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Another Nine News, another hour…
For the second time this week Nine News Sydney will stretch to an hour.
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For the second time this week Nine News Sydney will stretch to an hour.
Tonight’s edition has had a last minute change, again pushing A Current Affair out to 7pm and bumping Two and a Half Men off screen.
The change is apparently NRL related (Newsflash: it’s actually AFL that has the Grand Final this weekend).
Nine did the same on Wednesday when a dust storm enveloped the city.
Maybe there’s another strategy here. Perhaps Nine News is so over Charlie Sheen and co. that the only way they can elbow him out for the night is to extend their own bulletin?
If that’s the case, more power to the newsroom….
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32 Responses
overall a one hour bulletin is better, if there’s a fairly big story it will normally be covered for around between 10 minutes on ten while on nine and seven it will only be talked about for 3 minutes.
Maybe they are testing what it would be like to have a permanent one-hour news? And move ACA to 7:00?
If Nine were to do this, I doubt 7 would copy, seeing as they wouldn’t want to move Home and Away (that is, TT moves to 7:00, bumping away H&A).
newsflash bob- there are lots of people in sydney that love AFL you idiot…
Stop the press. The real reason for extended news revealed.
Another dust storm heading towards Sydney. Nine will claim exclusivity.
@Richard W – AFL, NRL, I rest my case. WIN will be happy with Nine stuffing their schedule around. To accommodate local news they’ll probably just dump ACA or shift it to 1am.
Thank god the flintstones are on !
We can only hope 2.5 Men is over 😛
Why is Nine doing an AFL promotion when the game is on TEN?
@Kenny: All sports have drunken yobs (just look at the AFL Brownlows this year).
David, no point in Ch9 extending the new in Melbourne for the AFL final which is on Ten.
@Richard W etc. There are many of us NSW-ites who have not the slightest interest in some game between two teams of drunken yobbos.
And yes – it is like a Sydney grand final tonight with Parramatta and Bulldogs as the other final is Bris vs Melb. Hoping for Melb vs Bulldogs grand final and then for Bulldogs to win over Storm.
As for AFL, Sydney stops caring about AFL when the Swans start losing – which they did pretty well all year. Better luck 2010.
9 would be better off doing this all the time to avoid the 6.30 switch off. Works well in northern NSW with NBN which whips all other stations in the ratings as their 6pm – 7.30pm is so strong.
David, you must be a Melbourne boy? This NRL clash is the biggest match in years, pity it’s not live for the Southern states too.
Found it a bit ironic that the city without the Grand Final this weekend is the one that decided to extend the bulletin. Still, NRL is a better brand with Nine obviously.
I have a feeling all the supporters of the Sydney Swans would feel a bit different to the posts of nobody in Sydney supposedly caring about the AFL. How many teams in each comp? What’s the record crowds? And the list goes on.
It’s funny because the NR whatever it is, is in the majority.
9News certainly going all out for pretty much no reason. Totally uneccessary.
The only way I will ever watch 9 News (especially a 1 hour service) is if Peter Overton live on air applies some of that ‘red dust’ cosmetically… shall we begin with the blush or mascara?
Nine are testing an hour news format as a permanent fixture. Let’s hope it won’t come across like a late edition of ‘This Afternoon’.
Newsflash Bob! Not everyone in Sydney cares about NRL! There’s been so much hype about tonights game, you’d think it Was the Grand Final.
In New Zealand, both the main networks (TV One and TV3) have a one hour news bulletin at 6pm and a 30 minutes current affairs show at 7pm. I would love to see it here. You get a little more depth into issues with an hour long news show, rather than a 15 second sound bite and then the next story. Of course, there is also a little more fluff too.
Since this is NRL related, is Nine Brisbane showing an hour long news too?
Go Parra !!!!!!!!
Or is a trial run for Nine News extending to one hour once the footy season is over in the Eastern States and ACA moving to 7pm
It would make some sense – it does not cost that much more to extend the news and in particular sports and add a feature story ie : Tuesday Health, Wednesday Money, Thursday Entertainment, Friday – weekend sports.
It would stop people switching over from Nine News to Today Tonight and would allow Nine to boast that they have more news coverage than Seven and Ten
“Nine News” is much hated – Go on Matt & Jason Bransby, scream very very loud like a girl because “Nine News” expands to an hour – If Nine News does an hour of news again – they will scream very very loud again!
As if Nine wants more people to watch Eels v Bulldogs tonight in Sydney. People know the two teams are traditional rugby league rivals (2009 marks 25 years since the two teams clashed in the NSWRL Grand Final, in which the Bulldogs won 6-4) and will either go to the game or tune in to the live telecast. Nine will easily get 800,000 viewers for the match, so tonight’s schedule change is totally unnecessary.
Totally agree with Bob!!!!
Nine News is the worst ever brand of my entire life – But for the network – Nine News is a very famous brand too
NR…what?
Newsflash: Nobody in Sydney cares about AFL… and also, the biggest ever NRL preliminary final is on tonight.