Nine News Sydney
| Nine News | |
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Opening title
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| Genre | News |
| Presented by |
News: Peter Overton (Sun-Thurs) Georgie Gardner (Fri & Sat) Sport: Cameron Williams (Sun-Thurs) Erin Molan (Fri & Sat) Weather: Amber Sherlock (Mon-Fri) Belinda Russell (Fri & Sat) |
| Theme music composer | Frank Gari |
| Opening theme | Cool Hand Luke: The "Tar Sequence" by Lalo Schifrin |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Sydney, NSW |
| Running time | One hour (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 1956 (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 Sydney is the weeknight, flagship news bulletin of the Nine Network. It is screened in Sydney, and across New South Wales.
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.
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 only 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 the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by Michael Usher.
In January 2009, Mark Ferguson was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton. Ferguson returned to his weekend news presenting position, which he previously held during Jim Waley's stint as weeknight presenter.
In July 2009, it was revealed that weekend news presenter Mark Ferguson would move to Seven News from October. Ferguson, who had been with Nine for 17 years, was removed immediately from the Sydney weekend bulletin and was replaced by Georgie Gardner. Ferguson continued to present Nine Afternoon News bulletin on until his contract expired in September 2009.
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