Nightline and Sunday, both major staples in Nine’s news programming, have been axed after they were victims of "concentrating and maximising" their news resources.

While Nightline ended on Friday, Sunday will wrap up Sunday week - and will be replaced with a one-hour news bulletin. Sunday struggled to find viewers after moving this year to 7:30am, competing with Weekend Sunrise on competing network Seven.

This follows major cost cutting on PBL Media’s part, after being recently come under the control of CVC Asia Pacific. ACP Magazines, the magazine arm of PBL Media, axed The Bulletin in January after being published for more than 120 years.