Yes.
iView app and website
Also FB Live on the 55 local radio/news pages
You enter our local post code and you get your local news.
Live every night at 6.50pm for 10 mins Then avail on demand
It seems with 50 local newsrooms, hundreds of journo a and 320 video content producers - something like this seems very do-able
Would be a fantastic use of resources
ABC journos in the regions already have to file for radio, online and sometimes the 7pm bulletin and the News Channel. This is a big ask for them. The local radio Facebook pages kind of already fulfil that role.
@Techster this is the new trend for journos in the new world. They file for air, digital, print, social, radio, regional, national… ask BBC journos…
I don’t think it’s such a big ask. They can file content that works for a local tv news bulletin Primarily (run live on iView) and also digital ams social pages, as well as working for the 7pm state bulletins and abc news channel if those outlets want to run it.
@KICK-IT I know about the trend - I’m a journo myself. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea. As journalists we’d love to create more content that’s relevant to our audiences. However, with how the regional bureaus are currently structured - a 10 minute localised primetime Facebook Live might be a bit of a stretch.
@Techster oh you have great insight then. Yes agree, workflow and structure would completely need to be addressed to make it a reality - totally agree. It’s just a great way to take advantage of technology. ABC could introduce local news for 53 cities and it does not need to go On TV. IV
IView makes this possible now 
So, a new product requires workflow and perhaps some infrastructure reform plus coordination and would require some level of investment and effort. I’m restating the obvious, but here comes my point.
The government has been against more funding for the ABC and with the Milne-Guthrie saga making Project Jetstream essentially a boondoggle, the organisation isn’t likely to get more money soon. Top that with commercial interests generally being against any sort of expansionism from their public sector competitors and it’d be hard to see desperately-needed widespread backing for this move.
Is it much to ask for short video bulletins covering regional Australia? I don’t think it should be. I just think someone in a high enough place will consider this enough of an affront to derail this idea.
Jetstream was always an absurd project for a poorly funded public broadcaster. Wait for someone else to develop the tech and license it.
If the Nationals were clever, and they aren’t, they’d arrange for some kind of regional local news investment for the ABC so some kind of 10 minute bulletin can be uploaded to iview, the ABC News app and social media. The Nats haven’t delivered anything of use for their electorates in some time and this would be a winner.
I mean, the coalition would rather have their coals from the Murdoch papers anyways. They’d be interested in saving regional print mostly, maybe commercial TV.
Promo
Looks like the weekend NOON NEWS moved into the new studio…
There was an error at the beginning of the ACT bulletin tonight, Dan appeared on camera at the beginning of the opener reading the headlines instead of being on vision:
Is it usual common for the ABC to send two separate reporters/crews to cover the same story?
This footage is from an ABC crew at Greenacre this evening, but there’s another ABC crew in the background reporting on the same story:
Why would this be necessary?
Also visible, Chris Reason.
One for ABC News NSW and the other for ABC News channel or ABC Radio?
That’s what I thought initially, but both ABC News NSW and ABC News Channel took the live cross from the same reporter:
ABC NSW crossed to him first, then ABC News Channel a few minutes later.
I assume the other reporter isn’t there for radio either, since there’s a video camera.
Yes.
It’s a waste of resources. The newsrooms across the country have so much staff they could be producing multiple local state bulletins a day.
How many FTE staff does each newsroom have?
Sure mate. Strip out the online stories, Radio, local news etc.
What?
The journalist doing the story on TV is more than capable of writing an online story aswell?
I also didn’t say they need to strip radio to do this. There is a sufficient amount of staff across all departments to produce an additional bulletin similar to 7pm for each state. Perhaps in the morning.
