Sandra Sully takes the early shift
Sandra Sully will be front TEN's new 6:30 bulletin for Sydney viewers next year.
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Sandra Sully will be front TEN’s new 6:30 bulletin for Sydney viewers next year.
TEN has been revealing local hosts for each state as part of its roadshow to sponsors around the country this week. The 6:30pm bulletin will offer more local news than News at Five.
The line-up for TEN next year is as follows:
Sydney:
News at Five: Bill Woods and Deb Knight
6:30 pm: Sandra Sully
Brisbane:
News at Five: Bill McDonald and Georgie Lewis
6:30 pm: Bill McDonald
Perth:
News at Five: Still to be confirmed
6:30 pm: Narelda Jacobs (moving from the News at Five)
Adelaide:
News at Five: Belinda Heggen
6:30pm local bulletin: Rebecca Morse
That only leaves Melbourne, to be announced at at the final event tonight.
TEN is also yet to reveal who is fronting its 6pm national bulletin which promises a more in-depth news-based programme. TEN’s Director of News Jim Carroll told Mediaweek it wouldn’t be Jennifer Byrne, as peviously rumoured. Could Hugh Riminton get the gig?
TEN’s Programming Launch in Sydney last night also avoided any announcement of a new vehicle for Hamish and Andy, in keeping with the duo’s statements that nothing had been decided on their future. It did show footage of the two making a special in Delhi.
Source: Mediaweek
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That’s right Neil, finally Ten are going for a broader audience as from next year and that’s why there’ll be no more rubbish like Neighbours or Simpsons on their primary channel. About time I say.
@Johnson: I honestly think, that 10 Brisbane should scrap their entire 5pm on-air team next year except for Lexy Hamilton Smith and Max Futcher (with Bill still moving to 6:30) and start again. Simply, new year, new set, new team.
Even, the weather segment can’t figure out whether to go the Tim Bailey route, or a serious, in-studio route, often changing route daily…
Consistancy is the key to a good news service, and it should be delivered each night.
@ Goonies and Jay Jay – Obviously with the news block TEN are moving away from the 16-39 demo and trying to attract a broader audience – P25-54 for their primary channel.
The new digital channel – Eleven will be 16-39 focus and more like what Channel 10 was back in the 90s
As a SC10 viewer, I don’t care. I want to watch Neighbours at 6:30pm but I will not be able cause it is been moved to channel Eleven for which SC10 can’t make up their minds on what they are doing. The TV networks were giving a rebate of $250 million to help with the digital upgrades. Why isn’t channel Ten using some of that rebate to help bring channel Eleven to regional viewers?
I agree 2.5 hours of news is just too much.
If intelligent broadcasters such as the ABC and SBS realise you don’t have huge blocks of news why does 10 think it will be able to pull it off, when as has been pointed out, most of their demographic are not interested in ‘real’ news but the type of ‘news’ fed to them by the likes of 7PM.
chk chk – you read my mind. She would be a great fit at ten. And yay for Sandra!
Bill McDonald reading both the 5pm and 6.30pm bulletins may be too much work for him. How about Marie-Louise Thiele for 6.30pm, if she still works for Ten?
I think Sandra could do the late news as well (and I hope she does).
She did just that when Deborah Knight had her first baby, and I imagine she’ll do the same when Deborah has her second baby in a few months.
As long as they don’t screw around with the Super Team of Helen and Mal I don’t care what they do.
@Rick2: That sounds like a great idea.
Big tip is George Donikian will be filling the unnanounced Melbourne spot as he’s obviously missing from the Adelaide lineup.
Maybe with this investment in news Ten are going to drop 10.30 Late News and start showing low rating programmes in that 10.30 slot even if it is just repeats will probably do a little better than the 300k News does there now.
Hugh Riminton would be a great choice.
i wonder who will read Ten Late News in Sandras place?? I would love it to be Helen Kapalos like the good old days on Nine…..
There has been no suggestion Sandra is leaving Late News.
Put Ron Wilson back in the chair where he belongs !!!
well it could have been worse, it could have been the interminably boring Bill “Mr Personality Transplant” Woods.
Isn’t Sandra Sully getting the 6:30 Sydney news because she is filling-in for Deborah Knight who will be on maternity leave?
Does this spell the scaling back of importance in the 5pm bulletin now?
Hugh would be the obvious choice for the national bulletin considering his wealth of experience at CNN in Hong Kong. He’s currently wasted in the parliament house bureau. How Paul Bongiorno keeps his job I’ll never know…
Sandra is the apple of Sydney’s eye. As Frank Sinatra would say, ‘it had to be you’.
Ron Wilson for 6!
Does Ten seriously think this is going to be a success for them? 2.5 hours of news on a channel that programs to 16-39s who aren’t going to sit for 2.5 hours and watch the news. I think Ten has lost their identity. Their only success is Masterchef and do ok with NICS and Rush. That’s it – they are number 3, sometimes number 4. I really don’t know what they will get out of this.
Is George Donikian gone now from Adelaide?
Hugh rimingtom would be good, i hope the melbourne news at 5 team stays intact.
i know H&A have been pitched by ten, seven and i’m pretty sure foxtel too, not sure about 9. i heard they wanted to make a decision by the time ten do their upfronts. so i’d say they are waiting for the Melbourne meeting which is where a H&A show would likely be made. and if we don’t hear anything by then they have either not chosen ten or something unexpected has happened in the deciding process.
I thought it had been announced that Narelda Jacobs was staying on News at 5,as well as the 6.30 bulletin here in Perth.
Ten should get Kellie Connolly.