Nine News Brisbane
| Nine News Brisbane | |
|---|---|
| Genre | News |
| Presented by |
News: Andrew Lofthouse (weeknights) Melissa Downes (weeknights) Darren Curtis (weekends) Alison Ariotti (weekends) Sport: Wally Lewis (weeknights) Sam Squiers (weekends) Weather: Garry Youngberry (weeknights) Luke Bradnam (weekends) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 54 |
| No. of episodes | Every day since 1957 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Running time | One hour (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 1957 (as Channel 9 News) 1970 (as National Nine News) 1976 (as 9 Eyewitness News) 1980 (as National Nine News) 2008 (as Nine News) – present |
Nine News Brisbane (addressed on-air as Nine News Queensland) is the weeknight, flagship news bulletin of the Nine Network. It is screened in Brisbane, and across Queensland. Like all Nine News bulletins, the Brisbane bulletin runs for one hour, from 6PM every day. It comprises local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.
The 6pm bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio station River 94.9, across regional Queensland on Southern Cross Nine and throughout remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television.
Bruce Paige and Heather Foord co-anchored the 6pm bulletin from 1995 until 2001, when Foord joined Mike London as a weekend anchor and Jillian Whiting replaced her on weeknights. London resigned in June 2003 after allegations emerged that he had organised a female friend to complain about the presentation of weeknight anchor Bruce Paige. Foord and Whiting swapped positions in 2004 with Melissa Downes taking over as weekend anchor in 2006. Despite these position changes, to this day Nine News Brisbane continues to retain a long-standing ratings lead ahead of Ten Eyewitness News Brisbane and Seven News Brisbane.
Foord resigned as weeknight anchor on 5 December 2008 and was replaced by Melissa Downes on weeknights with Eva Milic and former ABC newsreader Andrew Lofthouse fronting weekend bulletins. A year later, Bruce Paige retired from the weeknight chair (he was replaced by Lofthouse) and Heather Foord returned to present weekend bulletins solo for two years. Paige returned to full-time newsreading in January 2012, fronting Nine Gold Coast News solo until he was paired with Wendy Kingston in July 2016.
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