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  • Martin approached for a new Nine News program

    July 25 2007 10:52pm (UTC+8)  -  Article by Pun

    Channel Nine has asked network legend Ray Martin to host a early news show, in a hope to restore the news rating decline. The program would be screened at 5pm, replacing the current 4.30 news hosted by Kelly Connolly.

    Nine knows how important lead-ins are for their main 6pm bulletin; Seven has been successful with the strong lead-in from game show Deal or No Deal, fronted by Andrew O'Keefe.

    The program would finish at 5.30pm, allowing 30 minutes for a studio switchover for the main 6pm news.

    Ray Martin said yesterday from Broken Hill that he was considering the offer.

    "I'm not going to go back on daily TV just to fill a spot, I did eight years on A Current Affair and 10 years on Midday, so unless it's something I really want to do, I am not interested."

    "The show would have to be something that didn't compete with the 6pm news."

    Martin has been recently absent from our screens, fuelling rumours that he had been a cost cutting target of CVC, the new owners of the Nine Network.

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  • Firetorch
    July 26 2007
    12:35pm
    #4 of 6

    Well what's on Nine at 5pm currently? Bargain Hunt or something? Surely this would be a better option than showing that rubbish. It would increase people's exposure to N9N and might get some people switching over to Nine at 6pm.

  • Newswatcher
    August 5 2007
    3:03pm
    #5 of 6

    Pun said:
    Channel Nine has asked network legend Ray Martin to host a early news show, in a hope to restore the news rating decline. The program would be screened at 5pm, replacing the current 4.30 news hosted by Kelly Connolly.
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    Poor Kellie. She just can't take a trick. Replaces Georgie Gardner as TODAY newsreader when she left for maternity leave, then replaced Jessica Rowe when she left. Kellie then gets dumped when 9 sign Lisa Wilkinson and Allison Langdon keeps the TODAY newreader position.

    It might be time for Kellie to go Dancing across to 7.

  • glen_2006
    August 7 2007
    10:15pm
    #6 of 6

    Wonder if we would get this on Nine Brisbane? In which case, we'd technically have 2 hours of News style programming with our local "Extra" program at 5.30pm... :wacko:


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