters, in addition to Mark Soderstrom, Tim Noonan and Caroline Kelly (fill-in sport and weather presenters).
PerthTVWTVW can mean:*TVW, a Seven Network owned station in Perth, Western Australia*TVW, a public affairs network in the state of Washington*"tvw", the false branding callsign of WISC-TV's digital subchannel and Madison, Wisconsin's MyNetworkTV affiliate...
Seven News Perth is directed by Howard Gretton and presented on weeknights by Rick ArdonRick Ardon
Rick Ardon , is a news presenter on Seven News in Perth, Western Australia. In 2005, Ardon and Susannah Carr, celebrated their 20th consecutive year reading the news together on Seven Perth.-Education:...
and Susannah Carr
Susannah Carr
Susannah Carr is an Western Australian television news presenter. Since 1985, Carr has co-presented Seven News in Perth with Rick Ardon...
, with sports presenter Basil Zempilas
Basil Zempilas
Basil Zempilas is a sports presenter and commentator on radio and television in Perth, Western Australia. He currently appears on Seven News, and radio stations 1116 SEN and 92.9. Zempilas has commentated on the Olympics and several other major sporting events.-Early life:As a child Zempilas...
and weather presenter Natalia Cooper
Natalia Cooper
Natalia Cooper is an Australian television weather presenter for Channel Seven.-Biography:Cooper's career began at GWN where she started out as a cadet journalist after finishing her degree in Journalism at Curtin University. Cooper then worked for Channel Nine as WIN newsreader and Channel Nine...
. Emmy Kubainski
Emmy Kubainski
Emmy Kubainski is an Australian journalist and news presenter and reporter for Seven News in Perth.She was born in Queensland and moved to Western Australia after securing a national cadetship with the ABC in 2005...
or Sally Bowrey presents the weekend news with Adrian Barich
Adrian Barich
Adrian "Barra" Barich is a sports presenter for television and radio, and a former Australian rules footballer and rugby league player...
presenting sport. Seven News Perth is also simulcast on the GWN network to regional and remote areas of Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
.
Long standing Seven News Perth presenter Jeff Newman
Jeff Newman (TV personality)
Jeff Newman OAM was the Seven Network's weather presenter in Perth from 1991 to 2009.He has won five Logie Awards for the state's most popular male television personality....
announced his retirement from television on 1 July 2009, and retired from his role on Monday 10 August 2009. He has been replaced by former Nine News Perth weather presenter Natalia Cooper
Natalia Cooper
Natalia Cooper is an Australian television weather presenter for Channel Seven.-Biography:Cooper's career began at GWN where she started out as a cadet journalist after finishing her degree in Journalism at Curtin University. Cooper then worked for Channel Nine as WIN newsreader and Channel Nine...
, who began her new role during September.
In 2005, Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr celebrated a twenty year anniversary as a news reading duo. They are one of the longest serving dual news presenter teams in the world and their dual-presenter format of Seven News Perth has been highly successful. Seven News Perth has led in the ratings for decades, well ahead of Nine News Perth by as many as 100,000 viewers.
News updates for Perth are presented by Natalia Cooper, Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon throughout the afternoon and by Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon in the early evening. Yvette Mooney was the weekend news presenter until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and subsequently left the network in June 2008. Chris Young
Chris Young
Chris Young may refer to:In sports:*Chris Young , American football player; defensive back for the Denver Broncos*Chris Young , English soccer player...
is the current sport fill-in.
Regional QueenslandSTQSTQ is the call sign of a regional television station in Queensland, Australia.It can also mean:*STQ, the IATA airport code for St. Marys Municipal Airport in Pennsylvania*STQ, the ISO language code for the Saterland Frisian language*Skill testing question...
Seven Local News bulletins are broadcast each weeknight with six separate editions for Cairns, Townsville, MackayMackay, Queensland
Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
, Wide Bay
Division of Wide Bay
The Division of Wide Bay is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election...
, the Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...
and Rockhampton
Rockhampton
Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia...
. They are followed by Seven News Brisbane, in place of 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....
.
The bulletins are presented by Rob Brough
Rob Brough
Rob Brough is a news presenter and former compère on Australian television.He became a household name as the host of the Australian version of the TV show Family Feud...
, with Joanne Desmond co-anchoring the Cairns, Townsville and Rockhampton editions. Nathan Spurling presents sport with Livio Regano presenting weather for all six sub-regions.
In early 2004, Seven Local News was re-introduced in the Townsville and Cairns sub-markets as a result of regulations regarding local content on regional television introduced by the Australian Broadcasting Authority
Australian Broadcasting Authority
The Australian Broadcasting Authority was an Australian government agency whose main roles were to regulate broadcasting, radiocommunications and telecommunications....
(now the Australian Communications and Media Authority
Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government statutory authority within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio...
).
The most successful edition of Seven Local News is broadcast on the Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...
. In early 1998, 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...
launched a competing service publicly stating that it would beat Seven in the ratings within six months. At the end of the 1998 ratings season, after a new station head had overseen a comprehensive re-vamping of the program and its external promotions, Seven Local News had actually increased its audience share by six ratings points.
Reporters and camera crews are based at newsrooms in each of the six regions with studio presentation for the Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton and Wide Bay bulletins pre-recorded at studios in Maroochydore. The Sunshine Coast edition of Seven Local News is broadcast live. News editing is undertaken by the local newsrooms, and sent to the main Maroochydore studios for transmission.
On 5 March 2007, Seven Local News bulletins commenced production and broadcasts in a widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
standard-definition
Standard-definition television
Sorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...
digital
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
format. Seven Local News was the first regional news service in regional Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
to convert to widescreen.
On 22 November 2010, Seven Local News launched a sixth edition for the Rockhampton/Gladstone and Central Queensland region.
Outing of David Campbell
The news service, and in particular its news director Peter Meakin and reporter Adam WaltersAdam Walters
Adam Walters is an Australian journalist and author. He was also a political adviser to former New South Wales Premier, Morris Iemma.-Journalistic career:...
, came under heavy criticism in 2010 for the decision to air a story on Seven News in Sydney outing
Outing
Outing is the act of disclosing a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person's true sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent. Outing gives rise to issues of privacy, choice, hypocrisy, and harm in addition to sparking debate on what constitutes common good in efforts...
then-New South Wales Transport Minister David Campbell as homosexual. Campbell, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
for over two decades, was forced to resign after Meakin chose to air a story by Walters showing Campbell leaving a gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouses, also known as gay saunas or steam baths, are commercial bathhouses for men to have sex with other men. In gay slang in some regions these venues are also known colloquially as "the baths" or "the tubs," and should not be confused with public bathing.Not all men who visit gay...
.
Seven's decision to run the story was derided by politicians, other media outlets, academics and the public as "not a good moment for the media coverage of Macquarie Street", "old-fashioned" and an act of "pathetic snooping".
Seven's justification for airing the story was initially that Campbell had misused his Ministerial vehicle, however this allegation was quickly shown to be untrue by other media outlets, as New South Wales Ministers have full private use of their Ministerial vehicles. The justification later put forward by Seven to defend its actions was that it was in the public interest to make the allegations public because of the risk of blackmail. Allegations also emerged that Walters had undertaken the story not for its public interest, but as the result of a grudge: Walters' relationship with Campbell's ministerial colleague Reba Meagher
Reba Meagher
Reba Paige Meagher is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cabramatta. She was a minister in various portfolios from 2003 to 2008. On 6 September 2008 Meagher announced that she would not be seeking a...
had broken down the previous year. Walters had also lost his job in a strategy unit for the Labor government under former premier Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma
Morris Iemma , is a former Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election before resigning as Premier on 5 September 2008, and as a Member of Parliament on 19...
after Iemma was ousted by a group of Ministers, including Campbell.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority
Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government statutory authority within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio...
instigated an investigation into Seven's conduct in this matter, under the industry's self-regulated code of conduct. It accepted the public interest justification put forward by Seven, that Campbell's actions left him "vulnerable to compromise or blackmail".
Tony Abbott "Shit happens"
In 2011, Seven News obtained footage under freedom of information laws showing Opposition Leader Tony Abbott speaking about the recent death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan. Seven news edited the clips broadcast that evening taking the comments out of context. After the incident, many media websites labeled the story a "ratings grab" for the network.The following morning, rival networks, obtained the same footage as Seven News and broadcast another part of the interview not seen on the original report showing military leaders agreeing with Tony saying "It certainly does", backing his claims that his words had been taken out of context. Mr Abbott maintains that he was discussing whether the unit had had sufficient firepower support during the incident. Much support was shown for the Opposition Leader on social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook.
Seven News reporter Mark Riley appeared on Sunrise and many other radio shows defending the claims and the report that aired.