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Narelda Jacobs to present 10 News First: Afternoon

Narelda Jacobs expands her daytime news presenting at 10 from Monday.

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Narelda Jacobs will host new national bulletin, 10 News First: Afternoon from Monday, in addition to her duties as 10 News First: Midday presenter.

From Monday 10 News First at 5pm reverts to a one hour edition while a late night news bulletin is also coming soon.

Martin White, VP Broadcast News, said: “News is a fast-moving, 24-hour business and 10 is committed to delivering the latest information to viewers as often as possible.”

10 News First: Afternoon will also stream live at 3.30pm on 10 Play, and be available for catch up on the platform, it will be available to watch on 10 News First‘s YouTube channel and shared across multiple social platforms.”

Narelda has been a journalist at Network 10 for over 20 years. The respected presenter started her journalism career at 10 News First in Perth, where she presented the local news bulletin for over a decade, before moving to Sydney in 2020 to join Studio 10 and present News from Sydney. Narelda currently presents 10 News First: Midday.

10’s new afternoon line up, commencing from January 29, is as follows:

3.30pm  10 News First: Afternoon
4.00pm  Neighbours
4.30pm  The Bold and the Beautiful
5.00pm  10 News First
6.00pm  Deal or No Deal

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  2. This is more about meeting the local content quota with studio 10 gone. News dept are working all day so let’s rush a bulletin to air everyday. Surely 10 would get more viewers with breakfast rolling news between between 7am and 9am. Just news without the sunrise crap. And actually be about taking news seriously and considered a quality reputable alternative. But it all comes down to short term costs. Not long term investment.

    1. This is a great idea. Rolling news during the morning timeslot would be an excellent alternative to the lifestyle, entertainment, and other fluff segments that air on Sunrise, Today, and, to a lesser extent, ABC News Breakfast.

    2. Didn’t they try a straight news bulletin before Studio 10 a couple of years ago and it just didn’t last long?

      What I don’t get it why all the commercials are obsessed with filling hours with extra news bulletins but none of them have made the most into their own news channel – even if not a linear channel a streaming channel which loops the bulletins would be fairly easy to achieve.

  4. Is the news so “fast-moving” that the 3:30 news would be any different to the 5pm news? Are they hoping the audience will stick around or do they think there’s an untapped 3:30 audience? I personally don’t see either of those arguments and apart from that I don’t understand what their strategy here is other than this being a filler.

  5. Hi
    Tis sad that channel 10 is purely a Sydney centric television network. We do not watch channel 10 for that very reason. At least channels 7 and 9 present their 4 and 6 pm news from Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide.etc. As a Melbournians I am not remotely interested what is happening in Sydney and I am sure a Sydneysider is not interested in what is happening in Melbourne and I have experienced that with national news from Sydney most of the news is about Sydney, that is why we never watch channel 10’s weekend bulletins.

  6. No one wants this. It’s just lazy programming . If you are at home all day you don’t watch 330 news then 5pm news . You’d watch one or the other

    1. Many local stations in the United States start their morning newscasts at 4:30am, and some even start at 4:00am, so this wouldn’t be entirley unprecendented.

  10. they should put a different newsreader for the midday news to keep it more interesting rather than have the same reader for midday and afternoons, also they should do an early news early in the morning

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