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9:45AM Jess McGuire | Reet reet reet! Three Day Old Newsdesk™ here with a report I should have filed on Friday!
Considering our ongoing coverage of the Channel Nine Newsreader Musical Chairs, it was very wrong of me not to have mentioned this article about Peter Overton’s Little Engine That Could running out of steam as it approached a hill.
Still the one? Try fourth, with Channel 9’s new-look 6pm news last in the battle of the TV bulletins. The disastrous ratings result had new host Peter Overton finish behind rivals Seven, Ten and the ABC on Wednesday night.
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Peter Overton’s Little Engine Breaks Down
9:45AM Jess McGuire | Reet reet reet! Three Day Old Newsdesk™ here with a report I should have filed on Friday!
Considering our ongoing coverage of the Channel Nine Newsreader Musical Chairs, it was very wrong of me not to have mentioned this article about Peter Overton’s Little Engine That Could running out of steam as it approached a hill.
Still the one? Try fourth, with Channel 9’s new-look 6pm news last in the battle of the TV bulletins. The disastrous ratings result had new host Peter Overton finish behind rivals Seven, Ten and the ABC on Wednesday night.
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Gloves Off: Mark Ferguson Is Toasting Peter Overton’s Recent Career Successes With Haterade!
9:44AM Jess McGuire | It would appear that Peter Overton’s thoughtful and understanding remarks the other day about understanding how recently boned Channel Nine newsreader Mark Ferguson must be feeling right now wasn’t enough to convince Mark that Peter is one of the good guys. He hates Peter Overton!
The nice guys of the Channel Nine newsroom – dethroned news anchor Mark Ferguson and his replacement Peter Overton – have become bitter rivals following Overton’s appointment to the plum news anchor position this week.
MIAAAAAOW! I am gagging to hear more. More » Peter Overton Taking ‘The Little Engine That Could’ Approach To His New Job
3:55PM Jess McGuire | Recently appointed Channel Nine weekday news reader Peter Overton has declared he has no intention of turning into Eddie McGuire, despite the gobsmacking parallels between the two men as pointed out by the Daily Telegraph. Both work at Channel Nine! Both started as sports reporters! Both have been promoted during some point of their career! Both have doodles! That last one was mine, not the Daily Telegraph’s, but I ask you… coincidence?
Thankfully, Peter Overton has no desire to become Eddie Everywhere.
“I don’t aspire to be CEO,” Overton told The Daily Telegraph with a wry smile.
I could actually feel the wryness of that quote when I read it, you know.
As for Peter’s actual new job, how’s he planning on approaching it?
More » Mark Ferguson’s Newsreading Career Takes A Turn For The ‘Deliverance’
12:53PM Jess McGuire | I bet Mark Ferguson is really, really pleased that the media still aren’t tired of using the term “boned” whenever a Channel Nine employee is demoted/fired! Now that he’s been moved to the weekend newsreader role and Jessica Rowe’s husband Peter Overton has been given the coveted Monday to Friday seat, headlines are screaming “Mark Ferguson boned in favour of Peter Overton at the Nine Network”. It sounds like journalism slash fiction, but it’s just another day at Channel Nine…
Sixty Minutes journalist Peter Overton will replace struggling Mark Ferguson as the six o’clock newsreader as the Nine Network attempts to win back its audience from Channel Seven. Overton, who has coveted the prestigious slot for much of his journalistic career and was a protege of former star Brian Henderson, will start in the top job on Monday.
That’s today, people! What a shame… And to think, just the other day the papers were raving about how the cricket had helped Mark “crush” Channel Seven in the ratings.
Channel Nine word things a bit nicer, of course: More » Jessica Rowe Gets Boned Again!
8:39AM Jess McGuire | Poor old Jessica Rowe! It’s safe to say that the latest event in her career as a news reader probably won’t get a mention next time she compiles a list of ‘My Best Times’. You see, after a very famous ‘boning’ by Channel Nine, she’s had her (employment) heart broken again – this time by the (boss) lover who swore he’d treat her right, Seven!
Newsreader Jessica Rowe – famously boned by former Nine Network chief Eddie McGuire in 2006 – has been sacked again, this time by the Seven Network.
Rowe, 38, is reportedly angry at Seven’s decision not to renew her contract. A popular evening newsreader at the Ten Network before being poached by Nine to co-anchor the network’s Today show, Rowe was later picked up by Seven.
Yes, I’d imagine “reports” that Jessica Rowe is pissed off about being axed for the second time in as many years are quite accurate.
The “source” continues:
More » Just In Case You Missed It – Jessica Rowe And Peter Overton Are Expecting Again
2:33PM Jess McGuire | It seems unlikely this little bit of information has passed you by, considering it was the front page story on many of the news websites today, but hell… we’re the folk who brought you the Two Day Old News Desk TM – talking about a morning story in the afternoon is positively on the pulse for us!
Yes, as you may have sensed from our headline, Jessica Rowe has been boned once more, this time by her husband Peter Overton, and the result? A bun in the oven!
TV presenter Jessica Rowe and her husband are expecting their second child.
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Nation Shocked To Hear ‘60 Minutes’ May Not Be The Bastion Of Journalistic Excellence We Once Thought They Were!
8:21AM Clem Bastow | Having a go at 60 Minutes now seems almost passé; like, it’s not as though they haven’t been churning out utter drivel and questionable ethics for some time now.
However, perhaps inspired by but not limited to the John and Jenny Deaves blow-up, the critics are coming out hard and fast against Nine’s flagship Sunday night program, with everyone from George Negus to Nine’s own head of news calling it out on shonky journalistic techniques and iffy-at-best story choices.
News chief John Westacott said “on balance” the flagship news show should have included the fact that the father and daughter couple from Adelaide had a previous son, Jackson, in 2001, who died of a heart defect at four days.
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