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Sunrise wakes to Saturdays

The battle for breakfast has never been tighter as Seven prepares to add Saturdays to the Sunrise roster.

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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

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  1. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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!

  8. 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?

  10. 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.”

  11. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  17. 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 :/

  18. 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

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. @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.

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