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Nine News Sydney
''Nine News Sydney'' is the local news bulletin for the Nine Network station in Sydney, airing across New South Wales each night. Like all ''Nine News'' bulletins, the Sydney bulletin runs for one hour. from 6pm every day. It covers the day's latest local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance. History The Sydney bulletin was presented by Brian Henderson from 1964 until his retirement in November 2002, with then-''Sunday'' presenter Jim Waley taking over in early 2003. In 2005, despite the fact that ''National Nine News Sydney'' continued to retain its long-standing ratings lead over '' Ten Eyewitness News Sydney'' and '' Seven News Sydney'' in the 2003-4 ratings seasons, Waley was replaced with then-weekend presenter Mark Ferguson. In 2004, ''National Nine News Sydney'' won 27 out of a possible 40 ratings weeks. Following this, the 6pm bulletin started to lose its long-time ratings lead to the rival '' Seven News Sydney''. Mike Munro was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Overton
Peter John Overton, (born 5 April 1966) is an Australian television journalist and news presenter. He is currently the presenter for Nine News Sydney from Sunday to Thursday at 6 pm. Early life and family Born in England, Overton moved to Australia at age two after his parents returned home to the country. He grew up in Longueville, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney. He went to Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Boys High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University. He also played the tuba whilst at Lane Cove Public School. His father, Dr. John Overton, was an associate professor of anaesthesia at the University of Sydney and worked at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.''Australian Story: The Good Doctor'' |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaynie Seal
Jaynie Seal (born 18 May 1973) is an Australian television presenter. Seal is currently a weather presenter on Sky News Weather Channel, news presenter on ''Saturday Edition'' and ''Sunday Edition (Australian TV program), Sunday Edition'' on Sky News Live and advertorial presenter on ''Today Extra''. Career Seal was part of the original team for the Weather Channel (Australia), Weather Channel when it launched in 1999 and she found a passion for weather and live television. In 2004, Seal joined the Nine Network as weather presenter for ''National Nine News'' in Sydney along with ''Nine News, Nine Morning News'' and ''Nine Afternoon News''; she remained in this position for 7 years. Seal has also worked on ''The Footy Show (rugby league), The Footy Show, Fresh, Today (Australian TV program), Today, Abbamania, Hole in the Wall (Australian game show), Hole in the Wall and Kerri-Anne'' where she also co-hosted for a week. In late 2012, she rejoined Sky News Weather Channel as a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ferguson (news Presenter)
Mark Ferguson (born 22 February 1966) is an Australian news presenter. Ferguson currently presents ''Seven News'' in Sydney on weeknights. He was previously a senior news presenter with '' Nine News Sydney'', presenting the weeknight news bulletin. Career After working with regional stations in New South Wales and Queensland, Ferguson joined the Seven Network in 1989 and reported for a number of ''Seven News'' programs, including ''11AM'' and ''Hinch''. He moved to Sydney in 1991, before moving to the Nine Network in 1992. At Nine he became London correspondent and reported from the UK on a number of major stories including the death of Princess Diana. In 1997, he returned to Sydney as a reporter and in 2001 became a presenter, initially on the ''National Nine Early News'' at 6 am, and later the ''National Nine Morning News'' at 11 am. In 2003, he became the weekend presenter of '' National Nine News Sydney'', occasionally filling in for Jim Waley on weeknights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Usher
Michael Usher is an Australian television presenter and reporter. Usher presents ''Seven News Sydney'' on Friday and Saturday with Angela Cox and ''The Latest: Seven News''. Career Usher graduated from All Saints' College, Perth in 1987. He went on to study media in 1989 at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and graduated with an Associate Diploma in Media Studies. Nine Network Usher's television career began in 1990 at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury, as a final year cadet journalist. He was then posted to Kalgoorlie before beginning the following year at STW-9, Perth. In 1993, Usher moved to Sydney and to TCN-9 news. Three years later he was appointed to the role of Nine Network Olympics reporter, leading the Network's coverage of the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He also went to Lausanne to cover the corruption scandal that engulfed the International Olympic Committee. He was the Nine Network's correspondent in New York when the Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Munro
Michael Kenneth Munro, (born 12 April 1953), is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Early life Munro cites a tough childhood—with an abusive and alcoholic mother—as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales, and Marist Catholic College North Shore in North Sydney. He began his career at 17 as a copyboy on ''The Daily Mirror'' in 1971. He stayed in newspapers for 7 years, before trying television and not liking it. So he returned to newspapers when Rupert Murdoch sent him to New York to work in the NewsCorp bureau writing for newspapers in Great Britain and Australia. Television career In 1982, he returned to Sydney and television, where he started as a senior reporter in the Channel 10 newsroom. In 1984, he joined the Nine Network and Mike Willesee on the ''Willesee'' current affairs program. Two years later he replaced George Negus as the fifth male reporter on ''60 Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crikey
Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in ''The Latham Diaries''. In 2014 it had around 17,000 paying subscribers. History Stephen Mayne Crikey was founded by the activist shareholder Stephen Mayne, a journalist and former staffer of then Liberal Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his aborted independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of Burwood. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters have included the former Liberal insider Christian Kerr (who originally wrote under the pseudonym "Hillary Bray"), Guy Rundle, Charles Richardson, Bernard Keane, Mungo MacCallum and Hugo Kelly. In 2003, Mayne was forced to sell his house to settle defamation cases brought by the radio presenter Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria, Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC News, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC News, CBC, CNN, Associated Press Television News, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History ''7NEWS'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'', ''Seven Nightly Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Eyewitness News
''10 News First'' is an Australian television newscast, produced by Network 10. The network's ninety-minute long news program airs at 5pm each evening covering local, national and world news, including sport and weather. Weekend editions are presented nationally from Network 10's studios in Pyrmont, Sydney. Network 10's news division also assists in the production of the morning show ''Studio 10'' and prime-time current affairs program '' The Project''. It draws upon the resources of ITN, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage outside that of the network, in addition to that of CBS News, which is legally in-house following the 2017 takeover. History Network 10 introduced its news service in 1965 and was a pioneering force behind the concept of the hour-long news bulletin with co-anchors in the form of ''Eyewitness News'' from 1973 onwards. The 1980s were the network's most successful period as a news provider with its local Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane bullet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Waley
Jim Waley (born 5 October 1948) is an Australian television presenter best known for his work on the Nine Network and Sky News Career In 1981, Waley was appointed founding host of ''Sunday (Australian TV program), Sunday''. In 1986 he was invited to be founding presenter of the network's business and finance program ''Business Sunday''. He hosted ''Sydney Extra'', a news-based program for Sydneysiders, in 1992 and later that year was appointed presenter/reporter for ''Nightline (Australian news program), Nightline'', the nightly 30-minute late-night news program seen nationally. Widely regarded as the newsreader with the most credibility and gravitas, Waley worked largely in the studio until 1994 when it was suggested he should report from the field for the ''Sunday'' program. For example, in March 1998, he went on the trail of Saddam Hussein's hidden fortune, a journey that took him to Switzerland and a confrontation at the home of Saddam's private banker. The report won the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday (Australian TV Program)
''Sunday'' was an Australian current affairs, arts and politics program, broadcast nationally on Sunday mornings on the Nine Network Australia. The program covered a range of topical issues including local and overseas news, politics, and in-depth stories on Australia and the world, plus independent film reviews, independent arts features, and independent music reviews. Its final show aired on Sunday, 3 August 2008. History The announcement of the launch of the private and independent breakfast television and Canberra-produced politics program on 22 October 1981 inspired controversy, as it was then practice to fill the spot with religious programming. The advent and ongoing success of ''Sunday'' was a significant milestone in Australian television, as it for the first time offered a credible alternative/rival to the dominant influence of the ABC's flagship current affairs program '' Four Corners'', which had premiered 20 years earlier. ''Sunday'' was often referred to as the "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
