Nine News Sydney

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Also known asChannel 9 News (1956–1969)
National Nine News (1969–1976, 1980–2008)
9 Eyewitness News (1976–1980)
GenreNews
Presented byNews:
Peter Overton (Sunday – Thursday)
TBA (Friday & Saturday)
Sport:
James Bracey (Sunday – Thursday)
Zac Bailey (Friday & Saturday)
Weather:
Sophie Walsh (Sunday – Thursday)
Belinda Russell (Friday & Saturday)
Theme music composerFrank Gari
Nine News Sydney
Also known asChannel 9 News (1956–1969)
National Nine News (1969–1976, 1980–2008)
9 Eyewitness News (1976–1980)
GenreNews
Presented byNews:
Peter Overton (Sunday – Thursday)
TBA (Friday & Saturday)
Sport:
James Bracey (Sunday – Thursday)
Zac Bailey (Friday & Saturday)
Weather:
Sophie Walsh (Sunday – Thursday)
Belinda Russell (Friday & Saturday)
Theme music composerFrank Gari
Opening themeCool Hand Luke: The "Tar Sequence" by Lalo Schifrin
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationNorth Sydney, New South Wales
Running time44–46 minutes
Original release
NetworkNine Network
Release17 September 1956 (1956-09-17) 
present

Nine News Sydney is the local news bulletin for the Nine Network station in Sydney, airing across New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory each night.

Like all Nine News bulletins, the Sydney bulletin runs for one hour[1] from 6pm every day. It covers the day's latest local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.

Reporter Laura Tunstall interviewing a rail officer at Sydney Olympic Park.

The Sydney bulletin was presented by Brian Henderson from 1964 until his retirement in November 2002,[2][3] with then-Sunday presenter Jim Waley[3] taking over in early 2003.[4]

In 2005, despite the fact that National Nine News Sydney continued to retain its long-standing ratings lead over Ten News Sydney and Seven News Sydney in the 2003–04 ratings seasons, Waley was replaced with then-weekend presenter Mark Ferguson.[5] In 2004, National Nine News Sydney won 27 out of a possible 40 ratings weeks.[6] Following this, the 6pm bulletin started to lose its long-time ratings lead to the rival Seven News Sydney.

Mike Munro was the previous weekend news presenter, until he resigned from the Nine Network in July 2008. He presented his last bulletin on Sunday 26 October 2008. He was replaced by Michael Usher.[7]

In January 2009, Mark Ferguson was replaced as weeknight presenter by Peter Overton. Ferguson returned to his weekend news presenting position, which he previously held during Jim Waley's stint as weeknight presenter.[8]

In July 2009, it was revealed that weekend news presenter Mark Ferguson would move to Seven News from October. Ferguson, who had been with Nine for 17 years, was removed immediately from the Sydney weekend bulletin and was replaced by Georgie Gardner. Ferguson continued to present Nine Afternoon News bulletin until his contract expired in September 2009.[9][10]

Mike Bailey presented weather forecasts on Fridays and Saturdays, until he was sacked in early 2009.[11] Jaynie Seal, who had previously presented weather from Sunday to Thursday, returned to weekday weather presenting. In February 2010, Nine announced that Natalie Gruzlewski would be presenting the weather from Monday to Thursday and also filing lifestyle and entertainment reports for Nine News[12] with Seal presenting weather on Friday to Sunday.

Nine News Sydney is also broadcast to southern and central New South Wales & the ACT in addition to local Nine News bulletins. It is presented from the Nine Network's TCN-9 Studio 1.

On 6 January 2014, all Nine national channels permanently extended their 6pm news service to one hour pushing A Current Affair into the 7pm timeslot.[1]

In November 2017, it was announced that Georgie Gardner had been appointed co-host of Today replacing Lisa Wilkinson.[13] Deborah Knight has been announced as Gardner's successor presenting Nine News Sydney on Friday and Saturday nights.

In January 2019, it was announced that Deborah Knight had been appointed co-host of Today replacing Karl Stefanovic.[14]

In January 2020, Georgie Gardner returned to front the weekend bulletin, replacing Deborah Knight who went on to hosting the radio drive show on 2GB.[15]

In December 2021, weekend sports presenter Erin Molan resigned from the network after 11 years.[16] James Bracey was later announced as her replacement.

In March 2022, Cameron Williams resigned after 16 years at the Nine Network for personal reasons.[17] James Bracey replaced Williams with Roz Kelly replacing Bracey as weekend sports presenter.

In November 2025, it was announced that Amber Sherlock, Nine News weather presenter, had been made redundant, one of several on air faces impacted by job cuts across Broadcast and Streaming Divisions.[18]

Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Mark Burrows, Jayne Azzopardi and Charles Croucher (news), Matt Burke and Zac Bailey (sport) and Kate Creedon and Zara James (weather).

Current presenters

Current presenters
Role Bulletins
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
News Peter Overton (since January 2009) TBA (since April 2026)
Sports James Bracey (since March 2022) Zac Bailey (since June 2025)
Weather Sophie Walsh (since November 2025) Belinda Russell (since 2013)

Fill-in presenters

Previous presenters

Note: The current roster for the presenters on Nine News Sydney is the main team present Sunday–Thursday (classified as the Weeknight team below) and the secondary team present Fridays and Saturdays (classed as Weekends below). This was not always the case.

Weeknights

Weekends

Sport

Weekend Sport:

Weather

Weekend Weather:

Reporters

Ratings

References

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