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IAN Ross, the Sydney newsreader who has kept Seven News on top for five years, has delivered a blow to the network, telling chief executive David Leckie he wants to retire at the end of the year.
Ross, 69, has told colleagues at Seven he wants to go out on top of the ratings and spend more time at his home in Queensland and with his eight grandchildren.
The Nine newsreader who failed to overtake Ross over four years, Mark Ferguson, stunned the industry yesterday by defecting to Seven just days after launching a new national news show, This Afternoon, co-hosted with Andrew Daddo and Katrina Blowers.
Ferguson was dumped in January as the 6pm anchor in Sydney in favour of Peter Overton and was recently told his...