🚀 go-pugleaf

Verity James quite rightly got sick (literally) of working radio 5 days and
weekends on TV. So she just does radio now :-(. Peter Holland went to CH 9
to read the news with Tina Altieri (hope he got paid lots for that) but when
he took holiday several months ago CH 9 tried the all girl news team and
demoted him to weekends when he returned from holiday. He resigned soon
afterwards and I hear hes lecturing at Uni now.

I agree Tom always seems stilted reading news and his interviews are piss
weak


"steam3801" <tryspammingthis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> On 8 Feb 2004 06:36:20 -0800, rosswa@my-deja.com (Ross) - in a
> blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>
> >Just read in Saturday's West Australian that the current ABCtv
> >newsreader Deborah Kennedy is getting the arse from reading the
> >weeknight news bulletin in favour of Tom Baddeley (who appears on the
> >news currently doing the business reports and also anchors the WA
> >edition of Stateline on Friday nights).
> >
> >Baddeley had recently resigned from the ABC to go work for the Aust
> >Financial Review but withdrew the resignation when he was offered the
> >newsreaders job by the ABC's WA boss Kim Jordan who said he didn't
> >want Baddeley to leave the ABC.
> >
> >Jordan has offered Deborah Kennedy the jobs of reading the news on
> >radio, which I've already heard her doing on occasions, or becoming a
> >"senior tv reporter", whatever that means.
> >
> >Apparently Deborah Kennedy is a bit pissed off and is thinking about
> >legal action, there's talk of a staff revolt at the ABC in Perth over
> >it and the Friends of the ABC are a bit against it also.
> >
> >Rebecca Carmody will replace Baddeley but the article doesn't say in
> >which of his current roles, or both.
> >
> >The crappy website for the West Australian newspaper,
> >www.thewest.com.au , doesn't have a link to the story.
> >
> >Anyway I reckon Kennedy is by far the better news anchor of the two,
> >Baddeley is OK in the business report slot but he comes accross as a
> >bit of a geek in the Stateline job and is a bit of a dud interviewer I
> >reckon.  This is pertinent coz the article said he would be doing live
> >interviews with "the major newsmakers of the day" in the anchoring
> >role.  Why we need goofy live questions in the anchoring role I don't
> >know and can't see why Kennedy couldn't do it anyway.
> >
> >A few people have registered their disapproval at the ABC's guestbook
> >site:
> >http://www2b.abc.net.au/perth/guestbook/default.shtm .
>
> Been gone from Perth a few years now, obviously, but what happened to
> Verity James and Peter what-his-name?
>
> -- 
> You know it makes sense.
> steam3801