The Evolution Of News Update

On October 4, 2007, Canwest announced it would be centralizing news production control room functions for all owned-and-operated stations (except CHBC-TV Kelowna) at four broadcast centres - CHAN-DT Vancouver, CITV-TV Edmonton, CICT-TV Calgary, and CIII-TV Toronto. Your big dining room table may work, but having a couple of extra folding tables available wouldn't hurt. In May 2025, Nine announced that Joel Dry would return to the network, succeeding Andrew Lofthouse and joining Melissa Downes from 18 August. When Brett is not presenting, rotating presenters may include Stephanie Anderson, Eliza Rugg, and Chris Kohler for news, and Natalie Yoannidis for sport. The Queensland edition is presented from QTQ studios in Mount Coot-tha by Aislin Kriukelis (Monday-Tuesday) and Alison Ariotti (Wednesday-Friday) with sport presenter Jonathan Uptin and weather presenters Garry Youngberry (Monday-Thursday) and Luke Bradnam (Friday). The Adelaide edition is presented from NWS studios in Adelaide by Will McDonald (Monday-Wednesday) and Alice Monfries (Thursday-Friday), sport presenter Tom Rehn, and weather presenter Jessica Braithwaite.


9News Queensland is presented from the QTQ studios in Mount Coot-tha by Melissa Downes and Joel Dry (weeknights) and Mia Glover (weekends) with sport presented by Jonathan Uptin (weeknights) and Dominique Loudon (weekends) and weather presented by Garry Youngberry (Sunday-Thursday) and Luke Bradnam (Friday-Saturday). 9News Sydney is presented from the TCN studios in North Sydney by Peter Overton (Sunday-Thursday) and Georgie Gardner (Friday and Saturday) with sport presented by James Bracey (Sunday-Thursday) and Emma Lawrence (Friday and Saturday) and weather presented by TBA (Sunday-Thursday) and Belinda Russell (Friday-Saturday). James Bracey was later announced as her replacement. James Bracey replaced Williams with Roz Kelly replacing Bracey as weekend sports presenter. Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Mark Burrows and Jayne Azzopardi (news), Emma Lawrence, Danika Mason and Matt Burke (sport) and Airlie Walsh, Kate Creedon, Sophie Walsh and Zara James (weather). The Sydney edition is presented from TCN studios in North Sydney by Deborah Knight (Mon-Thur) and Kate Creedon (Friday) and weather presenters Sophie Walsh (Monday-Thursday) and Belinda Russell (Friday).


The Melbourne edition is presented from GTV studios in Docklands by Brett McLeod or rotating presenters and weather presenter Madeline Spark. Matthew Pavlich (Monday-Thursday) and Paddy Sweeney (Friday) and weather presenters Scherri-Lee Biggs (Monday-Thursday) and Natalia Cooper (Friday). Rob Gell formerly presented the weather until 2003, when he was replaced by Nixon; Gell subsequently defected to the rival Seven News Melbourne bulletin presenting the weather on weekends. As of September 2017, the Brisbane weekend bulletins are simulcast in the Darwin area on weekends. 9News Melbourne is presented from the GTV studios in Docklands by Alicia Loxley and Tom Steinfort (weeknights) and Peter Hitchener (weekends) with sport presented by Tony Jones (weeknights), Natalie Yoannidis (weekends) and weather presented by Madeline Spark (weeknights) and Isabel Quinlan (weekends). Despite these position changes over the past three decades, 9News Queensland continues to retain a long-standing ratings lead ahead of 10 News Queensland and Seven News Brisbane. The 6:00 pm bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio station River 94.9 and throughout remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television. The bulletin is simulcast across regional Queensland and the Gold Coast through Nine O&Os NBN, NTD in Darwin and Nine affiliates WIN Television and remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television.


It has been certified Gold by BPI. Hall scaled back her work with Nine to news updates and fill-in duties in November 2011, with Weekend today news (click the up coming post) newsreader Alicia Loxley taking over as weekend presenter. In January 2019, Knight was appointed co-host of Today and continued to present Nine News Sydney until December. In January 2023, long-serving sports presenter Wally Lewis resigned from the role, citing health concerns. In March 2022, Cameron Williams resigned after 16 years at the Nine Network for personal reasons. Seven News. While both are competitive, Nine News Sydney consistently achieves the top ratings, sometimes for consecutive years. The late Brian Naylor presented National Nine News Melbourne for 20 years from 1978 following his resignation from HSV-7 to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by Peter Hitchener as weeknight presenter, while Jo Hall took over from Hitchener as weekend presenter. Mia Glover replaced Uptin as weekend news presenter. Bruce Paige and Heather Foord co-anchored the 6:00 pm bulletin from 1995 until 2001, when Foord joined Mike London as a weekend anchor and Jillian Whiting replaced her on weeknights. Henderson retired in November 2002, with then Sunday and weekend presenter Jim Waley taking over as weeknight anchor.