Ten News
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Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten
in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10
studios in Pyrmont
. The network produces a flagship 90-minute local bulletin, Ten News at Five on weeknights alongside national bulletins on weekday mornings and at weekends.
Ten News retains a federal politics bureau in Canberra
, along with foreign offices in Los Angeles
and London
. Ten also draws upon the resources of CBS News
, ITN, APTN
and Reuters
for select international coverage. As well as its five network stations, Ten's news service is broadcast to most of the country via affiliated regional television stations. Ten News also assists in the production of politcal panel program Meet the Press
, and the conservative opinion program The Bolt Report
.
during the 1970s. The 1980s, however, were arguably the network's most successful period with its local Sydney and Melbourne bulletins often rating highest for their 6pm timeslot. The news services underwent a number of name changes including Ten News, Ten Evening News, Eyewitness News and Ten Eyewitness News over the years before finally settling on the Ten News brand in 1994.
A major change to the service occurred in January 1992 when all five of its local bulletins were moved to the 5.00pm time slot. Around the same time, local weekend bulletins were also axed from the network to be replaced by a 30 minute national bulletin from SydneyTen Weekend News, initially presented by John Gatfield and later by Natarsha Belling
and Bill Woods
.
In December 2003, an additional local bulletin was trialled at 7pm weeknights, called Ten News Summer Edition. It was presented in each state capital by one of the Ten News at Five news presenters. The bulletin was discontinued by the start of the 2004 ratings season.
In the 2000s, Ten also introduced limited local content into some markets on weekends. In Perth a localised version of Ten Weekend News was received from Sydney, while during the AFL season Adelaide and Melbourne viewers received local news on a Saturday, presented from Melbourne by George Donikian
. For a short period in 2009, Ten Weekend News also included localised sport inserts for each market.
Ten News has often been described as a 'training ground' for some of Australia's best-known television journalists. Some of the best-known reporters and presenters who launched or spent a major part of their careers at "Ten News" include Jana Wendt
, Kerry O'Brien, Katrina Lee, Charles Slade, Ann Sanders
, Steve Liebmann
, Tim Webster
, Ron Wilson
, Anne Fulwood
, Juanita Phillips
, Liz Hayes
, Jo Pearson, David Johnston
, Chris Masters
, Larry Emdur
, Eddie McGuire
, John Gatfield, Kay McGrath
, Graeme Goodings
, Sharyn Ghidella
, Laurie Oakes
, Geraldine Doogue
, Jennifer Keyte
and Mike Munro
amongst others.
Two months after the relaunch, the national weekend bulletins were re-introduced owing to poor ratings although the 6pm local bulletins continue to air. Later that month, the network announced it would drop its 6:30pm local bulletins on weeknights, extend Ten News at Five to 90 minutes and move George Negus' program to 6:30pm each weeknight. The changes were introduced on Monday 4 April 2011.
Further changes in September 2011 saw the axing of the network's late night bulletin and the state-based 6pm weekend bulletins. The 5pm national bulletin on Saturdays and Sundays was extended to 90 minutes in October 2011. Later that month, the network announced it would axe 6.30 with George Negus and replace with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project (renamed The Project).
with finance news presented by Kathryn Robinson
.
The bulletin was presented by Bill Woods
until he became a co-anchor for the Sydney edition of Ten News at Five.
Ten Early News is essentially two half hour bulletins, run back-to-back each containing news, sport, finance and weather. Many reports from overseas affiliates CBS News
, and ITN are featured and crosses to Ten's Melbourne & Canberra newsrooms are used frequently to cover overnight news.
The bulletin began in January 2006 and features a number of segments unique to its timeslot, such as morning newspaper headlines from the country's major papers. The bulletin provides a more traditional alternative to breakfast programs such as Sunrise on the Seven Network
, Today
on the Nine Network
and ABC News Breakfast
on ABC1
and ABC News 24
- all of which air during the same time slot.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Tim Webster
, Lachlan Kennedy & Ellie Southwood.
on Monday and Tuesday & Natarsha Belling
from Wednesday to Friday.
Until 2004, the bulletin was broadcast at 11:30am, following Good Morning Australia
, and later, 9am with David and Kim
.
In 2004, the bulletin briefly moved to midday (then called Ten News @ Noon) to compete against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
's News at Noon - a decision which proved unpopular. As a result, the bulletin was moved back to its old timeslot of 11:30am the following year and later became a 60-minute bulletin starting at 11am where it remained until early 2010, when it was moved to 9am. The program returned to the 11am timeslot in November 2011.
The bulletin includes daily special features, including sports reports, an entertainment round up and newsmagazine stories from US network CBS
.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Kathryn Robinson
.
and Matt Doran
with a Sports Tonight
segement presented by Rob Canning
and weather presented by Magdelena Rose.
The national bulletin was introduced in 1994 to replace state-based bulletins but axed in January 2011 ahead of the reintroduction of local editions at 6pm. The national edition was reinstated two months later in the wake of poor ratings. The 6pm local bulletins continued to air until October 2011 when the 5pm national news was extended to 90 minutes.
Fill-in presenters include Kathryn Robinson
.
and Sandra Sully
with sports presenter Brad McEwan
, weather presenter Tim Bailey
and traffic reporter Vic Lorusso.
The 5pm Sydney bulletin is broadcast from the network's main news studios at Pyrmont
and simulcast across most of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory via Southern Cross Ten
.
For almost eleven years between 1995 and 2005, the program was presented by Ron Wilson
and Jessica Rowe
, until Rowe moved to present the Nine Network
's Today
. She was replaced by Ten's then US correspondent Deborah Knight
in 2006.
On 9 December 2008, it was announced that veteran presenter Ron Wilson
would be moved to the Ten Early News from 2009. Wilson presented his final Sydney bulletin on Friday 16 January 2009. in November 2011 ten news added ten news at six for the final half hour of the 90 minute bulliten
In October 2011, Sandra Sully
replaced Deborah Knight
following the axing of Ten Late News.
Fill-in presenters include Matt Doran & Kathryn Robinson
(News), Adam Hawse & Victoria Murphy (Sport), Magdalena Roze (Weather).
and Helen Kapalos
with sports presenter Stephen Quartermain, weather presenter Mike Larkan
and traffic reporter Emma Notarfrancesco.
The 5pm Melbourne bulletin is produced and broadcast from ATV-10
's Como Centre studios in South Yarra and simulcast across most of Victoria (via Southern Cross Ten
& Ten Mildura), to Tasmania via Tasmania Digital Television and to the city of Darwin via Darwin Digital Television
.
Past presenters of Ten's Melbourne news included David Johnston
, who anchored the flagship evening bulletin for 16 years (alongside the likes of Jana Wendt
and Jo Pearson) until his departure for HSV-7
in 1996. Current main anchor Mal Walden joined ATV-10 in April 1987 shortly after his abrupt sacking by HSV-7 - he took over the weekday 5pm bulletin in 1996 alongside Jennifer Hansen
, who co-anchored until 2006. George Donikian
was a regular fill-in anchor on the 5pm bulletin and presented shorter Saturday bulletins during Ten's AFL coverage (while working as a main anchor for the 5pm news in Adelaide, presented at the time from Melbourne). Donikian presented the Friday & Weekend News until his departure from the network in September 2011, following the axing of the local weekend bulletins.
Ten News Melbourne was originally produced at Ten's Nunawading
studios until news operations were moved to the Como Centre in 1992.
Fill-in presenters include Stephen Quartermain & Hermione Kitson (News), Ian Cohen, Rob Waters & Kelli Underwood
(Sport), Rakhal Ebeli (Weather) and Nicola Wood (Traffic).
and Georgina Lewis
with sports presenter Peter O'Dempsey, weather presenter Amanda McLeay and traffic reporter Jayce Barker.
The 5pm Brisbane bulletins is produced and broadcast from TVQ
's Mt Coot-tha studios and simulcast across most of Queensland via Southern Cross Ten
. Reporters are also based at three remote newsrooms on the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and in North Queensland.
Former long-serving anchor Marie-Louise Theile
left Ten News on 14 December 2007 to spend more time with her family. Other previous presenters include Geoff Mullins, Tracey Spicer
and Brad McEwan
.
Fill-in presenters include Max Futcher & Lexy Hamilton-Smith (News), Johnathan Williams (Sport), Tony Auden & Summer Burke (Weather)
(Monday - Thursday) and Belinda Heggen
(Friday) with sports presenter Mark Aiston
and weather presenter Jane Reilly.
The 5pm Adelaide bulletin is presented from ADS-10
's Adelaide studios on the corner of Hutt & Wakefield Streets and simulcast to Port Lincoln & the Upper Spencer Gulf of South Australia as well as the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales via Southern Cross Ten and to the Riverland and the South East areas of South Australia via Win TEN
.
Between December 1987 and December 1999, local news production for Ten Adelaide was based at the former ADS-10 studios in North Adelaide. Presenters during this period included Keith Martin, Steve Whittam, Sue Barron, Caroline Ainslie, and Peter Sellen.
In 2000, Ten moved the majority of the presentation for the 5pm Adelaide bulletin to the network's Melbourne studios
in South Yarra. At the time digital television was in its infancy and the network claimed that cost of upgrading the local North Adelaide newsroom to digital could not be justified. The bulletin was presented from Melbourne for the next decade while sport and weather segments were still presented locally from the station's studios in North Adelaide and subsequently, from 2007, in newly built studios in Hutt Street. Initially, in 2000, George Donikian
and Nikki Dwyer relocated from Adelaide to present the new Melbourne based bulletin. Dwyer eventually resigned as co-presenter in 2001 after she decided to move back to Adelaide, to be closer to her family. Dwyer was subsequently replaced as co-presenter by, Kelly Nestor who resigned in 2006 and was succeeded by Rebecca Morse
.
On Friday 21 January 2011, George Donikian
presented his final Melbourne-based bulletin for Ten News Adelaide. Studio presentation subsequently returned to ADS-10's Adelaide studios on Monday 24 January 2011, to coincide with the launch of the short-lived 6:30pm local bulletin. Donikian, who had presented Ten News Adelaide since 1991, remained in Melbourne to co-present Melbourne's Ten News at Five bulletin and latterly anchored the station's weekend bulletins until their axing in September 2011.
Over the years, fill in presenters of Ten News Adelaide have included Peter Sellen, Esther Lindstrom (Summer 2008-2009), Belinda Heggen for a few weeks in late 2008, Mignon Stewart (née Henne), Max Futcher, Luke Waters, Katrina Schute and Deborah Knight
. Previous fill-in sports presenters include Rob Popplestone while Melody Horrill
and Jodie Blewitt have both been fill-in weather presenters. Fill-in presenters include Sports Director Corey Winguard and AFL reporter Ian Shuttleworth who both present sport.
and Craig Smart
with sports presenter Tim Gossage
and weather presenter Michael Schultz
.
The 5pm Perth bulletin is produced and broadcast from NEW-10's Dianella
studios and simulcast to most of regional Western Australia via Ten West
.
Ten originally moved production of the Perth bulletin to Pyrmont
in 2000, citing high costs of converting the network's Dianella studios. Then-presenters Greg Pearce
and Christina Morrissy commuted to Sydney to present the bulletin. Morrissy later resigned from these duties after suffering deep vein thrombosis
on a flight and was replaced by Celina Edmonds. Pearce also later resigned to return to Perth (Pearce now presents the Perth edition of Nine News), while Edmonds resigned to spend more time with her family. She now presents mornings on Sky News Australia
three days per week. Following their departures, Tim Webster
and Charmaine Dragun
became the main presenters of Ten News Perth from 2005. After Dragun's untimely death on 2 November 2007, Webster became the solo presenter and continued to present the bulletin until May 2008, after which presentation was alternated between Ron Wilson, Narelda Jacobs, Deborah Knight and Sandra Sully in Sydney for the seven weeks between Webster's departure and the relocation of the bulletin back to Perth.
On 18 January 2008, Network Ten announced that studio production of Ten News would return to Perth. The network denied that the move was related to the death of Charmaine Dragun as the decision to switch production had been made well beforehand. Narelda Jacobs began presenting in the Sydney studios in May 2008 before Ten News Perth presentation returned to the Dianella studios on Monday 23 June 2008. Between then and April 2011, Ten News Perth was the only bulletin not to have the dual-presenter format.
aired at around 10.30pm on weeknights and often later on Fridays (11:00pm).
The bulletin was presented for almost 16 years by Sandra Sully
. In later years, Brad McEwan
presented Sports Tonight
as part of the program. The Friday edition was broadcast as two separate programs with the Late News presented by Kathryn Robinson
or Tim Webster
with Rob Canning
presenting Sports Tonight
. A financial news update was also featured each weeknight.
In September 2011, the network announced that the bulletin would be axed, citing falling ratings. The final edition, presented by Tim Webster
, aired on Friday 30 September 2011. Sandra Sully
became co-anchor of Ten News at Five in Sydney, replacing Deborah Knight
, while Sports Tonight, which was also axed as a separate program, was incorporated into the 5pm bulletin.
The program initially begun as 6PM with George Negus, however due to poor ratings against the two flagship 6pm bulletins on Seven
and Nine, the program was moved to 6:30pm on Monday 4 April 2011, thus competing against Today Tonight
and A Current Affair.
On 19 October 2011, the network announced it would axe the program and replace it with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project
(renamed The Project) at 6:30pm. The final edition of 6.30 with George Negus aired on Friday 28 October 2011.
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10
TEN-10
TEN is the callsign of Network Ten's flagship Sydney television station. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited , and began transmission on 5 April 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic.-History:TEN often lagged in...
studios in Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
. The network produces a flagship 90-minute local bulletin, Ten News at Five on weeknights alongside national bulletins on weekday mornings and at weekends.
Ten News retains a federal politics bureau in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, along with foreign offices in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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and London
London
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. Ten also draws upon the resources of CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
, ITN, APTN
Associated Press Television News
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and Reuters
Reuters
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for select international coverage. As well as its five network stations, Ten's news service is broadcast to most of the country via affiliated regional television stations. Ten News also assists in the production of politcal panel program Meet the Press
Meet the Press (Australian TV program)
Meet the Press, a presentation of Ten News, is an Australian Sunday morning talk show based on the national political agenda. Hosted by Network Ten's Parliament House Bureau Chief and Political Editor Paul Bongiorno, the program has firmly established itself as an agenda-setting forum that attracts...
, and the conservative opinion program The Bolt Report
The Bolt Report
The Bolt Report is an Australian Sunday morning political discussion show. Broadcast by Network Ten on Sunday mornings at 10 am and repeated at 4:30 pm, it is hosted by conservative commentator and Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. The programme emphasises a right wing agenda and is consistently...
.
History
Ten News introduced the concept of hour-long, co-anchored news to Australia in the form of Eyewitness NewsEyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
during the 1970s. The 1980s, however, were arguably the network's most successful period with its local Sydney and Melbourne bulletins often rating highest for their 6pm timeslot. The news services underwent a number of name changes including Ten News, Ten Evening News, Eyewitness News and Ten Eyewitness News over the years before finally settling on the Ten News brand in 1994.
A major change to the service occurred in January 1992 when all five of its local bulletins were moved to the 5.00pm time slot. Around the same time, local weekend bulletins were also axed from the network to be replaced by a 30 minute national bulletin from SydneyTen Weekend News, initially presented by John Gatfield and later by Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling is an Australian news presenter on Network Ten.Belling is currently presenter of Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend with Matt Doran.-Career:...
and Bill Woods
Bill Woods
William "Bill" Woods is an Australian television broadcaster.Woods is currently the presenter of Network Ten's Ten News at Five in Sydney, alongside Sandra Sully.-Early Career:...
.
In December 2003, an additional local bulletin was trialled at 7pm weeknights, called Ten News Summer Edition. It was presented in each state capital by one of the Ten News at Five news presenters. The bulletin was discontinued by the start of the 2004 ratings season.
In the 2000s, Ten also introduced limited local content into some markets on weekends. In Perth a localised version of Ten Weekend News was received from Sydney, while during the AFL season Adelaide and Melbourne viewers received local news on a Saturday, presented from Melbourne by George Donikian
George Donikian
-Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....
. For a short period in 2009, Ten Weekend News also included localised sport inserts for each market.
Ten News has often been described as a 'training ground' for some of Australia's best-known television journalists. Some of the best-known reporters and presenters who launched or spent a major part of their careers at "Ten News" include Jana Wendt
Jana Wendt
-Early life:Wendt was born to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.-Career:Wendt's television career began as a news presenter for ATV-10 evening news...
, Kerry O'Brien, Katrina Lee, Charles Slade, Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders
Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and she also presents hourly Seven News updates through The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.-Career:...
, Steve Liebmann
Steve Liebmann
Steve Liebmann is an Australian television anchor and radio broadcaster, best known for co-hosting the Today news and current affairs show on the Nine Network between 1982 and 1986, and again from 1990 to 2005....
, Tim Webster
Tim Webster
Tim Webster is a Australian television and radio personality. He currently is a fill-in presenter for Ten News....
, Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson
Ronald Lawrence Wilson is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey player and current head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is also the former head coach of the San Jose...
, Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood is a former Australian newsreader and current affairs host who was born in South Australia's Riverland.-Career:Fulwood began her television career at ADS-7 in Adelaide in 1983 initally as a sports reporter...
, Juanita Phillips
Juanita Phillips
Juanita Phillips , is an Australian journalist and news presenter, currently working for the ABC as main weeknight presenter for the New South Wales edition of ABC News at 7pm and evening presenter for ABC News 24 bulletins....
, Liz Hayes
Liz Hayes
Elizabeth "Liz" Hayes is an Australian television presenter. She was born in Taree, New South Wales...
, Jo Pearson, David Johnston
David Johnston
David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author and statesman who is the current Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation....
, Chris Masters
Chris Masters
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, Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur is an Australian television personality. He is currently co-hosting Saturday's Weekend Sunrise alongside Samantha Armytage....
, Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire
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, John Gatfield, Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath
Kay McGrath is an award winning journalist who is a presenter of Seven News in Brisbane, Australia, along with Rod Young.Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the...
, Graeme Goodings
Graeme Goodings
Graeme Goodings is a veteran Australian television journalist, best known for his role as a presenter at Seven News in Adelaide.-Early career:...
, Sharyn Ghidella
Sharyn Ghidella
Sharyn Ghidella is the weekend presenter on Seven News Brisbane.Ghidella was born in Babinda, in Far North Queensland. Her career in television began in the region, as a reporter and presenter for North Queensland Television . She also produced and presented the regional weekly current affairs...
, Laurie Oakes
Laurie Oakes
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, Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Doogue
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, Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte
Jennifer Keyte is an Australian television journalist.Keyte is currently weekend presenter of Seven News in Melbourne. -Career:...
and Mike Munro
Mike Munro
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amongst others.
News expansion
In September 2010, the network announced a major expansion of its news service. From 24 January 2011, It would expand its evening news output by introducing a national current affairs program at 6pm, 6PM with George Negus, and an extra local bulletin at 6:30pm on weeknights, with the Ten Evening News brand reinstated. In addition, the network announced the re-introduction of local weekend bulletins at 6pm and the axing of its 5pm national bulletin.Two months after the relaunch, the national weekend bulletins were re-introduced owing to poor ratings although the 6pm local bulletins continue to air. Later that month, the network announced it would drop its 6:30pm local bulletins on weeknights, extend Ten News at Five to 90 minutes and move George Negus' program to 6:30pm each weeknight. The changes were introduced on Monday 4 April 2011.
Further changes in September 2011 saw the axing of the network's late night bulletin and the state-based 6pm weekend bulletins. The 5pm national bulletin on Saturdays and Sundays was extended to 90 minutes in October 2011. Later that month, the network announced it would axe 6.30 with George Negus and replace with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project (renamed The Project).
Ten Early News
Ten Early News is an hour-long bulletin, broadcast live from Ten's Pyrmont studios on weekdays from 6am to 7am, and presented by Ron WilsonRon Wilson
Ronald Lawrence Wilson is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey player and current head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is also the former head coach of the San Jose...
with finance news presented by Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson is an Australian journalist with Australia's Network Ten.Robinson is currently the Finance presenter on Ten Early News and a regular fill in presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five, Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend...
.
The bulletin was presented by Bill Woods
Bill Woods
William "Bill" Woods is an Australian television broadcaster.Woods is currently the presenter of Network Ten's Ten News at Five in Sydney, alongside Sandra Sully.-Early Career:...
until he became a co-anchor for the Sydney edition of Ten News at Five.
Ten Early News is essentially two half hour bulletins, run back-to-back each containing news, sport, finance and weather. Many reports from overseas affiliates CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
, and ITN are featured and crosses to Ten's Melbourne & Canberra newsrooms are used frequently to cover overnight news.
The bulletin began in January 2006 and features a number of segments unique to its timeslot, such as morning newspaper headlines from the country's major papers. The bulletin provides a more traditional alternative to breakfast programs such as Sunrise on the Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
, Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
on the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
and ABC News Breakfast
ABC News Breakfast
ABC News Breakfast is an Australian breakfast television programme which broadcasts on ABC1 & ABC News 24 from 6am - 9am on weekdays. The program airs live in all Australian timezones on the high-definition digital free-to-air channel ABC News 24...
on ABC1
ABC1
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and ABC News 24
ABC News 24
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- all of which air during the same time slot.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Tim Webster
Tim Webster
Tim Webster is a Australian television and radio personality. He currently is a fill-in presenter for Ten News....
, Lachlan Kennedy & Ellie Southwood.
Ten Morning News
Ten Morning News is an hour-long bulletin produced from Ten's Pyrmont studios in Sydney, airing at 11am on weekdays, and presented by Ron WilsonRon Wilson (newsreader)
Ron Wilson is a news presenter with Network Ten. an Australian television network.WIlson is currently the presenter of Ten Early News and also Ten Morning News on Monday & Tuesday...
on Monday and Tuesday & Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling is an Australian news presenter on Network Ten.Belling is currently presenter of Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend with Matt Doran.-Career:...
from Wednesday to Friday.
Until 2004, the bulletin was broadcast at 11:30am, following Good Morning Australia
Good Morning Australia
Good Morning Australia from Network Ten was the name of two different programs. This article is for Bert Newton's morning program, not to be confused with the breakfast news program of the same name....
, and later, 9am with David and Kim
9am with David and Kim
9am with David & Kim was an Australian morning show which premiered on Monday 30 January 2006 on Network Ten. It aired live from 9am - 11am weekday mornings, and was hosted by former National Nine News presenter Kim Watkins and former Getaway reporter David Reyne...
.
In 2004, the bulletin briefly moved to midday (then called Ten News @ Noon) to compete against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's News at Noon - a decision which proved unpopular. As a result, the bulletin was moved back to its old timeslot of 11:30am the following year and later became a 60-minute bulletin starting at 11am where it remained until early 2010, when it was moved to 9am. The program returned to the 11am timeslot in November 2011.
The bulletin includes daily special features, including sports reports, an entertainment round up and newsmagazine stories from US network CBS
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
.
Fill-in presenters for this bulletin include Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson is an Australian journalist with Australia's Network Ten.Robinson is currently the Finance presenter on Ten Early News and a regular fill in presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five, Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend...
.
Ten News at Five: Weekend
Ten News at Five: Weekend airs on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 5pm and is presented by Natarsha BellingNatarsha Belling
Natarsha Belling is an Australian news presenter on Network Ten.Belling is currently presenter of Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend with Matt Doran.-Career:...
and Matt Doran
Matt Doran (journalist)
Matt Doran is a senior reporter and presenter with Network Ten.Doran is currently a presenter of Ten News at Five: Weekend with Natarsha Belling.-Career:...
with a Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
segement presented by Rob Canning
Rob Canning
Rob Canning is a journalist and presenter of Network Ten's Sports Tonight, he has been with the program since 2000. He previously presented the show on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and when Brad McEwan is away until the cancellation of the program in September 2011...
and weather presented by Magdelena Rose.
The national bulletin was introduced in 1994 to replace state-based bulletins but axed in January 2011 ahead of the reintroduction of local editions at 6pm. The national edition was reinstated two months later in the wake of poor ratings. The 6pm local bulletins continued to air until October 2011 when the 5pm national news was extended to 90 minutes.
Fill-in presenters include Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson is an Australian journalist with Australia's Network Ten.Robinson is currently the Finance presenter on Ten Early News and a regular fill in presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five, Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend...
.
Local Bulletins
Ten produces a flagship 90-minute news program each weeknight for each of its five metropolitan markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Ten News at Five also incorporates a national CommSec financial news report (presented by Commonwealth Bank staff).Sydney
The Sydney edition of Ten News at Five is presented by Bill WoodsBill Woods
William "Bill" Woods is an Australian television broadcaster.Woods is currently the presenter of Network Ten's Ten News at Five in Sydney, alongside Sandra Sully.-Early Career:...
and Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully may refer to:*Sandra Sully , Australian television presenter*Sandra Sully...
with sports presenter Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan is an Australian television personality and sports journalist.McEwan is currently sports presenter on Sydney's Ten News at Five and probably best known for his hosting duties on Network Ten's Sports Tonight....
, weather presenter Tim Bailey
Tim Bailey
Tim Bailey is an Australian television presenter and is seen nightly across the Ten Network in New South Wales as weatherman.Bailey started his career as a journalist in his hometown of Hobart with the Hobart Mercury, following in the footsteps of two generations of his family.In Hobart he was a...
and traffic reporter Vic Lorusso.
The 5pm Sydney bulletin is broadcast from the network's main news studios at Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
and simulcast across most of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory via Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
.
For almost eleven years between 1995 and 2005, the program was presented by Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson (newsreader)
Ron Wilson is a news presenter with Network Ten. an Australian television network.WIlson is currently the presenter of Ten Early News and also Ten Morning News on Monday & Tuesday...
and Jessica Rowe
Jessica Rowe
Jessica Rowe is an Australian television news presenter. Rowe attended Sydney Girls High School in Sydney, and completed a Communications degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM...
, until Rowe moved to present the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
's Today
Today (Australian TV program)
Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...
. She was replaced by Ten's then US correspondent Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
in 2006.
On 9 December 2008, it was announced that veteran presenter Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson
Ronald Lawrence Wilson is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey player and current head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is also the former head coach of the San Jose...
would be moved to the Ten Early News from 2009. Wilson presented his final Sydney bulletin on Friday 16 January 2009. in November 2011 ten news added ten news at six for the final half hour of the 90 minute bulliten
In October 2011, Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully may refer to:*Sandra Sully , Australian television presenter*Sandra Sully...
replaced Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
following the axing of Ten Late News.
Fill-in presenters include Matt Doran & Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson is an Australian journalist with Australia's Network Ten.Robinson is currently the Finance presenter on Ten Early News and a regular fill in presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five, Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend...
(News), Adam Hawse & Victoria Murphy (Sport), Magdalena Roze (Weather).
Melbourne
The Melbourne edition of Ten News at Five is presented by Mal WaldenMal Walden
Mal Walden is an Australian journalist and television news presenter based in Melbourne.Walden is currently presenter of Melbourne's Ten News at Five with Helen Kapalos....
and Helen Kapalos
Helen Kapalos
Helen Kapalos is an Australian television news presenter.Kapalos began her career in her hometown of Newcastle, New South Wales, as a reporter for ABC Radio in 1994, before moving to television on SBS in Sydney...
with sports presenter Stephen Quartermain, weather presenter Mike Larkan
Mike Larkan
Mike Larkan is an Australian television presenter.He is best known for his work on Network Ten's News, providing weather reports on location at various popular locations around the city of Melbourne....
and traffic reporter Emma Notarfrancesco.
The 5pm Melbourne bulletin is produced and broadcast from ATV-10
ATV-10
ATV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia, part of Network Ten - one of the three major Australian commercial television networks.-History:...
's Como Centre studios in South Yarra and simulcast across most of Victoria (via Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
& Ten Mildura), to Tasmania via Tasmania Digital Television and to the city of Darwin via Darwin Digital Television
DTD (TV station)
Darwin Digital Television is a digital television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. It is jointly owned by Nine Entertainment and the Macquarie Media Group .-History:...
.
Past presenters of Ten's Melbourne news included David Johnston
David Johnston (Newsreader)
David Johnston is a retired Australian television news presenter.Johnston, known as DJ to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, presented his last bulletin on the Seven Network on 23 September 2005...
, who anchored the flagship evening bulletin for 16 years (alongside the likes of Jana Wendt
Jana Wendt
-Early life:Wendt was born to Czech parents who emigrated to Australia in 1949, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.-Career:Wendt's television career began as a news presenter for ATV-10 evening news...
and Jo Pearson) until his departure for HSV-7
HSV-7
HSV is a television station in Melbourne. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, and its first and oldest station, having been launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne....
in 1996. Current main anchor Mal Walden joined ATV-10 in April 1987 shortly after his abrupt sacking by HSV-7 - he took over the weekday 5pm bulletin in 1996 alongside Jennifer Hansen
Jennifer Hansen
Jennifer Hansen is a former news presenter on Australia's Network Ten and former news presenter on Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Hansen was born in Orbost, Victoria.-Biography:Jennifer attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School, in Brighton, Victoria...
, who co-anchored until 2006. George Donikian
George Donikian
-Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....
was a regular fill-in anchor on the 5pm bulletin and presented shorter Saturday bulletins during Ten's AFL coverage (while working as a main anchor for the 5pm news in Adelaide, presented at the time from Melbourne). Donikian presented the Friday & Weekend News until his departure from the network in September 2011, following the axing of the local weekend bulletins.
Ten News Melbourne was originally produced at Ten's Nunawading
Nunawading, Victoria
Nunawading is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse...
studios until news operations were moved to the Como Centre in 1992.
Fill-in presenters include Stephen Quartermain & Hermione Kitson (News), Ian Cohen, Rob Waters & Kelli Underwood
Kelli Underwood
Kelli Underwood is a radio and television sports journalist and sportscaster specialising in Australian rules football. She is notable as being the first woman in history to call an Australian Football League match on television which is seen by many as a landmark for women in Australian media...
(Sport), Rakhal Ebeli (Weather) and Nicola Wood (Traffic).
Brisbane
The Brisbane edition of Ten News at Five is presented by Bill McDonaldBill McDonald
Bill McDonald is an Australian journalist and news presenter.McDonald is currently the presenter of Brisbane's Ten News at Five with Georgina Lewis....
and Georgina Lewis
Georgina Lewis
Georgina Lewis is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Lewis is currently a presenter of Brisbane's Ten News at Five with Bill McDonald....
with sports presenter Peter O'Dempsey, weather presenter Amanda McLeay and traffic reporter Jayce Barker.
The 5pm Brisbane bulletins is produced and broadcast from TVQ
TVQ
TVQ is the Brisbane television station of Network Ten in Australia.TVQ may also refer to:* TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, a television station in Fukuoka, Japan...
's Mt Coot-tha studios and simulcast across most of Queensland via Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
. Reporters are also based at three remote newsrooms on the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and in North Queensland.
Former long-serving anchor Marie-Louise Theile
Marie-Louise Theile
Marie-Louise Theile is a former Australian news presenter. She presented Ten News at Five in Brisbane.Born in Brisbane Theile graduated at the University of Queensland. Theile worked as a reporter for The Sun, before she moved to New York where she worked at Elle magazine. She then spent time in...
left Ten News on 14 December 2007 to spend more time with her family. Other previous presenters include Geoff Mullins, Tracey Spicer
Tracey Spicer
Tracey Spicer is an Australian journalist, who worked as a national presenter for Network Ten's news bulletins Ten Weekend News, Ten Morning News and Ten Late News - Weekend Edition in the 1990's and 2000's....
and Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan is an Australian television personality and sports journalist.McEwan is currently sports presenter on Sydney's Ten News at Five and probably best known for his hosting duties on Network Ten's Sports Tonight....
.
Fill-in presenters include Max Futcher & Lexy Hamilton-Smith (News), Johnathan Williams (Sport), Tony Auden & Summer Burke (Weather)
Adelaide
The Adelaide edition of Ten News at Five is presented by Rebecca MorseRebecca Morse
Rebecca Morse is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Morse is currently presenter of Adelaide's Ten News at Five Monday to Thursday....
(Monday - Thursday) and Belinda Heggen
Belinda Heggen
Belinda Heggen is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Heggen is currently presenter of Adelaide's Ten News at Five on Friday....
(Friday) with sports presenter Mark Aiston
Mark Aiston
Mark Aiston is an Australian sports journalist and current sports presenter for Ten News in Adelaide.Aiston began his career in 1982 as a race announcer for 5DN before becoming sports host for ABC News in Adelaide. He joined Ten Network in 1996 as chief Australian rules football reporter, before...
and weather presenter Jane Reilly.
The 5pm Adelaide bulletin is presented from ADS-10
ADS-10
ADS Adelaide is an Australian television station, owned by, and affiliated with the Ten Network.-History:ADS-10 began as ADS-7 on 24 October 1959, before being owned by those affiliated with the Ten Network. On 27 December 1987, ADS-7 and SAS-10 switched affiliations, ADS moving to channel 10, SAS...
's Adelaide studios on the corner of Hutt & Wakefield Streets and simulcast to Port Lincoln & the Upper Spencer Gulf of South Australia as well as the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales via Southern Cross Ten and to the Riverland and the South East areas of South Australia via Win TEN
MGS/LRS
MGS and LRS are television stations in South Australia. Both are relays of ADS-10 in AdelaidePrior to 2004, SES/RTS was the only commercial television station broadcasting in Mount Gambier and the south east of South Australia. The station broadcast a mixture of programs derived from the Seven...
.
Between December 1987 and December 1999, local news production for Ten Adelaide was based at the former ADS-10 studios in North Adelaide. Presenters during this period included Keith Martin, Steve Whittam, Sue Barron, Caroline Ainslie, and Peter Sellen.
In 2000, Ten moved the majority of the presentation for the 5pm Adelaide bulletin to the network's Melbourne studios
ATV-10
ATV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia, part of Network Ten - one of the three major Australian commercial television networks.-History:...
in South Yarra. At the time digital television was in its infancy and the network claimed that cost of upgrading the local North Adelaide newsroom to digital could not be justified. The bulletin was presented from Melbourne for the next decade while sport and weather segments were still presented locally from the station's studios in North Adelaide and subsequently, from 2007, in newly built studios in Hutt Street. Initially, in 2000, George Donikian
George Donikian
-Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....
and Nikki Dwyer relocated from Adelaide to present the new Melbourne based bulletin. Dwyer eventually resigned as co-presenter in 2001 after she decided to move back to Adelaide, to be closer to her family. Dwyer was subsequently replaced as co-presenter by, Kelly Nestor who resigned in 2006 and was succeeded by Rebecca Morse
Rebecca Morse
Rebecca Morse is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Morse is currently presenter of Adelaide's Ten News at Five Monday to Thursday....
.
On Friday 21 January 2011, George Donikian
George Donikian
-Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....
presented his final Melbourne-based bulletin for Ten News Adelaide. Studio presentation subsequently returned to ADS-10's Adelaide studios on Monday 24 January 2011, to coincide with the launch of the short-lived 6:30pm local bulletin. Donikian, who had presented Ten News Adelaide since 1991, remained in Melbourne to co-present Melbourne's Ten News at Five bulletin and latterly anchored the station's weekend bulletins until their axing in September 2011.
Over the years, fill in presenters of Ten News Adelaide have included Peter Sellen, Esther Lindstrom (Summer 2008-2009), Belinda Heggen for a few weeks in late 2008, Mignon Stewart (née Henne), Max Futcher, Luke Waters, Katrina Schute and Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
. Previous fill-in sports presenters include Rob Popplestone while Melody Horrill
Melody Horrill
Melody Horrill is the weather presenter and reporter with Seven News in Adelaide.After working at both the Nine Network and ABC TV, Melody joined Ten News in Adelaide as environment reporter. She was also the regular fill-in weather presenter...
and Jodie Blewitt have both been fill-in weather presenters. Fill-in presenters include Sports Director Corey Winguard and AFL reporter Ian Shuttleworth who both present sport.
Perth
The Perth edition of Ten News at Five is presented by Narelda JacobsNarelda Jacobs
Narelda Jacobs ia an Australia television journalist with Network Ten in Australia. She has been the lead news presenter for Ten News at Five in Perth, Western Australia since 2008....
and Craig Smart
Craig Smart
Craig Smart co-hosts Ten News at Five in Perth, Western Australia with Narelda Jacobs. Craig completed his Bachelor of Journalism at Murdoch University in 1998 and began his career as a journalist with West Australian Newspapers in Albany. He spent ten years with the ABC as a reporter and radio...
with sports presenter Tim Gossage
Tim Gossage
Tim Gossage is an Australian sports commentator and Australian rules football coach based in Perth, Western Australia.-Television:Gossage joined Network Ten in Perth in 1990....
and weather presenter Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz (news)
Michael Schultz is an Australian television personality and weather presenter.Schultz was educated in Glenelg, South Australia at Kapunda and Sacred Heart College. In 1985 in Sydney he joined the ABC as a trainee rural reporter and the following year was the acting rural reporter for the Sydney,...
.
The 5pm Perth bulletin is produced and broadcast from NEW-10's Dianella
Dianella, Western Australia
Dianella is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stirling.Dianella was named after the botanical title of a small blue lily, Dianella revoluta, which is a narrow-leafed plant which was plentiful in the area prior to residential development. Dianella is home...
studios and simulcast to most of regional Western Australia via Ten West
Ten West
Ten West is the official name for a digital television station broadcasting in rural Western Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Prime Television Limited and is an affiliate of Network Ten, broadcasting a direct feed of NEW-10 from Perth....
.
Ten originally moved production of the Perth bulletin to Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
in 2000, citing high costs of converting the network's Dianella studios. Then-presenters Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce
Greg Pearce is currently presenter of Nine News Perth, a position he has held since early 2008.Originally a journalist with the ABC Greg became best known as presenter of the Ten News bulletin for Perth, prior to that he had been a news presenter for Seven News in Melbourne and had a short stint...
and Christina Morrissy commuted to Sydney to present the bulletin. Morrissy later resigned from these duties after suffering deep vein thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein. Deep vein thrombosis commonly affects the leg veins or the deep veins of the pelvis. Occasionally the veins of the arm are affected...
on a flight and was replaced by Celina Edmonds. Pearce also later resigned to return to Perth (Pearce now presents the Perth edition of Nine News), while Edmonds resigned to spend more time with her family. She now presents mornings on Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms....
three days per week. Following their departures, Tim Webster
Tim Webster
Tim Webster is a Australian television and radio personality. He currently is a fill-in presenter for Ten News....
and Charmaine Dragun
Charmaine Dragun
Charmaine Dragun was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was, with Tim Webster, the regular presenter of Ten News Perth's 5pm bulletin, which was broadcast at the time from the TEN-10 Sydney studios at Pyrmont...
became the main presenters of Ten News Perth from 2005. After Dragun's untimely death on 2 November 2007, Webster became the solo presenter and continued to present the bulletin until May 2008, after which presentation was alternated between Ron Wilson, Narelda Jacobs, Deborah Knight and Sandra Sully in Sydney for the seven weeks between Webster's departure and the relocation of the bulletin back to Perth.
On 18 January 2008, Network Ten announced that studio production of Ten News would return to Perth. The network denied that the move was related to the death of Charmaine Dragun as the decision to switch production had been made well beforehand. Narelda Jacobs began presenting in the Sydney studios in May 2008 before Ten News Perth presentation returned to the Dianella studios on Monday 23 June 2008. Between then and April 2011, Ten News Perth was the only bulletin not to have the dual-presenter format.
Ten Late News and Sports Tonight
Ten Late News and Sports TonightSports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
aired at around 10.30pm on weeknights and often later on Fridays (11:00pm).
The bulletin was presented for almost 16 years by Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully may refer to:*Sandra Sully , Australian television presenter*Sandra Sully...
. In later years, Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan
Brad McEwan is an Australian television personality and sports journalist.McEwan is currently sports presenter on Sydney's Ten News at Five and probably best known for his hosting duties on Network Ten's Sports Tonight....
presented Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
as part of the program. The Friday edition was broadcast as two separate programs with the Late News presented by Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson is an Australian journalist with Australia's Network Ten.Robinson is currently the Finance presenter on Ten Early News and a regular fill in presenter for Sydney's Ten News at Five, Ten Morning News and Ten News at Five: Weekend...
or Tim Webster
Tim Webster
Tim Webster is a Australian television and radio personality. He currently is a fill-in presenter for Ten News....
with Rob Canning
Rob Canning
Rob Canning is a journalist and presenter of Network Ten's Sports Tonight, he has been with the program since 2000. He previously presented the show on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and when Brad McEwan is away until the cancellation of the program in September 2011...
presenting Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
. A financial news update was also featured each weeknight.
In September 2011, the network announced that the bulletin would be axed, citing falling ratings. The final edition, presented by Tim Webster
Tim Webster
Tim Webster is a Australian television and radio personality. He currently is a fill-in presenter for Ten News....
, aired on Friday 30 September 2011. Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully may refer to:*Sandra Sully , Australian television presenter*Sandra Sully...
became co-anchor of Ten News at Five in Sydney, replacing Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight
Deborah Knight, is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Knight is currently news presenter on Weekend Today and Monday & Friday news presenter on Today.-Career:...
, while Sports Tonight, which was also axed as a separate program, was incorporated into the 5pm bulletin.
6.30 with George Negus
6.30 with George Negus was a short-lived national current affairs program, presented from Ten's Sydney studios in Pyrmont. The program was launched on 24 January 2011 and took an in depth look at key national and international issues with reports from correspondents based around Australia and around the world.The program initially begun as 6PM with George Negus, however due to poor ratings against the two flagship 6pm bulletins on Seven
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
and Nine, the program was moved to 6:30pm on Monday 4 April 2011, thus competing against Today Tonight
Today Tonight
Today Tonight is a controversial Australian News and Current Affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....
and A Current Affair.
On 19 October 2011, the network announced it would axe the program and replace it with an hour-long version of The 7PM Project
The 7PM Project
The Project is an Australian talk show television program airing weeknights across Australia on Network Ten. The formerly half hour long show premiered on 20 July 2009, and is hosted by Charlie Pickering, Carrie Bickmore and Dave Hughes, with a rotating daily guest panelist...
(renamed The Project) at 6:30pm. The final edition of 6.30 with George Negus aired on Friday 28 October 2011.