Former ABC deputy chair Peter Tonagh will step up as Nine’s chair in November this year.<\/p>\n
He replaces Catherine West, who spent 18 months in the position.<\/p>\n
Mr Tonagh resigned from the ABC in December last year before joining Nine as an independent non-executive director in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Mr Tonagh will enter the position with vast senior-level experience in the media industry.<\/p>\n
Alongside his role at the ABC, he has worked as CEO and CFO for Foxtel, CEO of News Corp and as interim CEO for the REA Group.<\/p>\n
He is also chair of Quantium, GTN Limited and not-for-profit organisation Bus Stop Films.<\/p>\n
“It’s an honour to be appointed chair-elect of the Nine Board \u2014 a great Australian company with a rich heritage and an exciting future,” Mr Tonagh said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“On behalf of the Board, I thank Catherine for her leadership, guidance, and commitment to Nine, which have been instrumental in positioning the company for sustainable success.”<\/p>\n
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Catherine West became Nine’s chair in June 2024.\u00a0 (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Ms West said it had been a privilege to be a part of Nine’s leadership team for almost 10 years, including as chair and deputy chair, thanking her colleagues and the board for their support.<\/p>\n
“I am proud to have successfully led the company through a transformational period,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Nine has entered FY26 in an enviable position and based on Peter’s extensive experience, he is ideally placed to continue the momentum.”<\/p>\n
Mr Tonagh will assume the role of chair following the Nine annual general meeting on November 7.<\/p>\n
Ms West replaced Peter Costello in June 2024 after he spent almost eight years as the company’s chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former ABC deputy chair Peter Tonagh will step up as Nine’s chair in November this year. He replaces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,109660,22615,36783,20975,109661,109659],"class_list":{"0":"post-167141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-catherine-west","12":"tag-chair","13":"tag-channel-nine","14":"tag-nine","15":"tag-nine-board","16":"tag-peter-tonagh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}