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Nine extends arvo News

Nine is extending its 4:30pm Nine Afternoon News by one hour from today.

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Nine is extending its 4:30pm Nine Afternoon News by one hour from today.

Nine was scheduled to extended the News to one hour from next week but appears to have brought the move forward, possibly in light of the ongoing situation with the NZ mining disaster.

As a result Antiques Roadshow is out.

Airing a one hour bulletin earlier than TEN News at Five would likely be a response to TEN’s plans for even more News in 2011. Nine’s last attempt at revamping the timeslot was the short-lived THIS afternoon in 2009, but it may fare better with dry News.

Seven is tipped to match Nine in the extra-long 4:30 stakes.

This post updates.

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  2. I don’t think Seven will extend the 4:30pm permanently, it’s coming up to the “slow news season” plus 4:30 news on 7 does not air in the month of January anyway, with Brisbane International from Jan 2, AAMI Kooyong Classic, Medibank International than Australian Open until Jan 30
    7’s 4:30 news has a good format, 3 blocks of news with finance then weather & state news update. So I hope 7 don’t change something that works well

  4. there is not enough news in a day to justafide a hour! we dont want to hear that posh didnt come to the melbourne cup cos her price tag was too much That is not news.

  7. Jake,

    Many of the national stories aired at 4:30pm won’t make it to each city’s 6pm bulletin, so that’s the point-of-difference.

    That said, they’ll just pad this out with more reheated rubbish from Today & ABC America like they do at 11am. Nothing special.

    The only Nine News program I still watch is the 5am Qantas In-flight bulletin – seems a bit more serious.

  8. Channel 7 in regional QLD airs Today Tonight @ 5pm from the previous night instead of MASH. If 7 does extend the 4:30 news permanently regional QLD viewers will no longer see Today Tonight which is no great loss anyway.
    From next Monday TT will be shown in regional QLD at 7pm in place of H&A and instead of HIMYM until The Australian Open starts in mid Jan.
    From next Monday @ 5pm, 7 have programmed Surf Patrol nationwide.

  10. Why extend a a bad thing? The quality of journalism expounded by the channel 9 is hardly the kind of thing Australia needs more of. Perhaps if it was actually going to result in quality coverage of real news (rather than another kitten stuck up a tree) it might be worth considering – but having just watched 10 minutes of it I am convinced that this will not be the case.

    Bring back antiques roadshow – at least it has some charm.

  12. Why is there so much news on all the stations.
    Is it really cheap filler.
    Who is even home at this time to watch it anyway.

    I’m never even home at 6pm to watch the nightly news.
    I have to record it

  13. @Jake I agree with you. Are people really that news hungry? I watch at 6.00 and then at 10.30. At least enough time has passed for maybe something new to have occurred and be reported.

  16. My EPG still say both Seven and Nine News will only go for 30 minutes, is Seven following suit that they’ll also extend their afternoon news service to 1 hour?
    Bad choice Nine, I think it will only last for a couple of weeks before been reverted to a 30 minute bulletin.

  19. I hope thet children that still watch arvo TV enjoy ABC 1, 2 and 3.

    I find too much news repetitive. Especially when segments air in the evening and return the next on the Sunrise/Today shows and vice versa!

  20. There was a message that scrolled across the bottom of the screen during Seven’s X Factor encore, saying that their afternoon news was extended to one hour.

  23. I’m sorry Seven and Nine … but honestly who is going to sit through an hour long 4.30pm news bulliten and then stick around for another hour of news at 6pm (News & TT/ACA)? I think Ten are going to find that as well with 2.5hrs of news in a row!

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