Nine News

 While watching Channel 9′s 11am News today, I was seeing their footage of Leonardo DiCaprio arriving this morning at Sydney airport. He is here to film Baz Luhrmann’s version of the film, The Great Gatsby.

So why oh why was I watching Sunrise yesterday with a reporter live at the airport waiting for him to touchdown? They promised he wouldn’t even be able to sneeze with out them capturing it. Well they seemed to miss something a bit more important than a sneeze – the right day!

The Sunrise reporter said on Sunday that he was whisked out a VIP entrance and was headed to his house, while here- apparently the famous Eastern Suburbs, Altona. Indeed!

Eva Milic has been confirmed as the replacement at Nine News Brisbane for departing weekend presenter Heather Foord.

The Gold Coast journo will take on the role alongside her usual duties fronting the network’s Coast bulletin from Wednesday to Friday.

“It was a little unexpected and it did feel a little like deja vu but really positively because I did enjoy my time in Brisbane and now that [my 18-month-old daughter] Lucia is bit older I’m really looking forward to sinking my teeth into it again,” Milic said.

“I was instantly so excited about the opportunity and I just don’t think you can knock back an opportunity that comes your way.”

Source: The Spy Report

Clint Stanaway has landed the role as weekend sports presenter for Nine News in Melbourne, as a replacement for Lisa Andrews.

Stanaway (pictured above with Lisa Andrews) will continue to work during the week as a sports reporter in addition to his new role with the network.

Former Olympic swimmer Giaan Rooney applied for the role with Nine but the network is said to have backed Stanaway due to his experience.

“When I started at 17 [newsreading] was definitely something I wanted to do at some stage,” Stanaway said.

Source: The Spy Report

Heather Foord has announced her departure from Nine News in Brisbane, where she had worked as a weekend presenter, among other roles, since 1987.

The 46-year-old told viewers on Sunday night that she was stepping down from the news desk in order to spend more time with her family.

“I’ve been doing this job for my entire working life. For more than twenty-three years I have been driving up the mountain to a job that I have loved and friends that I cherish, but it is time for me to spread my wings,” Foord said.

“It’s time for me to look beyond Mt Coot-tha and focus on the things that matter most in my life.

“I am very grateful to the Nine Network for accepting this decision, Nine has always understood and accommodated my need to find a happy work-life-balance. I feel very fortunate the network wants me to stay on and this new part-time role will give me an ongoing connection with this great team.”

Foord will become a substitute presenter for Nine during the holiday periods.

Nine is expected to announce Foord’s replacement in the next few weeks.

Source: The Spy Report

Olympic swimmer Giaan Rooney has been rumoured to be in the running for a spot on the Channel Nine news team as a weekend sports presenter.

Rooney was spotted at the Channel Nine studios last week testing for the role.

The swimmer has proven popular at Nine thanks to her roles on Wide World of Sports and local travel show Postcards.

Teammate Grant Hackett had the role of weekend sports presenter up until late 2009.

Source: Herald Sun

Can you imagine what it must be like working at Network Ten and arriving to see this sitting across the street every morning?

News surfaced around 12.30pm eastern that the world’s most wanted man – Osama Bin Laden – has been killed in a mansion outside of Islamabad in Pakistan.

Confirmation of the news was addressed by US president Obama, 11.30pm US eastern time, 1.30pm AEST. A crowd gathering at the White House, cheering, contiued to grow.

Australian TV networks went live to international coverage of the news. Nine are using a feed from US ABC, Ten and Seven CNN and ABC1 & 24 are showing Al Jazeera. SBS ONE and Sky News are also using the CNN coverage.

Pay TV news channels Fox News and BBC World News of course have blanket coverage as well. Strangely, Even Sky News business has the same feed on air as Sky News main channel.  

After Obama’s speech, Seven and Nine kept going with their own coverage, Ten used CBS news, SBS reamined on CNN while ABC1 & 24 had their own correspondent in Washington.

At 2pm, Nine returned to normal programming, Ten played Oprah. CNN continued on Seven and SBS until 2.30pm, when they returned to regular programming.

ABC1 & 24 were still covering, but using their own news brand with various live crosses to Aljazeera English coverage.

All times based on observations in Sydney market.

Info below is for NSW ONLY.

1. Nine have updated their programming in Sydney (and therefore NSW for regional affiliates) on Saturday night to include a one hour Nine News special at 6.30pm covering the Election. As the election result is most likely to be known very early in the night, the one hour news special at 6.30 could well be the only coverage needed.

As a result, Funniest Home Videos moves to 7.30pm, followed by the movie: The Da Vinci Code at 8.30pm..

2. Seven will be airing a two hour news special covering the NSW election, from 6.30 – 8.30pm.

3. Sky News will provide coverage all day, from 5am until well into the evening.

4. ABC1 (NSW) and ABC News 24 have a special from 6pm called NSW Votes. ABC1 returns to normal programming from 10.30pm, while ABC News 24 has a news special at 10.30pm.

5. Ten – business as usual. Movie Ice Age at 6.30, Die Hard at 8.30pm. AFL 10.30pm. News updates will intervene though.

6. Nothing on SBS ONE.

Christchurch Coverage Update.

Nine: Rolling coverage continues until 6.00pm Syd/Melb/Bris at this stage. News special at 7pm for one hour Syd/Melb. ACA remains at 6.30pm. Big Bang at 7.30 is out Syd/Melb.

News special at 9.30pm, Ben Elton moved back to 10.30pm, Ramsay out. Today extended to 11am (10am QLD) tomorrow, no Kerry Ann.

Seven: Rolling coverage continues. One hour news at 6pm. TT at 7pm. Home as Away out for the night. Double Home and Away tomorrow night from 7pm. News special at 10.30pm – Cougar Town is out.

Sunrise extended to 10am tomorrow.

Ten: Have returned to regular programming. Late news at 10.30pm for one hour, George Negus encore is out.

Two hour 6am morning news tomorrow.

ABC News 24: Rolling coverage continues.

Sky News: Rolling coverage continues.

ABC1: normal programming

SBS ONE: Normal programming

All rolling coverage is from TV3 New Zealand – so we are in effect, seeing the same feed on 5 channels.

As at 4.20pm Sydney time.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has rocked Christchurch, New Zealand, all but destroying the city’s iconic church and causing wide spread damage to the city and surrounds.

Australian TV networks have abandoned regular programming for now to cover this breaking story.

Seven, Nine and Ten all have live news, with reporters on the scene.

Both Sky News and ABC News 24 are using a direct feed of New Zealand’s TV3 for their coverage.

So far, no programming amendments have been issued by any network so it is unclear how long the coverage will continue.

Visit our NZ site to see how New Zealend TV is covering the news. http://www.throng.co.nz/one-news/63-earthquake-christchurch

Click here for more details of the quake.

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