news.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Project was scrapped by the network earlier this year in June due to high production costs.<\/p>\n
Insiders revealed Ms Bath was considered too expensive for the network to keep on.<\/p>\n
Ms Bath hosts a 90-minute national Saturday evening bulletin as well as a separate 90-minute Perth bulletin and a one-hour Sunday evening bulleting across both markets.<\/p>\n
She also hosts a drive radio program on ABC Sydney from Monday to Thursday.<\/p>\n
The veteran newsreader joined the network back in 2015 after leaving Seven.<\/p>\n
She first appeared on the channel on Studio 10 as well as The Project.<\/p>\n
She later became a regular co-host of The Sunday Project in 2017 before being replaced by Lisa Wilkinson in 2018.<\/p>\n
“After seven years presenting the national weekend bulletin for 10 News, Chris Bath will present her last bulletin at the end of this year,” a spokesperson at 10 confirmed.<\/p>\n
“Chris is one of Australia\u2019s most respected news presenters and we thank her for her passion, dedication and contribution throughout her time presenting this bulletin. Chris will always be a valued member of the 10 family.”<\/p>\n
It comes after reports the US-backed media company is looking to cut its poorly rated primetime news experiment 10News+ to a half hour bulletin.<\/p>\n
The show launched in June with lacklustre viewership compared to its competitors on Channel Nine and Channel Seven.<\/p>\n
The Sydney Morning Herald reported 10 News+ has averaged about 130,000 viewers in October, down from its average of more than 160,000 in the first month it launched.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, evening news programs on Nine and Seven each average upwards of one million nightly viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Channel 10 has announced veteran newsreader Chris Bath will be leaving the network after a decade, with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,10846,149765,149647,134,16761,427],"class_list":["post-253075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-channel-10","tag-channel-10-newsreader","tag-chris-bath","tag-entertainment","tag-network-10","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253075","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=253075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}