a year of the Brisbane bulletin not having a weather presenter; former kids show presenter Tony Johnston had this role in 2003. Cummins was replaced by former Nine weatherman John Schluter in early 2007 and she was moved to weekends. Ghidella joined Seven News in 2007 and replaced Challenor. In October 2002, Rod Young moved from ABC News in Brisbane to co-anchor with Kay McGrath. She had presented Seven News Brisbane solo for the previous nine months following the retirement of Frank Warrick. Their dual presenter format has proved to be successful. Following a couple of lean years coming second to Nine News Brisbane, Seven News Brisbane regained its ratings lead by 2007, helped by the recruitment of ex-Nine weatherman John Schluter and director of news Rob Raschke. In 2008, Seven News Brisbane was officially the #1 bulletin in Brisbane, winning all 40 ratings weeks. In January 2013, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald were appointed Sunday to Thursday presenters with Kay McGrath and Rod Young moving to present on Friday & Saturday. It was also announced that Ghidella will present a local edition of Today Tonight. In March 2018, McDonald was removed as co-anchor of the bulletin, and was replaced by Max Futcher following poor ratings. News updates for Brisbane are presented by Sharyn Ghidella or Max Futcher throughout the afternoon and the early evening. Katrina Blowers, Patrick Condren, Bianca Stone and Jillian Whiting are fill-in news presenters, with Rohan Welsh presenting sport, and Liz Cantor and Laura Dymock presenting the weather. Presenters Gold Coast On 4 July 2016, a new local bulletin for the Gold Coast was introduced, produced and broadcast every evening from Seven's Surfers Paradise studio. Upon its inception, Seven News Gold Coast was presented by Rod Young on weeknights and Amanda Abate on weekends with sport presenter Katie Brown on weeknights and Matthew Howard on weekends and weather presenter Liz Cantor and coastal, beaches and fishing reports from Paul Burt. Due to cost-cutting measures, the weekend news bulletin was axed in mid-2017 with Abate joining Rod Young on the weeknight bulletin in addition to presenting the sport. The bulletin airs nightly at 5.30pm on BTQ-7's Gold Coast relay transmitters, ahead of the main 6pm news from Brisbane, placing it in direct competition with rival Nine Gold Coast News, just three years after its debut broadcast it was now no.1 in the Queensland side of the Gold