''Nine News Melbourne'' is the weeknight, flagship news bulletin of the Nine Network in Australia. It is screened in Melbourne and Tasmania, and across Victoria. Like all ''

Nine News ''Nine News'' (stylised ''9News'') is the national news service of the Nine Network in Australia. Its flagship program is the hour-long 6:00 pm state bulletin, produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, ...

'' bulletins, the Melbourne bulletin runs for one hour, from 6pm every day. It comprises local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.

History

The late Brian Naylor presented ''National Nine News Melbourne'' for 20 years from 1978 following his resignation from

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to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by

Peter Hitchener Peter Donald Beauchamp Hitchener Order of Australia, OAM (born 21 February 1946) is an Australian television presenter. He has been the chief news presenter for GTV (Australia), GTV-9 of their flagship bulletin ''Nine News Melbourne'' since 1998 ...

as weeknight presenter, while

Jo Hall Jo Hall (born 25 June 1958) is a former Australian retired television presenter. Hall currently presents '' Nine News Regional Victoria'' and is a reporter for '' Nine News''. Career Hall began her career with a Melbourne newspaper cadetship, ...

took over from Hitchener as weekend presenter. Hall scaled back her work with Nine to news updates and fill-in duties in November 2011, with ''

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'' newsreader

Alicia Loxley Alicia Loxley (née Gorey) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Loxley is currently weekend news presenter on ''Nine News Melbourne'' and '' Nine Afternoon News Melbourne''. Career Loxley was born in Melbourne and made her first me ...

taking over as weekend presenter.

Rob Gell Rob Gell AM (born 25 August 1952) is a geomorphologist and weather presenter, with a degree in meteorology. Gell attended Camberwell Grammar School as a student in the 1960s. Gell has been a weather presenter for ''National Nine News'' and late ...

formerly presented the weather until 2003, when he was replaced by Nixon; Gell subsequently defected to the rival ''

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'' bulletin presenting the weather on weekends. In March 2011, the GTV studios moved their base from Bendigo Street, Richmond, to a new building in Bourke Street, Docklands. In May 2017, the station launched its first local afternoon news bulletin, ''Nine Afternoon News Melbourne'', putting it head to head with its rival station

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's local afternoon news. The bulletin is presented by Alicia Loxley (Monday-Wednesday) and Dougal Beatty (Thursday and Friday). In December 2021, it was announced that Peter Hitchener would scale back to four days a week from January 2022 presenting from Monday to Thursday with Alicia Loxley presenting on Friday.

Ratings

For many decades, ''Nine News Melbourne'' was the most dominant local news service, often drawing a peak audience of more than 400,000 viewers. However, in the mid-2000s, the bulletin started to lose ground to the rival ''

'', winning only 24 (out of 40) weeks in 2006 and then narrowly losing in 2007 when it won 19 weeks (to Seven's 20 weeks, with the other week tied). Even during the years when ''Nine News'' struggled nationally, the Melbourne bulletin remained competitive, being the only metropolitan bulletin to win any weeks against ''Seven News'' in 2008 and 2009. By 2012, however, ''Nine News Melbourne'' had re-established its ratings dominance, often leading their rivals by an average margin of over 100,000 viewers.

Current presenters

Fill-in presenters

* Alicia Loxley (news) * Dougal Beatty (news) * Alicia Muling (sport) * Ayrton Woolley (sport) * Stephanie Anderson (weather) * Justine Conway (weather)

Past presenters

* Sir Eric Pearce (1956–1978) * Brian Naylor (1978–1998)

Reporters

* Christine Ahern ( ''Today'' Melbourne reporter) * Seb Costello (''A Current Affair'' reporter) *

* Dougal Beatty * Alexis Daish (''A Current Affair'' reporter) * Emily Rice (Health reporter) * Madeline Spark * Justine Conway * Eliza Rugg * Allan Raskall * Neary Ty * Chris Kohler * Izabella Staskowski (''

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'' Melbourne reporter) * Adam Hegarty * Reid Butler *

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(Europe correspondent) * Maggie Raworth * Elisabeth Moss * Heidi Murphy * Stephanie Anderson * Mark Santomartino (State Political reporter) * Lana Murphy * Penelope Liersch

Sport

* Braden Ingram * Alicia Muling * Ayrton Woolley * Joshua Dawe

References

External links

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