Comments on: Late News returns to Nine

By: franz chong

franz chong — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:48 +0000

that’s way too much news if you include the 4:30pm bulletins that shouldn’t even be on due to that being a Childrens Programming Hour

By: mac

mac — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:28:27 +0000

yesterday nines late news started and finished nine minuets earlier, to bad if you switched on at 11:30 you would have missed the first few stories. Why cant nine just show thing as advertised!

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:49:57 +0000

9 late news is live for East Coast as they quote the Dow Jones which opens at 11.30pm EST our time (9.30am US eastern time) and that correlates with the value of the index seen live on Fox news, etc.

By: Benno

Benno — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:55:25 +0000

Zambora, how could you forget 20 to 1

By: nick

nick — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:42:24 +0000

richard h, i agree, probably Nines hottest, if not only hot news reader. Seven seem to have a fair abundance of them, Sarah groen, sam armytage, chris bath’s alright for an older woman, Nat Barr, Monque Wright. list goes on.

By: richard h

richard h — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:12:43 +0000

God she’s hot sorry I can’t help it I’m a sucker for a stunning news reader, sam armytage is also sooooooooooooo hot!

By: mac

mac — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:00:16 +0000

during two and a half men in Melbourne nine accidentally started showing a sydney news update with wendy but then after a few seconds peter cut in with the melbourne edition. when i first saw wendy i was actually thinking doesn’t peter normally do the news updates right up till the late news starts(or before yesterday the extended update)

By: Tepee

Tepee — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:46:05 +0000

Why did they take it off in the first place, only to put it back on sans the “Nightline” branding? Just another addition to the long and nonsensical list of Nine programming moves.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:54:10 +0000

shame nine news is just a inferior clone of seven news

By: CK

CK — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:52:03 +0000

Well I might keep a keen eye on that “live” camera to see if I can spot a clue. For one thing, that blue-topped building is no longer on power save late at night (if it really is still doing that in reality).

This will be far easier to spot by summer time, actually.

CK.

By: Knowfirst

Knowfirst — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:45:08 +0000

Mr Do-Bee, I suggest you clean your ears out, the opener did not say “This is Nine News Late News with…” it said, quite clearly, “This is Nine’s Late News… with Wendy Kingston.”

Clear.

By: Zambora

Zambora — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:52:39 +0000

So Nine now is News city plus 2 1/2 men,ramsay, underbelly and that’s it.
But as axel says why so much.
5-9 am (4 hours) 11-12 (1 Hour) 6-7 inc aca (1 hr) 11.30 pm-midnight (30 mins)
throw in KAK and GMA (90 mins 3.30 am- 5 am) and it is overload.
I don’t need more news especially bad news, I want weeds,Survivor,Chuck,Pushing Daisy,Terminator Sarah Connor and all those other shows you have warehoused.

By: tomothy

tomothy — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:10:28 +0000

Quality news? Umm whenever I watch the Nine News (Adelaide) it is all about sport, and then the smallest amount of news which they always manage to somehow relate back to sport. The only overseas news they show is sport related or a cat up a tree. Hopefully the East Cost based Late News actually is news and not utter rubbish.

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:55:51 +0000

David, it won’t be on IceTV’s EPG, late addition or not, until either the earlier court order is lifted or they notice it being on at the same time for long enough that they can “predict” it.

Stupid? Yes, but that’s what you get when lawyers get involved. And Nine wonders why they’re haemorrhaging viewers…

Incidentally, I would have assumed it would have been on Nine’s own EPG on their channel, as well as on the Nine-owned YourTV. Was it, though? I don’t use the former, and only use the latter when a network throws a curve ball. But surely Nine with direct (and very very legal!!!) control of both those EPG sources would have the update there way ahead of time. Right, Nine? Nine? Bueller?

By: koverstreet

koverstreet — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:49:19 +0000

I’m all for anything that means we see more of the delightful Wendy Kingston. Good to see Nine bring back the late news but as it clashes with Letterman don’t think I’ll see much of it.

By: Mr. Do-Bee

Mr. Do-Bee — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:22:16 +0000

I very much doubt if this late news is *Live*. If someone out there knows different, feel free to correct me. The impression I got from watching the opener and first couple of stories last night was that it was a simple, cheap re-package of the 6pm news. I don’t see any extra content being produced for this bulletin, unlike the Nightline days. The title also sounds clumsy and stupid: “This is Nine News Late News with…”. I suppose it’s better that they didn’t resurrect the “Nightline” brand because this definitely isn’t the late news service Nine dilivered in the Jim Waley/Hugh Riminton days.