What it does: We are Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment, we pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want.
Mission: Nine’s strategy is to create great content, distribute it broadly and engage audiences and advertisers.
Size and presence: Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Best known for: Our unique creative voice, curiosity and talent make us Nine.
The good bits: They take care of their staff, kind people, lots of room for growth and they encourage career growth.
The not so good bits: lack of innovation, lots of men
While our brand has a long history, we also continue to make history as Australia’s largest locally owned media company, following our merger with Fairfax Media in December 2018, and our merger with Macquarie Media in November 2019. Both mergers brought operational diversity, but more importantly, placed us in a unique and competitive position in Australia.
The first broadcasting station of the Nine Network was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by The Daily Telegraph owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, This Is Television (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, GTV-9 in Melbourne commenced transmissions to broadcast the 1956 Summer Olympics, later forming the National Television Network alongside QTQ-9 in Brisbane in 1959 and NWS-9 in Adelaide, the basis of the current Nine Network, in 1959. Before its formation, TCN-9 was then affiliated with HSV-7 (because alongside the Seven Network, they were both Australia's first television stations, having been opened in 1956), and GTV-9's sister affiliate was ATN-7.
By 1967, the network had begun calling itself the National Nine Network and became simply the Nine Network Australia in 1987. Kerry Packer inherited the company after his father's death in 1974. Before the official conversion to color on 1 March 1975, it was the first Australian television station to regularly screen programmes in colour with the first program to use it premiering in 1971, the very year NTD-8 in Darwin opened its doors.
In 1967, the New South Wales Rugby Football League grand final became the first football grand final of any code to be televised live in Australia. The Nine Network paid $5,000 (equivalent to $63,000 in 2018) for the broadcasting rights.
In the late 1980s, STW-9 Perth, which opened in 1965, became a Nine Network owned-and-operated station when Alan Bond purchased the network for one billion dollars in 1987, a deal that became effective after government approvals in 1988. However, in 1989, Bond Media sold the Perth-based station to Sunraysia Television for A$95 million, due to the federal cross-media ownership laws which restricted the level of national reach for media owners. Nine, which then also included Channel 9 in Brisbane, fell back into the hands of Kerry Packer after Alan Bond's bankruptcy in 1992.
In 2011, GTV 9 Melbourne moved from 22 Bendigo Street, Richmond, to 717 Bourke Street, Docklands. 22 Bendigo Street started as the Wertheim Piano Factory, then became the Heinz Soup Factory, then GTV9. The building on Bendigo Street still stands, now as luxury apartments.
Nine is a people business. At the heart of what we do to create great content, distribute it broadly and engage audiences and advertisers are the incredible people who bring it all together. The unique traits of these people are collective and form our identity. Our identity is what makes us stand out from others.
Our identity serves as a guide. It informs how we do business and sets an expectation for the way we behave with each other. At the heart of our identity are passion, creativity and ambition. In all that we do, our belief in our brands and the pride of being part of Nine shines through.
We believe in Nine and celebrate our history and our future equally. We show it through our commitment, dedication and enthusiasm in everything we do.
We will never settle. We challenge the status quo seeking the new, the different, the innovative, the ground-breaking. We make the impossible possible.
We are the best at what we do. We push boundaries and are bold and unwavering. We are fearless, always with integrity.
Joining Nine means you are part of a team and you come to work each day seeking to be at the centre of the way Australians are informed, entertained and engaged with the world around them. We design products that bring Australia closer together.
We recognise that our people are at the heart of everything we do, working collaboratively to position Nine as the most progressive media company in Australia.
We create an exciting working culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. No matter what your job is at Nine you will be part of a team that is reimagining the future of media.
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
✅ Hospital
✅ Outpatient
✅ Dental
✅ Maternity
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
⛔Free dinner
The issue of sustainability is something Nine has been actively engaged in, particularly in our print publishing business. Our newsprint is sourced from pine plantations and no old-growth forests have been used for more than 20 years. We encourage recycling to reduce carbon emissions as it takes over 80 percent less energy to make paper pulp from recycled fibers. Newspapers are also safe to bury, burn, or compost and ink levels have been classified as low toxicity for over 45 years. We’re proud to use Australian-made newsprint that is robustly certified, with all fibers sustainable, traceable, and from verified sources.
In regards to the broader business, while Nine sits below the required threshold for government reporting, we are currently working with an external partner to monitor and measure our emissions with an ambition to further reduce our impact across all parts of the business. We have actively chosen to move state headquarters in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne to purpose-built energy-efficient buildings - and our flagship, 1 Denison Street Sydney, holds the highest 5-star green rating.