Lofty on a high
Posted January 19th, 2010 by debritz
It wasn't just the brief return of Bruce Paige over Christmas that got people switching to Channel 9's Brisbane news. According to a network media release, "Nine News celebrated the return of [usual weeknight reader] Andrew Lofthouse last week with a solid victory". Nine News' weekday bulletin claimed the week with five wins out of five and an average viewing audience of 232,000 to Seven’s 208,000. According to the release "it was Nine News Queensland’s second weekly win for the year to date, claiming weeks 1 and 3 with Seven winning week 2 by the narrowest of margins." It's great to see some competition between the stations that doesn't just involve one-upmanship in Haiti.
PS: Nine also says new mum Melissa Downes will be back in the newsreading chair on February 8.
When I read that Brett, I thought "Lets Go Naked" was reforming.
I remember saying to a friend in December, that Seven was going to struggle through summer, as Deal has been skewing south for months (a effect not replicated elsewhere). That's why I have not just been suggesting, but advocating that Seven moves Deal to 5pm. It's to save the news service, from collapsing if Deal early on in 2010, causes Seven News to slip to second in Brisbane, progressively weakening primetime...
Also, viewers are chuffed that Seven's refusing to retransmit the night session at Melbourne Park live into SEQ. I reckon Seven's only trying to defend itself, as if it were live, more people would be exposed to Nine's product.