Seven Adelaide presenters Jessica Adamson and Tim Noonan to depart the network
TV newsreader Jessica Adamson is leaving Seven Adelaide, along with another popular presenter.
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TV presenters Jessica Adamson and Tim Noonan will depart Channel 7 following a restructure of the network’s afternoon news service.
Seven Adelaide’s 4pm bulletin will now be produced out of Melbourne starting Monday, with current host Rosanna Mangiarelli moving to the weekend desk.
Veteran weekday presenter Jane Doyle will remain in her role.
Award-winning journalist Adamson has been with the network since 1997 and has presented Seven’s top-rating weekend news since December 2014.
“It’s been an enormous privilege to tell and present stories to South Australians for the last 24 years,” said Adamson, who was named 2006 SA Journalist of the Year and 2015 Broadcaster of the Year at the SA Press Club awards.
“I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside some of the best in the business on some of the biggest stories including the Sydney and Beijing Olympics, the Banda Aceh tsunami, the Beaconsfield mine disaster and the Tour de France.
“I’ve loved it all, met some amazing people and made lifelong friends.”
Noonan has been with Seven since 2011, working as a news reporter and as a weatherman, with his quirky style winning fans around the country.
Before moving to Seven, he was ABC Radio’s roving reporter in Adelaide for a decade.
Seven Adelaide sport editor Paul Childs will also be moving on.
The cost-cutting moves are part of a raft of changes across the Australian media landscape brought about by the economic impact of COVID-19 and declining advertising revenue.
Last week, Seven announced it was axing daily news and lifestyle TV show, The Daily Edition, hosted by Sally Obermeder and Ryan Phelan.
Today, public broadcaster ABC is expected to announce up to 250 job losses as part of a five-year strategic plan.
News Corp Australia, the publisher of The Advertiser, also announced a major restructure last month, with most of its regional and community papers, including Adelaide’s Messenger Community News, moving to a digital-only model.
News Corp executive chairman Michael Miller said its digital audiences had grown more than 60 per cent during the coronavirus crisis as “Australians turned to trusted media sources”, but print advertising revenue decline had accelerated.
Last week, Bauer Media Australia also revealed it had sold all of its magazine titles to investment firm Mercury Capital.