What Women Want: Their News Anchor With Charm

WHAT started off as a bit of a laugh in the Channel Nine newsroom may well have helped seal the fate of one of its longest serving anchors, Jim Waley. Mark Ferguson, who was named Waley's replacement last week, had long been the subject of gentle ribbing about his appeal to female viewers.

History

1688 - English mariner William Dampier anchors near Cape l'Eveque on Western Australia's north-west coast.