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, ...

Sydney'' is the local news bulletin for the

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station in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mounta ...

, airing across

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each night. Like all ''

'' 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-''

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'' 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''.

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was the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the

in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by

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 we ...

. In January 2009,

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was replaced as weeknight presenter by

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. 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

would move to ''

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'' 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 Georgie Gardner (born 1 June 1970) is an Australian television and news presenter and journalist. Gardner is currently weekend presenter on '' Nine News Sydney.'' She has previously been a co-host and news presenter on the Nine Network's breakf ...

. Ferguson continued to present ''

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'' bulletin on until his contract expired in September 2009. Mike Bailey presented weather forecasts on Fridays and Saturdays, until he was sacked in early 2009.

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, who had previously presented weather from Sunday to Thursday, returned to weekday weather presenting. In February 2010, Nine announced that

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will be presenting the weather from Monday to Thursday and also filing lifestyle and entertainment reports for ''

'' with Seal presenting weather on Friday to Sunday. ''Nine News Sydney'' is also broadcast to southern and central New South Wales & the ACT in addition to local Nine News bulletins. It is presented from the

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Studio 1. On 6 January 2014, all Nine national channels permanently extended their 6pm news service to one hour pushing ''A Current Affair'' into the 7pm timeslot. In November 2017, it was announced that

had been appointed co-host of ''Today'' replacing

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has been announced as Gardner's successor presenting ''Nine News Sydney'' on Friday and Saturday nights. In January 2019, it was announced that

had been appointed co-host of ''Today'' replacing

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. In January 2020,

returned to front the weekend bulletin, replacing

who went on to hosting the radio drive show on

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Current presenters

Fill-in presenters

The weekend (Friday and Saturday) team are generally the predominant substitutes for the weeknight bulletin.

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is the primary fill-in news presenter with Charles Croucher, Jayne Azzopardi and Lizzie Pearl also filling in from time to time. Danika Mason and Emma Lawrence are the main fill-in sport presenters, while Kate Creedon, Airlie Walsh or Sophie Walsh present the weather if neither Amber Sherlock or Belinda Russell are available.

Previous presenters

Note: The current roster for the presenters on Nine News Sydney is the main team present Sunday –Thursday (classified as the Weeknight team below) and the secondary team present Fridays and Saturdays (classed as Weekends below). This was not always the case.

Weeknights

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(1956–1963) * Brian Henderson (1964–2002) * Jim Waley (2003–2005) *

(2006–2008)

Weekends

* Brian Henderson (1957–1964) * Ian Ross through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. *

(2003–2005, 2009) *

(2005–2008) *

(2008–2009) *

(2009–2017) *

(2017–2019)

Sport

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(1982–2016) * Yvonne Sampson (Friday Nights) (2016) * Cameron Williams (2016–2022) Weekend Sport: *

Stephanie Brantz Stephanie Brantz (born 1972) is an Australian sports presenter. She began her television career in 2000 on SBS (2000–2006), and has since worked on the Nine Network (2006–10), Fox Sports (2010) and is now on ABC (2010–present). Person ...

(2008–2010) *

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(2010) * Cameron Williams (2010–2015) *

Erin Molan Erin Molan (born 24 August 1984) is an Australian television sports presenter. She is currently a Primetime Contributor on Sky News Australia, radio presenter on 2Day FM and columnist on The Daily Telegraph. Molan previously worked with the ...

(2016–2021)

Weather

* Alan Wilkie (1977–2001) *

(2002–2004) *

(2004–2006) *

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(2006–2007) *

(2007–2010) *

(2010–2012) Weekend Weather: *

(2002–2004) *

(2006) *

(2006–2007) * Mike Bailey (2007–2009) *

(2010–2011) *

Amber Sherlock Amber Simone Sherlock (née Higlett) is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and reporter. She currently presents the weather on '' Nine News Sydney'' and previously hosted the daily national one hour news bulletin '' Nine News Now ...

(2011–2012) * Sylvia Jeffreys (2012–2014) *

Natalia Cooper Natalia Cooper (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian reporter and television presenter. Cooper is currently a news presenter and reporter on '' Nine News Perth''. She has previously been weather presenter on ''Today,'' ''Weekend Today'', '' ...

(2014–2015)

Reporters

News

Sport

* Zac Bailey * Michael Chammas * Sam Djordan * Luke Dufficy * Emma Lawrence * Danika Mason * Danny Wielder (chief rugby league reporter)

Notable former reporters

* Charles Croucher (now 9News Political Editor, based in Canberra) *

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(now Drive Host,

Radio)

Ratings

The bulletin was the most popular service in New South Wales. When long-serving anchor, Brian Henderson retired at the end of 2002, and Ian Ross moved to Seven at the end of 2003, ratings quickly declined (Nine out-rated Ten and Seven during Jim Waley's tenure in 2003–04), and Nine won 27 out of a possible 40 weeks in 2004. Nine replaced Jim Waley with a much younger presenter, Mark Ferguson, then aged just 38. Whilst ratings were starting to slightly increase, the bulletin slipped to third, behind both ''

'' and ''

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''. In 2008, the station did not win a single week in Sydney (five years previous it won every single week), Ferguson was moved back to the weekend position and replaced by

. For his first month, ratings slipped to fourth, behind '' Ten News at Five'', before quickly catching up to trail ''ABC News''. Towards the end of 2009, Nine's ratings started to improve, with this surge in viewership coinciding with the retirement of Ian Ross as the anchor of the rival ''Seven News Sydney''. In August 2022, ''Nine News Sydney'' achieved the top ratings for the twelfth consecutive year.

References

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