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Nine matches Seven’s afternoon news
Nine yesterday switched up its afternoon schedule to prevent Seven from having afternoon news unto itself.
- Published by David Knox
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Nine yesterday switched up its afternoon schedule to prevent Seven from having afternoon news unto itself.
Seven News at 4 with Melissa Doyle and Matt White ran from 4pm to 5:30pm but Nine began its 4:30 bulletin half an hour earlier, even following Nine News Now from 3-4pm.
Previously scheduled US entertainment show Extra was bumped to GEM to make room.
Added together with their 7pm GEM bulletin, Nine screened 4 hours of news and current affairs while Seven had 3 hours.
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23 Responses
I don’t bother with 7 or 9 news anymore. I have ABC24 streaming as “background music” on my PC most of the day. Turn it up if something catches my attention, then watch Lateline at the end of the day.
How long before one of them says “I’ll see your 4pm and raise you a 3:30”?
Why must nine copy seven When it comes to news . Nine seems to always be playing catch up with seven.Prefer melissa doyle anytime. But seriuosly too much news now ,these days we have abcnews24.prefer light entertainment in the afternoons.something like the midday show with ray martin any one remember that show, only with KAK.
Extra! is on 3 times a day in Perth!! 11:30am on GO! 2pm on Nine and 3pm on GO!
@Jonno – agreed. If I need news fast I will resort to my iPhone or iPad. Or if I’m at work the Internet in general.
If I want to watch news I’ll tune into ABC24.
When I was growing up you had Agro, Come On Kids & a range if kids TV shows. It has diminished significantly in recent years. Don’t these stations have an obligation to show children’s television or does ABC2 & 3 cover all content?
Sometimes it’s nice to turn on the box if I leave work early & not have news. Often the afternoon news is so depressing or full of middle of the road American celebrities & their problems to fill the new hour (or should I say 90 minutes?). Let 7 & 9 battle it out…I won’t be tuning in. Perhaps I could watch something I taped earlier if I get home during this time slot 🙂
SBS News, ABC News, 7.30 Report, Four Corners, and Lateline for me thanks.
Can’t the so-called “News” rubbish on commercial TV!
Im finding im watch alot of Sky News of late…. seems to be the way to go for me… now if they can get it fixed for the Galaxy S4 i will be happy
Who needs TV news anymore. I just use my phone to get all the news now. Why don’t the networks get creative and stop this news overload.
its foxtel for me now on
Shocked !
Ch.9 going toe to toe with 7 in news
So pathetic.
As I commented earlier, Channel Nine should rename itself Nine News 24.
Sorry, it’s Ten and Eleven for me in the arvos. Maybe Seven and Nine should just run an all day news service if they love news so much.
Why have Nine and Seven extended your news bulletins from 60 to 90 minutes?
Even for Nine, who have a bulletin at 3pm, its 2 and a half straight hours of news and thats too much!! Put Extra at 4pm again, it’s not like it wasn’t working.
Seven should strip Seven Afternoon News back to 1 hour and bring it back to 4:30 and put The Daily Edition at 3:30 and run it for an hour. It’s not that bad a show, and its definitely cashing in on Sally Obermender’s newly found fame after her battle with cancer; even though they could of picked a better male and Australian co host (Seriously Seven, you think Kris Smith was the best option?)
The only positive I can think of is that we’ve never had more Aussie content on 7&9 than we have now. Unfortunately it’s just “news”!
And everyone scoffed when Ten went with 2.5 hours of news each night in 2011. Nine and Seven now both exceeding that.
I think the maybe Nine News Now needs to move forward 30 mins to allow for Extra back in the schedule. I thought they were on the usual cross to the newsroom but is was actually the start of the news.
Too much news back to back. You need a little light entertainment in the afternoon.
Sure it feels the same on Seven also.
There’s not that much news.
I much prefer the bulletin last week with Rebecca Maddern.
Thank god for Channel TEN
We have a break at 5.00 for Hot Seat, then Gold Coast news is on after that, which is only local news.
“What will they do on a busy news day?”
I’m more concerned about what they will do on a low news day. Chatty repartee gets boring after 30 minutes.
That means Gold Coast viewers get news from 3pm to 6:30pm (7pm) !
Thanks David, I didn’t think to check GEM. I taped the late night one. I was wondering what the hell was going on yesterday when Nine News Now seemed to be going way over.