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| Division of: | Network Ten |
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| Founded: | 1965 |
| Headquarters: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Area served: | Worldwide |
| Broadcast programs: | Meet The Press Ten Early News Ten Morning News Ten News at Five Ten News at Five: Weekend Ten News at Six The Project The Bolt Report |
| Parent: | Ten Network Holdings |
| Website: | Ten News |
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont. The network produces a flagship 90-minute local bulletin on weeknights alongside national bulletins on weekday mornings and at weekends.
Ten News retains a federal politics bureau in Canberra, along with foreign offices in Los Angeles and London. Ten also draws upon the resources of CBS News, ITN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. As well as its five network stations, Ten's news service is broadcast to most of the country via affiliated regional television stations. Ten News also assists in the production of political panel program Meet the Press, and the conservative opinion program The Bolt Report.
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Ten News introduced the concept of hour-long, co-anchored news to Australia in the form of Eyewitness News during the 1970s. The 1980s, however, were arguably the network's most successful period with its local Sydney and Melbourne bulletins often rating highest for their 6pm timeslot. The news services underwent a number of name changes including Ten News, Ten Evening News, Eyewitness News and Ten Eyewitness News over the years before finally settling on the Ten News brand in 1994.
A major change to the service occurred in January 1992 when all five of its local bulletins were moved to the 5.00pm time slot. Around the same time, local weekend bulletins were also axed from the network to be replaced by a 30 minute national bulletin from SydneyTen Weekend News, initially presented by John Gatfield and later by Natarsha Belling and Bill Woods.
In December 2003, an additional local bulletin was trialled at 7pm weeknights, called Ten News Summer Edition. It was presented in each state capital by one of the Ten News at Five news presenters. The bulletin was discontinued by the start of the 2004 ratings season.
In the 2000s, Ten also introduced limited local content into some markets on weekends. In Perth a localised version of Ten Weekend News was received from Sydney, while during the AFL season Adelaide and Melbourne viewers received local news on a Saturday, presented from Melbourne by George Donikian. For a short period in 2009, Ten Weekend News also included localised sport inserts for each market.
Ten News has often been described as a 'training ground' for some of Australia's best-known television journalists. Some of the best-known reporters and presenters who launched or spent a major part of their careers at "Ten News" include Jana Wendt, Kerry O'Brien, Katrina Lee, Charles Slade, Ann Sanders, Steve Liebmann, Tim Webster, Ron Wilson, Anne Fulwood, Juanita Phillips, Liz Hayes, Jo Pearson, David Johnston, Chris Masters, Larry Emdur, Eddie McGuire, John Gatfield, Kay McGrath, Graeme Goodings, Sharyn Ghidella, Laurie Oakes, Geraldine Doogue, Jennifer Keyte and Mike Munro amongst others.
In September 2010, the network announced a major expansion of its news service. From 24 January 2011, It would expand its evening news output by introducing a national current affairs program at 6pm, 6PM with George Negus, and an extra local bulletin at 6:30pm on weeknights, with the Ten Evening News brand reinstated. In addition, the network announced the re-introduction of local weekend bulletins at 6pm and the axing of its 5pm national bulletin.
Two months after the relaunch, the national weekend bulletins were re-introduced owing to poor ratings although the 6pm local bulletins continue to air. Later that month, the network announced it would drop its 6:30pm local bulletins on weeknights, extend Ten News at Five to 90 minutes and move George Negus' program to 6:30pm each weeknight. The changes were introduced on Monday 4 April 2011.[1]
Further changes in September 2011 saw the axing of the network's late night bulletin[2] and the state-based 6pm weekend bulletins. The 5pm national bulletin on Saturdays and Sundays was extended to 90 minutes in October 2011.[3] Later that month, the network announced it would axe 6.30 with George Negus and replace with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project (renamed The Project). As of November 2011, the last half hour of Ten's 5pm state bulletins are branded as Ten News at Six.
Ten Early News is an hour-long bulletin, broadcast live from Ten's Pyrmont studios on weekdays from 6am to 7am, and presented by Ron Wilson with finance news presented by Kathryn Robinson.
The bulletin was presented by Bill Woods until he became a co-anchor for the Sydney edition of Ten News at Five.
Ten Early News is essentially two half hour bulletins, run back-to-back each containing news, sport, finance and weather. Many reports from overseas affiliates CBS News, and ITN are featured and crosses to Ten's Melbourne & Canberra newsrooms are used frequently to cover overnight news.
The bulletin began in January 2006 and features a number of segments unique to its timeslot, such as morning newspaper headlines from the country's major papers. The bulletin provides a more traditional alternative to breakfast programs such as Sunrise on the Seven Network, Today on the Nine Network and ABC News Breakfast on ABC1 and ABC News 24 - all of which air during the same time slot.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Tim Webster, Lachlan Kennedy & Ellie Southwood.
On 27 February 2012, Ten Early News will move to 5am to 6am to make way for Network Ten's new breakfast program, Breakfast to be fronted by Paul Henry, Andrew Rochford and an unnamed female host.
Ten Morning News is an hour-long bulletin produced from Ten's Pyrmont studios in Sydney, airing at 11am on weekdays, and presented by Ron Wilson on Monday & Tuesday and Natarsha Belling from Wednesday to Friday.
Until 2004, the bulletin was broadcast at 11:30am, following Good Morning Australia, and later, 9am with David and Kim.
In 2004, the bulletin briefly moved to midday (then called Ten News @ Noon) to compete against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's News at Noon - a decision which proved unpopular. As a result, the bulletin was moved back to its old timeslot of 11:30am the following year and later became a 60-minute bulletin starting at 11am where it remained until early 2010, when it was moved to 9am. The program returned to the 11am timeslot in December 2011.
The bulletin includes daily special features, including sports reports, an entertainment round up and newsmagazine stories from US network CBS.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Kathryn Robinson.
Ten News at Five: Weekend airs on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 5pm and is presented by Natarsha Belling and Matt Doran with a Sports Tonight segement presented by Rob Canning and weather presented by Magdelena Rose.
The national bulletin was introduced in 1994 to replace state-based bulletins but axed in January 2011 ahead of the reintroduction of local editions at 6pm. The national edition was reinstated two months later in the wake of poor ratings. The 6pm local bulletins continued to air until October 2011 when the 5pm national news was extended to 90 minutes.[4][5]
Fill-in presenters include Tim Webster, Kathryn Robinson & Hermione Kitson (News), Melinda Nucifora, Ellie Southwood(Weather).
Ten produces a flagship 90-minute news program each weeknight for each of its five metropolitan markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Ten News at Five also incorporates a national CommSec financial news report (presented by Commonwealth Bank staff). The last 30 minutes of the programs are rebranded as Ten News at Six.
The Sydney editions of Ten News at Five and Ten News at Six are presented by Bill Woods and Sandra Sully with sports presenter Brad McEwan, weather presenter Tim Bailey and traffic reporter Vic Lorusso.
The Sydney bulletin is broadcast from the network's main news studios at Pyrmont and simulcast across most of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory via Southern Cross Ten.
For almost eleven years between 1995 and 2005, the program was presented by Ron Wilson and Jessica Rowe, until Rowe moved to present the Nine Network's Today. She was replaced by Ten's then US correspondent Deborah Knight in 2006.
On 9 December 2008, it was announced that veteran presenter Ron Wilson would be moved to the Ten Early News from 2009.[6] Wilson presented his final Sydney bulletin on Friday 16 January 2009.
In October 2011, Sandra Sully replaced Deborah Knight following the axing of Ten Late News.[7]
Fill-in presenters include Hamish Macdonald, Natarsha Belling & Kathryn Robinson (News), Adam Hawse & Victoria Murphy (Sport), Magdalena Roze (Weather).
The Melbourne editions of Ten News at Five and Ten News at Six are presented by Mal Walden and Helen Kapalos with sports presenter Stephen Quartermain, weather presenter Mike Larkan and traffic reporter Emma Notarfrancesco.
The Melbourne bulletin is produced and broadcast from ATV-10's Como Centre studios in South Yarra and simulcast across most of Victoria (via Southern Cross Ten & Ten Mildura), to Tasmania via Tasmania Digital Television and to the city of Darwin via Darwin Digital Television.
Past presenters of Ten's Melbourne news included David Johnston, who anchored the flagship evening bulletin for 16 years (alongside the likes of Jana Wendt and Jo Pearson) until his departure for HSV-7 in 1996. Current main anchor Mal Walden joined ATV-10 in April 1987 shortly after his abrupt sacking by HSV-7 - he took over the weekday 5pm bulletin in 1996 alongside Jennifer Hansen, who co-anchored until 2006. George Donikian was a regular fill-in anchor on the 5pm bulletin and presented shorter Saturday bulletins during Ten's AFL coverage (while working as a main anchor for the 5pm news in Adelaide, presented at the time from Melbourne). Donikian presented the Friday & Weekend News until his departure from the network in September 2011, following the axing of the local weekend bulletins.
Ten News Melbourne was originally produced at Ten's Nunawading studios until news operations were moved to the Como Centre in 1992.
Fill-in presenters include Stephen Quartermain & Hermione Kitson (News), Ian Cohen, Rob Waters & Kelli Underwood (Sport), Rakhal Ebeli (Weather) and Nicola Wood (Traffic).
The Brisbane editions of Ten News at Five and Ten News at Six presented by Bill McDonald and Georgina Lewis with sports presenter Peter O'Dempsey, weather presenter Amanda McLeay and traffic reporter Jayce Barker.
The Brisbane bulletin is produced and broadcast from TVQ's Mt Coot-tha studios and simulcast across most of Queensland via Southern Cross Ten. Reporters are also based at three remote newsrooms on the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and in North Queensland.
Former long-serving anchor Marie-Louise Theile left Ten News on 14 December 2007 to spend more time with her family.[8] Other previous presenters include Geoff Mullins, Tracey Spicer and Brad McEwan.
Fill-in presenters include Max Futcher & Lexy Hamilton-Smith (News), Johnathan Williams (Sport), Tony Auden & Summer Burke (Weather)
The Adelaide editions of Ten News at Five and Ten News at Six are presented by Rebecca Morse (Monday - Thursday) and Belinda Heggen (Friday) with sports presenter Mark Aiston and weather presenter Jane Reilly.
The Adelaide bulletin is presented from ADS-10's Adelaide studios on the corner of Hutt & Wakefield Streets and simulcast to Port Lincoln & the Upper Spencer Gulf of South Australia as well as the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales via Southern Cross Ten and to the Riverland and the South East areas of South Australia via Win TEN.
Between December 1987 and December 1999, local news production for Ten Adelaide was based at the former ADS-10 studios in North Adelaide. Presenters during this period included Keith Martin, Steve Whittam, Sue Barron, Caroline Ainslie, and Peter Sellen.
In 2000, Ten moved the majority of the presentation for the 5pm Adelaide bulletin to the network's Melbourne studios in South Yarra. At the time digital television was in its infancy and the network claimed that cost of upgrading the local North Adelaide newsroom to digital could not be justified. The bulletin was presented from Melbourne for the next decade while sport and weather segments were still presented locally from the station's studios in North Adelaide and subsequently, from 2007, in newly built studios in Hutt Street. Initially, in 2000, George Donikian and Nikki Dwyer relocated from Adelaide to present the new Melbourne based bulletin. Dwyer eventually resigned as co-presenter in 2001 after she decided to move back to Adelaide, to be closer to her family. Dwyer was subsequently replaced as co-presenter by, Kelly Nestor who resigned in 2006 and was succeeded by Rebecca Morse.
On Friday 21 January 2011, George Donikian presented his final Melbourne-based bulletin for Ten News Adelaide. Studio presentation subsequently returned to ADS-10's Adelaide studios on Monday 24 January 2011, to coincide with the launch of the short-lived 6:30pm local bulletin. Donikian, who had presented Ten News Adelaide since 1991, remained in Melbourne to co-present Melbourne's Ten News at Five bulletin and latterly anchored the station's weekend bulletins until their axing in September 2011.
Over the years, fill in presenters of Ten News Adelaide have included Peter Sellen, Esther Lindstrom (Summer 2008-2009), Belinda Heggen for a few weeks in late 2008, Mignon Stewart (née Henne), Max Futcher, Luke Waters, Katrina Schute and Deborah Knight. Previous fill-in sports presenters include Rob Popplestone while Melody Horrill and Jodie Blewitt have both been fill-in weather presenters. Fill-in presenters include Sports Director Corey Winguard and AFL reporter Ian Shuttleworth who both present sport.
The Perth editions of Ten News at Five and Ten News at Six are presented by Narelda Jacobs and Craig Smart with sports presenter Tim Gossage and weather presenter Michael Schultz.
The Perth bulletin is produced and broadcast from NEW-10's Dianella studios and simulcast to most of regional Western Australia via Ten West.
Ten originally moved production of the Perth bulletin to Pyrmont in 2000, citing high costs of converting the network's Dianella studios. Then-presenters Greg Pearce and Christina Morrissy commuted to Sydney to present the bulletin. Morrissy later resigned from these duties after suffering deep vein thrombosis on a flight and was replaced by Celina Edmonds. Pearce also later resigned to return to Perth (Pearce now presents the Perth edition of Nine News), while Edmonds resigned to spend more time with her family. She now presents mornings on Sky News Australia three days per week. Following their departures, Tim Webster and Charmaine Dragun became the main presenters of Ten News Perth from 2005. After Dragun's untimely death on 2 November 2007,[9] Webster became the solo presenter and continued to present the bulletin until May 2008, after which presentation was alternated between Ron Wilson, Narelda Jacobs, Deborah Knight and Sandra Sully in Sydney for the seven weeks between Webster's departure and the relocation of the bulletin back to Perth.
On 18 January 2008, Network Ten announced that studio production of Ten News would return to Perth.[10] The network denied that the move was related to the death of Charmaine Dragun as the decision to switch production had been made well beforehand. Narelda Jacobs began presenting in the Sydney studios in May 2008 before Ten News Perth presentation returned to the Dianella studios on Monday 23 June 2008. Between then and April 2011, Ten News Perth was the only bulletin not to have the dual-presenter format.
Ten Late News and Sports Tonight aired at around 10.30pm on weeknights and often later on Fridays (11:00pm).
The bulletin was presented for almost 16 years by Sandra Sully. In later years, Brad McEwan presented Sports Tonight as part of the program. The Friday edition was broadcast as two separate programs with the Late News presented by Kathryn Robinson or Tim Webster with Rob Canning presenting Sports Tonight. A financial news update was also featured each weeknight.
In September 2011, the network announced that the bulletin would be axed, citing falling ratings. The final edition, presented by Tim Webster, aired on Friday 30 September 2011. Sandra Sully became co-anchor of Ten News at Five in Sydney, replacing Deborah Knight, while Sports Tonight, which was also axed as a separate program, was incorporated into the 5pm bulletin.[11]
6.30 with George Negus was a short-lived national current affairs program, presented from Ten's Sydney studios in Pyrmont. The program was launched on 24 January 2011 and took an in depth look at key national and international issues with reports from correspondents based around Australia and around the world.
The program initially begun as 6PM with George Negus, however due to poor ratings against the two flagship 6pm bulletins on Seven and Nine, the program was moved to 6:30pm on Monday 4 April 2011, thus competing against Today Tonight and A Current Affair.
On 19 October 2011, the network announced it would axe the program and replace it with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project (renamed The Project) at 6:30pm. The final edition of 6.30 with George Negus aired on Friday 28 October 2011.[12]
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