A Saturday edition of Sunrise will debut this week, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
How the move will impact on Saturday Disney, which has been running for 19 years remains to be seen. In December it moved to 7am as its new start-time, the same time that Weekend Today airs.
The battle for breakfast has never been tighter. Despite Sunrise‘s new-look set and format revamp, this week the difference narrowed to as close as 5,000 with Today on Tuesday.
Andrew O’Keefe and Samantha Armytage are tipped to follow their Sunday roles with the Saturday edition.
Source: Sunday Telegraph
is ch 7 trying to piss parents off? theres only now one channel for kids and thats abc2, which some people dont have the set top box yet. i can remember when i was a kidlette that i would wake up in the morning, dont wake up my folks and watch cartoons like saturday disney.
now there have moves disney to 9am, sorry wrong time, i would say 9am is when the folks start doing thing, so its like “sorry kid, we have to go food shopping or drop you off at swimming lessons” i mean what the hell why are they repeating old footy shows, oh my lord!!
I think saturday disney needs to go back to basic which i mean look at the 1990′s, saturday disney then had wonderful “cartoons” not live tv shows, i think that maybe there should b two shows one with young kids cartoons then follow up with a tween show with the live shows like hannah montana.
I am quite annoyed by this change as I wake up every Saturday morning to watch Saturday Disney! After that they normally play a Disney movie…now with this change this won’t happen. It is the best day of the week coz sunrise isn’t on for my mum to turn the chanell. I feel that it is selfish as sunrise is already on nearlly everyday so why not give us kids a chance to watch what we want to brighten the start of our weekend off!
The more Today gets closer to Sunrise, the more its content is getting closer to Sunrise. Is that a good thing?
part of 7′s deal with disney is that they have a quota of programs linked back to disney. so SD might have a timeslot or channel change but will not be axed.
oh bundynelle….. you are allowed to have a different opinion….. you’re wrong….. but you’re entitled to it
Great news! Now I no longer have to sit through the dreary Today with Leila and Cam. They have less personality than a plank of wood.
No more A’OK OK!
Won’t somebody please think of the children? In all serious though 7two has a kid lineeup during weekday and Sunday mornings so even if Saturday Disney eventually gets axed shows like Hannah Montana etc can move over to there I means PVR’s are your friend so they can record them if need be.
No way because kids need Saturday Disney. lol. But if they do have Saturday Sunrise, get Kylie and Larry (morning show host) to host it or might as well host sunrise everyday, much better than Kochie and Mel
bigkev – So I live under a rock, do I??? I make no apologies at all for having a different opinion than you! Yes O’Keefe is annoying but in my opinion only, both Cameron and Leila are worse and they can have their fun and frolics over at the Winter Olympics without me watching thank you very much. Oh by the way ‘bigkev’ I never used the word ‘show off’ in my very short comment. All I said was I couldn’t stand Leila and Cameron. How dare one have a different opinion on this forum!
Yep, that’s exactly what we need. More Sunrise. 5.5 hours Monday – Friday plus Weekend Sunrise just isn’t enough. Why don’t they just create a 24 hour Sunrise channel and be done with it?
I really don’t think there is a need for this. I would imagine the majority of people are out shopping or at sporting events.
Sunrise’s twitter has confirmed the Saturday edition it-they say:
“sunriseon7 Sunrise is now on 7 days a week! Weekend Sunrise is now airing Saturday and Sunday from this week.”
More Sunrise!?! What’s next, The Morning Show 7 days a week?
Idealy Saturday Disney could slot in 10-12, but I will have to agree on the axe bet.
What? No way! Kids programming is far more better than Sunrise and Today any day!
Can’t we just let the kids have saturday mornings !
did someone before mention they hate watching cam and leila show off on channel 9…… and the host for sunrise is Andrew O’Keefe…… bahahahaha….. what rock have you been living under if you think that cameron Williams is more of a show off than Mr. O’keefe, who is the most painful presenter ever to grace Australian screens.
yesterday’s ratings
Weekend Today – Saturday Nine 285,000 84,000 66,000 70,000 20,000 45,000
Saturday Disney Seven 191,000 63,000 49,000 44,000 9,000 26,000
Who cares 1 has a fox format repeat repeat repeat and the other has idiots trying to be funny – dont watch either show
Very sad. Even if it does move to 7Two, which is presently a AFL wasteland in the mornings so anything to there would be better, still sad that kids programming is getting the shaft. People saying the ABC suite will make up for are incorrect, very unlikely that Disney or WB product will appear on it, which only leaves criminally expensive PayTV :/
Bre Saxs-your timeslot suggestions would wotk quite well. All we need now is 7 to confirm what it will do with Saturday Disney’s timeslot due to the addition of Sunrise on Saturdays
David, ant word from 7 about the future of Saturday Disney ?
It is inevitable that there will be a Saturday edition of Weekend Sunrise. Ever since Weekend Today began on Saturday from May 2009 it only lost to Saturday Disney twice in the timeslot. Just goes to show there are people who want to get the news on Saturday mornings. Perhaps Seven can follow the example of TVB Jade (Cantonese TV station in HK, and an overseas affiliate of Seven), which shows breakfast news from 7am to 9am and Disney cartoons from 9am onwards.
So now Andrew O’ Keefe is on TV more than Eddie McGuire! Man, the Sunrise franchise are really desperate at the moment, with their new look and format, and now this.
I just hope Saturday Disney doesn’t get the axe, because it has been on for so long, and basically every person like under 25 would have seen at least 1 episode.
@Kuttsywood
Australian TV has changed since the early 90′s.
I too enjoyed watching Agro and Saturday Disney during primary school.
However, today’s kids have so much more choice beyond free to air TV, namely:
1. Foxtel – which now has 5 kids channels
2. The Internet – many kids now have their own laptops and hardly watch TV at all
3. Digital TV – which has ABC3 and Go etc.
So I doubt there will be any “viewer boycott”. Channel 7 are just moving with the times to keep pace with viewer demand.
The Today Show copies every little aspect of Sunrise, doesn’t it? Sarcasm intended.
Hope it doesn’t do better than Weekend Today, because Today is so much better than Sunrise.
Another opportunity to promote *that* pathetic airline.
Are Seven moving Saturday Disney to 7TWO?
Another nail in the coffin for kids programming, there isn’t much new content for kids offered on Saturday mornings.The ABC2 is for pre-schoolers, ABC3 is all repeats, Nine Go! only offers new episodes of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Ten is all repeats.
Saturday Disney was good to watch for many years, for the many great cartoon series. Although cartoon series aren’t shown much anymore, with Disney producing more live action series now.
The impact a possible Saturday Disney axing will have, is major, a lot more major than the Kids WB move (albeit, it was sudden, suiting the live program).
Viewers may see it as the death of the “old Channel 7″, as every slot, where their kids content once ruled mornings (Agro, Sat Disney etc.), is home now to Sunrise.
Any viewer boycott, would be detrimental to morale at the network.
I’ll watch “Sunrise” if it goes Saturdays. Can’t stand the Cameron & Leila show on CH9!!
Brenton says: Saturday Disney still beats the Today Show at 7am to 9am
Not from a lot of ratings reports I’ve seen it doesn’t….
AA the link was and is correct. Scroll?
As exclusively predicted by Selma two months ago!
2 reasons for the move:
1. Saturday Disney had fallen too far behind Today on Saturday
2. Channel 7 was worried that Today was getting an overall advantage by having the extra Saturday edition.
Seven better not be thinking of removing Saturday Disney from its schedule!
And “Sunrise” still has the audacity to claim that “Today” continues to copy them.
Could think of anything worse than waking up to Andrew O’keefe on the weekends….
Wow Sunrise seven days a week.
I’d say the Saturday edition of Sunrise would start at 6am and go until 8am, which would then be followed by of course Saturday Disney which would finish at 10am.
So obviously My Friends Tiger And Pooh (6:00am) and Handy Manny (6:30am) would either be dropped or shown after 10am.
David, in regards to Seven’s Saturday schedule, do you know or been informed as to when the music video show Eclipse Music TV is returning? Has James “Jesse” Tobin left the show? As the last few shows of last year had either guest presenters with co-host Virginia Lette or Virginia by herself.
Seven should run Weekend Sunrise 7am-9am and Saturday Disney 9am-11am whenever possible. (sport may interrupt some Saturdays). On 7TWO Saturday Disney should air 7am-9am then Weekend Sunrise 9am-11am
David its the wrong link, please correct it.
Saturday Disney could move to 7Two-leaving 7am free for Sunrise.
I’m not too sure whether this will work.
Those with short memories will recall Sunrise appeared on the Saturday on election day 2007 and the ratings for it weren’t that flash at all.
I think that both Sunrise and Today should be careful – going 7 days a week may rob both shows of their uniqueness and run their respective formats into the ground.
Also besides – how much news do people really want – especially on a weekend?
Perhaps 7 will have to reschedule Saturday Disney’s timeslot.
I’m expecting the inevitable. Axed: Saturday Disney.
After all, was SD taped or is it live?
In May 2009 Saturday Disney moved from 7am-9am to 6.30am-8:30am to get a jump start on the Today Show but in December it changed back to 7am obviously because 6.30 is too early for kids and Saturday Disney still beats the Today Show at 7am to 9am
This is a welcome news and a good wake up call for Weekend Today to improve Saturday Today. I wonder if WT will extend to 3 hours now on saturdays?
But still, with AOKs mug on saturday, I’ll pass.
Bugger having anything for the kids as long as people get their fix of more cloying condescending morning show pap.
Cos you can never, ever, even on a Saturday morning, have enough inane banter to go with your weaties.
Finally, somebody has realised that the same group of people who watch Sunday to Friday morning news might also want Saturday too. Things do happen Friday that they could talk about! Screw Disney, they can watch ABC 1,2or3. Did the networks think only children exist on Saturday mornings???
Seven are getting desperate arn’t they, in my books they are.
With them having a new set and new formats, I don’t really care.. they are all the same as last year Boring.. I will be sticking to my Today show on saturday thanks.
Another original idea from 7
More Andrew O’Keefe.When will it end?
I hope they dont give saturday role to Andrew O’Keefe,l cant stand him he total idiot.Seven should give the role to some new talent at Seven,like Mark Ferguson.Iam amazed it took seven this long to start the show,they use too follow channel nine straight away,this year 1 year later lol.The talented and sexy Ms Sammy could be on every day love the gal !!!!!!
not really interested but I hope they put more NBC today!