[Mike]

Promo on air now with Jeff Newman on the Set saying " Hello, Jeff Newman Here. Join me Tomorrow Night at 6 for a Special Announcement".

I wonder if he is Retiring?

[cartman]

Mike, on 30 June 2009 - 09:10 PM, said:

Promo on air now with Jeff Newman on the Set saying " Hello, Jeff Newman Here. Join me Tomorrow Night at 6 for a Special Announcement".

I'd say so. He has been taking a lot of time off recently. It's time for him to shove over and let Sally take over the weather.

[Kevin]

Is someone able to record that and upload it for me???

A big loss for TVW if he retires. Yes yes anyone can stand there and read the autocue but Jeff has been on TV in WA for a very long time (started on STW) - that is a lot of history right there.

Sure they eye-candy is always a good thing but Jeff was always - in my opinion - a great presenter. Telethon won't be the same without either if he leaves TV altogether!

[cartman]

Kevin, on 30 June 2009 - 09:59 PM, said:

Telethon won't be the same without either if he leaves TV altogether!

If he does retire tomorrow night I'm sure he'll still be back once a year for Telethon. I can't see him ever giving that up!!

[Mike]

Kevin, on 30 June 2009 - 09:59 PM, said:

Is someone able to record that and upload it for me???

A big loss for TVW if he retires. Yes yes anyone can stand there and read the autocue but Jeff has been on TV in WA for a very long time (started on STW) - that is a lot of history right there.

Sure they eye-candy is always a good thing but Jeff was always - in my opinion - a great presenter. Telethon won't be the same without either if he leaves TV altogether!

Its Only a 10 second promo. It has him reading what I said above and then a Black Screen with " 7NEWS. Tomorrow 6.00

I reckon Jeff will stick around for Telethon.

Is anyone able to record his announcement tonight? I will miss it.

[Kevin]

I just heard the announcement won't be in the weather, it will actually be part of the news so it has to be something substantial.

The rumour mill has one of the following things happening:

1. Retirement
2. Becoming the new TVW MD (Chris Warton now at The West, so this one has merit)
3. Replacing Rick and Sue as weeknight presenters ( )

The first two are obviously the most believable ones. I'm leaning towards retirement but Jeff becoming MD and having to step down as weather presenter is a believable situation.

Going to be an interesting day regardless.

[Kevin]

Mike, on 30 June 2009 - 08:15 PM, said:

I reckon Jeff will stick around for Telethon.

Telethon will not be the same without Jeff. He can't retire!

Mike, on 30 June 2009 - 08:15 PM, said:

Is anyone able to record his announcement tonight? I will miss it.

We have to suck up to cartman for that

[Kevin]

The other thing it could be a big Telethon announcement... Michael Jackson was part of Telethon in the past, so with his recent death it could be related to him as well.

[Kevin]

The other silly suggestions are that Jeff is announcing that Jeff is Rick's dad ( ) or that Jeff will start presenting weather in the nude

[Kevin]

According to 6PR there is a strong indication it will be a Telethon announcement with it likely to be that Hugh Jackman will be attending this year.

Regardless of what it may be, TVW were clever putting that promo to air.

[cartman]

Kevin, on 01 July 2009 - 08:19 AM, said:

We have to suck up to cartman for that

Sorry guys, I won't be able to record it. I won't be in Perth... About to board a plane shortly.

Hopefully someone can record it though!

[Kevin]

cartman, on 30 June 2009 - 11:46 PM, said:

Sorry guys, I won't be able to record it. I won't be in Perth... About to board a plane shortly.

Hopefully someone can record it though!

Pfft, you suck

Depending on where they place the story I may be able to get it, but I won't be able to get that until tomorrow. Hopefully someone can record it

[Tim]

We can't let Kevin miss this one. We're talking about the man who recorded TVW religiously every night for years!

[trisreed]

For you guys I'll do it, thank god it ain't this time next week as I'll be on a plane myself.

Might take me a few hours to get the file on the net though.

[Kevin]

Tim, on 01 July 2009 - 02:18 AM, said:

We can't let Kevin miss this one. We're talking about the man who recorded TVW religiously every night for years!

Exactly

Well, the computer did the recording, I just watched

trisreed, on 01 July 2009 - 03:31 AM, said:

Might take me a few hours to get the file on the net though.

No problem, thanks

[Mike]

DOND Seven News Update had Susannah Saying " A Special announcement from my long term Colleague Jeff Newman"

My Money`s on him retiring

EDIT: Yep, He is signing off

This post has been edited by Mike: 01 July 2009 - 06:00 PM

[trisreed]

Big fail there pre-empting his announcement (by Seven).

This post has been edited by trisreed: 01 July 2009 - 06:01 PM

[Mike]

Jeff Newman will be on air for another month while they find a replacement (Sally Bowery IMO) and he will be around for Telethon

[Kevin]

So he is retiring?

I think it was obvious this was going to be the one but its still a shame.

[Kevin]

WAToday said:

Channel Seven's longstanding weather and news man Jeff Newman is signing off.

Newman has been with the station since 1967 and late today was sent off with a rousing rap from Seven boss Kerry Stokes, who praised his professionalism via a video recorded for the occasion.

"I feel very humble," Newman said afterwards.

"He took the time to make a recording and we replayed it this afternoon in the newsroom."

+ Mr Telethon Jeff Newman retires

I know most of you will be happy that he's "finally" leaving but the man has a lot of history when it comes to WA television and he has done a lot in that time.

Huge loss but of course no one is irreplaceable.

The obvious replacement is Sally which means Emmy is almost certain to get the full time weekend presenting role - that should annoy some of you Can't have it both ways though, but Emmy is more than capable these days and she will do the job well as she has been doing all this time.

[cartman]

Mike, on 01 July 2009 - 06:18 PM, said:

Jeff Newman will be on air for another month while they find a replacement (Sally Bowery IMO)

Yep, fingers crossed it's Sally!

[Bergoine]

Kevin, on 01 July 2009 - 06:20 PM, said:

So he is retiring?

I think it was obvious this was going to be the one but its still a shame.

I think he should go while he is still fit and healthy and go on and enjoy his retirement. Done a top job for many years. Looking forward to the highlights tape.

[cartman]

Kevin, on 01 July 2009 - 06:36 PM, said:

The obvious replacement is Sally which means Emmy is almost certain to get the full time weekend presenting role - that should annoy some of you Can't have it both ways though, but Emmy is more than capable these days and she will do the job well as she has been doing all this time.

I'd like to see Sally get the weather presenting gig. She's a great newsreader (better than Emmy IMO), but she excels at presenting the weather given her previous experience with The Weather Channel.

Emmy is a lot better than she used to be so I could deal with watching her read on weekends on a permanent basis if Sally were to present the weeknight weather.

[Kevin]

Bergoine, on 01 July 2009 - 06:37 AM, said:

I think he should go while he is still fit and healthy and go on and enjoy his retirement. Done a top job for many years.

Good point. Unbelievable to think he's been with TVW since 1967... and he was around long before that too.

Rick Ardon didn't join TVW until 1978 so Jeff had already been around for almost 10 years by then.

Bergoine, on 01 July 2009 - 06:37 AM, said:

Looking forward to the highlights tape.

Agreed. He most certainly deserves a decent farewell. Unfortunately that isn't TVW's strong point but Jeff is deserving of one. Will be interesting to see how they do it - it's not unrealistic for them to give him his own show... possibly by dedicating TT to him on his last night - although hopefully they just do an extended TVW News and ditch TT for the night.

[Kevin]

That WA Today article said this year's Telethon will be his last

Seriously, Telethon will just not be the same without Jeff - he is "Mr. Telethon" after all.