Nine Afternoon News
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| Slogan | Always On |
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| Division of: | Nine Network |
| Opening Theme: | Cool Hand Luke |
| Founded: | 1956 |
| Headquarters: | Head Office: Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia |
| Area served: | Worldwide |
| Formerly called: |
Channel 9 News (1956–1970) National Nine News (1970–1976) 9 Eyewitness News (1976–1980) National Nine News (1980–2008) |
| Broadcast programs: |
Today Weekend Today Inside Story Nine News: Early Edition Nine Morning News Nine News Now Nine Afternoon News Nine News First at Five Nine News A Current Affair 60 Minutes |
| Parent: | Nine Entertainment Co. |
| Website: | http://www.9news.com.au |
Nine News is the national news service of the Nine Network in Australia.
Its flagship program is the hour-long 6:00pm state bulletin, produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. National bulletins also air on weekday mornings and weekend afternoons. In addition, a supplementary regional news program for the Gold Coast in Queensland and news bulletins for Darwin and Southern Cross Austereo-owned stations in regional Queensland, Victoria, Southern New South Wales and the ACT also air each weeknight.
For most years up until the mid-noughties, Nine News was traditionally the highest-rating news service in Australia, but in 2005 it was overtaken by the rival Seven News before it regained the lead on a national basis in 2013. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Darren Wick.
Nine News: Early Edition is a half-hour bulletin airing at 5:00am on weekdays, presented from the network's Sydney studios by various presenters.
The bulletin was originally pre-recorded and was presented as the "AM Edition" of the Qantas Inflight News, a daily news bulletin for passengers of Qantas airways. Early morning bulletins were introduced in the early 1990s as Daybreak and, later, National Nine Early News until 2003 when Today was extended to begin at 6am. The Early News resumed for a brief time at 6am in 2005 and was presented by Sharyn Ghidella and Chris Smith before again being cancelled. Amber Sherlock and Alicia Loxley have previously presented the bulletin. In mid-2014, Julie Snook replaced Belinda Russell to present. After two years in the role, Julie Snook was promoted to the sports department and Lara Vella replaced her.
In October 2014, a new era of the bulletin launched with its contract ending with Qantas. The bulletin was renamed Nine News: Early Edition with a dedicated 9news.com.au news feed on the right of screen, finance and weather flipper at the bottom, a look-ahead to Today and the presenter taking up less than three-quarters of the screen. There was a look at the newspaper front pages which showed the front pages of the two Sydney and Melbourne papers, The Australian, The Courier Mail and The Advertiser. There was even a live cross in which the bulletin prior to October was pre-recorded. Sylvia Jeffreys, Kate Creedon, Vicky Jardim, Airlie Walsh, Sophie Walsh and Tim Davies are fill-in presenters.
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