2020 US Presidential Election - Media Coverage

How unfortunate, that feed is currently showing local forecasts for the Los Angeles area :joy:

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Kind of funny/sad that someone at Nine bothered to create a 9News | CNN logo animation and it’s still on now despite it not being CNN coverage; they’d have been better off with just the 9News logo.

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There was a few seconds of an American ad (“When you share food, it’s a si…”) before Nine cut to their own break! :open_mouth:

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LMAO! Reminds me of watching very bad cable TV from a dodgy regional US affiliate in the Midwest in the 2000s. Ad breaks don’t like up, audio transitions all over the place. Just LOL.

Edit: what the hell feed from NBC4 are Nine playing? LOL. Hearing producers talking and everything.

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Surely there must be better options than a local early morning news show from LA. What happened to CNN’s coverage? Surely Nine won’t stick with this for much longer.

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CNN feed resumed.

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They’ve gone back to CNN but they’re still in an ad break LOL

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“There is no obligation to enroll. Whether for yourself or someone you love. Call n…”

interrupted by the 50th promo for The Block

Followed by dead air

LMAO!

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We’re back, feel like its picked up from exactly when the feed dropped out, but not sure about that haha

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Nine could be in trouble with ACMA if they broadcast US-specific commercials that may breach local regulations (e.g. advertisements for prescription-only pharmaceutical products)

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Surely it can’t be too hard for Nine to throw to a live shot of the White House or something with a graphic saying that their coverage will resume soon?

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Maybe but its past 12am. I don’t think it’ll be too pressing. Also I doubt it would fall on Nine, probably more a fault of that playout centre.

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Not in Perth! Haha

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CNN on Nine is live at the moment. I just checked it against CNN on Fetch.

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Have to say the Foxtel quality of CNN is horrid. Nine is clear as could be in picture quality wise.

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I think that is deliberate to make viewers switch to Fox News.

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Can’t find the thread now, but it was speculated that the deal Nine made with CNN last year would grant them access to CNN feature stories via FTP. I’m guessing they also have a live stream via fibre as well.

Yeah CNN on Fetch is HD

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Out of the news channels isn’t only the main Sky News Aus feed in HD on Foxtel?

Watching CNN via their website right now - stream goes HD when I go full screen - looks good enough. No actual ads either, all just CNN promos and breakfiller.

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