Very few select UK regions have the ability to do this.
So BBC One South East has an opt-out point exclusively for residents in Oxford, which is kinda similar to QTQ-9 scenario on the GC, whereby the service is technically the same channel everywhere, but only residents in Oxford can see the Oxford programme; residents in other counties get the full South East news programme instead.
Looking at what 9News Sydney have been doing I think multiple openers should be easy to pre-record & edit to include reference to a local story (when appropriate) with the quick mention of the dayâs other big news, and have the local brand (location in the red tag line â9News Canberraâ at the start), and end with a location-specific voiceover intro in the pre-recorded opener (i.e. â9News Canberra with Vanessa OâHanlonâ) as it switches to live presentation.
Iâll be surprised if they donât do it this way.
Nine may eventually change to a more generic voiceover intro (e.g. â9News with Vanessa OâHanlonâ), but I doubt thatâd be any year soon.
Yeah, I agree with @TV-ACT.
I think they should use prerecorded openers in each marker, so that they can emphasise the top local stories. A voiceover of âthis is 9 News Canberraâ or âthis is 9 News Cairnsâ, etc. would be good too I think.
In regards to the background.
Iâd love to see them using a live shot for the whole bulletin, but that creates challenges in finding an image which can be used for the entire state.
For example, if they wanted to use a Townsville CBD live shot for the QLD bulletin, itâd contain a few high-rise buildings. This would be fine for other big markets in QLD, but would look out of place in a smaller city like Mackay or Bundaberg.
Given that, i think itâs more likely that theyâd use a generic backdrop, but I hope they donât, as Iâve never been a fan of the generic backdrops on news.
It could be useful if they were to do what 9 News Melbourne do and use the screen behind the presenter for full screen OTS graphics before stories.
Maybe they could do:
In the future, If successful⌠I can see Canberra having its own standalone local bulletin. (Similar to 9 Gold Coast News)
Nine may well make enough from the ACT to be able to do so, and doing so would allow a greater reduction of the amount & priority of NSW stories in 9News Canberra.
Itâll be interesting to see how much NSW news is still in the Canberra bulletin when it starts, but the Canberra station has a reasonable number of viewers in NSW so they shouldnât completely ignore NSW state politics, etc. (much as ABC News Canberra has been covering).
So whatâs going to happen to the noodle updates once these bulletins start? Are they going to fade out eventually?
You think it would be easy for a control room to live roll 4 different pre-recorded openers at once (Canberra, wagga, Wollongong and central west) and send them from TCN down to Canberra to have SCA split that out to four different regions and then cross dissolve into live presentation.
That sounds logistically like a nightmare to me. How many directors in a control room and how many vision switches and lines would
You need open to Canberra.
I would envisage that if such a thing were to happen, the openers would be sent to Canberra and played out in the same way that the local windows will be.
I really do hope they are replaced. 99% of those presenters should be sacked that are that bad.
Iâd imagine that SCA will still produce â2 Minute Chicken Noodle Updatesâ for Ten Northern NSW, TDT Nine and possibly other regional stations which donât get a full local news service.
For the SCA Nine regions of Queensland, Southern NSW/ACT and VictoriaâŚIâd imagine that the current âLocal News Headlinesâ updates (and any capital city Nine News updates) will be replaced by âNine Local Newsâ updates once the full bulletins start.
If you ask me, some of the âLocal News Headlinesâ Update presenters would probably be better off as reporters rather than presenters.
we had Ali Drower last night.
Ali is the ONLY one Iâve seen that is good.
I will second that.
Seven and Nine already broadcast local Gold Coast bulletins at 5.30 so there is no need for duplication at 6pm.
On the overlap question, I think they should choose one or the other.
Provided that the overall revenue is greater than the overall increase in costs.
And which one is Vanessa?
Vanessa is wearing the red dress.
Vanessaâs on a roadtrip at the moment - left Canberra for Wagga Wagga
Either way the same coordination & swapping in/out different pre-recorded pieces is happening; either at TCN in Sydney or at CTC in Canberra, so Iâd think the timing will be easier to coordinate and adjust (especially when a major story is developing) in Sydney where the bulletin is being presented.
