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Fanning takes redundancy from Nine

Ellen Fanning has accepted a redundancy package from the Nine Network.

She has been with Nine since 2000 first with 60 Minutes, then A Current Affair, Today and Nightline. Yesterday she presented the final edition of Sunday.

Fanning said rumours of budget cuts and ratings wars should not undermine the “terrific” work the program had done over almost three decades.

“Much has been said about the budget cuts and various other things that went on, but I think the facts speak for themselves,” she told ABC Radio.

“I think this idea that somehow we weren’t doing terrific work is silly and, in fact, (Nine boss) David Gyngell was at pains to say: `You’ve been doing quality work, you’ve been doing great stuff’.

“I think we were doing what we should. A lot of tremendous work is done by the ABC in news and current affairs, that speaks for itself, but it’s so important to have other voices – I think that’s what Sunday did.”

Fanning said the demise of the show was the end of an era for Network Nine’s news and current affairs.

“Sunday always said to its audience at Channel Nine: we’re serious about news and current affairs,” she said.

“We were for many years the rival national broadcaster; we had the great debates at election time and Sunday could cover everything from wonderfully eccentric art stories … through to investigative journalism.”

Her comments echo those by Ray Martin who said axing the show after 27 years was a “dopey idea.”

Source: AAP / Yahoo

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