ABC News Content and Appearance

The newsroom from level 39 Parramatta Square taken from a tour of the facility.

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I once found this video of an old ident from the N24 days of the News Channel, and it uses a very peculiar remix of the 1985 theme that isn’t necessarily the same as the current theme:

The music is very soft compared to the voices of the reporters, but I managed to hear the “ABC” Morse Code thing repeated a few times in the intro, extra strings added, a different drum beat, and the same trumpet “call” repeated multiple times throughout the video. Makes you wonder if the ABC actually considered bringing this theme back a lot earlier.

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The reels always look better and smoother than what gets put to air no matter what program or channel. :confused:

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I wonder if the the Parramatta studio set will be any upgrade from the current one they have? I remember seeing a few years ago in this thread that the standing desks (practically every state and territory except Victoria) were pretty negatively received.

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Here are some pics:

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QLD lead story

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That score graphic is just :nauseated_face:

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Bruh. :joy:
It’s plain and too simple.

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Too small and there is too much blank space on the screen. Far too plain. Wouldn’t get this on the commercial news!

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Did they lose their Getty login? And a graphic designer? ew

Also, this is just so small. I just don’t get why you wouldn’t make the title bigger. Also, what is the perspective of the ground and the goal post shadows???

I’m guessing since they probably just send the same graphics around the country, someone in Sydney was probably upset at Sydney losing :laughing:

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For some reason, Joanna Nicolson is continuing on the News Channel (she did mornings), and Ros Childs is on the main channel and both are taking the same press conference?

What was the point of that…

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IIRC sometimes when they cover major press conferences, and events, the news channel will continue with it, while the main channel will opt-out after sometime to cover the rest of the day’s stories in the midday news.

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Yes, that’s what just happened. News Channel continues.

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Also consider different timezones won’t get a simulcast.

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Also smart use of the two tv news studios. I think Ros now always presents from the NSW 7pm news studio?

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No, but the morning shift does.

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Oh that’s right, I got the studios mixed up.

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Seems like they mix it up - sometimes mornings is done in the NSW studio, and sometimes afternoons is done in the NSW studio - although they have been keeping mornings mainly in the NSW studio in the past few months.

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Despite what TV Tonight said, @Newshound is correct - the NSW news is still coming from Ultimo tonight

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