A lot of this could be addressed by the east cost bulletin coming from Melbourne/Brisbane/Hobart to deal with the very real issue of NSW centric coverage and centralisation at the ABC. It also shows that Justin Stevens is pretty average - every summer has unexpected news events and natural disasters. That money should be set aside already. But I guess they have a glossy new ad campaign to pay for when they’re already the #1 online news site.
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I doubt many state based reporters were covering the big national issues over summer anyway, it’s just a nonsense excuse for cost cutting. Shows once again ABC TV does not value local news.
Yeah, you’d be hard pressed to find a local story done on the day of an easter public holiday/weekend in years past beside the routine religious service report. Anything local would be another one of their favourite feature stories filmed weeks beforehand with no news relevance or substance - most likely a person complaining about something.
The ABC has denied the report.
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ABC is now telling The Guardian that it will only be doing two days of national bulletins over the easter break
The forward schedule update from today has ABC News national on Easter Friday then all markets except WA are national out of NSW for the following 3 days.
Which was the plan originally reported by Blackbox, isn’t it?
Well then, I guess “fully operational” means close up shop and go home for the period.
The “national” bulletin is now gone from Sunday 4th and Monday 5th back to state bulletins at 7pm.
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Jessica Van Vonderen started the bulletin presenting live from Cairns tonight for ABC News Queensland.
Live interview also with the Queensland Premier after the first story, about the cyclone.
Lexy Hamilton-Smith then presenting the rest of the non-cyclone stories from the studio.
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QLD tonight
ABC News Queensland brings you the latest news and flooding information after Cyclone Narelle crossed Queensland’s far north coast. Jessica van Vonderen is live on location, plus Lexy Hamilton-Smith with today’s news.
Update:
Going out on News Channel
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Why did Bethany Alderson on ABC TV news in South Australia tonight refer to the state election coverage being on ABC 1??
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Because for some reason, that’s what they’ve decided to call the main channel for the purpose of this coverage.
“ABC 1”, “ABC TV 1” and “ABC TV channel 1” have all been used at least once. You’d be forgiven for thinking the brand will make a comeback tomorrow night.
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Just call it Channel 2 and be done with it 
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I always liked the ABC1, ABC2, ABC3 nomenclature
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Any word on how the ABC strike tomorrow will impact TV News?
National bulletin at 7pm like last time? (Which, wow, was 20 years ago).
And I wonder how News channel will operate? Assume they have enough casual talent to cover?
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Advise so far is no 7pm or midday bulletin and no 7.30
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All of which still showing on NC’s schedule.
see here:
Well, what they essentially declared is that not enough staffers will be present to put together coverage during the most pressing hours of Australia’s news cycle.
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