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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.

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  • Kevin
    July 26 2007
    11:44am
    #1 of 6

    Why bother having news at 5pm? By the time the bulletin is finished, there's only 30 minutes before another news bulletin airs. What's the point?

    Both Seven and Nine's 4:30pm news aren't worth having in my opinion - they're too close to the 6pm bulletin as it is :dontknow:

  • normangerman
    July 26 2007
    12:15pm
    #2 of 6

    Plus you have Ten's news at 5pm as well :happydance:

  • Kevin
    July 26 2007
    12:22pm
    #3 of 6

    normangerman said:
    Plus you have Ten's news at 5pm as well :happydance:

    Exactly. I wouldn't mind if Seven or Nine decided to move their 6pm bulletins to 5pm to compete with Ten News, but that's not going to happen.

    Having 2 bulletins starting within an hour of each other is just silly in my opinion, hardly worth the effort.

  • 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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