EXCLUSIVE Sharyn Ghidella's axing by Channel Seven: Damning numbers TV network does not want you to see Seven News ratings plummeting since Sharyn Ghidella's shock sacking Brisbane newsreader's booting sees freefall in that city Drop of 30,000 viewers puts news closer to game show By Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:58, 23 July 2024 | Updated: 12:58, 23 July 2024 e-mail 11 shares 1 View comments Secret internal ratings figures show Seven's TV news figures plummeting since the network made the shock decision to sack long-time newsreader Sharyn Ghidella. The tightly held numbers exclusively obtained by Daily Mail Australia reveal that in just two weeks, Seven News Brisbane has shed a significant 29,000 viewers. The plummeting ratings puts Seven some 88,000 viewers behind Nine's Brisbane news on Monday - whereas on Monday, July 8, prior to her axing, Seven was just 60,000 behind.
That means Seven News has edged dangerously down towards the figures of Nine's lead-in game show, Tipping Point, since axing the household name newsreader. An industry insider told Daily Mail Australia that was 'a perilous tipping point in itself in what is essentially a two market town, to be within less than 30,000 of the 5pm game show'. Ghidella, the face of Seven News in Queensland since 2007, learned she had suddenly been axed from the network ten days ago, after almost four decades in the industry.
Ghidella was at the salon getting her hair done for a network promotion at the .