Just out of interest. I know the local presenter will often do a read over with pooled footage supplied by another broadcaster. But how many reporters would the ABC have dedicate to say the Melbourne bulletin on weekdays and weekends? On a Saturday it seems like its only one with every other report nationalized.
Not sure for Melbourne, for Adelaide Iâd say maybe 2 or 3 weekdays and 1 on weekends.
SA Bulletin is shocking, theyâll cover state politics maybe, and an occasional niche story. Sometimes some regional story from a reporter whoâs clearly never seen TV before. Itâs a shame because Jess and Richard are both great presenters.
No I think itâs editorial and allocation of resources. Iâve seen ABC reporters at things here, filming stories, but then it doesnât appear on TV.
It feels like they implemented the plan from a few years ago with limited to no local news on the weekend. Has to be a budget thing. Maybe they should do that plan and admit they arenât your place for local news on weekends.
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Yes all this hoohah about axing the Sunday local news, and it wouldnât make a difference.
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Two Sydney studios are in the budget though, luckily.
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Yes it is good they managed to find money to move from Sydney, to Sydney, to ensure they can better cover Sydney.
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And any other local stories are RVOâs that use pooled camera footage
That showed how little the ABC understands their audience, I donât think anyone wouldâve really minded if the Saturday or even Friday bulletin went national - but Sunday is the highest rating and when people are at home getting ready for the week.
ABC News Vic is a shell of its former self - theyâve done away with the bulletinâs basics like a regular court round, in-depth state politics, etc. The local news that we do get is feature stateline stuff which is almost never actually current news thatâs relevant and is more âhereâs a problem/people who should know better complainingâ
Despite all this, the national and world news reports are worse than ever. Federal politics reports seem obsessed on side issues or the politics behind something rather than just the biggest thing of the day. The regular parliamentary sitting day wrap doesnât seem to be a thing anymore. I donât want analysis from Speers (whoâs crap at it and can never do it properly on a public broadcaster), I want to know the basics of what happened. You rarely see reports from the ABCâs correspondents in Asia anymore and thereâs more and more generic NRL filler in the Vic sport section.
But none of this is surprising given the ABC buries the bulletin on iview - there should be a link to stream and watch your local bulletin on demand on the abc news website and app. They canât even be bothered to highlight the bulletin on ivew when itâs live or just uploaded.
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And, weirdly, we get other stateâs Stateline segments, with a big that says StateLine Queensland etc.
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Same here, itâs such a bad look.
ABC had a service where they would send breaking news via Facebook Messager in a read only format (you canât respond, only read what they send you) will be retired come May 30. It was almost dead anyway - last message i got was 28th April 2021 so this is the offical death i guess
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Notice the national news programs will refer to âstate political reporter xxâ but for national programs I wish they would say âTasmanian political reporterâ etc, for example. Just saying âStateâ defaults to the state the viewer is in.
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ABC News has breached ABC Editorial Standards after a story depicted and referred to a now deceased person as having suffered sexual abuse.
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NSW has recently started using this part of the studio for the first part of the bulletin, similar to that on Mornings on the news channel.
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What an absolutely incredible shot 
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Love it!
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Great! It actually looks modern now and you can tell that this graphics package was designed for this generation of sets.
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Does Seven make use of this in Sydney? Theyâve got a similar screen
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BBC News, eat your heart out!
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It really is the best news set in the country. Puts everyone else to shame.
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