NWS (TV station)

This article is about the Australian television station. For other uses, see NWS (disambiguation).
NWS
Adelaide, South Australia
Branding Nine
Slogan Welcome Home
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Affiliations Nine (O&O)
Owner Nine Entertainment Co.
(Channel 9 South Australia Pty Ltd)
First air date 5 September 1959
Call letters' meaning The NeWs South Australia
Former channel number(s) Analog: 9 (VHF)
Transmitter power 50 kW (digital)
Height 505 m (both)[1]
Transmitter coordinates 34°58′57″S 138°42′30″E / 34.98250°S 138.70833°E / -34.98250; 138.70833
Website www.ninemsn.com.au

NWS is an Australian television station based in Adelaide, Australia. It is owned-and-operated by the Nine Network. The station callsign, NWS, is an acronym of The NeWs South Australia.

History

Origins

NBN Limited (1981)[2]
Entity Share
Lamb Family 35.02%
Wansey Family 30.14%
Hadjoin Pty Ltd 19.88%
Others 14.96%

NWS-9 was the first television broadcaster in Adelaide, beginning on 5 September 1959 from their Tynte Street studios. It was owned by Rupert Murdoch through Southern Television Corporation Ltd who also owned city newspaper The News. Popular programs produced in its early days included the live variety shows Adelaide Tonight and Hey Hey It's Saturday (on-location specials), science show The Curiosity Show, The Country and Western Hour, and children's shows Channel Niners, Here's Humphrey and Pick Your Face.

In early 1980, NBN Limited became NWS's owner for A$19 million.[2] In 1981, Hadjoin Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Parry's Esplanade Limited (later Parry Corporation), purchased 19.88% of NBN Limited for $6.7 million.[2]

Following this, Parry then attempted to buy the Wansey family's stake in NBN, but was blocked by the Supreme Court of New South Wales, after which Parry revealed that he wanted to take over NBN (and thus NWS). Parry and the Lamb family then formed a deal - NBN would transfer NWS to the Lambs in exchange for their share of NBN which went to the Parrys. This ended NBN Limited's ownership of NWS.

Recent history

The Lamb family sold NWS to Southern Cross Broadcasting for $96 million in 1999. Southern Cross then cut costs by getting rid of almost half its staff numbers.[3]

On 30 May 2007, Southern Cross announced its sale of NWS-9 to WIN Corporation for $105 million.[4] WIN took control on 1 July 2007.

It was reported on 3 June 2013 that Nine Entertainment Co. would immediately purchase Nine Adelaide (NWS) from WIN Corporation as part of a deal to secure international cricket television rights. Nine officially gained control of NWS on 1 July 2013.[5] This move saw Nine Adelaide join Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne as Nine Network owned-and-operated metropolitan stations leaving only Perth which was purchased only months later in September.

Managing Director of Nine Adelaide, Sean O'Brien, announced in late 2014 that within two years, the station would move from their Tynte Street location of over fifty years to new studios in the CBD.[6]

Programming

Nine Adelaide continues to produce some shows including Postcards, Out of the Blue, Garden Gurus SA, Building Ideas,Feeling Good and Out of the Ordinary.

News and Current Affairs

Nine News Adelaide is produced from NWS's news studios and presented by Kate Collins and Brenton Ragless with Warren Tredrea presenting sport. Virginia Langeberg is the weather presenter. Will McDonald presents the news on weekends.

Ali Carle from Triple M Adelaide occasionally presents weather alongside her sport reporting duties.

News history

From 1988 to 2007 the weeknight bulletin was presented by Rob Kelvin and the late Kevin Crease. They were one of the longest serving news duos in Australia.

Throughout the 1990s, Deanna Williams was the main fill-in presenter and state political reporter. Following her resignation in March 2002, either Kelvin or Crease would fill in for McGuinness on weekends, but in 2005 the situation arose where all three presenters were unavailable - leaving weekend sports presenter Mark Bickley to read the news.

In late 2008, NWS-9 launched its own local version of the Nine Network's flagship current affairs program, A Current Affair, hosted by Adelaide journalist Kate Collins. It was axed only one year later.[7]

On 26 November 2009, one day after the axing of the local A Current Affair was announced, Kelly Nestor announced live on air that her contract as Kelvin's weeknight co-anchor would not be renewed and she would finish on 18 December 2009.[8]

On 22 February 2010, it was announced that senior reporter Michael Smyth would be joining Rob Kelvin at the newsdesk.

On 31 October 2010, Rob Kelvin announced that he would retire from the newsdesk after 32 years on the air. He would present his last bulletin on 31 December 2010 after 27 years anchoring the news. However, News Director, Tony Agars announced that Kelvin would continue to present the occasional special report and fill-in a few times a year when required. Kate Collins replaced Kelvin, joining Smyth at the news desk.

In October 2011, it was announced that Michael Smyth and Georgina McGuinness would not have their contracts renewed.[9] From the end of November 2011 till December of 2013, Kate Collins presented the bulletin solo on weeknights and Will McDonald joined replacing McGuinness as presenter for weekend bulletins at the end of December 2011.

Presenters and Reporters

News presenters

  • Kate Collins (Weeknights, 2011–present)
  • Brenton Ragless (Weeknights, 2014–present)
  • Will McDonald (Weekends, 2011–present)

Sports presenters

  • Warren Tredrea (Weeknights, 2013–present)
  • Tom Rehn (Weekends, 2015–present)

Weather presenter

  • Virginia Langeberg (Weeknights, 2014–present)

News Reporters

  • Chris Salter
  • Phil Luke
  • Ben Avery
  • Virginia Langeberg
  • Tom Hicks
  • Elise Baker
  • Jessica Stanley
  • Jack Berketa
  • Edward Godfrey
  • Tracy Alexander
  • Rory McClaren
  • Lauren Barker
  • Alice Monfries
  • Rhett Burnie
  • Jarrad Brevi
  • Kim Robertson
  • Harvey Biggs

Sport Reporters

  • Pete McDonald
  • Dion Hayman
  • Tom Rehn
  • Vicki Schwartz

Notable Past Presenters

  • Caroline Ainslie- Weeknight Presenter, 1977-1987 (Now Retired)
  • Sue Baron- Meteorologist, 1970s (Moved to ADS-7, later ADS-10 in 1980s as News Presenter. Now Retired)
  • Mark Bickley- Weekend Sports, 2004-2009 (Now co-host of the afternoon Sports Show on talk-back radio station FiveAA)
  • James Brayshaw- Sports Reporter, 2002 (Now commentator and host of The AFL Footy Show for the Nine Network)
  • Nona Burden- Presenter/Reporter, 1970s-1980s
  • Grant Cameron- Weekend Weather Presenter, 1979-1980s (Now with SAS-7)
  • Roger Cardwell- Weeknight Presenter, 1974-1983 (Now Retired)
  • Kevin Crease- Weeknight Presenter, 1960s-1974 and 1987-2007 (Deceased)
  • Steve Cropper- Presenter/Reporter, 1980s
  • K. G. Cunningham- Weekend Sports Presenter, 1975-2003 (Now with SAS-7)
  • Tony Curtis- Presenter/Reporter, 1970s-1980s
  • Troy Gray - Weekend Sports Presenter, 2008–2012
  • John Doherty- Presenter, 1959-1960s (Now Retired)
  • Sue Ellbourne- Weather, 1970s
  • Georgina McGuinness - Weekend Presenter, 1987–2011
  • Michael Smyth - Weeknight Presenter, 2008–2011. (Now on radio ABC Adelaide)
  • Sue Garrard- Presenter/Reporter 1980s
  • Clive Hale- Presenter, 1970s (Went on to become national anchor for the ABC, now deceased.)
  • Keith Martyn- Weather, 1996-2007 (Retired, does occasional special news stories)
  • Xavier Minniecon - Weekend Weather, 1997–2011
  • Ray McGhee- Senior Reporter, 1979-2007 (Owns Mortgage Broker business and running as Independent candidate in the Australian federal election, 2010 in the seat of Boothby)
  • Kelly Nestor- Weeknight Presenter, 2007-2009 (Now with AdelaideNOW)
  • Barry Pitman- Weather, 1981–1996
  • John Riddell- Weekend Presenter/Senior Reporter, 1981-1989 (Now Chief Presenter at SAS-7)
  • Rob Kelvin - Weekday Presenter, 1979–2010 (current stand-in presenter)
  • Jessica Rich- Presenter/Reporter, 2001-2004 (Now reporter at TCN-9 Sydney)
  • Peter Sellen- Presenter/Reporter, 1970s-1980 (Now presenter/reporter at ADS-10)
  • Deanna Williams- Presenter/Senior Reporter/State Political Reporter, 1990-2002 (Now Senior Reporter at SAS-7)
  • Anne Wills- Weather, 1960s (Moved on to other networks hosting various programs. Became known as Ms Adelaide. Now Retired)
  • Kym Dillon- Sports Reporter/Weeknight then Weekend Sports Presenter, 1991–2015 (Made redundant)

News Bulletin Titles

References

  1. ↑ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
  2. 1 2 3 "Annual Report" (Press release). NBN Limited. 1980.
  3. ↑ "Can Southern Cross clean up dodgy 2UE ethics?". Crikey. crikey.com.au. 2001-03-18. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  4. ↑ "WIN buys Channel 9 Adelaide". AAP. theage.com.au. 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
  5. ↑ "Nine signs news cricket deal, buys Adelaide affiliate". David Knox. tvtonight.com.au. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
  6. ↑ "NWS9 Adelaide to exit North Adelaide home". David Knox. tvtonight.com.au. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  7. ↑ "A Current Affair gets the chop". The Advertiser (News Limited). 25 November 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  8. ↑ Harvy, Ben; Helene Sobolewski; Paul Starick (27 November 2009). "Channel Nine wrong to sack newsreader Kelly Nestor". The Advertiser (News Limited). Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  9. ↑ "WIN sacks Nine News Adelaide presenters". David Knox. tvtonight.com.au. 2011-10-19. Retrieved 2011-10-19.

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