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Further information: Nine News Sydney and Nine News

Nine News Sydney is TCN's flagship nightly news bulletin presented by Peter Overton on Sunday to Friday nights and Georgie Gardner on Saturday nights. Sports news is presented by Ken Sutcliffe on Sunday to Thursday nights and Cameron Williams on Friday and Saturday nights. Natalie Gruzlewski presents the weather Monday to Thursday and Amber Sherlock on Friday to Sunday. Leila McKinnon, Wendy Kingston and Sarah Harris are the regular fill-in presenters.

Brian Henderson was Nine's Sydney news presenter for a record 45 years - including 38 years presenting on weeknights. Retiring in November 2002, Henderson was succeeded as weeknight presenter by Jim Waley. Waley was at the time host of the Sunday program, and was one of Nine's most experienced presenters.

In March 2005, after falling ratings against Seven's Ian Ross, Waley was replaced as weeknight presenter by Mark Ferguson, who was previously the weekend presenter in Sydney. Ferguson's successor as weekend presenter Mike Munro resigned in 2008 and was replaced by Michael Usher.

In 2009, following a continuing run of poor ratings, Mark Ferguson was demoted to his former role as weekend news presenter, with Peter Overton taking over as news presenter on weeknights. Later in the year, Ferguson was removed from presenting all Sydney bulletins after announcing his decision to move to the Seven Network. Georgie Gardner was appointed as Friday & Saturday night presenter with Peter Overton now also presenting the Sunday night bulletin.

During 2011, Nine News Sydney officially overtook Seven News Sydney in the ratings for the first time in seven years, winning 21 weeks compared to Seven's 14 weeks.