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Negus move to 6:30pm?

TEN could considering moving 6PM with George Negus to take on A Current Affair and Today Tonight.

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TEN could considering moving 6PM with George Negus to 6:30pm, to take on A Current Affair and Today Tonight head to head, notes the Weekend Australian.

While the show’s numbers at 6PM are lagging the competition there is some thought that the show’s more serious tone would provide a viable alternative to the offerings from Nine and Seven.

Such a move would also address the low numbers for TEN Evening News -but where the state-based presenters will finish up is unclear. TEN management denies claims Sandra Sully is unhappy in her early evening role.

A recent reader poll on TV Tonight indicated 73% would prefer the show at 6:30pm.

TEN should also consider reinstating its weekend News to 5pm pronto. It is dying at 6pm.

Questions also remain about ONE.

Source: The Australian

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  1. Buying Foxtel for the 2012 AFL Season and Olympics and it would be a great move to 1830 for Negus as it will compete with A C**p Affair and Thrash Tonight. I don’t want the show to be axed in 2011.

  2. Ten obviously didn’t think of people with Children or the under 50’s this time around coming home after work wanting light entertainment.
    I mean who want’s to work a full on current affairs show or more gloom and doom at the end of the working day.That was one of many things the Simpsons and all those other American Sitcoms/Cartoons and even short lived things like Echo Point and more recently Taken Out had over the other commercial networks It was a lighter to watch alternative to all their news services.
    I hope Ten has the decency to put on some laughter at 6pm like they used to.

  3. I will watch at 6 or 6.30. Although i just have it series linked on my IQ.

    6.30 seems like a better fit. The news at 6.30, never watched it once. I just hope they keep the show around. 6PM really is a very worth while addition to the nightly time table.

  4. Lord help us if Sky News replaces ONE. Especially if they get what they want and find their very own Bill O’ Reilly. On Pay TV, that wouldn’t be horrible. On FTA it will just add to the unraveling in the political discourse.

  5. Let me add my voice to the number of people who are amazed they didn’t put Negus at 6.30 in the first place, no doubt Today Tonight would continue on unabated because there’s always a group of people who want to see which bra sold at ALDI causes arthritis whilst simultaneously avoids detection by speed cameras.

    But ACA which has pretentions toward serious journalism would be finished within the year.

  8. We were speaking about this around the water cooler on Tuesday actually!
    It was very ambitious for Ten to put him at 6pm. Like it or not, there are too many rusted on viewers, so to speak, to 7 and 9 at 6pm.

    If George moved to 630pm, we all agreed it would be a powerhouse show in 6-8 months.

    Points for trying Ten, but it ain’t happening at 1800.

  11. well the question about One is do james and lachlain wish one to remain in competion with fox sports . who owns foxsprts people? yep james an lachlain i think you mite, find throu there premier media group. hence since they spent money getting a stake in network ten , more movies and docos are being shown on one .

    they want one gone, and gone soon ,

  12. Packer said about 6 months ago that ONE should be axed & replaced with SKY NEWS Australia. I just hope ONE remains but with more popular sports like getting some of the A-League games

  17. I would like to see things the way they are. Having George just before 7pm doesn’t make sense. They are both similar with Negus being a more serious version of 7pm. Likewise putting the evening news after news at 5 doesn’t give the show the distinction it needs.

  18. Neighbours has dropped 200,000 by moving to 11, yet production costs would be the same. Surely that move is unsustainable and definitely uneconomical.

  20. It would seem like a smart move to make, considering that there is a void in the 6:30PM for an alternative to TT and ACA. It would at least rate better considering that 6:00PM is a traditional timeslot for news, not current affairs.

  21. @aznfratboy – the commenters here may be a tiny fraction of the total TV audience but so is the select group that have OzTAM boxes – and they presumably drive what content the rest of us get to choose from. I’d be more concerned about potential biases in the sampling process.

    From how well the Ten network has polled in the last two TV Tonight Awards (first in both), it’s clear that there is a sampling bias here, relative to the population as a whole. However, that is irrelevant with regard to what TV Tonight commenters think about which time would be best for Negus since they will be the ones most likely to actually tune in (can you really see that many TT or ACA viewers switching over?).

    You just have to trawl thru the comments on the “Dear Lachlan” article to see what the trends in people’s thinking are. After sifting out the obvious spurious data like bringing back 9am but leaving everything else as it currently is (WTF?), those comments taken with David’s excellent article, would provide a very solid base for formulating some much-needed changes at ten.

    Once you put aside the petty fanboism and whatever its opposite is, anyone with half a working brain can see that the best thing for avid TV watchers is three strong commercial channels offering genuine choice, not one kicking the others butts.

  22. After the ‘reporting’ about the UFC on Friday, i don’t know if i’ll watch Negus again – while the sport is not everyone’s cup of tea, we deserved a slightly less biased, better researched article than this drivvle. ‘Human cock fighting’. Seriously? I suppose he did have some participants in the article, he coloured it in such a way to feed an outdated interpretation. And MMA is not banned in Victoria, it is only the cage that they cannot use. You can hold MMA events in a boxing ring, and they do so.

    And I was just starting to like him too.

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