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26 unusual facts about Nine Network


1980 Australian Touring Car Championship

Former tiwce CAMS Gold Star champion and 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 winner Kevin Bartlett recovered from his 1979 Formula 5000 crash and finished second in the championship in his Channel 9 sponsored Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (financed by Nine's owner Kerry Packer).

Adventures in Rainbow Country

It has continued to air in repeats, both in Canada and internationally — in Canada, the show had been seen on DejaView, and is currently seen on Silver Screen Classics without commercial breaks, in Australia, the Canada-based series was the last program to be screened on GEM at its 5am timeslot before being cut into the Nine Network's primary channel signal for the Today Show.

Bob Tarlau

He had worked previously for KABC-TV, KTLA and KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles and for Australia's Nine Network, both in Sydney and Los Angeles.

Brett Mullins

While scoring the try, Channel 9 commentator Ray "Rabbits" Warren mistakenly called him "Russell Mullins", before quickly correcting himself.

Catherine Mack-Hancock

Mack-Hancock is best known for her roles on Australian and international television shows such as Channel 9's Pig's Breakfast, Jasper and Travail

Danger: Low Brow

Brett Duck (aka Brett McLeod) Currently reporting/reading the news on Melbourne television's Nine Network.

Desmond Tester

As television broadcasting began in Australia, Tester soon found work with Channel Nine's What's My Line and in a variety of children's programmes including Kaper Kops with Reg Gorman and Rod Hull.

George Odgers

After the Argus closed in 1956 he was hired by the fledging television station GTV-9 and worked in its news production team.

Gerald Stone

Moving into television in 1967, he first appeared on the ABCTV This Day Tonight as a reporter before being appointed a news director for the Nine Network in 1975.

Ginny Buckley

She went on to beat 600 other applicants to present a new children's television programme for the Nine Network in Australia and went on to present a children's news programme C'mon Kids, along with Hey, Hey, It's Saturday, in which she worked with Jason Donovan.

Glynn Nicholas

Nicholas first appeared on Australian television as a presenter on Channel 9's children's show Here's Humphrey performing songs, dances, stories and games with a large pant-less mute bear.

Graeme Stephen Reeves

The first public media report alleging further serious misconduct by Reeves' while employed by GSAHS was in 17 February 2008, in a broadcast of the Sunday programme on the Nine Network, led by investigative journalist, Ross Coulthart.

Intencity

The chain was originally launched in 1995 as part of a venture called Village Nine Leisure (a partnership between Village, Nine Network and Westfield Group).

John Garea

Garea often appeared on WCW's wrestling programme broadcast on the Nine Network while in Australia.

Laurie Daley

In September 2007, Daley left his commentary position with Fox Sports and signed a contract with the Nine Network to co-present much of their rugby league coverage, from appearing on the weekly rugby league topic show The Footy Show, to commentating on Nine's weekend league coverage.

Lisa Backhouse

Lisa Backhouse is a female Australian television journalist for the Nine Network.

March Entertainment

The company also co-produced G2G, which aired on Australia's Nine Network in September 2008 and is currently airing on Canada's CBC-TV.

Michele Mahone

During her years working with home shopping channels, Michele kept in touch with contacts at Nine Network, and in 2009, Michele landed the job as the entertainment reporter for Weekend Today.

My Name Is Prince

Around the time of its release in Australia, Channel 9 made a Christmas parody entitled "My Name Is Santa" on A Current Affair.

Paul Wade

Wade has worked as a commentator and analyst with both the Nine Network and SBS, the latter of which has a strong non anglo demographic and thus makes football a healthy part of its programming lineup.

Paula Wriedt

On 31 July 2008, Wriedt was the subject of a comment, which some described as a "lewd" remark, made by Sam Newman on the Nine Network's AFL Footy Show.

Ravina Raj Kohli

Ravina Raj Kohli, earlier President of the STAR News, and currently (2006) the Chief Executive officer of Channel Nine, is one of the prominent media personality of India.

Sail the Wildest Stretch

On 15 May 2010, "Sail the Wildest Stretch" was used as the credit song to the special Australian program featured on Channel 9 titled Homecoming, of Jessica Watson's successful attempt at becoming the youngest person to sail around the world.

Terry Denton

His own books include the Gasp! series, which has been adapted into an animated TV series of the same name (and aired on Nine Network and ABC3), the Storymaze books, which are a mix of novel and comic book, and the popular Wombat and Fox collection.

Tony Johnston

In 1987, he started hosting the children's program 'OK' with the Nine Network.

What's Up, Doc?

-- * What's Up, Doc?, a 1990s Australian children's cartoon program on the Nine Network -->


1981 in Australian television

15 November - The Nine Network premieres its Sunday morning current affairs program Sunday, hosted by Jim Waley.

1984 in Australian television

18 February - The Nine Network's Hey Hey It's Saturday moves from a Breakfast Television format to the 9:30 p.m. timeslot, Primetime format and renamed Hey Hey It's Saturday Night.

2LF

Many famous names in Australian broadcasting and television either began their career at 2LF or worked there, including Ken Sutcliffe and Ray Warren of Channel Nine.

Ben Ikin

On 3 June 2009, Ikin resigned from the Nine Network, due to A Current Affair running a story about his father's ill-fated storage business on the Gold Coast.

Boots N' All

An original British television concept, there used to be a version of the show broadcast on Nine Network in Australia, hosted by Andrew Voss and Phil Gould, and had regularly featured chairman of Bye Supporters club Tim Andrews, and Sydney Roosters mascot Brian the Rooster.

Cherie Hausler

Cherie moved onto Channel Nine screens as the co-host of Our Place, a live to air lifestyle show with Scott Cam and Cherie’s culinary hero, Maggie Beer and Wine Me Dine Me with John Woods, a food and wine based travel show.

Clint Stanaway

While at Nine News in this role, Clint covered many significant news events including the Cardross road accident near Mildura, Victoria, where six young lives were lost in a tragic hit and run, Beaconsfield Mine collapse and dramatic Mine Rescue of two trapped miners, and the Nine Network's coverage of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

Cumberland Grove Country Club

The launch was highly publicized throughout Australia by Network 10, Nine Network, SBS, the ABC, The Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Eddie McGuire

Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM (born 29 October 1964) is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network.

Glenn Ridge

In April 1991, Ridge joined the Nine Network as host of the prime time quiz show Sale of the Century with co-host Jo Bailey, taking over from Tony Barber and Alyce Platt.

Gorgi Coghlan

Prior to joining Network Ten Coghlan was the Melbourne reporter and travel presenter for Today and for National Nine News on the Nine Network.

Heath O'Loughlin

At the end of 2006, O'Loughlin moved from the Seven Network to the Nine Network to replace Leith Mulligan as weekend sport presenter, with Mulligan moving to Fox Sports News.

James Kemsley

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kemsley was known to children's television audiences as "Skeeter the Paperboy", an on-screen cap-wearing persona (who once said his full name was Amos Skeeter - a play on "a mosquito") that he portrayed as a cast member of The Super Flying Fun Show, and then as host of Skeeter's Cartoon Corner in Sydney and Melbourne, both on the Nine Network.

John Schluter

Schluter presented the weather on National Nine News in Brisbane for nearly 25 years, John ended his affiliation with the Nine Network in September 2006.

Kestie Morassi

In recent work, Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama Satisfaction and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson in the Nine Network TV drama series Underbelly.

Lab Rats Challenge

The program began broadcasting on 4 August 2008 at 4pm on the Nine Network with hosts Drew Jarvis and Nicole Dixon.

London Gold

London Gold is an Highlight show replay the events it aired on Nine Network and GEM on 29 July 2012 until 13 August 2012 at 9am till 11am and repeats at 4pm till 6pm, sometimes on Sundays at 2pm till 4pm on Nine Network in NSW and QLD and on GEM in VIC, SA, WA for NRL's Sunday Football, hosted by Mark Nicholas.

Michael Usher

Usher was the Nine Network's correspondent in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked in September 2001, and less than two years later was in Iraq, travelling north from Kuwait to reach Baghdad the day after the Coalition seized the city.

Neil Brooks

He once read the sports news segment while inebriated, and was then involved in a drunken argument with the Nine Network's Australian rules football pundit Sam Newman.

Nine News Now

Nine News Now is an Australian afternoon news television series airs on Nine Network on 7 January 2013 at 3pm Weekdays, It is presented from the network's Sydney studios by Wendy Kingston (Monday - Thursday) and Amber Sherlock (Friday).

Now I Run

Noll performed the song during a special episode of the Nine Network's The Footy Show in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, to celebrate the rescue of trapped miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb.

NTD

The station is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co., and is an owned-and-operated station of the Nine Network, under the company name Territory Television Pty. Ltd..

Pete Lazer

In 2005 he presented his first major network television show, Shopping for Love on the Nine Network and in 2006 joined the Network Ten show as co-host of Beyond the Boundary.

Peter Overton

Overton joined the Nine Network as a reporter for National Nine News and graduated to weekend sports presenter on National Nine News in Sydney and substitute for Ken Sutcliffe.

Rob Gell

Moving to the Nine Network in 1988, Gell was innovative as a designer and producer of television weather presentations for 15 years until 2003, when he was replaced by Livinia Nixon.

Steady Eddy

Steady Eddy's career began in 1992 with appearances on Australian TV's Nine Network The Midday Show and, days later, Seven Network's Tonight Live with Steve Vizard

Suzie Wilks

She was recruited to host Changing Rooms (1998–2005), the Australian version of the very successful BBC lifestyle program, which premiered on the Nine Network in September 1998.

The Link Men

The series was the first drama series made in-house by the Nine Network as part of an attempt to rival the cop shows produced by Crawford Productions such as Homicide and Division 4.

Toyota World Sport

Stephanie Brantz was originally a weekend presenter of the show, but joined Les Murray as a co-host during 2006, before she defected to the Nine Network in August of that year.