Channel Seven has announced its Sydney weekend news will have a new look.
The troubled network has confirmed that weather presenter Angie Asimus will co-host the 6pm Friday to Sunday bulletin alongside news veteran Michael Usher.
Longtime daily Seven Asimus, 39, will continue to present weather for Sydney’s weekly news with Mark Ferguson and Angela Cox at the desk.
Asimus, a former Sunrise fill-in presenter, said her new job was a “dream come true”.
“Journalism has given me a front-row seat to so many memorable moments in history, and now I am occupying a different seat next to someone I respect immensely,” he gushed in a statement.
Beginning his 16-year career for Seven Queensland in Townsville in 2008, Animus then landed a spot on Seven Morning News in 2013.
She joined Sydney News as a weather presenter in 2020.
Meanwhile, Usher, 54, is a network veteran who initially began his career at Channel Nine in 1990.
Channel Seven has announced that from Saturday Sydney’s weekend news will have a new look. The network has confirmed that weather presenter Angie Asimus (right) will co-host the 6pm Friday to Sunday bulletin with news veteran Michael Usher (left).
He joined Seven in 2016 and is well known to viewers for his hard-hitting investigative articles in Spotlight.
It comes after Sharyn Ghidella’s replacement was announced earlier this month after the beloved presenter made a controversial exit from Channel Seven in July.
Sarah Greenhalgh will step in as co-host of 7News Brisbane’s flagship 6pm bulletin, it was revealed on Friday.
Meanwhile, newspaper veteran Seven Asimus, 39, will continue to present weather on Sydney’s regular weekly news with Mark Ferguson and Angela Cox on the desk.
Greenhalgh, a respected star in the industry known for his coverage of global conflicts, will join Max Futcher starting Monday, October 21.
Coming home to my original 7News family is a great thrill,” Greenhalgh said in a statement.
Her new co-star Futcher chimed in: “I can’t wait for our viewers to meet Sarah too, as we share the news that matters to them every night of the week.”
Greenhalgh is a Walkley and Kennedy Award winner and was previously part of the 7News Spotlight investigative team.
Meanwhile, Ghidella returned to the airwaves in September when he began his new gig on Channel 10 news.
The Queensland-based news presenter, 57, was fired from 7News earlier this year after 17 years at the network amid a series of media job cuts.
He has now joined Network 10 to present the 5pm Queensland News bulletin.
Ghidella has presented the network’s Brisbane newsletter since 2013, but was fired from her role after 17 years.
A long list of seven employees have been laid off amid the chain’s cost-cutting bloodbath in recent months.
A long list of seven employees have been laid off amid the chain’s cost-cutting bloodbath in recent months. In the photo: Michael Usher and Kylie Gillies.
Seven West Media cut 150 editorial staff in a round of layoffs that claimed big names including Ghidella and veteran Queensland meteorologist Paul Burt.
Anthony De Ceglie, the Seven Network’s recently appointed head of news and current affairs, has been replacing section leaders across the country with younger managers.
He also introduced a Friday night comedy and astrology ad to the news.
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide have new news directors, and new executive producers have been put in charge of Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise and Spotlight.
The network has also sacked veterans Robert Ovadia, Andrew Frampton and experienced Melbourne crime reporter Cameron Baud, known to his friends as the ‘Harvester of Pain’ due to his grim news beat.
On the Sydney front, Ovadia – perhaps the most prominent of all the sacked figures until Ghidella – has announced he will take Seven to the Fair Work Commission for unfair dismissal.
