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Nine News Genre News Presented by News:
Peter Overton (Sun-Thurs)
Ry Hill (Fri & Sat)
Sport:
Ken Sutcliffe (Sun-Thurs)
Cameron Williams (Fri & Sat)
Weather:
Natalie Gruzlewski (Mon-Thurs)
Jaynie Seal (Fri-Sun)Country of origin Australia Language(s) English No. of seasons 55 No. of episodes Everyday since 1956 Production Location(s) Sydney, NSW Running time 30 minutes (including commercials) Broadcast Original channel Nine Network Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)Original airing 1956 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 from 6-6.30pm every day. It covers the days latest local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance. It is put together by a world-class team of journalists and producers.
Contents
Presenters
Weeknights
- Chuck Faulkner (1956–64)
- Brian Henderson (1964–2002)
- Jim Waley (2003–05)
- Mark Ferguson (2006–08)
- Peter Overton (January 12, 2009 - present)
Weekends
- Jim Waley & Ian Ross through the 1970s, 1980's and 1990s.
- Mark Ferguson (2003–05)
- Mike Munro (2005–08)
- Michael Usher (2008–09)
- Mark Ferguson (2009)
- Georgie Gardner (July 11, 2009 - October 9, 2010)
- Ry Hill (October 15, 2010 - Present)
Weather
- Alan Wilkie (?-2001)
- Georgie Gardner (2002-04)
- Jaynie Seal, (2004–06)
- Majella Wiemers (2006-07)
- Jaynie Seal (2007- present)
- Natalie Gruzlewski (2009 - present)
Reporters
Amoungst others, reporters include;
- Simon Bouda
- Peter Harvey
- Mark Burrows
- Ross Greenwood (Financial Correspondent)
- Lauren Harte
- Andrew McKinlay (Sport)
- Danny Weidler (Sport)
- Jessica Rich
- Gabriella Rogers (Medical)
- Damian Ryan
- Chris Urquhart
- Kevin Wilde (State Political Correspondent)
- Clinton Fletcher (Sport)
- Nathan Sparks (Sport)
- Amelia Adams
- Alissa Warren
- Sarah Harris
- Tim McMillan
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, the same set as Today, and Kerri-Anne.
Fill-in presenters include, Georgie Gardner, Wendy Kingston, Leila McKinnon, Peter Harvey, Ry Hill & Michael Usher. Sports fill-in presenters include Tim Sheridan & Roz Kelly and weather fill in presenters include Amber Sherlock, Amelia Adams and Alissa Warren.
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. He wins about 45% of weeks in Sydney nowadays, and Nine News trails Seven by about 9,000 viewers - a very small margin.
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