{"id":523,"date":"2007-05-29T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/the-wilkinson-sword-lands-at-today\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:46:34","slug":"the-wilkinson-sword-lands-at-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/the-wilkinson-sword-lands-at-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wilkinson sword lands at Today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/The-Wilkinson-sword-lands-at-Today.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"89\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/beohm.com\/identica\/nine\/todaylisa.mp4\">Quicktime H.264<\/a><br \/>\n(15.6mb)<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/beohm.com\/identica\/nine\/todaylisa.m4v\">iPod Compatible<\/a><br \/>\n(6.5mb)<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/idents.org\/videos\/todaylisa.html\">Watch in Flash<\/a><br \/>\n(5.2mb progressive)<\/p>\n<p>Tracy, Jessica, Sarah, Kellie.. and now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Wilkinson\">Lisa<\/a>. A new female host for the Nine Network&#8217;s Today show started yesterday, and while the usual first-day-of-a-new-host ratings were up, they weren&#8217;t as high as <a href=\"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/the-ghost-and-mrs-murdoch\/\">when Mrs Murdoch started her run<\/a>, and quite frankly Nicole Kidman could host the show, but after the first day curiosities, the ratings would go back to what they are always are.<\/p>\n<p>I have to agree <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/Media\/20070511-Is-Karl-Stefanovic-a-protected-species-.html\">with Crikey<\/a>, and ask why &#8220;is Karl Stefanovic a protected species? After all, he and Richard Wilkins have been tried and found wanting by viewers &#8212; so why aren&#8217;t they boning candidates?&#8221;. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/report.mediaspy.org\/?p=547\">rumours that the show<\/a> will be making the <a href=\"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/studio-7-on-the-sunrise-strip\/\">Sunrise-esque<\/a> move to Park Street to be part of the city bustle, but besides people holding &#8220;watch Sunrise&#8221; banners in the background I&#8217;m not sure what good it will do.<\/p>\n<p>The show needs to relaunch completely, new name, new set, and an actual focus, well, a focus beyond just copying Sunrise. If Sunrise is the friendly breakfast show, why not make Today the serious news breakfast show? Karl&#8217;s already dressed for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa starts at Today (6mb) >> To comment and see other videos visit www.idents.tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,10],"tags":[58,158],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channel-nine","category-videos-weather","category-videos-openings","tag-nine","tag-today-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idents.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}