Nine News Sydney

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Nine News

Opening title
Genre News
Presented by News:
Peter Overton (Sun-Thurs)
Georgie Gardner (Fri & Sat)
Sport:
Ken Sutcliffe (Sun-Thurs)
Cameron Williams (Fri & Sat)
Weather:
Amber Sherlock (Mon-Fri)
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 55
No. of episodes Everyday since 1956
Production
Location(s) Sydney, NSW
Running time One hour (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel Nine Network
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original run 1956 (as Channel 9 News)
1970 (as National Nine News)
1976 (as 9 Eyewitness News)
1980 (as National Nine News)
2008 (as Nine News) – present
External links
Website

Nine News Sydney is the weeknight, flagship news bulletin of the Nine Network. It is screened in Sydney, and across New South Wales.

Like all Nine News bulletins, the Sydney bulletin runs for one hour.[1] from 6pm every day. It covers the days latest local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.

Presenters

Weeknights


Weekends

Sport

Weather

Weekend Weather

Reporters

Amongst others, reporters include;

  • Simon Bouda
  • Mark Burrows
  • Ross Greenwood (Finance)
  • Lauren Harte
  • Danny Weidler (Sport)
  • Jessica Rich
  • Gabriella Rogers (Medical)
  • Damian Ryan
  • Chris Urquhart
  • Kevin Wilde (State Political Correspondent)
  • Clinton Fletcher (Sport)
  • Nathan Sparks (Sport)
  • Claire Dressler
  • Jayne Azzopardi (Political)
  • Tim Gilbert (Sport)
  • Amelia Ballinger (Europe Correspondent)
  • Dimity Clancey (Court)
  • Matthew Snelson
  • Lizzie Pearle
  • Amber Sherlock (Weather)
  • Kerrie Yaxley (Federal Politics)
  • Kyrrie Blenkinsop
  • Samantha Heathwood

History

The Sydney bulletin was presented by Brian Henderson for 38 years – a record that still stands today. Henderson retired in November 2002, with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley taking over as weeknight presenter. Waley was the main weekend presenter around the time of Henderson's retirement.

In 2005, Waley, who was one of the Nine Network's longest serving presenters, was dropped following a year of poor ratings (despite the fact that National Nine News Sydney was the leading 6pm news program throughout the 2003-4 ratings seasons) and replaced with then-weekend presenter Mark Ferguson. In 2004, National Nine News Sydney won only 27 out of a possible 40 ratings weeks. By this time, the 6pm bulletin had lost its long-time ratings lead to the rival Seven News Sydney.

Mike Munro was the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by Michael Usher.

In January 2009, Mark Ferguson was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton. Ferguson returned to his weekend news presenting position, which he previously held during Jim Waley's stint as weeknight presenter.

In July 2009, it was revealed that weekend news presenter Mark Ferguson would move to Seven News from October. Ferguson, who had been with Nine for 17 years, was removed immediately from the Sydney weekend bulletin and was replaced by Georgie Gardner. Ferguson continued to present Nine Afternoon News bulletin on until his contract expired in September 2009.

Mike Bailey presented weather forecasts on Fridays and Saturdays, until he was sacked in early 2009. Jaynie Seal, who had previously presented weather from Sunday to Thursday, returned to weekday weather presenting. In February 2010, Nine announced that Natalie Gruzlewski will be presenting the weather from Monday to Thursday and also filing lifestyle and entertainment reports for Nine News with Seal presenting weather on Friday to Sunday.

Nine News Sydney is also broadcast on WIN Television in regional southern and central New South Wales & the ACT.

It is presented from the Nine Network's TCN-9 Studio 1.

Fill-in presenters include, Georgie Gardner, Wendy Kingston & Cameron Williams Sports fill-in presenters include Tim Gilbert & Rob Canning and weather fill in presenters include Sylvia Jeffreys & Natalia Cooper.

On 6 January 2014, all Nine national channels permanently extended their 6pm news service to one hour pushing A Current Affairs into the 7pm timeslot.[1]

Ratings

The bulletin was traditionally by far the most popular service in NSW. However, when long-serving anchor, Brain Henderson retired, and Nine heavy-weight Ian Ross defected to Seven, ratings quickly declined; this is despite Nine outrating Seven during Jim Waley's tenure in 2003-04. This showed with Nine winning only 27 out of a possible 40 weeks in 2004. Nine replaced Jim Waley with a much younger, Mark Ferguson, then aged just 38. Whilst ratings were starting to slightly increase, the bulletin slip to third, behind both Seven News and ABC News. Following a dismal 2008, not winning a single week in Sydney (a far cry from five years ago when it won every single week), Ferguson was relegated back to the weekend position and replaced by Peter Overton. For his first month, ratings slipped to fourth, behind Ten News, before quickly catching up to trail ABC News and since November 2009 Nine News Sydney has started to regain its dominance in the Sydney market. Nine News Sydney came very close to victory in 2010 and has won the 2011 and 2012 ratings season. In the current 2013 ratings season, Nine News is currently leading.

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kalina, Paul; Ellis, Scott (6 January 2014). "Nine quietly switches to hour-long news". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 7 January 2014. 
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